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Keys To Understand Mysteries

Spirit School

Foundational Keys

There are several foundational keys for us to hold dear to our hearts, as we journey through the mysteries of God:

 

Foundational Key

God has done everything required to make us spiritually clean and able to enter the most holy places of God within the spirit realms.

 

Foundational Key

God our Father wants to speak to us and is incredibly excited about revealing his mysteries to us.

 

Foundational Key

When and how God reveals his mysteries to us is his decision and prerogative.

The Christian lifestyle is one of constant communion and dwelling with our Father in heaven. Just as Jesus was, so we are one with our Father in heaven. Jesus’ life was so wrapped up in his relationship and devotion to our Father in heaven, while he dwelled on Earth he would see and hear God’s mysteries. John describes the dynamic of their relationship in John 5:19.

 

Jesus’ public life and acknowledgment was kickstarted on two declarations from the heavens at his baptism. Our Father in heaven spoke into our realm and through his words declared:

Jesus’ identity as the Son of God

The Father’s good pleasure toward Jesus

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Matthew 3:17

Our Father was shouting out to everyone who saw “Hey, have you seen my son? Here he is, the one being baptised right now, that’s him! I want you all to know I love him so much!”

 

This declaration came out of an eternity of relationship that continued to unfold while Jesus dwelt on the Earth. Jesus was with God from the beginning because he is God, he has forever been in devoted relationship with our Father in heaven and our Father has forever been in devoted relationship with Jesus, John 1:1.

 

Just as God wanted those who had gathered to witness Jesus’ baptism, to know Jesus was his son, so God constantly speaks to our spirits by his spirit, how much he loves us and how excited he is to be our Father!

 

These two truths of God’s love and his identity were the foundation of Jesus’ ability to live and move in the power of God (Luke 4:14). He was able to love others with the passion of God (Luke 7:12-15, John 11:33-35). His love for us could not be contained or held back, especially when Jesus was confronted by death. His love is as strong as death and he overcame the grave for us, because he passionately loves us.

 

Jesus, empowered by his heavenly Father’s love, had his identity rooted in his sonship and his acceptance as God’s beloved son. Just as Jesus is so cherished as God’s son, so God lavishes the same love, pleasure and adoration unto us.

 

God loves us so much! He has given us spiritual birth from heaven, by the power of the Holy Spirit because he longs for us to be with him where he is. We bring him such delight just because of who we are: his cherished, beloved people who are designed and made in his image. Love is our foundation for relationship with our Father in heaven and revelation.


 

Here are two truths that are key to hold in our heart as we press in to God for revelation:

We are sons and daughters of God, a chosen dwelling in which

God is pleased to dwell

 

God is pleased with us and he loves us as his friends, he wishes to reveal his mysteries to his friends

In 1 Corinthians 2:10 we see it is the spirit of God who searches the deep things that are hidden in God and reveals them to us, his friends. How precious are we to him? Even angels long to look into the mysteries of God (1 Peter 1:12). There are some things we have been given access to in God, that not even his angels have been able to look into.

 

The keys to unlock the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven have been given to us in the person of Jesus Christ, through whom we have become friends of God. In Christ, the life giving spirit, we have been given free access to God so that we may understand and perceive the mysteries of the spirit realm and the Kingdom (governing influence) of God.

Realm Of Life

We are made alive in Christ, we live and move in him and Christ moves and abides in us. As we abide in Christ, who is the life giving spirit, we dwell in the realm of life (1 Corinthians 15:45).

 

The perpetual motion of God’s life force is constantly poured into our spirits by the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 4:16) and we are made alive in Christ in every moment. Jesus constantly pours his life, which is the resurrection power of God, into our spirits and keeps us abiding within the Kingdom of God (the safety sheep pen of Jesus).

 

Dwelling and abiding in Christ is what it means to stay within the confines of the Holy Spirit. As we dwell within Christ, the mysteries of the Kingdom of God are accessible to us. These mysteries are life to us, as written in Proverbs 12:28. The ways of the righteous are life!

 

The mysteries of God are understood from a perspective of knowing we are eternally alive in Christ. His mysteries can not be understood from a perspective of doom and gloom, fear of the worst, uncertainty of God’s pleasure toward us, or dread of God. Such thoughts, fears and anxieties can creep in and distort God’s truths, making us believe something that is contrary to his truth.

 

God’s mysteries are understandable through a filter of life, forgiveness, honour and a warm welcome into our Father’s arms. The mysteries of God can be unlocked through a point of view that says “I am alive in Christ and a friend of God.”

 

If God has decided to reveal a mystery to us, he has decided so because he is really pleased to reveal it to us. In this act of revelation, God is honouring us as his friends.

God’s Good Pleasure and Decision

Jesus was driven by his passion of love toward us when he died on a cross. His love was and is stronger than death (Song of Songs 8:6), so that in his resurrection, wrought by the power of God and rooted in love (John 3:16 - God so loved the world), Jesus defeated death and brought us into his everlasting life.

 

Having walked (by faith) through the door of life (Jesus), God’s everlasting power of the Holy Spirit renews us daily (Romans 6:10 - 11). Our place in the realm of life is sustained and maintained by Jesus himself.

 

God longs for us all to know him so intimately. I, along with the Apostle Paul, am convinced that nothing can separate us from the love of God. The love of God overcomes all darkness and sin. In Zephaniah 3:17 God sings over us with gladness, out of the abundance of his love for us.

 

In John 6:44 Jesus shows us it is the Father who first draws our spirits into him. Revelation of his mysteries is instigated therefore by his decision and pleasure to reveal them and is nothing to do with how much we work at attaining spiritual insight.

Foundational Keys

There are several foundational keys for us to hold dear to our hearts, as we journey through the mysteries of God:

 

Foundational Key

God has done everything required to make us spiritually clean and able to enter the most holy places of God within the spirit realms.

 

Foundational Key

God our Father wants to speak to us and is incredibly excited about revealing his mysteries to us.

 

Foundational Key

When and how God reveals his mysteries to us is his decision and prerogative.

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