God is our Father, but we Christians don t believe it! Brendan Mc Crossan

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1 God is our Father, but we Christians don t believe it! Brendan Mc Crossan

2 God is our Father, but we Christians don t believe it! Brendan Mc Crossan Copyright@ One How can I say that God is our Father? How can I say that God is our Father but we Christians don t believe it? Easy~ how many are walking in his power and dominion? If God is truly our Father then we are his children, and of his own divine life source and we would be doing the same thing Jesus done, because there is no difference before our father God between us, what Jesus could do for God s glory we should also be doing. Don t let people say rubbish to this word, God created you to do immeasurable signs and wonders and awesome unbelievable miracles for his glory. Jesus even said, you would do even greater things than he did, are you doing anything like that at all? John 14:12-NIV Bible Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. We don t believe what God himself says about us, he said, he created us in his own divine image, and what is he? He is God, he didn t create us as himself, a God like him; but he created us in his image, we are not him, but we are his image and that makes us gods, smaller gods but gods never the less, and Christians find that difficult to cope with, they will not agree to say of themselves that I am a small god my father is Almighty God creator of the galaxies and planets and solar systems. The following scriptures are hard scriptures for Christians to agree over, yet they argue with Jesus and also with God, who said these things; they forget God made man like himself, and what is he? I ask again ~ he is God. An image is not the same thing, an image

3 is a copy, a likeness, a portrait, it cannot move or do anything, but it is an image, do you understand that just because God made us in his image there are things missing, we can never be him but we are like him; just as scripture says we are like Jesus. The word like, means to be the same as, to be similar to, to be equal to; resembling; you are not God but you are a small child god, made in his image, in spirit. It is easy for Christians to say, I am the body of Christ Jesus, but they are unable to say, I am a god, created by my father who is Almighty God. I am not the creator but I am his son or daughter. Why is it so hard to understand, we can say these things but are afraid to be mocked or ridiculed by other Christians as over the top? God said this about us and so did Jesus, so are they lying to us, are they trying to inflate our ego or are they trying to get us to realise the flesh side of us is unimportant, and it is the spiritual side of us we must embrace, I embrace and say, I am a god created in the image of my father and I share in union with all that Jesus is for God joined us together as one person spiritually. The enemy does not want you thinking like this of course, because he knows when you begin to believe, and begin to act like you are a Son or Daughter of God, and understand that you are that small Child of God who claims he is your father. Think of something here, do you deny that you are the same as your earthly father; you have his DNA in you, just as you have your heavenly Fathers DNA in you. You are not him, but you have picked up lots of his traits, his habits, and ways of doing things. Watch any child sitting in a room with his dad, and you will see; if the father has a habit of sitting with his hands behind his head, the child will do the same, isn t that true? Well when you sit in the presence of your heavenly Father you also will pick up his traits and ways, that is what makes us family; we copy our father s, ways, and spending time in your heavenly Fathers company you will do the same, and become more and more like him; I hope you understand where I am going with this. It is in spending time out with your heavenly Father just as you did with your earthly father, that you will get to know him, as he sits and talks with you, sharing his thoughts, and feelings, sharing with you his plans, and talking to you, as his child, whom he loves dearly. This is relationship and needs to be developed between you and Father God, he sits waiting on you to come to him, he never moves away, and is always ready to talk and share things with you; things so

4 secrete that you could not share with an unbelieving world or with unbelieving Christians. The intensity of developing a good relationship with your heavenly Father will mean when you go to lay hands on the sick they will recover and those deformed will be instantly healed or delivered because you have learned to trust him and to know and understand this is what he desires, then you won t even have to ask, do you want to heal this man or woman or child, you will instinctively know this is his perfect will. Spending time every day or night means that you develop a deep relationship with God your Father. John 10:34-NIV Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, I have said you are gods? To get back to what Jesus said and what scripture he quoted from, let s read the following scripture that he knew by heart. That seems to be a hard thing to accept, but who said this thing, none other than Jesus! Now why would he say such a profound statement? It was to explain to them that God made them, but they cannot see the truth, their eyes are blinded just as we all are until now. Jesus quoted from the book of Psalms his father s word. Psalm 82-NIV Bible A psalm of Asaph 1 God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the gods : 2 How long will you defend the unjust, and show partiality to the wicked 3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. 5 The gods know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I said, you are gods ; you are all sons of the Most High. 7 But you will die like mere mortals you will fall like every other ruler. 8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.

5 Do you see in this scripture, God talks of the great assembly judging the gods? We know there are many false gods, in this world but there are no false gods in the Assembly of God; God presides in the great assembly in heaven. The word preside means, to be a supervisor. He is chairing the meeting taking place in heaven, so when he is chairing the meeting taking place, he is addressing the small gods gathered there, and he reminds them, even though they may be gods they themselves will die like any other mortal being, and he is talking of the god s gathered there, his children of today. 6 I said, You are gods ; you are all sons of the Most High. 7 But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler. God repeated himself making sure we could understand what he done for us, his children; it s funny, we can say we are children of God, yet be afraid to amplify what that means exactly. We can say, I am the body of Christ Jesus, but not, I am Christ Jesus in spirit. Paul said, it is not I who live but Christ Jesus who lives in me, he knew who and what he was, and what God the Father was to him. God addresses the assembly as gods and says those gods are his divine Sons. Sons of the Most High God which is himself, we claim to be sons of God but you know the truth be told, we don t even begin to understand what we are saying, and what it means to be a son or daughter of the Most High, God. We can declare that, I am a son of God or daughter of God but miss the total significance of what we declare. 1 John 3:2-NIV Bible Dear friends, now we are ~ children of God, ~ and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, ~ we shall be like him, ~ for we shall see him as he is. How easy it is to say we are children of God, but not even for a second do we realise the implication of what we are saying and how profound what we say is! If we declare that, we are children of God, and we Christians can seem to say that so easy, but look at the statement you are making before heaven and

6 earth; you are saying that, Almighty immeasurable infinite God is your father. This scripture that I quoted from says, we don t even know what we will be, because it has not been made known yet; but every child of God knows that when Jesus arose from the dead, things had changed. He appeared with a new body a spiritual body which could be like a flesh body; but this body could either walk through walls or materialise at will, this body had no blood in it; this was the new things being revealed to those who are interested in gaining knowledge, this was not revealed before until now, but now we know what our new bodies will be like because we are joined together with and in Jesus. What we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, the same as him. Jesus said this while he was still alive, for he knew that he was coming back from the dead. Up until this point no one knew what they were going to be like. So now we know some more of what we are going to be; shown by Jesus and shown by the Father, that we are his redeemed children, made in his image, and carrying his divine sperm in us, making us supernatural gigantic spirit beings! Two As he is so are we! In lots of my books the lord has led me to use this scripture time after time, for it is not penetrating down into the soul of Christians, they daren t profess this word before others, either through being afraid to say such a momentous statement; or to be seen as religious nuts, saying they are the same as Christ Jesus, who is God in the flesh. But Christian friends, do you know who dares say this about you? It is God himself in his divine word; it is not the pope or bishops or the religious leaders of this world, it is only God who dares say this about us, and for the most of us, we don t say it in holy boldness confident that this is the perfect will for us to declare. We must declare this to this broken world and to the enemy, so he will tremble in fear of us

7 because when you declare this word from God s own mouth he will never be able to recognise whether it is you or Jesus himself who stands in front of him, and he will turn and run in fear of you. God says, to declare his word out of our mouths, to speak the word; for when we declare the word of God out of our mouths, it is the same as God declaring his word out of his mouth! 1 John 4:17- NIV Bible This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the Day of Judgment: in this world we are like Jesus. For as he is so are we. Dare we, the children of an awesome Father God say this, in this world where I am alive in at this very moment, ~ as Jesus is ~ so am I!. I have made this personal, so instead of saying we are, I am making my declaration that I am the same as he is. How many Christians are saying this, or even teaching this truth to their brothers and sisters? Going by what I see of Christian behaviour today, very few. If God says it about us, is he speaking the truth? Do you believe him strong enough to declare this statement out of your mouth in front of pastors or people and friends? There is a reason God wants you to declare this one particular scripture; for when you declare it into the air, [speak it,] it grows into existence within your spirit, and your new spirit knows the truth, and the truth makes you stronger, as it believes the word of God proclaimed out of your mouth with assurance, and then when you come to speak out things in Jesus name, then you have power beyond belief. Because you know that you are indeed the same as he is in this world. When you declare this awesome scripture out of your mouth the devil trembles. God wants you declaring his word, as he is so am I. This is a Devine declaration given to you the believer, and backed up by divine supremacy. You are ordered to speak this word with conviction, for in it is the promise of the Fathers word, when you speak out the word of God that word is the exact same as if it were God himself speaking it, and God s word is filled with divine illumination,

8 The reason is, because this word is filled with power believing that you and Jesus are one being, increases you power and spiritual strength. This word when believed by you makes the devils knees tremble in horror and fear, he knows at this point you know that you have the authority and power of Jesus in you because you are joined together with him, and share in his salvation and also because you now know that as he is, so now in this world, you are the exact same as he is in this world, a god filled with tremendous power and authority; there is no difference between you and Jesus now at this perfect moment. As far as God the Father is concerned; ~you and Jesus are one being, ~ there is not the slightest difference between you; if he blinks, you blink at the exact same moment, when he raises his hand, so do you simultaneously. You must acknowledge this truth, for it is not you, or anyone of spiritual importance who is declaring you have the right to do so, but it is our Almighty Father God, creator of the universes, and heaven, vouches for you. He backs up your declaration with tremendous power and authority, and signs and wonders happen because there is no difference between you and Jesus, both of us are doing the works prepared beforehand by our heavenly Father in chorus and his works have divine power in them. This is why we must speak out the word of God into the atmosphere, for it creates an impression around us of faith which the enemy can see, ~ we can t ~ but they can, and avoid us as often as they can. Three I expected to see others ministering I was at a great healing conference recently and God done some amazing miracles and healings and deliverances during it. Afterwards I was shocked when some people came over to me at the break and asked me for prayer, {not all who go to large conferences get healed,} because most people love the personal touch, they want to feel someone s hands on them, especially one

9 they see healing power coming from, this is not wrong, of course every one of us need a point of contact, and when folk see someone being healed in front of them, they will go to that point of contact to try and receive their healing, and they don t realise they have just set faith in motion so they get healed, for the most of them. And you are someone s point of contact; step out, for your father is God, and is inside of you along with Jesus and his Holy Spirit.} And I of course never refuse a request for prayer, so I ministered to them; and as God was healing them, I stopped for a moment, looking around me, and was alarmed to discover that I was the only person ministering healing to around three thousand people in this place having lunch. I expected to see others ministering to each other just as I was doing. I knew from what took place inside the arena there were ministers of all Christian faiths there, and I presume some in the healing ministry like I was, yet when we were in a two hour break, no one apart from myself was praying with people, and I asked myself, why are there no others doing what I am doing, and I actually felt embarrassed for a moment, but soon got over it, for a line of people had formed looking for healing which I can proudly say, the Holy Spirit healed them all, to the glory of God our Father. I am not criticising anyone so don t imagine I am, In Ireland you would see people praying with others at a conference like this, or they used to; it s a long time since Ireland had a conference, the enthusiasm for God has died out here, it has diminished. Are the Christian churches, the body of Jesus, prepared to step out and help others? Has the enemy got us so bound up in fear of being seen, or failing, or it won t work; that we don t step out and do the works that God has prepared for us, according to his word. Ephesians 2-New International Version (NIV) 10 For we are God s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Try and realise this, that when you feel led to step out and pray with someone; that is a work that has been prepared for you by a loving Father who delights

10 to see you trust him, and in faith in him, lay hands, leaving the end result up to him, most will be healed, some may not but they will be touched by God in some area they may not be aware of. The greatest thing we can learn from this is the works we do have been prepared already, by our loving Father to give us more confidence in him as we see miracles happening through us; and to be truthful it never stops being a great joy to see someone rise up from a wheelchair and walk; we just have to step out and lay hands knowing God instigated this good work in advance. This is another gift he has given to us that most Christians rarely realise they have; Our Father expresses his love for us in many ways, and just as I am delighted to see someone set free from pain and disease; so is my Father, for I sense him smiling every time he heals someone through the name of his son Jesus, and through the power of his Holy Spirit. Even as I write this I have a sense of him smiling, for I know when you read this, some of you also will know that God is backing you with his power, when you step out to do his good works in Jesus name prepared for you in advance by our loving Father. It is awesome to know and to realise that every time we step out to do something for God he backs our actions with heavenly power! Behind every healing and miracle is the works prepared for us before time even began, these moments are created moments, a timeless energy has been released by our Father in heaven to give us his patronage, and if we know we have God s backing, then we know miracles will happen every time we step out to do the work prepared beforehand. Here is a little thought; if God has prepared good works for us will those works ever fail to materialise? They will not materialise if we don t follow the Holy Spirits prompting. But if we do indeed follow the Holy Spirits promptings and quiet words, leading us, saying talk to that person, then those works prepared before hand in heaven by our Father God will that prepared miracle happen and if we fail to act then in heaven later you will see how you spoilt a miracle from happening, and how by disobedience or fear or uncertainty you may have been the cause of someone s life not changing for the better and for the glory of God or he may just use someone who is more open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. You know if you are aware that what you do is the perfect will of God, and if you are like me in a healing ministry; you will see incredible outstanding miracles

11 happen before your eyes as you do those works prepared beforehand. God does not do things half hearted, he pours out on you divine grace to be able to do those works for his glory, and we have the confidence in our Father growing as we draw closer to him by what we take part in. Every Christian is in a healing preaching teaching ministry despite others telling you, that you have only one gift, and perhaps you don t even know if you have a gift, never mind a healing gift. The proof of this is Jesus said go out into the world preach the good news teach them how to receive salvation and lay hands on them and I will be with you as you do this and in you as you lay hands my power will be released. No Christian is without power if you are baptised in the Holy Spirit for he is the gift giver as you desire to use any one you choose, he may give you a particular prominent gift but you have all the gifts -1-Corinthians Now you have every gift and power for doing the will of God. Is it the will of God to heal? Yes it certainly is; anything said apart from this is a lie, the lord God does not give sickness or disease or disfigurement or distorted bodies. He created every child in the womb perfect and the enemy sowed these disfigurements and diseases, not God. So you have the same right as Jesus in demanding it to get out of peoples bodies, for that is the perfect will of God and he showed that through Jesus healing all who come to him and not all had faith but he healed them out of love. In the multitudes there were probably thieves, robbers, and perhaps murderers, or child molesters, we will never know, and he healed them all. Multitudes mean over a few thousand people and not everyone was a good person looking for healing. He even told one guy to stop sinning after he healed him, did you notice it was not before he repented and he didn t even repent, so use Jesus examples do not judge anyone or refuse anyone; his friends destroyed a man s roof to get him down inside to Jesus. I wonder did they ever fix it again. This man may not have had any faith at all, because it was his friends who believed that Jesus would heal him. He may have lain on his bed screaming, I m not going to this Jesus guy, who knows he knew he had sins in him and may not have wanted to go to Jesus remember this is only hypothetically, and probably not true, but it is a scenario, I have seen many times people being forced to come to me to lay hands on them, and I softly pretended to pray for them after speaking to them very quietly personally, so to keep their friends feelings intact I pretended to pray.

12 Their will would have meant they would never have been healed at all, sometimes people force healing on the sick and unless they themselves want it; it is pointless, and if like me you have this happen to you; reassure the person, that you will quietly pretend to pray for them; God does not consider this a wrong for, he himself protects people privacy. Matthew 4:23-25-New King James Version (NKJV) Jesus Heals a Great Multitude 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. 24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. 25 Great multitudes followed Him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. In every Christian church there should be time for God to heal his people, when the pastors and leaders step out; or have their folk step out, they will see miracles and healings in their churches. And the church would soon fill up with people looking for God s healing touch. This isn t happening in churches in Ireland and I know from a friend it isn t happening in the majority of born again churches in England either. God is not being glorified People don t get to know him as Father and that is usually caused by leaders, not aware of him as their father, and not teaching their flock that either, with power and effect; and they are not to be criticised by me or anyone else, for we all walk in the light we have been given. If they feel they don t have the gift of healing, but know they have the gift of pasturing the sheep, then they should check among their members to see if any believe they have the gift of healing; for all of us have it inside us, he is the Holy Spirit and he is every gift and power. Use them, for the church is made up of those with different gifts from the Holy Spirit, giving Father God the glory and honour. I believe that most pastors are not called into a healing ministry, they may experience the gift of healing working through them at times; but their

13 workload is hard enough without people coming to them for healing after church and during their home time with family. In these days and times the emphasis on the gifts of the Spirit have diminished, it s like he has gone away, and that is because there is very little teaching on how to operate on the gifts. In Ireland the charismatic movement failed to teach others how to release the gifts, and leaders have stood for years in control, even after God told them to step down, and let younger ones take control; I was there when the word came through from God, and it was confirmed, one after another, saying the same message; sadly they never did obey and so the charismatic movement stopped altogether, as the Holy Spirit moved out because of their disobedience. Your heavenly Father desires that you operate freely in the gifts of his Spirit, for most Christians don t realise they have every gift and power from God~ 1- Corinthians ~ and that gift is the Holy Spirit himself in you; and he is the gift giver, and he resides in you to dispense his gifts to those who are willing to take a step out in faith. All this is from your Eternal loving Father God as gifts to you and to me; this is him expressing his love for us; everywhere in this book in almost every scripture used, you will see many different gifts are given to you from your Loving Father, given to you out of sheer love, for he can t stop giving, it is his divine nature; love is a giver not a taker; and the more you accept what he is doing for you the more he will continue to pour out on you, and it matters not if you are born again just today or many years ago, for all have been given these blessings, gifts and powers from the moment you received Jesus for he is in you residing in your spirit joined together as a show of pure love. Some people who don t know God as their Father thinks all he does is condemn us for sinning but in. Romans -8-1-{God says} there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

14 No one can say God our Father condemns them, or us, it is the enemy who condemns you, or even yourself that condemns you, but the word of Almighty loving Father is truth; he does not condemn you ever. God has us spoilt rotten from the moment he thought of us millions of years ago, and kept in heaven safe from all the devils attacks, and then birthed into this world through your mother s womb, and he was even there when you were conceived, for he knit you together in your mother s womb, he created a flesh body for you, and what he created was perfect; the enemy may get to children who are vulnerable in the womb because of things that may have happened to your parents something they may have or may have not done only the lord knows the truth. But what God creates is created perfect, before he leaves the womb. This following scripture is one of the most beautiful scriptures that I know of; there is such an expression of love shown here, it is a bit long but I thought that it will bless you even more if you take time to slowly read it to yourself over and over again for there is so much treasure in it. You can make this your own personal daily prayer to God for this prayer need never change for it inhabits all the qualities for a heart felt prayer. Psalm 139 New International Version (NIV) 1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there, your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,

15 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand when I awake, I am still with you. Since going over this scripture I realised it is an awesome prayer to pray daily to God from your heart. The first section is asking God who searches us and to show if there is anything in us that is not good you have searched me Oh God. Now I ask that you show me anything that is displeasing to you, so I can with your grace remove it. The rest is an expression of love and gratitude and personal. The second part is saying no matter what, God is always there with us, he never leaves us even if we feel abandoned as we sometimes do feel. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there, your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. The third section is expressing his personal care, saying; you God created my innermost being, and you were even in the womb with me; and you had already planned all my life ahead of time for good for me. And it is wonderful

16 to realise that God never stops thinking about me/ you, and that is an understatement; he never stops thinking about you or me, not for even a mill of a second. This is Fathers love for us in living proof. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand when I awake, I am still with you. God s word tells us he knows where we are at all times, and no matter if it be day or night he still sees us. He tells us that he was there in our mother s womb as we were being strung together, from that little sperm and ovum meeting inside mum, and became us, he knew the words we would speak before we even uttered them, think about that for a moment, before you curse and swear, he knows, so change your words before you swear; so don t do it. His thoughts are so immense that they are like the grains of sand on a large beach, as he thinks of us; how does he do it? That is a mystery, but he does this for all of us, he never stops thinking about us and he has laid out his plans for us in Jeremiah-29. Jeremiah 29:11-NIV For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Those plans incorporated all the good works he has prepared for you to do for him, and he gave you every gift and power to do them 1-Corinthians 1-4

17 1 Corinthians 1-4-Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 4 I thank my God always for you because of God s love and kindness given to you through the Messiah Yeshua, {Jesus} 5 in that you have been enriched by him in so many ways, particularly in power of speech and depth of knowledge. 6 Indeed, the testimony about the Messiah has become firmly established in you; 7 so that you are not lacking any spiritual gift and are eagerly awaiting the revealing of our Lord Yeshua {Jesus} the Messiah. 8 He will enable you to hold out until the end and thus be blameless on the Day of our Lord Yeshua {Jesus} the Messiah 9 God is trustworthy: it was he who called you into fellowship with his Son, Yeshua {Jesus} the Messiah, our Lord This is how much the Father loves us he gave us every gift and power beforehand, you got all this as a gift from him before you were even formed in the womb for your loving Father God knew what this life was going to hold for you, and he prepared for you in advance; such love, he knew you would reject him and live in this world for a season then by your own choice, your own free will, you one day made a decision that changed your life for you, and all that God had for you waiting there became yours, as you made the right choice. God loves us enough to allow us to chose either him or this world, and all it offers; On this part he stopped short of influencing you in any way; this was the most critical point of your life, for all of heaven and earth stood still as God held his breath waiting to see if you would love him in return, and when you did he exhaled in joyful relief. At this particular moment in time God chose to forget your choice, and his plans; and your life could go in any direction you chose; he had a perfect will for you and a permissive will, and he did not know which direction you would chose at this point; he has the power to forget all his original plans he had for you and to change those plans if you rejected him. He just held his breath in anticipation. Ephesians 2:10- NIV Bible For we are God s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

18 If we knew our heavenly Father a bit better we would be prepared to step out into those good works, because we would know this is what he has been waiting on us to do for him; he uses us to reach the sick and those needing salvation, and we would recognise instances where God wants us to touch people, and so share in his ministry. We are called to be partakers in his salvation that means to share in spreading the good news of salvation with the world s lost. What an amazing thing for our Father to do for us his children. How can we begin to know our heavenly Father if we don t embrace his word through our declarations in faith, for scripture says, faith is what pleases God, for without it you are spiritually dead? Four In union with Christ God done an amazing thing here out of great love and to make sure the devil could not ever get you to turn to sin away from God for God protects you from his actions. 1 John 5-Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 18 We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him. This is God s love in deed; love gives assurance that you are guaranteed heaven, and confirmed by his word in 1- Corinthians-1-5. Many Christians worry will they get into heaven, they don t know this assurance from their loving Father God. They do not realise that they are already seated in heaven in Christ Jesus. They don t realise that God himself protects them from the snare of the enemy; they live in a fear, a dread deep inside them that they might not have enough grace to actually get into heaven; they don t know that every sin, past present and future are far removed by Christ Jesus. They don t understand Father God at all, he is the one who decided to do all this out of an immense love for them, Christians don t realise the extent of God pure love, they look at Jesus and all he done but they don t understand that it is God the Father who used Jesus to do his work in you; and this is not taking away anything from Jesus; but it is the Father alone who planned all the many things he done; Jesus points to the Father in everything he done. For he knows

19 it is the Father who created mankind and has his many plans for them including your life s plan, and this is love, love for you and for me, it is a personal touch from our Father. 1 Corinthians 1 New King James Version (NKJV) 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. God considers you blameless on the Day of Judgement, and for the Christian, your judgement was the day you decided to ask Jesus into your life, it was then that you got saved and entered heaven in spirit, and from that moment of impact you were considered blameless, forever Hebrews you are forever perfect in the sight of God, like a brand new born baby. God is our Father, sadly most of us say it, but don t believe it, we don t believe the implications of what that statement means; we don t believe that the God who created the universe by the power of his voice and the God who created the thunder and lightning and all the earth and is the one who holds us in the palm of his hands, is really our Father. We hesitate to even think or to boldly declare proudly out of your mouth that the God who created everything and holds it all together by the power of his thoughts is our Father. This is an awesome, incredible, immeasurable, outstanding, declaration for us his children to make; I will repeat myself in this book at time because it does not go down into our spirit that we are a Son or Daughter of the infinite Father God. We think of God as someone out there, away in the vastness of space where it is impossible to ever dream of reaching that place beyond space and the universes, but God does not live in the universes; no the universe is outside his kingdom, for if he held it in the tip of his fingers, the size is the size of a postage stamp in comparison to his kingdom. We don t realise that is not where God is; he resides inside of us a spirit being with no beginning and no end, like himself, made in his image. God cannot condemn you, for if he did, he would be condemning his own son joined together to you by supernatural glue, and melted into one universal spiritual being.

20 The following two scriptures confirm all I have said in this chapter, and are an outstanding version of love from our Heavenly Father, God is our Father and we are his children, born of his divine sperm which remains inside of us. We need to believe this to do the works that have been prepared in advance for us to do. John 3-17-New International Version (NIV) 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. God could not condemn you as I said a moment ago, because you were joined together to his divine son Jesus at the moment of your rebirth. We need to seriously look closely at this scripture and meditate on it, until it soaks our very spiritual being and then we will realise who and what we truly are, as he is so are we in this world, will become a reality for us, and what a blessing this will be to the world. Ephesians 2-5-Amplified Bible (AMP) 5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship, and in union with Christ; [ He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace ( His favour and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ s salvation ). His word is himself speaking to you; he is telling you through his word everything you need to know to have a good relationship with him. Jesus is the word made flesh. Our Father is the one who gave us Jesus; He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, If you ever doubted God s love for you then look at the immense love God expresses here for you, this is what your Father in heaven has already given to you, and you never even asked him for this. He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life he gave us the very same life, the exact same one

21 that he gave Jesus, think a long time on that as an expression of love and what it implies. Can you believe the awesomeness of this statement? God gave me and you the very same life, it is not a different life, but the very same new life of Jesus and that life is in us to perform miracles signs and wonders for his glory and his alone; if we can believe this word from our Father we can walk in that same life of Jesus because of our unity there is no separateness between us and Jesus we are one being in spirit not in flesh. This is a sign of pure unadulterated love from Father God to us. How can we not believe how much he loves us? And is in us, if he says he gave us the very same life as Jesus that same new life in him, in union with him in God, then that is ultimate truth for God does not tell lies. God, my own divine Father gave little old me the same life as Jesus, for as he is so am I in this world, because Jesus and I are one being, not two separate beings, but one spiritual new bodied spiritual being, so immersed are we in his divinity that no one can even tell the difference between us in the spirit world; Our actions in this world show the flesh side of us, but not the true spiritual side; God desires that we would only see ourselves from his viewpoint and realise we are spirit first and foremost, flesh is last on the list, soul is in the middle ; we have made the flesh side of us the prevalent side instead of praying, and seeking to know our true selves made in his divine image, a spirit being like himself and now living the, same new life that God gave Jesus, joined together inseparateable, none can ever dislodge us from each other now we are called to live this amazing new life, getting rid of the flesh side of us as fast as possible and continue living his new life; He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life How can we believe our Father God s love for us, if we don t believe his very spoken and written word? He declared us to the same as Jesus in this world and he now says that he, made us alive in him and in union with him, and the word union means simply joined together as one thing. {I highlighted and increased the font size to show you the importance of the words I highlighted and increased in size, when you read them aloud speak them out louder than the rest of the words, express the importance of them to your spirit.}

22 Let s see the full meaning of joined together. Joined, ~ connected, attached, fixed, united, and coupled together. The word together means,~ jointly, as one, ~mutually, and in concert simultaneously, you see both words mean exactly the same so if God says, he joined you and Christ together as one person, can he do that? This is a question every Christian needs to ask themselves. Most do not believe this word from the very mouth of God who is Our Father, the same as he is Jesus Father. We are his own divine children made from the same substance as Jesus, from the Fathers supernatural divine sperm. God also states, I have carved you in the palm of my hand. This would indicate that God s divine sperm is from his hand not as we would think from a penis, God is not a human being, and he carved man in the palm of his hands. Isaiah 49-The Voice (VOICE) Look here. I have made you a part of me, ~ {I have} written, {carved} you on the palms of my hands. Look carefully at these words for they can change your life and mind and spirit so easily. What is God saying to us, not just the Jews? He said, I have, meaning it s already done, and will never be undone. He made you and I a part of him, just as later on he made us a part of Jesus thus again confirming his word, showing how much he loves us. Look at what he says here; I have, meaning it is done written that means again it has been done, if you are going to write something, you would say, I will write you in the palm of my hands; but it doesn t say that; he says, I have written, ~written and have, means it is done.~ It is so important to acknowledge this before our Father, for it acknowledges his work; and shows appreciation for his love for us. In this book, scriptures that I quote from, all are saying things that our Heavenly Father done for us out of love; he wants you the reader and myself to know and understand how much he loves us by giving us things before we even would dare to ask for. All these things have been added unto you since salvation.

23 Matthew 6-33-New King James Version (NKJV) 33 but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. When we accepted Jesus as lord, we also accepted God as Father, and the Holy Spirit as guide and helper. Everything we find in scripture has already been added unto us, even prosperity happiness and joy, all have been already added unto you, it was not given to you as you followed the lord, it was an instantaneous added gift. That was done by our loving Father God when we sought his kingdom and his righteousness, and yes, it says, God s righteousness has been added unto you; and Father has already given us that as a gift, expressing his divine love for us. How can we still not believe him when he says all these things have been already been given to us by himself; because as Father he desires to pour out gifts on us his own divine children, made in his own image and likeness, such love is shown. Then he gave us Jesus so he could join us together as one person. Wow that is great love given to us by Father. God decided to enter into us upon the moment of our accepting salvation he didn t move in later on when the Holy Spirit who lives in us also along with Jesus cleaned out our gigantic house, our temple of God s spirit. Colossians 2-9-New International Version (NIV) 9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. This scripture tells us that, all of God in his reign as deity, lives in bodily form, which means in spirit inside Jesus; because God s body is spirit, then he says something else that is so profound that it is a shock to the system when first read, he says that we, that s you and me, are in him, Jesus, and in him, we also have the fullness of the deity, the Godhead the father son and holy spirit are actually living inside of you. If only we could see this with our spirit eyes we would be blown away in amazement, and our Father

24 wants us to realize this and to believe this and to proclaim this for his glory, he wants the world to be jealous of us, so that they too would want what we Christians have! Colossians-2:10-Amplified-Bible. And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too, are filled with the-godhead Father, Son and Holy Spirit and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power]. {Made means, to be complete, completed, finished; fullness, completeness, extensiveness, comprehensiveness, detail; full, occupied, jam-packed, bursting, chockfull, chock-a-block; filled, overflowing, packed, to the top, full; authority, power, last word,} John The Way Bible For we are in God, because we are in Christ Jesus [Are is present tense] If Christians would only believe what our Father God done for us, by inserting us into Jesus and pouring into us his goodness, as two equal halves joined together in unison, they would be walking in divine power for the knowledge of who resides in them would be so strong, miracles would be simple just as they were for Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:21 LB) God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God's goodness into us! What an exchange, given out of a pure love, God desiring that we would be able to get into a perfect heaven, by making us perfect, filled with God s own goodness, whew, that s some statement to make, and some exchange to do, I

25 am now filled with God s goodness not the old crap I was filled with, a fresh new creation created by my Father in his love for me and also for you. Five God created everything by his voice John 1-1-New International Version (NIV) The Word Became Flesh 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind, 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Jesus is the first spoken word of God, through him God created everything by his word, {voice} he demonstrated to this world that he was God and when asked by one of his disciples to show them the Father he answered, when you have seen me you have seen the Father, so if you have seen the works of Jesus and heard his word written down to last forever, you have heard and seen the Father you have seen his perfect will in action through Jesus, healing everyone who come to him, and giving salvation to all who turned from sin to follow him. This is the Fathers Voice, the words of Jesus, it is the will of my Father that not one should be lost; and I do what I see my Father doing. John 5:19-20-New International Version (NIV) 19 Jesus gave them this answer: Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

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