Supernatural Believing Christ Conscious (6 page)

PROPHETIC MESSAGES

Consequently, the Holy Spirit sends prophets with messages, designed to challenge our comfort zones and believing. These messages are the product of the Father’s love for His Church. However, some people believe the more material substance they have, the more faith they possess.

Manifestations, like miracles, are a way for the Lord to awake the soul from its mediocrity to the awesomeness of God. The danger in some cases is man’s soul becomes lazy and bored if not entertained with increasingly spectacular demonstrations of the supernatural.

Dearly beloved, examine your substance with the reality you are living today. Does it contain more of Him or more of you? Ask the following question. What voice do I hear most often, my own or the voice of the Spirit? And more importantly, which voice do I obey?

Our own voices are most easily identified by self-exaltation and comfort. The voice of the Spirit typically challenges the status quo and often requires sacrifice and discomfort.

His voice is not demanding, but trustworthy. The voice of the Spirit is simple yet profound. It is a voice that will always resonate with love, righteousness, peace and joy.

The more we hear the voice of the Holy Ghost, the more of His substance is built in us.

Do not rest until the substance inside your soul causes divine health in your body and until in every place you visit, the dead are raised and the lame walk.

If I could impart one thing to your spirit, it would be, never to allow doubt or unbelief to enter your thoughts.

The one you trust is the source of your inner substance. If you are not satisfied with your condition, change the way you believe.

Jesus is the rock, the foundational source from which every good and perfect structure is formed. Make Christ first place in your life and the substance of His abiding love and power will manifest in your life.

The substance of Christ as the authority over the natural laws is revealed in the following scripture:

But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat? And they gave him part of a broiled fish and of a honeycomb; and he took it and ate before them.

And he said to them, these are the words, which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the Law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.

Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures, and said to them,

Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.

And ye are witnesses of these things.

And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on high.

And he led them out as far as Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he blessed them.

And it came to pass as he was blessing them; he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.

Luke 24:41–51 DRBY

This amazing account of Jesus illustrates the wonders of the spiritual realm and its power over the physical world. Jesus eats fish with His disciples and walks them out to Bethany and ascends into heaven. What happened to the fish in His stomach?

The laws of this world will submit to those whose spiritual substance is Jesus.
Therefore, if He is our substance, everything else will submit.

That means every disease by any name must bow to the substance of Jesus and every resource needed to supply a need must submit to Him as well.

Jesus told His disciples:

that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

John 15:16b KJ

…till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

John 16:24 YNG

Jesus is waiting on our believing to be filled with His substance in order for our joy to be full. We will learn later that joy is a spiritual force for our bodies. The substance of Jesus is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost.

TRANSFORMED FROM WITHIN

SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY SANCTIFICATION

God’s thinking and substance must penetrate the believers beyond the peripheral and infiltrate every area of their being; otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the attraction of this world.

Our mind must produce the substance of Christ and the reality of His kingdom in all of our spirit, soul and body.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJ

The early Church understood and practiced this completely. The Lord is calling His Body back to a whole sanctification experience in body, soul and spirit, which is the true purpose of salvation.

Jesus paid for our redemption through His three-part man to overcome the flesh, the world and the devil.

The reformation of Martin Luther defined salvation of the spirit by the scripture verse in Galatians 3:11, “The just shall live by faith.” This passage encompasses the redemptive action of God in the spirit of man and produces a mentality and consciousness of eternal life.

John Wesley introduced a deeper work of the Spirit through the sanctification of the soul and mind with his motto, “possessing the mind of Christ and all the mind of Christ.” The purpose was to focus the believer on his mind’s purification, in order to bring his thoughts and actions into conformity with those of Christ.

The final part of kingdom salvation is completed in the body. It must be redeemed from the results of wrong believing.

Healing and miracles are God’s reward to those whose goal is to bring their bodies to divine health.

In order for man to possess the Spirit of God he must be totally clean, spirit, soul and body. Therefore, when God heals someone he must begin with his spirit and work through the soul to heal the body.

Sin is a spiritual substance the devil uses to destroy our bodies.

Jesus spoke the following to His disciples to indicate the sanctification process is a spiritual work done by the substance within the words of Christ.

the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

John 6:63 (b) KJ

You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word, which I have given you.

John 15:3 AMP

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Acts 2:1–4 WEB

The disciples were qualified to carry God inside their beings because the water of the word (Jesus) had sanctified them wholly.

In other words, each part of their beings was submitted to the Holy Spirit. The reason why so many Christian lives are destroyed by sin, sickness and disease is because they are not submitted to the Holy Spirit.

Partial submission produces an incomplete result.

Not only the spirit and the will of man has to submit to God but also every thought, desire, emotion and even our bodies. One must use wisdom in eating and bodily exercise or suffer the consequences.

The belief Jesus died for our sins does not convert our souls and bodies.

Unless we wash our souls and bodies in Jesus, we will live a life in sickness and sinful habits, doubting the power of the Word.

If faith is the substance, which sustains belief; doubt is the substance that reinforces unbelief.

JESUS DEFINES THE 5 CENTERS OF MAN

Traditionally it has been correctly taught that we are three-part beings — spirit, soul and body. Nevertheless, as more revelation is released, greater understanding is unveiled about two additional components of our triune being: the mind and heart.

Theologians in the past have taught that the mind and heart are part of the soul. Nevertheless, my research leads me to believe they are separate connections between the spirit, soul and body and function independently.

In order to have the mind of Christ we should understand our heart and mind with present day revelations.

The purpose of this discussion is to rip away the veil of darkness hindering our understanding of the truth.

The diagrams illustrate each center’s role as it pertains to sanctification. (Refer to figures 1 & 2, pages 197, 198)

Read the words Jesus chose to speak to the theologians of His time.

And their came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all.

And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

And thou shall
love
the Lord thy God with thy
whole heart
and with thy
whole soul
and with thy
whole mind
and with thy
whole strength.
This is the first commandment.

And the second is like to it: Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

Mark 12: 28–31 DRB

The centers Jesus identifies are the spiritual reflection of the natural body. For example, the spiritual heart is a reflection of the physical heart, the mind is a spiritual representation of the natural brain and the soul reflects our belief.

In order for us to love God with our whole being we must reproduce God or the substance of love in each correlating center.

Jesus brought the new covenant to a generation of believers who demonstrated their love by keeping the Law. Jesus said keeping two commandments fulfills the Law.

This truth has helped me to identify the different persons of the Godhead at work in my life.

I was ministering one afternoon when I noticed a person in a wheelchair. Ordinarily, I would not have focused on this person since I was in the middle of my message, but I heard the voice of Jesus saying, “Intercede for her right now.” I obeyed, and the woman began to move her legs in the chair. I did not have to stop the service or lay hands on her but agree with the intercessor of the universe.

One of the most outstanding memories of that meeting was the intervention of both the Holy Spirit and Jesus simultaneously. I was led by the Spirit during the message but instructed by Jesus at the same time. This is an example of God the Son and God the Holy Ghost operating simultaneously through different parts of my being.

The more sanctified my vessel becomes the easier it is to recognize the different persons of the Godhead at work within me. One amazing thing to witness is the difference and unity simultaneously.

One question I often hear concerns the question of unity among Churches. Unity will only happen when each part of His Body knows its purpose.

Jesus says we must — it is not an option — love God with all of our being, beginning with our heart.

The spirit of man is from God the Father of all spirits. Adam’s spiritual death separated man from his creator making his spirit dormant. I believe mans spirit remains asleep until he recognizes his role in Christ’s crucifixion. It is at that point man has the free will to choose to repent or turn his back on the truth.

There are a couple of scriptures, which seem to indicate to me the spirit of man belongs to God but the soul and body are decided by the will of man.

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Numbers 16:22 ERV

And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28 NTL

Jesus was born with His spirit and blood connected to God but He had to transform His soul and body to God.

In my opinion, we are born with our spirits asleep and until they are awakened by a conscious decision to surrender to Christ, we are incapable of real faith to change anything.

The heart of man is the first place targeted by the devil because of its location and importance. It is located between the spirit and soul. One of its functions is to transmit the love of the Father to the soul. The perversion of love is the single greatest weapon of the enemy. The heart is the doorway for our belief, thoughts and intuitions.

The heart is the door that connects our spirit with the soul as seen in the illustration (refer to figures).

If man can hear and recognize God’s voice as his Father, the Holy Spirit will release His power to transform the heart and awaken the spirit. This is called salvation and begins with the heart, as described in Ezekiel.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 10:10 KJV

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.

Ezekiel 36:26–27 KJ

and I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 11:19 KJ

The heart is tender while we are children but hardens as we are wounded, mistreated and betrayed. Over time, sin and unbelief create walls whose purpose is to protect us from pain; however, in reality these walls separate us from God and His love.

The scriptures seem to indicate our conscience resides in our heart.

The location is important because even if the spirit remains asleep the Holy Spirit still has access to our soul via our conscience.

Unfortunately, if people refuse to heed their conscience, their heart will become hard making it even more difficult to awaken the spirit.

These people will speak lies disguised as truth. Their consciences have been scarred as if branded by a red-hot iron.

1 Timothy 4:2 GW

Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron.

1 Timothy 4:2 BBE

May we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water.

Hebrews 10:22 YLT

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Matthew 5:8 KJV

Now the end of the commandment is charity (love) out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

1 Timothy 1:5 KJV

The ultimate weapon over the devil is love. The heart is the instrument created by God to receive His love and transform the soul. A heart awakened by the love of God will not only transform the stony heart but convert mans soul.

I may have the gift to speak what God has revealed, and I may understand all mysteries and have all knowledge. I may even have enough faith to move mountains. But if I don’t have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2 (b) GW

Love bears all things, believeth all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:7 KJ

Jesus created everything from the substance of love because God is love and the source that sustains all things both visible and invisible.

The understanding of our heart is essential for a salvation experience. The verses below are used in the minds of many who will read this book to justify their salvation. But one of the purposes of this book is to challenge our use of the word “believe.”

That if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your
heart believe
that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

For with the
heart men believe and obtain righteousness,
and with the mouth they make confession and obtain salvation.

Romans 10:9–10 WEY

The work of salvation is a process beginning by believing from the heart. I recited the scripture in Romans and was told that I was saved. However little changed in my life for many years and I was determined to find out why. That journey is what led me to discover the difference between the “beliefs” from the heart versus those from the mind.

So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling

Philippians 2:12 NASB

Believing with the mind may produce a moral person but never a righteous one. I wasn’t even moral but considered myself a Christian because of the wrong belief. The Churches are filled with people who have had similar experiences to mine.

Adam’s treason moved man’s center of belief from his spirit to his soul. The soul houses our emotions, physical senses and the will.

It was created as a bridge to bring God’s thoughts and His supernatural power into the visible world; in other words, to establish heaven on earth.

The devil’s goal is to produce lawlessness in man’s soul. This accomplished by corrupting the heart with fear and unbelief to manipulate the emotions and beliefs. The soul is the tool the devil uses for destroying our life. The one who influences our thoughts controls our beliefs and behaviors.

The writer of Hebrews defines the difference between the soul and spirit in the following verse.

For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 BBE

The Bible is more than scripture it is the very breath of God that overthrows the soul’s dominion of the mind and gives us a heart that can believe. The church understands the power of God but the soul is unable to access that power without a converted heart.

The Word is Jesus, and He has the power to convert the mind to Christ in order for us to know God. Once we truly know God, the mind forgets about self-preservation and transcends to its original purpose, which is to serve the Spirit.

Beloved, there is a consciousness in Christ that rises above this life with its petty ambitions into real kingdom authority.

For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:16 BBE

And be renewed in the
spirit
of your mind;

Ephesians 4:23 KJ

The following is an example of hearts and souls knitted together producing the fruit of unity and full supply.

The multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

Acts 4:32 YTL

One of the noticeable evidences of the Spirit possessing the soul is the willingness to give. If we truly love Him, there is a release of every resource and structure holding our souls to material riches. Selfishness and stinginess is the evidence of a soul that has not surrendered to the love of God.

Unfortunately, the lack of spontaneity and generosity in giving like the early church has provoked many Christian leaders to ask for money in ways that are grievous to the Holy Ghost.

For instance, many messages such as the “one hundred-fold return,” manipulate persons to give by focusing on the reward from God.

There would be no need for methods unpleasing to our Lord if ministers could open the eyes of people to the riches of a soul connected to Christ.

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto men according as he had need.

Acts 4:32–35 KJ

The heart and soul joined in Christ results in a passion to give away what we can see to access the invisible riches of His glory.

The difficulty is how to produce this way of thinking in people. The invisible kingdom is made visible through the manifestation of Christ. If people are taught to depend on Him the change in man’s consciousness is not only possible but guaranteed.

Our soul will never demonstrate the power of God unless we understand the reality of the Christ as Jesus. In other words, Jesus knew that only through His union with God could His soul become the sinless vessel God would endorse with His power and authority.

Scientists have determined the Dutch people to be the tallest people on earth. Over the past fifty years very interesting statistics have revealed amazing phenomena concerning the power of the mind.

The Dutch increased in height every year except those of the Second World War. During those years of German occupation, the Dutch race actually decreased in height according to research. This study reveals the extraordinary power of the mind and soul over the body.

The mind is not the brain but it is the center of intelligence, reason and memory.

Man evaluates the mind through psychological test and uses physical machines to access the brain.