The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
In embracing your humanity in Jesus, I call you into My divinity. In Jesus all My fullness dwells in bodily form and in Him you have been made complete. Paul said there was only one thing he focused on and that was looking ahead, not back, as he pressed forward toward the goal for the prize of the My upward call in Christ Jesus. And to do this he had to forget what was behind—every sin, every resentment, and every root of bitterness that would slow up his ascent to the goal of finishing his assignment in the window of time he had to do it.
What is your position and your relationship with Me? Do you know how to stay in the boundaries of honor and perfection so you do not overstep where you are in Me, offering profane fire on My altar and seeking to separate from My Spirit as Adam did, or under step your upward call in Christ Jesus (coming and remaining in confidence to My throne of grace in the Holy of Holies with Jesus you great High Priest).
Jesus is His life as one with you on earth lived in perfect relationship with Me by the Spirit. And you can do the same in Him and through Him for He has baptized you in the Holy Spirit and sacred fire. But let Him explain your place of oneness and how it works as you walk out your life of good deeds in the Spirit that I prepared for you in advance that you might enjoy it.
Let us begin with an analogy to the natural that explains our relationship in the supernatural.
- The Vine and the Branches
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.” John 15:1.
A vine and its branches are one in production of fruit but the branch pulls its life from the vine. The vine can live without the branch but the branch cannot live without the vine, but when they are fully joined they operate as one. You are not the vine nor the owner of the vineyard but you are a necessary part and member of the whole.
I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.” John 15:5-8.
The vine produces the branches as outgrowth of itself, but the branches are dependent on the vine for life and fruitfulness. They are dependent offspring of the vine. The branches are just like the vine in characteristics and power that flow into it by being offspring abiding in the vine.
For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, . . . “Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.” Hebrews 2:11-13.
You are one with Me but dependent, and yet in choice and decision to abide you are independent. When you abide in Me you have the best so you can be at rest. Those who know they have the best need to seek no further and can rest in and enjoy all that they have.
To sever the connection is death to the branch but not to the vine. But the fruit that the severed branch would have produced is gone, lost, and causing incomplete production of the life the branch was given. It is only in Jesus you are complete. Joined to the vine you produce the fruit of the same kind as the vine and fulfill your destiny.
- Family relationship between a child and a parent
Children are offspring in the image and according to the likeness of the parent.
In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created. When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. Genesis 5:1-5.
Children operate independently but when they are young and tender they cannot operate or be nourished without the parent. But they are always of the household of the parent. It is family even if divided. Children are to honor their parents and parents show care and honor to their children by giving them the Word.
I am your Father forever. Your relationship in Jesus with Me is that I am your Abba, Father, and all I have is yours. I give good things to My children. Ask and you shall receive. Receive the Holy Spirit.
- Sheep with a Shepherd
The good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. Here you have more than the vine—though not so closely one, but something a vine does not do. The Shepherd actively goes after and rescues sheep who separate and get lost. The Shepherd feeds, protects, leads, and directs the sheep.
The branch draws all its life and all it is from the vine, but the vine does not die to give life to the branch. The branch lives because the vine lives.
After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. John 14:19.
The Shepherd died to give life forever to the sheep, but I raised Him from the dead so that He can be your Shepherd forever.
- Covenant Oneness
Covenant is the ultimate realization of our relationship. In Covenant both parties have made the choice to unite as one. It is a spousal relationship. It is complete oneness where each is actively seeking the relationship of their own desire and choice to join as one.
It is a deliberate commitment that is forever. You enter it knowingly. You share the same purpose, plan, and power. It is a relationship where the greater of the two raises up the lesser to the level of the greater by sharing all the greater has with the lesser. A sharing of all each has with the other, not as dependent but as joint owners.
The marriage covenant illustrates this. When Esther married the king she became the queen just by reason of the covenant.
And all this is only possible by My gift to you of My Son and My Spirit which are expressions and concrete evidence of the great love by which I have loved you and desired to be one with you forever.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7.
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-7.
And what is your response to all this?
Pursue and practice love continually. 1 Corinthians 13.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
Let that be you.
Do not judge but discern spirits behind the actions of others and keep your distance from the garment polluted by the flesh. Jude 1:23. When the woman with the issue of blood touched the garment of Jesus the power poured into her that was in and on Him, there are things you must not touch or let into your temple.
Finally rejoice always, pray without ceasing and give constant thanks, this is My Will for you in Christ Jesus. This will keep you in constant awareness of My presence with you and of your authority over the devil and his demons.
I love you. From now on have no schedule but Mine. I am well aware of all your duties, responsibilities and needs, and so My schedule perfectly fits your capabilities and life style but raises it up a level to the divine.