God’s design, intent and purpose is only one thing: He wants to dispense Himself into
humanity. If you do not experience Christ living in you, as you, at least to a
degree you have a great experience coming to you. When the Spirit of the living
God begins to arise in you and manifest through you, your life is really just
beginning.
The experience of His life living through you
is why you are on this earth. God wants to
experience through you the joy of living in this physical world. You are a
spiritual being created in the image of God before you ever descended to this
world.
One of the things that hinder us from
the experience of Christ living through us is all of our religious activity.
Most of us were taught that to grow in Christ we had to get involved in all
kinds of things such as witnessing and working for the church, teaching Sunday
school and all kinds of activity. We were also taught that to have spiritual
growth we had to do certain things and not do other things. We were taught that
we could not enjoy God if we had sin in our lives. After all God is a holy God
and He would pour out His anger on you if you did not obey Him and get rid of
the sin.
All most all of the teachings we have
had from Christianity or any other religion has really hindered the expression
of God in our lives. When we are trying all the religious things and thinking
we have to do certain things to win favor with God, we are missing the kernel
of the Gospel. The truth of the gospel is that you are, in your inner being
already complete in Him. We are not going to experience this until we stop all
the religious activity and just sit in the quiet and linger in His presence and
learn to enjoy Him.
When you enjoy Him the essence of his
life increases within you and fills you with joy.
There is nothing you need to do to gain his favor. He loves you with an
everlasting love.
God has had no lack of people who wanted to
work for Him among Christians. Yet, what has been
accomplished for the most part in the last two thousand years has been wood,
hay and stubble. There is only one God, one Body, One Church, One Father and
One Faith. Look what religion has done with the oneness. If God’s people really
understood oneness we would not be so divided. Jesus Himself said, “A house divided against itself
cannot stand.”
We have to go back to God’s original
intent for man. And that was that He wanted a priesthood.
He wanted a corporate people for His image and His dominion. A priest is one
who bares His image and carries His authority. A true priest is not someone who
just works for God. A priest is one who contacts God in their daily life and
becomes filled with God. We could possibly work for God all of our lives doing
all the religious activity and never really be filled with Him. Remember what
he said to one group of folks? Matt 7:22-23 “Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in
thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
This is a group of people who did all
kinds of works in His name and He said “I never knew you.” They worked for Him
but they did not take the time in their daily lives to enjoy Him and get
intimate with him. Always remember to be a priest is to be one who contacts God
and is filled with God and then the flowing of God will transform lives.
You will never lose by spending quality time
with God. You can go out and work for God and still be a failure all your life.
It must be God in us that does the work. If you get
filled with God and saturated with God so that you become a carrier of His
anointing and His presence, then everywhere you go you are guaranteed success.
I am certainly not perfected in this yet but I
learned this secret a few years ago. I’m much more of a success in the things
of God than I was then, after 13 years of trying. How could you lose if you
become full of God? When folks see the love of God manifested in your life they
are drawn to you.
The question is what do we desire? Do
we just want to operate in the gifts and work for God or do we desire to be
filled with Him? We can see the example of a priest in the Old Testament, those
who really lived the presence of God. In the beginning God wanted the whole
nation to be priests. However when the people rebelled
he then chose a few to be priests. In the Old Testament, everything the priests
did and everything they touched and handled was a type of Christ. The Sin
Offering, the Trespass Offering, the Wave Offering,
the Peace Offering were all types and shadows of what Jesus became.
To be a priest today is an exciting
life. You dispense the Spirit of God everywhere you go. Out of your innermost
being flow love, light and life. That is the true meaning of serving God.