Knowing / Understanding Who You Are

 Knowing Who you are to become all that God wants you to be:

This teaching  is one that is crucial and very important. We are in a time and season where many are brought into the faith but are living less of the life that Christ has called us into and given to us. I wanted to write on our place as God's workmanship but then I thought within me that if we do not understand fully our place in Christ Jesus, in the Kingdom who we are, what we are and have and where we are we are bound  to live a life of nonentity.

I once read/heard about  an eaglet caught by a farmer and kept among his chicks, the eaglet and chicks grew up together and move around together picking pebbles. The eagle with it potential as the king of birds (I won’t want to go into the life of eagles because of time but you can do well to search about it online so you can get the picture clear) was picking pebbles and walking weakly among chicks. On one of there outings this eaglet now grown into an eagle met a strange creature flying over them and as the chicks dash for safety it also went after them, This strange creature who happened to be another eagle saw this eagle scrambling for safety as the chicks and went for it, they had a little discussion, the former was reoriented and before long this same eagle crawling among chicks was soon found soaring high with it mate that came for  it.

Lessons to pick from the above fables:

Even though as believers we have eternal life in us which is the God kind of life because we are born of God, the farmer of the world (The devil) has veiled our heart by keeping us among his chicks therefore limiting us from giving expression to this life we have been called out to. The devil is not all powerful but he is very strategic and cunningly wise in his dealings with men especially believers. All he needs do to bound a believer though a son; one who has been made partaker of the Divine nature is veil our mind for seeing that which we are in Christ Jesus.

 2Peter 1 vs 3-4: According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: [4] Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.)

That’s why the prayer of Apostle Paul for the church at Ephesus was not to receive power but rather that the eyes of their understanding might be enlightened in the knowledge of Christ for this is the way to br filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3vs 14-20: For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [15] Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, [16] That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; [17] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; [19] And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. [20] Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the that worketh in us, [21] Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. that worketh in us, [21] Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Give yield to this Sir/Ma, our problem is not that we lack power. All this meetings we are going for and falling and rising only to go back to our defeated life is not what we need. What we need is for the Holy Spirit to reveal Christ to us. For it is when Christ is reveal to us and in us that we can give expression to this life we have and have been called into. Listen Sirs/ma that we are dozing off why reading the Bible, that we can’t give to prayer for just an hour, that a situation comes to shake us and we are shook by it like a leave (Proverbs 24 vs 10 makes us know that if we faint in the day of adversity then our strength is small), that we do not have boldness to speak to a soul about Christ( this is also talking to me), that we see the sick, lame, blind and all form of deformities, infirmities and we can't provide a solution is not because we do not have power to do all this but it’s because we do not know( The Father speaking in Hosea 4 vs 6 that His people are destroyed for lack of knowledge). What we need are not impartation meetings(mind you I am not belittling this operation in the Kingdom for even Apostle Paul writing to  the Romans in Romans1 vs 11 says he longs to see them, that he may impart unto them some spiritual gifts, to the end that they may be established), many of us have gone for a lot of this, jumping from one meetings and man of God to another, what we really need is a knowing. The church needs lot of knowing meetings today, where people are made to know who we are in Christ Jesus. Until there is a knowing then we can’t give expression to this life we have. Even Christ made us know in John 17vs 3: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

So we see there, that this life we have got and we seek is not in jumping around for impartation but rather it is in knowing. Even the church was established by revelation of Christ

Matthew 16 vs 13-19: When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? [14] And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. [15] He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? [16] And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. [17] And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. [18] And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19] And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

There you will find that the church was established in power and given to dominate but the truth is that I found out a large fragment of the church is far from this reality, why? There is no knowing, no revealing of the person of Christ to the church. This power given to us can only be expressed in us and given expression to when we know. You can’t give expression to what you don’t know.

See what most people don’t realize is that there is a two way dimension to the gospel. There is the gospel of salvation and also the gospel of the kingdom. Many of us have know Christ to be the savior but we haven’t come to reality of his kingship dimension, which is characterize by dominion, power and glory. See don’t let anyone bamboozle you with words. Revelations 1 vs 6: And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

 

That’s who we are . Until we come to the reality of this dimensions as both Priests and Kings which we are, which are both office of knowing. It takes the revelation/knowing of who we are and what we are called into to function both as a priest and king. For it is when the kingdom is reveal to us that we come to the knowing that  the kingdom of our God is not in words but in power.

Note this: until you know you can’t become. You can’t become what you don’t know.

Our knowing is what will cause us to study more,  give more to prayer, fast more, preach more and give more and wholly to this course.

Knowing is quite crucial to our walk in faith. It's what you know that you will give yield to. It's that which has been revealed to you, made manifest to you that you can give to. See we can't give wholly or be spent for the course if we do not come to this realities.

See it is in knowing that we get convinced and are fully persuaded and never apologetic of this faith.

We are not to be sympathize with or pity. This kingdom life is our life, our culture. And we can't fully live or give expression to this life until we come to know.

Apostle John in his epistle in 1John1 vs 1-4 is saying that you see this life that has been made manifest to you through us is that wish we have see, touch, handled. We know this life.                                   1John1vs 3-4:That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; [2] (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it , and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) [3] That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. [4] And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

The problem with the church today is that those we heard and met who preached this gospel never truly had an encounter with the person of Christ. They haven't come to this reality they do not know.

Why do you think Apostle Paul will be praying in Philippians 3vs 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

There we see knowing again.

Do you know that this same Apostle in Galatians 1 vs 15-17:But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, [16] To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: [17] Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

There he's saying God revealed his Son, Jesus to him so why is he still saying he wants to know him in Philippians. That's to tell you that knowing is a process, it's in level and it's continuous.

Though the Holy Ghost has many thing to say to us but I think I will stop at this point for us to reflect and meditate on what we have learnt. Take it to God in prayer.