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Predestination is one of the most misunderstood concepts in theology. Often perceived as a deterministic doctrine, it’s crucial to see it not as a limitation of free will but as an expression of God’s omniscient wisdom and unconditional love. Before the foundation of the world, God intimately knew you and had a glorious purpose for your life. This purpose is like a divine signature etched on your soul, guiding you toward a destiny that transcends time and circumstance. Understanding predestination doesn’t mean abandoning personal responsibility or resigning yourself to fate. Instead, it offers a framework through which to view your life as purpose-driven, empowered by God’s eternal perspective. Every decision, every path, and even every challenge you encounter are opportunities to align yourself with this divine purpose, allowing you to live from a place of peace, fulfilment, and spiritual abundance.
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.
Set yourself on eternal things, not on worldly stuff. Cuz you’re dead to this world, and you’re hidden with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:2,3. As you’re living in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit also. – Galatians 5:25. The Father, in his infinite love and manifest wisdom, put us in Jesus in order to save us. Jesus is our salvation. He’s not some external entity working in conjunction with humanity, independent of creation. Creation was made for and through Jesus – in Him and by Him. He is everything. The Father put everything in His Son. Creation is held together by Him. Colossians 1:16,17.
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.
Jesus died, was buried, He rose to life, ascended to Heaven and is now seated at the right hand of the Father! Even when we were dead in sins, He raised us back to life together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;) And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus – Ephesians 2:5,6. Everything Jesus went through… we went through! He became us in all that He suffered, and also in His resurrection and ascension. We were IN Him when He went to the cross. He in us and we in Him. This is our reality today. We are seated with Him at the Father’s right hand.
Living in the Spirit is about consciously living by the leading of the Spirit – it’s about living in the knowledge that you’re in Him and He’s in you. It’s about resting in Him. It’s about letting Him be the source of information, direction, relationship, giftings, etc. Being born again is when the Spirit becomes one with you through the Word you received. Unless you are born of Water and Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. The Spirit is Life – abundance of Life! He is Eternal Life. We received eternal life when we believed Jesus.
When you consciously inhabit the Spirit of God, you learn to rest in the reality that He will always place you where you need to be, when you need to be there. Because you are one with the Spirit of Jesus, and have the mind of Christ, you live in union with His will. Living in the Spirit is about intimacy with the Father and Jesus. Your time with Him enriches your relationship and you begin to see Him as He is. Revelation begins to unfold.
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.
Our very existence is in the Father. He is our world. Imagine the very fabric of your existence woven in Him. You are hidden with Jesus, IN the Father. He is the air you breathe. You are made of Him. Your mind is the mind of Jesus. Your life is the Spirit. You live in a perfect world. Now let the reality of your world manifest into this physical realm.
You are Complete in Him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. – 1 Peter 1:3. Hope for the New Man is not of uncertainty. It’s an assurance of the promises of a loving Father. Sons don’t hope for something that has no definite outcome. Our hope is founded on the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
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.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God – 1Corinthians 2:12. Being one with the Spirit, gives us access to His mind – the mind of Christ. Every mystery that was hidden from fallen man is now revealed to the sons of God through Jesus. The New Man has been given to experience the Heart of God and His eternal plans through the Spirit. Jesus knows everything about the Father… and through Him we get access into the deep recesses of His heart. Through Oneness we get to experience the Godhead.
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.
…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. – Ezekiel 36:26-27 (KJV) A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. – 2Corinthians 5:17.
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.
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.
The Book of Jude tells us to ‘keep ourselves in the Love of God…’ God’s love assures us of His ever-abounding fulness in our life. He is always for us. He is not the hide-and-go-seek kind of father. He said that He will never leave us nor forsake us. if we realise and experience the kind of love He has for us, we will realise that He is never more than a heartbeat away from us. We are his heartbeat! We are so loved by Him, every thought in His mind is about us.
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.
You cannot be any more like Jesus than you are now. You are exactly as He is… He destroyed all imperfections, weakness and flaws at the cross. He became our inadequacies so we could be complete. You are perfect in everything. You are flawless, whole, indestructible. You are one with the Spirit of Life. You are soaking abundant Life. There is no deterioration or decay of any form in Abundant Life.
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.
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.
Our citizenship is from Heaven.. we’re not of this world, just as Jesus is. Our home is the Father. We live and move and have our being IN Him. Abiding in Him gives us the ability and authority to manifest all His glory to this fallen world and proclaim Him. The fabric of our being is soaked in the very life of who He is. We’re made of Him – we’re Spirit. We’re made in His Image and likeness – according to Him in righteousness and true Holiness – Ephesians 4:24 (KJV) And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. We cannot be any more like Him – we’re exactly as He is. We’re His sons.
If you’re born-again, you are IN eternal life. You’re not going to ‘get’ eternal life, or ‘enter’ into it. You are IN Him. He is Life. You cannot have any more life than you do now. You are One with Him. He is One with you. Life is not a journey of ‘surviving’ this world or going through the motions. It’s not about doing your thing until one fine day you ‘graduate’ to heaven. Life is about experiencing the heart of the Father and seeing Him for all that He is. It’s about experiencing Him. It’s about ‘knowing’ Him in a living, personal relationship as a son. It’s about knowing Jesus the perfect Son and Lord.
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!