Most who have been around me know, I am always asking the question, “Do you know who you are?” We are learning more each day, as we die daily to the issues brought about by our natural senses. We reckon ourselves dead to the world, but we are content to be in it. Understanding Father has a purpose for our being here. He commanded the light to shine out of darkness. Jesus, made it clear, we are the light of the world. No matter how dark the world, as long as we remain, we are to be light, to of those searching for truth. We are members of the body of Christ. We are not alone, our Father is all inclusive. (leaving none out.) I have some thoughts I would like to share with you, concerning why we are important. All have a place, and all are important, we are the seed of the Lord.
“The Earth was without form and void, darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
I have heard numerous accounts as to why the earth was in this condition, most of them had to do with the devil, it seems when there isn’t anything else, man can think of to lay the blame on, Satan is first in line.
We often overlook the guidance of God, in so doing we fail to receive the enlightenment of the Spirit. It isn’t because he withholds from us, we are so preoccupied with the task of day to day living, we fail to communicate with the Father, in order to hear what the Spirit is saying, we must be completely motionless, relaxed, still, “very still,” have no thought. This prepares us to hear the small still voice of the Spirit. Often a thousand thoughts are running through our mind, as we go to pray. Racing thoughts, hinder the voice of the Spirit. Most people become sleepy, when they start to pray, or read the Bible. Not to worry, the God conscious mind never sleeps. You may go to sleep with a question on your mind, when awakening, the answer you were searching for is there. The Spirit of the Lord speaks to the inner man, regardless of what our conscious mind thinks. I have experienced hearing teachings, and not being aware of their meaning at the time, Suddenly it will become clear to me. The inner man (subconscious mind) heard it, and brought it to my consciousness. Like most I ponder in my mind, what was before creation as we know it?
We know our Father is all wise, “Known unto God all His works from eternity” Acts 15: 18 We are aware our Father, had a purpose, and plan, for the earth, and all its inhabitants. He created it for man, and gave him dominion over it. We see an all wise God bringing forth a Spiritual man, and incasing him in a body, which contains the same minerals, as the earth from which he was formed. Of course we must remember, He is Spirit man with a flesh body. In order to live out the plan of God, a flesh body was necessary. Just as when man ventured to outer space, he had to have the proper covering in order to survive. The all wise God knew the essential needs of man necessary for dwelling on earth, essential necessities such as gas, and oil, and all the other minerals necessary for medication etc. In the prehistoric time the earth was in a stage of preparation for Mankind, that would dwell on it. Every need was taken into consideration, the elements, and other creations, such as the prehistoric animals, were all a part of God’s plan for the preparing of the earth, to afford you and I the comfort and means to survive. Just as the Father knew our inability to live a sinless life in the flesh, His plan included a way of escape from the sin’s of the flesh. Of course we know from the verse John 3: 16 He loved us and gave His Son for our redemption. In so doing We are free from the bondage of sin, and death. “We have this treasures, in our earthly vessels,” knowing this body of earth is not our permanent abiding place. “If this one were dissolved we have another one eternal in the heavens.” 2 Corinthians 5: 1 We have an eternal body. If something is eternal it has always existed. We are beginning to find out who we really are now, not some future time, but now. When we live according to fleshly lust, we suffer the bondage of sin. On the other hand when we live according to our God consciousness, we manifest the fruit of the Spirit, and the blessings of our Father is upon us.
Without the breath of life given by the Father, Man was simply a earthen vessel, void of life, and understanding. He could have all the organs, yet unless he had life he was void. Ineffective, useless. God breathed or gave life to Man, and he became a living soul. (Soul is the nonphysical part of a person) something outside of his earthly body was causing him to live. Which brings us the knowledge of Spirit life, and the difference between the two. Physical life is sustained by the heart beat, circulating the blood through the body supplying oxygen, and food to the other organs. The lungs supplying the blood with the oxygen. Spirit life is given by God, it does not depend on any of the physical organs of man, It is eternal. As long as the heart beats, and the lungs breath in air, the physical earth body lives, subject to the physical laws of the earth. However the spirit life in every man, which is not subject to the laws of nature. This life is eternal. Always has been and always will be, it is the (Spirit life of God) which is our inner man. The Spirit person we really are. We can live as Adam did, in this earth body in complete harmony with God. We see Jesus as our example, as long as we are in complete submission to the will of God, we have a sinless life. This is why Jesus was sent, that through the cleansing power of His Blood we have His life in us, cleansing us from sin, and death. The understanding of Christ life, does not take man out of the flesh body, it makes him god over his actions. Oh the wonder and blessings of it all. We live in newness of understanding, this life we now live illuminates the Christ within, and we truly are the light of the world. As Stacy Musgrove sings “the old man is dead” He also sings when “He looks into the mirror He sees his Father there.” Praise God if we expect the world to see Christ in us, don’t you think we need to see Him there first. If we can’t see Him, how is the world going too. You are the new man raised from the dead, created in Christ, a complete new creature in this world. We are dead, crucified, to the world. We live yes we live, but the life we live is unseen by the natural eye, and impractical to the flesh mind. Oh but the reality, and truth in the mind of Christ, which we have, when we understand Jesus Christ, is the light that lights every man that comes to the world. We must accept the fact, He was the light, and, life of Adam, who was also a Son of God. Can you see how the light, is the life of the Spirit in the inner man. The subconscious part of you that never sleeps, The voice of God that is continually speaking. Some folks call it conscious If we will listen to it and follow its guidance you can rest assure you will be walking the right path.
I don’t want the reader to get the impression that flesh life isn’t important. It is very important, This is all in the plan of God. You are his offspring, His Family, Not going to be His Son’s and Daughters someday but now you are the Son’s of God. We have what our Father is, abiding in us. He has caused us to sit with Him in heavenly places. He is bringing to our remembrance the fellowship we had with Him before the world was created. Can we realize Adam was not some kind of prehistoric being walking around lost. He was an intelligent person able not only to live and communicate with God, but also name the Animals. When we walk in the Spirit, it is really of no concern whether, we are in the body, or out of the body, we have a place in the Father, ordained eons ago, before our substance was placed in the womb. We have heard and quoted numerous times “I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Gal 2: 20 We live by the faith of the Son of God. It is not our faith it is The Son of God’s faith. Now hear this. If we are a member of His body, and we are in the flesh it isn’t our life, we are living in its His. Therefore it is His faith, and His flesh. He is the head of the body, and the life of the body, it is His flesh and bone. Can we see the unseen life and relate to the fact, the first Adam had the same life breathed into Him. Oh I know this raises a multitude of questions. Have you wondered why your heart keeps beating, and you keep breathing. It is the subconscious mind, the same mind that is God conscious. Your conscious mind sleeps, the subconscious never sleeps. “how fearfully and wonderfully we are made.” Might want to read Psalm 139: 12-16
Have you ever heard testimony or read, how some have had an out of the body experience? They were able to look at their lifeless flesh body. Yet they were alive able to think, and move about. Able to communicate with others who were in like condition. They were present in a room, yet unseen with the natural eyes. Some had wonderful visions while out of the body, even able to remember what they seen, and what they heard while experiencing this other life. Most didn’t want to come back to their natural bodies. This has happened numerous times. Some have written about their experience in detail.
When we understand our Spirit life is not depending on any systems of the earth, nor is it affected by the fears, and emotions, we experience in the flesh body. I hear reports in the news of global warming, Bird flu, and other fearful conditions that are on the horizion. I want to encourage the reader to look to the life of the Spirit. We are well equipped from out Father to stand in the midst of death, and destruction. He is God, if it is his plan for us to be in the midst of this, we will do as our Brothers in the past have done. In the fire, or lion’s dean, or cloud of mass destruction, we will stand in life, and truth, of our Father’s word. “Nothing formed against you shall prosper.” We are more than conquers through this Christ, who strengths us. He is the victory that overcomes the world.
Peace, Love, and Blessings
Bill Green
