Awakened to the Son
Let us stare into the face of our best friend and see that we are in fact taking on His nature. Let us relish the fact that He desires to know us. He died because we matter to Him and He wants us to walk in His freedom. Jesus is the most fun loving and giving person we have ever come across and He wants us to know Him. Such joy, such playfulness; experiencing a Brother who truly wants the best for us allows us to enter into a lifestyle of the Joy of the Lord. It is because of His joy that Jesus is able to abandon Himself to His Father’s love without reservation. He is fulfilled in Papa. We can learn from this example. The joy of Jesus is the secret behind His amazing faith. This is a mystery that I would encourage you to seek after.
When you awaken to the son, you will also awaken to the real you. As you and Jesus ‘hang out’, Holy Spirit will transplant Jesus’s qualities and nature into you. While this is the same principle as how we take on the qualities of those we live with, what actually happens is much more profound in the scope of how much change Holy Spirit works into us. The real you is hidden below the surface, hidden by the mask of the person we used to be before being born again. Holy Spirit removes the veils that hide us and speaks the Son’s nature into us. As long as we allow Him to deal with any lingering unrighteousness, the result is total transformation. Our mind is renewed to think like Jesus and His nature rises to the surface and overtakes our identity. We truly become clothed in Christ.
Jesus is the definition of me.
Jesus is the definition of you.
This phrase, “Jesus is the definition of me,” is something Holy Spirit said to me to settle the push back my frail heart had against the love I was encountering from the Father. We often cannot see just how deep the working of God is in this rebirth, but let this reality become yours. Letting go of the past failures, shame and guilt; realize that God has placed within you a seed of His nature. This seed is the real you waiting to get out. The following 12 steps are meant to remove all the things that keep you stuck rather than living out your true nature. Each step is a chance to encounter God in a new way and a challenge to deepen your surrender to God’s workmanship. So, begin to accept that this is God’s truth. “Jesus is the definition of the real you.” As you allow God to minister to you, heaven will invade earth and your world will change.
You belong to the Father. Just as Jesus belongs to Father, so do you. This means that Papa is always looking out for you and watching over you. He won’t let you fail if you are yielding to Him. Every moment of life, whether it be a challenge or a mountain, will become a chance for your advancement. Notice this scripture.
Colossians 1:22-23 NASB
[22] yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach- [23] if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard,..
Now see these two compared to each other.
Colossians 1:18-20 TPT
[18] He is the Head of his body, which is the church. And since he is the beginning and the firstborn heir in resurrection, he is the most exalted One, holding first place in everything. [19] For God is satisfied to have all his fullness dwelling in Christ. [20] And by the blood of his cross, everything in heaven and earth is brought back to himself-back to its original intent, restored to innocence again!
Ephesians 3:18-19 TPT
[18-19] Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences-the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding-this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!
The fullness of God dwelling in Christ now become the fullness of God dwelling in us, if indeed we use our faith to allow God to show us the fullness of His love. Holy Spirit, the mirror of God, is reflecting Christ back onto us. Will you let yourself encounter the love of Christ?
This is living in righteousness.
Romans 4:6 TPT
[6] Even King David himself speaks to us regarding the complete wholeness that comes inside a person when God’s powerful declaration of righteousness is heard over our life. Apart from our works, God’s work is enough.
The Righteous consciencness is the awareness that my Father’s nature is burning within me and I truly am an extension of my Father.
This is Jesus’s awareness and life.
Jesus, the perfect friend, perfectly displays who we are and keeps encouraging us to step fully into His righteousness. We don’t have to work at anything. We need only say “yes” to the ministry of Christ. What is His ministry? That we carry His name, His mantle, and His image into the earth. He wants to place His anointing, His mantle upon our shoulders. His mantle is Holy Spirit. His anointing is Holy Spirit. This same Spirit that He pours out upon us. Jesus is saying that we are just as much son of Papa as He is, and we are invited into the dance of love whereby we abide in the love of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. He is that lovely friend who keeps encouraging us to enjoy life, and takes our hand and leads us into the celebration. God is full of love and delight, and Jesus lives there. So can we.
The Father’s love is relentless. He keeps pouring it out like buckets from an open heaven upon an open heart. The Son of Love lives in this abundance and uses this wellspring to pour out the delight of God, the Spirit of Life, upon all He encounters. Jesus is inviting us to live in this as well. When you get still, you can hear His calling, “come away with Me.” Hear this as both the adoring of Jesus as well as a call to fun. We should never say “no” to Jesus’s desire to pour love on us. Let us learn to sit at the feet of Jesus daily, hearing the words that He has reserved only for us, His best friend, His protege, and His bride. As we hear Jesus we will learn to live in the same love He lives in; we will learn to carry the same fullness that He carries. We will learn that there is nothing to do, except to say “yes”.
Fully awakened sons will be awakened to the love of Christ, and his faith will rest upon the love that Jesus gives. Let us say “yes” to the love He pours out.
This is the Christ Mantle.
Luke 4:18-19 NKJV
[18] “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; [19] To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
Jesus has a specific call to release life to the world and liberty to the captives. This call He shares with any that desire to follow in His footsteps. But, it is a lifestyle of self denial, loving others selflessly, and surrendering to God’s voice. “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” Luke 9:23-24. The call to selflessness is paramount to following in Christ’s footsteps. Jesus is love. He is full of the fruit of the Spirit. And, He offers us the chance to be just like Him, placing the Father and others before Himself. If we are to live this way, then we must let go of the way that we judge others, and learn to see from the Father’s heart, judging according to His counsel and ways only.
Romans 8:14-17 TPT
[14] The mature children of God are those who are moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit. [15] And you did not receive the “spirit of religious duty,” leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the “Spirit of full acceptance,” enfolding you into the family of God. And you will never feel orphaned, for as he rises up within us, our spirits join him in saying the words of tender affection, “Beloved Father!” [16] For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as he whispers into our innermost being, “You are God’s beloved child!” [17] And since we are his true children, we qualify to share all his treasures, for indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that he is and all that he has. We will experience being co-glorified with him provided that we accept his sufferings as our own.
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