REALLY ALIVE
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Just Think that the God that created the universe and everything in it wants to have a personal, intimate relationship with me…
oh and with you
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
my purpose is one fold -
to raise you up and make you stand taller and be power-filled
to raise you up and enable you to walk in the fulness of your calling
to raise you up to your full potential in Christ
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John G. Lake
Jesus was the spotless descent of God into man and the Sinless ascent of man into God
If you want to know what you are like,
simply look at Jesus
The “in Christ” Scriptures
They show you who you are
what you can have and
what you can do
John G. Lake
every day I look in the mirror and say to myself
“In these clothes is a person in whom God dwells”
Chad G
the Purpose of salvation was not only to change your destination but to change your position ——
right now
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there may be lots of things to follow — people to follow
but only one person to follow - and He must be first - He is the Head!!!
in Colossians 1:18 it says….
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!
now at the very start I want you to know
you are a privileged people.
say —— I am privileged!!
- I am -
You are part of a church that believes the Word
you are part of a church that preaches the Word
you’re a part of a church that believes in salvation
you’re part of a church that believes in healing
you’re part of a church that believes in freedom
you’re part of a church that believes in prayer and communion with God
you’re part of a church that believes that God moves in our lives today in response to our prayers
you’re part of a church that loves and cares
you’re part of a church that loves God
you’re part of a church that loves people
The truth is that…
- I am -
you are a very privileged person.
know that ——
God has bestowed His favor on us!
and that is not saying that He hasn’t given Favor to other churches
it simply means He has Favor on us.
We are indeed very privileged people !!!!!!!
We are people who have left the world of sickness, decay and dying,
in fact we died to this world
and we’ve entered the world of life and health and freedom.
We live on a different plane of existence than we used to.
If Jesus is your Lord then YOU are a partaker of divine life,
look at what it says in 2 Peter 1:3-4
3 Everything we could ever need for life and complete devotion to God has already been deposited in us by his divine power. For all this was lavished upon us through the rich experience of knowing him who has called us by name and invited us to come to him through a glorious manifestation of his goodness. 4 As a result of this, he has given you magnificent promises that are beyond all price, so that through the power of these tremendous promises you can experience partnership with the divine nature, by which you have escaped the corrupt desires that are of the world.
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all of that is because of JESUS - it is all because of what He did!
A battery does not work alone; it needs to be connected to a device to function. When we attach it to the device, all its energy flows forth, bringing that device to life. Our union with Christ is akin to this connection. When we abide in Him, His power flows into our lives, equipping and energizing us to accomplish His will and to thrive in our Christian journey.
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God made you a co-heir with Christ
and in…
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.
everything that Christ has — you have access to
that’s what co-heir means
we are joint heirs
we have to see ourselves in that position of reality
of who we are in Christ and who He is in us
that’s what the very word repent means —
not remorse — but repentance -
change
change the way you think
change the way you look at life
change the way you see reality
we need to begin seeing the reality of heaven in our midst
We are in Christ,
We are in Christ,
We are alive in Christ
We are alive in Christ
we live in heavenly Kingdom,
we live in heavenly Kingdom,
we are seated in heavenly places
we are seated in heavenly places
We have a powerful victory
We have a powerful victory
we have a heavenly ruler
we have a heavenly ruler
and we have a heavenly purpose and agenda.
and we have a heavenly purpose and agenda.
All of that is true — it is so true.
It is truth beyond our very Understanding.
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Let’s look at each of those for a minute——
We are in Christ,
We are in Christ,
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
We are one plant with the Lord.
What flows in him, flows in us
We are alive in Christ
We are alive in Christ
5 Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace!
we have the ZOE life of God flowing though us - His very DNA
we live in heavenly Kingdom,
we live in heavenly Kingdom,
13 He has rescued us completely from the tyrannical rule of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom realm of his beloved Son.
The Kingdom is within you
we are seated in heavenly places
we are seated in heavenly places
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
When you were saved, you were seated!
You can’t be saved and not be seated.
The complete salvation that Jesus wanted to bring us into wasn’t just the forgiveness of sin and heaven by and by….
It was also to give you and I an invitation to reign with Him in His triumph over the enemy and in His coronation as King and Lord of all. Today!
Say “I’m saved… I am seated.
I am expressing his Authority and ruler ship.”
Remember that you are already seated with Christ. He sat you there by His own will and desire. So, you are there whether you believe it or not, or like it or not.
that is your position
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It is time for you as a believer to stop being timid; don’t hold back. You were seated for the purpose of destroying the works of the devil and releasing the miracle power of God.
Speak it, believe it, and when given the opportunity act like it. The only hope for a world in fear and bondage is a Church that will lay hands on the sick, cast out devils, and perform mighty acts of the Spirit of God to set them free.
Remember the word life means zoe, God-kind of life. The God-kind of life is a life of reigning and ruling. We must now think like rulers would think over the enemy and on earth.
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We have a powerful victory
We have a powerful victory
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
The plan of salvation…..
satan did not comprehend God's profound redemptive plan in Christ.
he was completely oblivious, so much so that the Bible reveals they would have never crucified Him had they understood what was truly happening.
In their spiritual blindness, they were unknowingly assisting in a divine strategy beyond their comprehension.
The mystery was deliberately concealed:
Jesus was not merely coming to be raised and seated at the Father's right hand alone,…
but was preparing to bring an entire corporate body of redeemed sons and daughters with Him.
What appeared to be destruction was actually the mechanism of ultimate empowerment and transformation for humanity.
We have a heavenly ruler
We have a heavenly ruler
20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
The Word declares that the finishing act of redemption was for the Father to sit Jesus at His right hand in total authority as King of kings and Lord of all.
He is now far above all principalities and power, might, and dominion.
In other words, nothing outranks Him in the spirit realm or natural realm!
We are seated with Him in the heavenly places.
We are far above principalities and powers in the heavenly places .
we share Jesus’s authority in the spiritual as well as the earthly realm.
Sure God used men and women throughout the Scriptures in mighty ways, but none of them were given complete dominion over the earth.
This is why the ascension and seating was the defining moment and demonstration of power.
When Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father, it established that one Man now possesses all of the authority of God forever!
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
It would have been enough if Jesus would have ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Father alone, but he had something else in mind.
This position of all authority given to one Man, would actually now be shared with His body called the Church!
This is the manifold wisdom that God wanted made known to the principalities and powers, that through Christ the Church now has the right to exercise Jesus’s authority in the realm of the spirit and the realm of the natural!
I want to be clear, it’s Jesus’s seat (position) we are all sitting in, which means we share His authority and position.
This is both the privilege and the responsibility of the saints of the Most High God.
We have a heavenly purpose and agenda.
We have a heavenly purpose and agenda.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
5 Your faith and love rise within you as you access all the treasures of your inheritance stored up in the heavenly realm. For the revelation of the true gospel is as real today as the day you first heard of our glorious hope, now that you have believed in the truth of the gospel.
6 This is the wonderful message that is being spread everywhere, powerfully changing hearts throughout the earth, just like it has changed you! Every believer of this good news bears the fruit of eternal life as they experience the reality of God’s grace.
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
In this Scripture we see that one of the main assignments given to the Church by Christ is to reveal to principalities and powers the wisdom of God, the wisdom that was once hidden but is now revealed.
It is the revelation of what God was doing in Christ with the resurrection and ascension of Christ,
which means that now the Church has a spiritual assignment to demonstrate that position and authority.
reality look
reality look
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive o God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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You Are incredible, wonderful, unbelievably gifted, filled with the spirit, an heir of God, you are the object of His love, the apple of His eye, And the bride of Christ
You are a branch off the very vine of life, a partaker of the sap the glistens with glorious eternal life, bearing fruit the remains, fruit that is filled with life giving sustenance, ever ripe and sweet, enhanced with the aroma of life, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
You are a warrior, an Overcomer, a conqueror, a victor, one who triumphs over the enemy, the head and not the tail, one spirit with the Lord, hidden in Christ, and one who knows the unknowable love of God!
Issac Pitre quote:
Oh, what a marvelous grace! Our “aliveness” causes us to be raised up together and seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly places. We are in union with Him in His resurrection, in His ascension, and in His rulership. This union allows us to share in the present works of His Kingdom power.
look at Ephesians 2
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
12 Your hearts can soar with joyful gratitude when you think of how God made you worthy to receive the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light. 13 He has rescued us completely from the tyrannical rule of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom realm of his beloved Son. 14 For in the Son all our sins are canceled and we have the release of redemption through his very blood.
15 He is the divine portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God, and the firstborn heir of all creation. 16 For through the Son everything was created, both in the heavenly realm and on the earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen. Every seat of power, realm of government, principality, and authority—it was all created through him and for his purpose! 17 He existed before anything was made, and now everything finds completion in him.
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.
You have been delivered from the power of darkness. The word power is exousia in the Greek, and it means “authority.”
Thus, satan has no rights to your life.
You are legally off-limits to him.
And, you have been transferred into the Kingdom of Jesus! The enemy knows this. He knows you are off-limits to him whether in the realm of the spirit, or in the realm of the natural.
However, he will test you, but when you realize that he is actually trying to disrespect Jesus by attacking you, something in your spirit will rise up and you will declare,
“I will not allow you to use my life as a means to dishonor Christ! Jesus put you under His feet, so bow!”
satan, you must bow and flee - in Christ’s name and by His blood!
If there is still a devil on earth after the cross, there’s still a power on earth to defeat him.
If he’s still working in the earth to kill, steal, and destroy, you can be sure that God and His power are at work to defeat him.
This is why the Church is here—to carry on the mission and privilege of destroying the works of the devil. As Jesus filled the heavens with His body the Church, I believe that His goal was to seat us, for the purpose of unseating principalities and powers.
We are a called out people
Called out from the kingdom of darkness
translated into the Kingdom of God;
we are assembled in heaven places to enforce the authority of Christ over satan and his kingdom, so that God’s will can be done on earth!
This is our warfare, but remember, it’s not to defeat satan. Jesus already did that. Rather, it is to remove and displace him from operating where he has no legal jurisdiction.
If the Church does not occupy the spiritual territory given to Jesus in the ascension, then satan will continue to violate the earth and humanity.
Every time you as a child of God allow satan to defeat you, you allow satan to disrespect Jesus.
That’s right! You are seated far above him in Christ. Therefore, when you don’t put him under the feet of Jesus, you allow him to act as if the ascension never happened.
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
That’s what Jesus desires for us to be, His body ruling in the heavenly places and on earth.
Beloved, we must understand that Jesus did not endure all that He went through for us to not partake of His inheritance.
He wants us to use every bit of it!
We are heirs and joint heirs with Christ. Jesus is greatly honored when we claim what’s ours.
All of these spiritual blessings in heavenly places are waiting to be claimed.
And we must be determined not to let one drop of blood go to waste.
That’s what Jesus has done. He does not run out. He runs over.
He has prepared enough for everyone to eat to their fill, and no one will lack.
we were not just seated in this position, but we were set in this position. It is a fixed and cemented position. Now, we must act like Jesus would act in this position. Jesus cannot function from any other position. He can’t come down from this rank and glory. Therefore, you and I have to make sure we stay in place.
These spiritual blessings cannot be accessed through the natural mind or through carnal ways. Paul says that the eyes of our understanding must be enlightened.
You have to live by your spirit.
That is where all of the spiritual deposits were made.
This is why we were forgiven, justified, adopted, and made righteous.
It was for the purpose of spiritual supremacy in the heavenly places.
He has put every spiritual blessing that you need in order to live a spiritual life into your account, and in the spirit realm you don’t need money. You need right standing. You need authority. You need wisdom and revelation. You need power. And, you need faith!
All of these spiritual blessings empower and authorize you to operate in the realm of the Spirit in oneness with Christ. Let us go into our spiritual bank and start withdrawing daily!
Within the Kingdom of God, all these things are already accomplished.
Instead of waiting for worldly governments and systems to live up to their constitutions or creeds, realize that you are already a citizen of another country and government.
While the world is trying to figure it out, God already has it worked out.
Everyone in His Kingdom is an heir.
Everyone is blessed equally.
God has no respecter of persons.
He doesn’t bless some and not others.
This was the revelation Paul was trying to get across to the Gentiles in the new covenant.
Everything is already completed.
It is not something that is going to happen to you.
It is something that has already happened to you.
You are operating within the finished work of Jesus.
now you understand why the Word always refers to the promises of God in past tense.
the Bible tells us with His stripes you were healed.
You were blessed with all spiritual blessings.
You have been redeemed by His blood.
You have been given the righteousness of Christ
You have been delivered from the power of darkness.
the point is, God reckoned that He did it for you when He did it in Christ.
That way you would become the recipient of all God did in Christ when you received Jesus and you became a joint heir.
It’s already done!
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Let’s stand!
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
Satan would love nothing more than for you to see yourself outside of Christ; the moment you see yourself outside of Him, condemnation comes.
Do you know why? Because without Jesus, you and I are nothing. you can’t bring healing to anything;
because the life of Jesus is flowing through you, nothing is impossible.
We pose no threat to Satan and the darkness of the world without Christ - but in Christ,
we are Satan’s worst nightmare!
You are right like God, not because of what you’ve done, but because of who you are. In Him there is no darkness and in your spirit there is no darkness. This is why you can stand before any of the darkness in this world and absolutely dominate it.
Gonzales, Chad. Possessors of Life: Walk in Divine Health and Bring Healing to Your World (p. 114). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Don’t question for a moment if there is even an ounce of inferiority.
Your union with Christ puts you in a position of unfettered superiority.
It makes you now a master instead of a slave.
It makes you the head and no longer the tail.
It literally puts you in a position to make Satan live in fear of you.
In Christ, Satan is afraid of you and so is everything that is associated with him.
When you walk into a room, diseases begin to tremble.
And we have the opportunity and the privilege of sharing His love with everyone around us; in our homes and our places of work, our Neighborhoods and communities…
with anybody, and everybody that we meet
— we can share His love everywhere!
