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Sonship is central to understanding our identity in Christ. It’s more than just a theological term or an abstract idea—it’s a transformative reality that defines our relationship with God the Father. As believers, we are called sons of God (John 1:12), not in a gender-specific way, but as a statement of our intimate connection and oneness with Him. Embracing your sonship is the key to walking in the fullness of your identity in Christ (Romans 8:14). It shifts your understanding of who you are and how you relate to God from a distant servant or follower or a beloved child to a joint heir with Christ. This identity redefines your experiences, interactions, and how you perceive yourself and others.
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.
When a father loves his child, the child experiences all that love in every way. The Father loves you! It is His good pleasure to make your life perfect in every way. When you realise that, you begin to cooperate with His way of doing things and avoid jumping the gun in impatience. He has prepared only goodness in your life-path and all He wants you to do is get to know Him. When you know Him you will begin to identify His nature in you and see His goodness laid out for you. When you identify His nature, you will know how He operates, and that will give you every reason to cooperate with Him.
Through Him we are more than conquerors! Romans 8:37. In Jesus, we are empowered to tread and overcome in every realm and dimension of creation – spiritual and physical. In Him, we are sons. We have the authority to restore creation back to its original estate. This is what sons are about. Creation is waiting for sons to realise that mandate and walk in it.
When God becomes real to us, we experience a relationship that’s no longer conceptual. He’s not just an idea in our mind anymore. We move past theology and intellectuality, into something more tangible. When God becomes real to us, Bible knowledge just isn’t enough. We are now fed with experiential knowledge – a knowledge that’s personal. We come into oneness with Jesus… the knowledge we receive is now a living conversation. We become one with His thoughts and His being. That’s how He communicates. He’s not a second person anymore. He’s one with our heart and mind. We share His experience of the Father.
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.
Intercessory Prayer is not a desperate call to God for action! It’s a proclamation of God’s perfect will into manifestation, to a physical world. It’s the pronouncement of God’s will, by sons, in union with the Spirit, that manifests spiritual realities. Sons inhabit the Spirit – in the state of existence where all things are perfect and complete. From that state of being, we declare what must take place in the physical realm!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If someone you know tells you something you know is a lie, you’d pass it off as what it really is – a lie. You know better than to believe lies. Even though it was told you, and you heard it, it still remains a lie. You’d have to act on it to make happen. Until you do something about it, it remains unproductive. In the same way, our mind has been trained over the years to believe what this physical world tells us, instead of what God tells us by His Spirit and Word. We’ve come to believe that the physical, more tangible world is our primary source of information and truth – IT’S NOT. Our world is Eternity. That’s our truth.
Romans 8:38-39 (KJV) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. We can only truly love God with His kind of Love, if we have experienced His love first. His love is not an emotional love. It may evoke emotions in us when we experience Him, but it’s not emotional when He pours it out. Emotions are a human response.
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.
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.
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.
Grace is about God and His nature. It is not a concept, neither is it something that can be understood through our mental faculties. The true revelation of grace comes by a relationship with the Father through Jesus. Grace is an experience of the goodness of God. It is something we are living in, as new creation. Grace is the life of the New Man.
Righteousness is a state of being. It is our nature and the most fundamental attribute of our New Creation Identity. This righteousness helps us get into a personal relationship with Jesus because we know He sees us as He is. As citizens of Heaven our very nature is manifested in this world from that seat of ‘true righteousness and holiness.’ When we realise the righteousness we have been established in, our confidence to dominate this physical reality grows. This is our Identity.
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.