We Are HIs Sons

Ken:

What is the thing that God is looking for more than any other one thing to come out of our hearts and our lives before Him? Without faith, it's impossible to please God. God's looking for those who trust Him and walk with Him by faith. All the signs, the wonders, all the good things, the bad things—everything all falls into that same category.

He's looking for those who walk by faith and trust Him, knowing that He's there when you don't seem to see Him move in the ways you'd like to see Him move or do the things you'd like to see Him do.

Bill:

The challenge, I think for all of us, is consistency. Hey, we all have faith at any given time, and we have love, and we have hope—we have all these things. It's a little bit of a yo-yo. So the challenge that God's given us now—hey, just trust Me. Just love Me. Just lean on Me. Don't be moved by the circumstances or what the eye is seeing or what the world is broadcasting.

Monnie:

Spirit, authority, power, and faith are all the same thing. Don't divide them down. You are spirit. You are authority. You are power. You are faith.

Nothing separate from Him. He is faith. He is spirit. He is authority. He is power. He is faith. He is trust.

Lois:

Monnie, a good scripture on that is: all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ Jesus. And Christ Jesus is in us. So we have those things that you say.

Ken:

I think about it this way on the human level before you found Christ. Could you do any of these things or walk into any of these things? No, you could not, because it's the Spirit of God—because of the relationship we have with God—that enables us to walk in these levels of faith and love and hope and all of the things that God says that He's created for us to walk in.

It's not even our faith. It's not even our hope or our love. It's His love, hope, and faith.

Mike:

When I look at people out here, these are all potential brothers and sisters in the Lord. They're only a revelation away from being one of us. All I see is people that are not kingdom-minded. They have no awareness of what day we're living in.

It says, “My sheep know My voice.” If we're able to speak to people with a love and an understanding that, if it wasn't for the grace of God, I would be right there with you—but my cry is that you be right here with me, where the Lord has delivered me and brought me into a walk with Him as a son. That's really the gospel message when you stop and think about it—this whole thing of sonship—it's the good news.

We're not stuck in the humanity of body and soul only. We're now going to learn about this spirit that we have. And God's words are spirit—they are life, they are light. And literally, we become the light in the earth to expose the darkness. And we don't have to do anything—we just be who we are.

Bill:

God loves each one of us just as much as He loves Jesus.

We say, yes, I believe that—help my unbelief. That's a powerful idea. Let us make man in Our image. Adam was wandering around the garden, but think about it this way—he spent every evening with the Lord. During the day, he was qualified to name things—plants, animals, all this. He was not just a gardener; he was in the image of God until the fall.

I think we are a little bit trapped to say, if it wasn't for this Adamic nature. What I'm saying is, let's get back to the original Adamic nature because it was perfect. God loves us and made us just as perfect as He did Adam, with a purpose on the earth. He equipped us the same way He equipped Adam, with the ability to do all the things that pleased the Father.

Ken:

One of the things He did, Bill, in relationship to that—He gave us a free will. And the reason He gave us a free will, He didn't want robots. He gave us a provision to use our free wills to accept His path, His way of coming into His presence. He's always looking for you to humble your heart and be contrite in spirit as you approach Him.

It's always the way we seek God. We always look to Him and say, “Father, not my will, but Yours be done.” It's a cry of our hearts. We go through a great many things in our lives, and the enemy will come in and say, “Hath God said?” That'll come out of our old nature too, won't it?

Keep trusting God. Maybe He's using the things allowed to happen to you like He did with Job way back in the Old Testament. He allowed the test to come to Job, but the end analysis was he knew God. I think that's what we want to happen, don't we? We want to know Him.

Monnie:

The trust and the faith become one in my relationship with Him—not separate faith, love, trust. Put them all in one capsule. Quit dividing them. Quit dividing Him. And we say that to each other, because what's imparted to me in that faith and love, it goes out to every single one.

Ken:

Sometimes we feel like we're alone in this thing and we're doing it all by ourselves, but when we are a part of this family, what is going on is all of us ministering to each part. So whatever you're going through, it is imparted by the Spirit of God that's in you to all the other parts of the family. We're in this together. We're not separate.

Roger:

It's Jesus Christ in us that ministers and is sustaining us. It has just been so real to me, sitting here. You remember when Jesus told Nathanael, He said, “Are you amazed because I told you what you were doing before?” Remember, He said, “I saw you under the tree.” He said, “You'll see greater things than these. You'll see the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

And all of a sudden, that scripture is just so clear to me. Jesus is always ascending and descending. He's part of every spectrum of His kingdom, and so it doesn't really matter how far out a people are or whether they see how you see—none of that stuff is important if the Lord's leading us there.

Because it's Christ in us that's doing the ministry. It's Christ in us that's sustaining us. And He is the one enabling us to move up and down the spectrum. Wherever we meet, wherever we go, Jesus Christ is there among those people, and we're there too. He loves people on every spectrum. We learn to tune in and love through the Jesus Christ that's in us. It's Christ always in us, and then we function together.

Mike:

We forget that faith does not require any feelings whatsoever, because feelings are a part of the soul realm. Once you realize feelings are part of the soul realm, then you get this “aha” moment and you realize I don't need to have feelings necessarily about anything.

If I stand in faith—and if you're honest about it—there are no feelings with faith. You're trusting in God, and when you put your trust and you believe His Word, He comes through. Then you can have the feeling: You came through again. But that was without any feelings on my part until the job was done and He came through.

Then I can get excited about His faithfulness to the Word He spoke to me. He never sleeps. He never slumbers. He's always doing these wonderful things that we don't see with the natural eye, but we put our faith and trust in Him.

We're seeing more answers to our prayers and prophecies each and every day than I've ever seen in my lifetime happening, and I know it's the day we're living in. When you come to the realization of how faithful God is to the things He's done and is doing and will continue to do, then we can stand on that—and it doesn't require any feelings whatsoever—because we're standing in faith.

Beryl:

God brings people. You don't know why they're there, what the purpose is, but we just love them and let God reach them through our love. But God brings us people that we have no idea what the purpose is—but He does. So we just trust Him and let His love shine through us.

Debbie:

We all have been positioned by the Lord in the places that we are. We're all ministering in the areas that He's put us. As long as we're being led of the Lord, we are His voice. We are His channel, and we believe that we're one with one another so that we're not alone. We're not standing alone.

There's much more we have to do. There's much more that we're going to see, but the Lord has it all ordered.