What are ‘DEAD WORKS’? Anything that you’re NOT specifically called, purposed, or created to do… is a dead work. You are created uniquely and with a specific purpose. If you are not designed to do something in this life, but you’re doing it anyways, either because it’s the right thing to do, or it’s something that needs to get done… that’s a dead work! Don’t be condemned… and don’t let your conscience condemn you, if this is something you’ve been doing all this while. Jesus always steps in at the right time. We all come to a place of revelation in different areas of life and from there change our course by that revelation. Let the Spirit do it for you.
Your reality must not be defined by another person’s life or circumstance. You are uniquely created! You are born to be different from everyone else. God created you to make a difference by being YOU. Your own unique relationship with the Father, through Jesus, enables you to believe Him for anything – no limitations! God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us… – Ephesians 3:20
Jesus did a complete work at the Cross. It was a work that manifested in time, but the reality of that event took place before the world was made. Revelation 13:8. God does not see uncertain futures. He creates futures, and the courses of this world. There will be no delay. It will happen in the exact time it is designed to happen because nothing created can hinder its Creator from causing His plan to come to pass. As far as the Father is concerned, it has already happened, and simply the manifestation is what we will see take place.
The purpose of Jesus coming into this world to save us, was to restore us back to the Father. The Father is life and He gave Jesus to have life in Himself. Our communion and oneness with Him is Life. When we were separated from God by a nature that was not His, we were dead. There was no life in us. In God’s reality, anything that is not in oneness and communion with Him is dead. He is life.
The New Man is spirit. We are not in the flesh. We are One with the Spirit of Jesus – the first born among many brethren. Our identity is rooted in the nature and likeness of our Father. We are sons of God – created just like Him – as Jesus is, so are we, now. Access to the state of spiritual existence lies in knowing and believing this truth. It is as God intended. We are created to live and walk in our true state of being – Spirit!
The Cross of Jesus was so powerful, it destroyed sin at the root. The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! – John 1:29. Before He died, Jesus said, ‘it is finished!’ He destroyed the one thing that separated us from the Father. And when the Spirit comes, He will convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment; of sin, that they do not believe Me. – John 16:8-9. The one sin that separated us from God – the only sin He is concerned about – is that people don’t believe Him.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. – John 14:26-27. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. – 1 Corinthians 6:17. You are one with the Jesus. You are in the Father. You are one with All of God.
Sons of God have the Spirit of power working within. We are one with the Spirit. We are one with Jesus. As He is so are we, here in this world. God can manifest all His will on the earth, but He will only do it through us. As long as we have a physical presence here, He will exercise His will through ours. God does not violate our will. He won’t violate our choices. He will not manifest what we do not believe we can…
One of the major roadblocks of living in the eternal purpose of God, is a conscience ridden with guilt and condemnation. So many Christians remain subdued in unfruitfulness and bondage, simply because they believe they’ve blown it and are now unworthy of living in Fulness. Dead works are simply ‘anything that are unproductive, vain or unfruitful to you and God.’ When Jesus died on the Cross and rose to victory, He set us free from a carnal conscience. He became the fulfilment of every requirement of God in our place.
Our Eternal Habitation is the Father. We are not only inhabiting Him, but through the Spirit we are One with all of His being. Jesus is in the Father and through Him we have been brought into oneness with the Godhead. He is Eternal Life. When we are conscious of our habitation and the glory we dwell in, it begins to manifest in all forms of amazing blessing. We begin to see manifested victories and successes, simply because we dwell in the Spirit.
Inhabiting the Father means, we now exist in Him. He is our world. In Him, no form of uncertainty exists. Consciously inhabiting Him causes us to walk in His perfect will, because now you cannot do anything that is not of Him. Beholding him assures us that there are no other options in our world other than what the Father desires… Imagine the possibilities and glories of living in oneness with Jesus, IN the Father, through the Spirit. It’s a world of amazing Life.
People worry about what the future may bring. This worry brings insecurity and causes people to act on it. People spend all their time preparing for this ‘uncertain’ future while compromising and sacrificing their present joy and peace. You don’t need to prepare for your future. This is not to say that you shouldn’t save up finances. Our savings are not our security. Jesus is! Be led by the Spirit. Your Father who has blessed your today is also in your future. He is the One who has provided for you today and will be there to provide for you all your life.
So then let no one boast in men.
For all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come… all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God. – 1 Corinthians 3:21-23. The Father has put ALL things within us when He gave us His Spirit. We are complete IN Him… He made us One with ALL of Him. There is nothing lacking in us. The New Man doesn’t receive things from outside of himself anymore.
Isaiah 54:17 says: ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.’ Before Jesus, the enemy had a weapon he could use against us and accusations he could beat down and overcome us with (see previous post)… He is the god of this world (a right he took from Adam) and has dominion over those subject to this world.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. – Romans 10:4 (KJV) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. We are no more partakers of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil… we have now come to the Tree of Life. We have come to Jesus. He is Life. Our life is no more about right and wrong choices. The things of this world are not our focus. It’s about living Eternal Life, now. It’s about partaking of eternity – it’s about knowing Jesus and the Father. It’s about manifesting our identity to the world around us.
Everything created waits eagerly in great expectation and longing for the sons of God to manifest their true identity. Creation can experience perfect freedom under the dominion of sons – it was created to serve us. Creation longs to serve the son of God and experience freedom from curse. Being One with Jesus causes glory to manifest to this physical world. As long as our feet touch this world there is hope for blessing and life to flow.
If you’re living by Grace then your efforts have no value anymore… – Romans 11:6 (KJV) And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. Grace is when God initiates everything in your life, and completes it Himself. You are simply a passenger going along for the ride. No doubt, whatever God does, He does it through you. But He orchestrates the options laid before you and manifests the perfect working of His plan by His Spirit through you.
And out of His fulness we have all received abounding grace – John 1:16 (KJV) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. He is Everything. He is Fulness. The Fulness of God is where everything exists. He created everything out of Himself. Out of Fulness, creation manifested. In the Fulness, we find His Grace through which have all things. There is no lack in God’s Fulness. The New Man is created to inhabit this Fulness in which we live and thrive. It’s a state of being complete in Him – we are Full of all things.
He that is joined to the Lord is One Spirit – 1Corinthians 6:17. The New Man is in absolute oneness with the Father, through Jesus… its inherent! We have the mind of Christ through this oneness. We think and experience the Father through it. By the Spirit within we walk in the will of the Father and manifest all His desires. He lives through us. We experience Eternal Life and Glory by Jesus… we’re IN Him.
Everything physical that is created manifested from the spiritual realm. God spoke and creation materialised. The spiritual and unseen realm is the source from which all physical manifestations take place. This spiritual realm is the habitation of the New Man. Jesus is the way, the truth and the Life. He brought us to the Father who is our habitation today. We live and inhabit the Father.
The New Man has a new heart and a new Spirit… The New heart is not the old deceitful heart of the old man. It is the heart of Jesus that runs after the Father. It is the heart that yearns for more of the Father. After being born again our desires have changed. No more do we desire the dead things of the world. Physical habits may cause worldly things to still look attractive and lucrative, but in our hearts we know we don’t desire it.
Praying in tongues is praying in the Spirit… Praying in the Spirit can also be by revelation.
It’s when the New Man prays. The New Man is born of water and the Spirit… we are spiritual beings. When we pray in tongues, we speak out mysteries of God into manifestation! Speaking in tongues is when the we ‘call forth those things that be not, as though they are’ by the Spirit. Every audible word bypasses the physical mind and materialises spiritual realities in our favour! The logical mind doesn’t need to comprehend spiritual realities unless necessary – that’s when the interpretation of tongues is given.
The New Man is predominately spiritual, just as Adam was before the fall. He wasn’t as conscious of the physical realm as he was of his spiritual nature. That’s is why he could see and hear God. He even heard the footsteps of God walking up to him in the garden after he fell. Adam was more aware of his dominion before he fell, than after his eyes opened to the guilt of disobedience. Today, we are one with the Spirit of God. We have been restored to a greater place of authority than before the fall of man. We have been made one with Jesus – He is Life.
The Rest of God is the state of existence in which you exercise more faith than when you’re trying to do so consciously. It is the place in which the Spirit is constantly working out God’s plan through you. In the beginning, God spoke things into creation, on the seventh day He rested, and even until today creation is held together by His Spirit, without Him having to repeat Himself to sustain it. For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His. – Hebrews 4:10 (KJV) For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought about condemnation and guilt in man. Man was subjected to a life of choosing between right and wrong. The purpose of life changed from originally enjoying a relationship with God, to having to choose between good and evil to survive. Jesus restored all things to where the New Man is now living in the abundance of life. Jesus is the Tree of Life.
We are hidden with Christ IN the Father. We emanate Spiritual life to the physical world around us. This glorious manifestation takes place when we are consciously inhabiting the Father. He is the source of life. He is life. The fallen world is in need of repair, restoration and reconciliation. We are portals of God’s glory to this dying world. We are the connection between the Spiritual and physical realms. Sons are life-giving spirits. We exude life wherever we go. It’s in our being. It’s the overflow of relationship with the Father that causes this Life to manifest.
We can only believe information we have received. There are only two sources of information – the physical world, and the Father. The world can only give us information about the physical realm. It cannot reveal Spiritual realities. Only the Spirit can give us Revelation about Eternity – our identity and Jesus! Our belief system is a product of the information we receive, and our lives are a product of our belief system!
The Purpose of Life is relationship with the Father. In that relationship, life finds its meaning. Jesus understood that as He lived and walked the earth. His life and ministry was a product of His relationship with the Father. Jesus came to reconcile us back to the Father and restore the relationship that Adam lost. Life is not primarily about performance and accomplishments, although these are by-products of a healthy relationship with Jesus. We are given a spiritual nature that yearns for eternal revelation – this revelation is the Father.
When you inhabit the Father, there is no urgency! There is no pressure to perform or produce. Inhabiting the Father is: living by the Spirit. He produces the fruit – you just go along for the ride and watch Him live through you. Your life must be a response to His leading. Being led by him never binds you with a need to produce anything. Living in the Spirit means to cooperate with what He is leading you to do, when He wants you to do it – this is when you see the greatest results.
As sons, we have the Spirit of sonship because of whom we can call God, Father. Experiencing the reality of Jesus, the person, in a tangible living relationship is why we can manifest Him confidently. Jesus lives in and through us. Our mind is His mind. Our heart is really His heart. We know the Father through the Spirit of Jesus. He gives us that revelation of true relationship. We can experience that relationship through His heart and mind.
Jesus’ body was broken and bruised for our perfect physical health. It’s for perfect health today – not later – not after we pass from this world. It’s for abundance physical life now.
Our Eternal Life has begun. It is not a future event! The bread we partake of, is a remembrance of our oneness with Him as His body was bruised for healing. He suffered physically so we should not. He suffered our sickness and infirmity. We were in Him when He was bruised and crucified. He went through all that He did as us!
