HEAVENLY THINGS - 6

Living out the Realities

Knowing about the heavenly things is not enough. I want to highlight and explain just few ways to living them out, the most effective ways though, there may be other ways, but these are the few most effective biblical authorized ways to living out the realities of our blessedness in Christ.

1. Setting your mind:

Colossians 3:1-3 (emphasis mine), “If ye then be risen with Christ (That is, if truly you acknowledge your new birth – the born from above experience – the quickening of your spirit back to life), seek those things which are above (this is does suggest that you have a rapture escapism mindset, but that you desire the heavenly things – the deep things of God), where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affections on the things above, not on the things on the earth”

First punch at the gates of treasures – set your mind on them! Jesus said, where the treasure of a man is, that’s where his mind will be! It is however disappointing that some believers do not know about their blessedness in Christ Jesus let alone to set their affections on them. Rather, they set their minds on the “things on the earth”. Setting one’s mind on the things of the earth is not really a direct neglect to achievements of the normal life but a condensed focus on the humanity and mortality of man. The first step to breakthrough in Christ is to continually think on these heavenly things, acknowledge and confess them daily in our walk with God. We will easily catch up with the reality in our spirit if we keep focusing and meditating the heavenly things of God.

2. Renewing your mind:

Romans 12:2 (emphasis mine) “And be not conformed to this world (not suggesting making enemies with people and disengaging from relationships, but a turnaround from focusing on only the humanity and mortality of man, neglecting the blessedness that is in our spirit and our identity as sons and daughters of God): but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (a constant synchrony of our human minds with the mind of Christ results into a constant transformation that spans through lifetime), that ye may prove what is good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (this is a way of living out the mind of God – the heavenly things revealed to us by his Holy Spirit)”

You want to live out the realities in your spirit? You want transformation from inside out? Then renew your mind daily with the word of God, read and meditate on the revelation of Christ plainly written in all of the epistles and watch the spirit-water brooding transformation of your essence! This leads us to the next point: meditating on the word of God.

3. Mediating on the Word of God

“But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord (we behold his glory by beholding his word), are changed into the same image from glory to glory (the constant and consistent meditation on the word of God on our identity and blessedness results into transformation), even as by the Spirit of the Lord (he does the brooding of course)”

Every believer’s goal should be transformation. Transformation here is not a physical change in the shape or complexion of our bodies but a glowing of the glory of the Lord from within inside out - a revelation of the very immortal essence of Christ in our flesh - a complete takeover of the dictates of the corrupt mind of the believer to the reign of the mind of Christ in the spirit of the believer.

4. Praying in the Holy Ghost

Jude 20 “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost”

Simple and straight forward! You want to live out the realities of your spiritual endowment? Then build up yourselves by praying in the Holy Ghost. This should not however be mistaken for the common error on “spiritual growth”. A believer does not grow in the spirit –rather they grow in the alignment of their mind or soul to catch up with their spirit. The spirit of the believer is grown up into perfection already. There is no shortage of growth whatsoever in our born again spirit. It was God himself that birthed us and there is no shortcoming in his work. Instead, we grow up in our dealings so that we can attain the height of oneness of our sprit, soul and body. This is the same as “building up ourselves”. This ‘building up’ of ourselves is although a technology of the Holy Spirit, but we have a role to play as well – pray!

Prayer is not begging scheme. It is a mechanism for the working out of the God vested treasures from our spirit through the soul to the physical. This does not suggest that we will do the work, but that prayer is the energy (ability) that causes the work to reach us in the physical from the Holy Spirit. Men ought to pray and not to faint!

Above all, know this – whatever you gaze upon consistently becomes your reality!

Amen.