Christ in you - (Danny Walters)

There is something that has become fundamental for me since first sharing on it a few days ago. I am seeing it as truly foundational for the state of advancement before us. The fundamental is “the Lord, the Spirit’s” incarnation of our beings. And I know that we have all embraced that Truth, and yet I’m not convinced, based on my own experience, that the understanding out of which we are operating is that which is divinely wrought and worked out of Wisdom’s operative Mind, but that some of our understanding of this Truth may still be held in the adamic’s rational mind, supported by its cast of reason, imagination, feelings, and the emotions or sensations of our sentient being. Those elements of our understanding regarding any Truth have no root in the essence of our being, and therefore no real power to effect what the Truth inherently has the omnipotent power to effect with regard to the transformation of our being.

 

Certainly in one sense it seems a bit ludicrous to be going down this road with sons-in-the-making, but speaking from my own experience, I’ve come this far in spite of myself. And I am persuaded that I am not alone in this. Now, I’m not suggesting that everyone is where I am, but am sharing this as a matter of reflection for those who are.

 

I believe we are at times operating according to doctrines that are founded on heavenly Truths, and that’s somewhat analogous to referring to adam after the fall as a manifestation of God’s likeness. And this perhaps subtle difference can make all the difference at this point of things. For I believe we’ve come to a place in the journey where in order to advance any further, our ‘skills’ have got to be honed. I’m seeing that we’ve come to the limit of what all the training we’ve had up to now, is able to get us. We’re up against something akin to the sound barrier which before it was broken seemed impossible, or the 4-minute mile, or any other of a number of invisible barriers that no man can pass, until one does. I believe in myself, that we’re up against that barrier. We could spend the rest of our days up against this wall like the generations and generations before us, all of which had a remnant that could see into the other side, but could not break through. But I believe we are the generation destined to break through and therefore certain secrets are and will be revealed to facilitate the opening of the womb, through and into the manifestation of His glorious intention.

 

So while I’m writing about one secret, another insight was just revealed – the embracing of doctrine in the rational mind versus the embracing of Truth in our core spirit-essence – and so I will just quickly comment. It is the diabolical nature of the rational mind to usurp for itself, preeminence in every regard and over every domain. And as we were taught that if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved, the rational mind has snatched the Truth in that scripture and created a doctrine to which every church member stands and pledges their allegiance, and having done that, the Pledge is given to understand that his membership in good standing with that church makes him a member in good standing in heaven. That may be a gross example of the difference but an accurate sample of the impotence of doctrine as I’m defining it, and the inherent power of the Spirit of Truth. But we can’t stay there today – let us just receive a cautionary word that for the power of Truth to have its full, supernatural affect on the natural, it must be an operative principle in the celestial faculty of Wisdom’s Mind. In other words, using the example above, the Truth is that you’ve been redeemed by the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, but until that Truth is embraced in the core of your inner man, the inherent transforming power of that Truth has no matter upon which to exercise itself. Wisdom’s Mind holds all the keys for release and application of Truths power, and while the rational mind puts on a good front as just as capable, it is under the same sentence of death as the rest of the adamic man’s members. Remember Amos 1:10: “I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre (type of adam) and it will consume her citadels.” ‘Her’ in this scripture is referencing adam’s own rational mind, with whom he committed adultery against his covenant-spouse, Wisdom’s daughter.

 

And so moving on, an understanding that is seemingly very difficult for us to comprehend is the fact that ‘we’ are spirit. But this understanding is really core to our apprehending that which we’re pursuing. So if we’re unable to come into the Mind that we are spirit, how are these spiritual things going to find their application?

 

Maybe a good way for us to approach this meditation is to ask ourselves a few questions. First of all, where do you ‘see’ Christ in relation to yourself, or how do you see Him? Close your eyes and tell me, where do you picture Him? Is He ‘out there’ somewhere, or within? Are you ‘looking within’ when you pray?

 

If you are seeing Him within, where are you in that picture? Are you looking in at Christ but seeing yourself still in your physical body? Okay, well if in Truth, you are spirit, where should you be picturing yourself? Aren’t you joined to Him, who is Spirit, within your inner man?

 

You say, my goodness, why are these things important? In my estimation, these things are important because we have a destination in mind. And the better you’re able to see, the more likely you’re going to end up where you intended, on time.

 

Okay, so how should we be seeing things? Well, I believe we should be seeing Christ within, seated in the heart or throne of our new man, which is deposited within the soul of our being. And we, as spirit, should be seeing ourselves as joined to Him, seated in Him on that throne. We have been made one Spirit with Him, and He has become our Lord. And so we sit in Him as passive matter, coalesced in His Almighty essence.

 

Now let us remind ourselves again Who He is. He is the Lord, the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18), unto Whom we have been joined and made One (1 Cor. 6:17), and into Whose image we are being conformed; the One who said: “Lo, I AM with you always…” (Matt. 28:20).

 

We need to be coming into a Mind where we see ourselves in Him, in us – that new coalesced ‘us’ that is being founded in His essence and made in His likeness.

 

Now what that says is that we are becoming One with the holy Spirit. Yes? We are becoming One with the holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Son sent into us by the Father (Gal. 4:6). And since the Spirit of the Son is the Spirit of the Father, it might be better to acknowledge Him in this application as the Spirit of sonship, or the Spirit conforming us to the image of the Son (Rom. 8:29), or the Spirit of adoption; the Spirit of God sent into the sons for the purpose of full redemption, spirit, soul, and body. Now this understanding should be received by us at this stage of our understanding as more or less pabulum. So why don’t we see ourselves as spirit (spoken to those of us who don’t)?

 

And that’s the point of this meditation. I believe that the Spirit of Wisdom is giving us insight into the fact that there are many things that the rational mind has seized and by doing so, is hindering our advancement. And as such, we need to be taking those things from the rational mind as the Spirit gives us insight, and put them into the hands of Wisdom that they might lend us the proper Mind of things (and thereby spiritual vision), and as well, have full reign within to apply all their inherent transformative power upon our being that we might come into that which we’ve been destined to become.

 

It was mentioned above that we are coalesced in His Almighty essence. That understanding can have manifold impact on us. For one, simply consider God Almighty within you – it’s mind-boggling.

 

For another, seeing ourselves as coalesced in God’s Almighty essence establishes a certain frame for the stature of a son, growing up into Father’s image.

 

And another, would be seeing ourselves becoming instruments of His Almighty power. Recognizing that God Almighty Himself has taken up residence within us, and that we are being essenced in His Almighty essence begins to put wheels on destiny’s vocation, as we look into His Mind for the sons.

 

And being of a Mind to become One with the holy Spirit of the Godhead has huge ramifications, which we won’t look into today.

 

But I do want to share one other thing. Yesterday I was meditating and praying, saying God, Your Almightiness is within me, Your Almightiness is within me. And as I was meditating on that a storm had been brewing – and we’re in the dry season, meaning typically no rain – and the LOUDEST crack of thunder I’ve ever heard in my life shook the walls and ceiling of our apartment. I’m not kidding. I started laughing and laughing and laughing and had to admit that I was unable to picture Him in ALL His majesty and Almightiness, within me. Ha! But as those stupendously loud cracks of thunder continued to sound I went out onto the balcony and looked out over the quiet lake and into the dark and ominous clouds overhead and just took in the Magnificence of our Great, Great God. And I believe I understood a message that He was sending – which is that as hard as it is to imagine, that AWESOMENESS of God in us, is our heritage, as sons of the Almighty, Awesome God of all creation.

 

To sum things up this morning, this meditation is put forth to make us properly Mindful, and to encourage us to be aware and open to being brought into right Mindedness about His things, to the glory of His great purpose. And the reason? We’ve got an invisible barrier to break through. And He’s got the secrets that will enable us.

 

Thus says the LORD to …His anointed, whom I have taken by the right hand, ‘I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden wealth of secret places, so that you may know that it is I, Jehovah, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.’ (Is. 45:1-3).