Paul wrote by THE SPIRIT in Romans chapter 6:
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 to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sense Knowledge is an enemy to faith. When we continually feed our senses, we subtly build our trust and reliance on the world’s ways and methods. Today’s technology is designed to enslave us and constantly retain our focus.
When we make a decision to focus our attention on Christ and identify with Him, our faith grows strong. We have been given a Book of Love by FATHER known as the Bible and we should specifically focus on the revelations contained in the New Testament. Love should be our intent and faith should be our words and associated actions.
Jesus provided us the standard for our walk as well as unfettered access to Our Heavenly Father. Yes, our old man died with Him at the cross, but now we are a new creation and old things are passed away. We now have the potential residing on the inside of us to do greater things than we thought possible.
What is keeping us from changing the potential into reality? The realization that we truly live with Him and are now alive in Christ. We need to exercise our faith and claim our rights for we now have power-of-attorney to demand the same results as Jesus when He walked the earth. He gave us this right by His resurrection on our behalf and making us alive with Him.
An aspiring overcomer is one who has been given the potential but not yet fully walking in it. Until we deal with whatever unbelief is left in our soul, we will remain in this category. Jesus made this point in Matthew chapter 17:
14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,
15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
The difference between our potential and manifesting the maturity of being a Son or Daughter walking in the fullness of FATHER’S Divine Intent, is unbelief. We must overcome this unbelief by properly directing our focus to what really matters. It has become clear that these writings are not for the casual Christian but is directed to those who truly want to mature in Christ and become expressions of FATHER’S Love toward mankind.
Faith acts, hope defers to the future. Those who constantly focus on signs and prophecy will only be observers of what FATHER is doing. Those who develop their faith will be in the midst of FATHER’S business. If you constantly focus on signs, the adversary will be happy to steer you away from the walk of faith and keep you as a babe in Christ. You will be given signs to perpetuate your immaturity and will walk past those in need while you feed your soul with hope only.
We must walk in faith to overcome the adversary and minister life to those around us. Hope is like a fruit tree with leaves and no fruit. It only seems to promise some future fruit which never happens.
Let us embrace our inheritance and be alive in Christ, walking as He walked, ministering as He ministered, and expressing our faith by works. This is what will establish the Kingdom of GOD on earth.