Anatomy Of The New Man: Transcendence

The new man is the only creature made with an uncreated material. He is the only creature that is not just created but born of God. He constitute of the same material that make up the Creator. As such he transcendence every created thing. He exists in a class far above every created thing — a class that only belongs to the Godhead. Yes, the new man is beyond time and space, matter and void.

He is not subject to matter, neither is he subject to anything created. He sits above all things, every created thing lies subject to him. The power that he wield is supreme, overshadowing and subduing all other.

"Christ is the power of God" (1Cor 1:24).

"For by Him [Christ] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him." (Col 1:16)

The new man is filled with the power that God used to create every other power and authority. He wields the power that birth every other power — yes, the father of all powers. So you see that every other power are just babies before this mighty power that lives in us. Whatever magic or power that the evil ones think they have, they are just child's play compared to what we command.

"I can do all things..." (Phi 4:13), oh such boldness. If only you realize who you are in Christ. "All things" means all things. There is no end to the possibility, for the power we have is beyond limit. It is transcended. We are transcended, supreme over all of creation, ruler of all things in oneness with the King of kings. 

"But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because he who lives in you is greater than he who lives in the world." (1John 4:4).

We are no match for all the power of darkness in the world. Even if all of hell gather to fight against just one of us, they will fall defeated without leaving a scratch on that one man. This is who we are in Christ. This is our reality as the new man, and we are entering into this reality. We are pressing for this greatness. 

Anatomy Of The New Man: The Word Of Power

"and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus," (Eph 2:6).

Jesus, right now is on the throne and we are on the throne in oneness with him. What this means is that in Christ we have already inherited the throne. We are one with Christ, as such anything that Christ is we also are. Anything that Christ have we also have. Everything that Christ has been given is actually ours. 

"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."" (Matt 28:18).

He is seated on the throne in heaven, and we are inside him, sitting on the throne also. All authority has been given to him, and we are inside him wielding all power and authority in heaven and on earth. 

"and upholding all things by the word of His power," (Heb 1:3 NKJV). 

"and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command." (Heb 1:3 NLT). 

"sustaining the universe with his powerful word." (Heb 1:3 GNT). 

He has this powerful word of command and he sustains the whole universe with this word. He created the whole world with his powerful word of authority. He speaks a word and it is so. "Let there be light" (Gen 1:3) and light came out of nowhere. Light that was none existence heard his word and came into existence. Even the none existing things obey his voice, how much more that which exist. 

When he speaks there is immediate obedience. His mighty words cannot be resisted. There is nothing strong or powerful enough to resist his word of power. And now in oneness with him we wield same word of power. We command such authority, we are empowered to speak the same mighty words — words that even the none existing things obey. "Who art thou that will resist my mighty words? What in the universe that is powerful enough not to obey?" 

Such power we have in Christ. Oh, such greatness. We do not repeat ourselves, just a single word of command and response is immediate. 

"Suddenly, a man in the synagogue who was possessed by an evil spirit cried out, “Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” But Jesus reprimanded him. “Be quiet! Come out of the man,” he ordered. At that, the evil spirit screamed, threw the man into a convulsion, and then came out of him. Amazement gripped the audience, and they began to discuss what had happened. “What sort of new teaching is this?” they asked excitedly. “It has such authority! Even evil spirits obey his orders!” The news about Jesus spread quickly throughout the entire region of Galilee." (Mark 1:23-27).

The Israelite were not surprised that Jesus cast out demons. There have always been demon exorcist in Israel. But these people would spend hours or days trying to cast out a single demon. The Israelite were amazed about Jesus because he spoke a single word and the demons obeyed. He didn't need to repeat his words. There was never a time that Jesus said "come out" twice before a demon obeyed. They don't have a choice, whether they want to come out or not they know they have to whenever Jesus give the order. 

"When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They came out of the tombs and were so violent that no one could go through that area. They began screaming at him, “Why are you interfering with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before God’s appointed time?” There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding in the distance. So the demons begged, “If you cast us out, send us into that herd of pigs.” “All right, go!” Jesus commanded them. So the demons came out of the men and entered the pigs, and the whole herd plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water." (Matt 8:28-32).

There was never a time that a demon argued with Jesus. "Who art thou", you don't argue with authority, you just obey whether you want to or not. The life of Jesus is a picture of the authority we have. He told us that we would do even much more than he had done (John 14:12). Oh such power we have in Christ, such mighty word of authority. One day I was in a contemplative prayer, pressing into oneness with Christ. As I press I got to such oneness that I could literally feel the power in my mouth. The power was so great that I was afraid of opening my mouth. 

I fears that if I opened my mouth and speak there with be thunder and earthquake — yes, that was how intense it was. I could only whisper gently. I felt like if I should authoritatively say anything at that moment it will come to pass immediately. Such level of power is scary. Oh, I only touched it for a moment. I wish to remain like that always, to walk with such level of oneness with Christ that I might might always manifest my true self — the new man. 

Anatomy Of The New Man: Fearful King

The new man is the newness God has set in this old dying world. The new man is set in a rebellious world. Everything around him is rebelling against God, and he is charged with the responsibility to see all things reconciled back to God, brought into conformity to the reality in Christ. So we are set as forceful kings to bring into conformity this rebellious world. This is not an easy task, and it cannot be done softly.

"And you will shepherd them with unlimited authority, crushing their rebellion as an iron rod smashes jars of clay!" (Psa 2:9 TPT).

"To all who are victorious, who obey me to the very end, To them I will give authority over all the nations. *They will rule the nations with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots.* They will have the same authority I received from my Father, and I will also give them the morning star!" (Rev 2:26-28).

"She [the bride] gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod." (Rev 12:5).

"From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike down the nations. *He will rule them with an iron rod.* He will release the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty, like juice flowing from a winepress." (Rev 19:15).

When it comes to ruling rebellious subject, we rule with an iron rod, smashing them like clay pots, and forcefully bringing them into conformity. This is the job of the new man even now as he is seated in Christ on the throne in heaven (Eph 2:6). Hence, the new man is not a soft king. He is up to the task, for he rules with a iron rod. He advances with the kingdom mightily and forcefully, bringing into conformity all that he encounters.

"bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ," (2Cor 10:5).

The new man is a fierce warrior sitting on the throne, commanding such irresistible power, bringing all things to obedience. He starts with his members, bringing his thoughts to conformity and obedience to Christ. From his thoughts to his habits, his tendencies, his emotions, his words, his actions and occupation. He brings his flesh to obedience and then advance to the world around him, moving the kingdom as it conquers one rebellion after the other.

Yes, you are not soft. You are tough, you are fierce, and you rule with a iron rod. You are not asking and begging the this rebellion to be conformed to the reality in Christ. No, you are forcefully bringing them to conformity. You are bold and confident. You are courageous because there is nothing that can match the power inside of you — they are all so insignificant in comparison. You kick the devil about like a filthy rage, you smash all of his evil works, you break his power and leave him utterly defeated.

You are an undefeatable one man army, forcefully advancing the reality of Christ in every area of your life. You are unstoppable, moving from one victory to another, putting to wast all the works of the devil. Just keep riding on — keep riding in the victory of our Lord. 

Anatomy Of The New Man: Unbreakable

I once shared a post titled, ""I Can Do All Things..." (1); The Low". If you haven't read the post I will advise you do. I will start from something I wrote in that post.

"I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound." (Phil 4:12).

Let me paraphrase that verse, "I know how to survive when I am brought low. I have a supernatural strength that allows me strive no matter how low I am brought. Bring me to the depth of humiliation, inflict on me the greatest affliction, and I will not snap, neither will I be broken. There is no situation I go through in life that I cannot survive, for I am strong in Christ". This is Paul speaking after he has caught the revelation of who he is in Christ.

The new man in Christ is unbreakable. Like gold, when he pass through fire it can only make him shine the more. He cannot bend, his faith is unshakable. He doesn't know how to have doubts, for the very constituent of his stature is faith. When you look at the book of Acts you can't help but notice how everything the devil use to try and stop the Apostles from spreading the gospel only push them further in spreading the gospel.

They were threatened yet they went out into the streets. They were flogged, yet they rejoice over it. They were hurted down, yet they spread and the gospel and reached more people. They were killed, yet their testimony caused many to flock into the kingdom. These were unstoppable and unbreakable. Paul listed all the hardship he went through. 

"I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not. I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm." (2Cor 11:23-27).

Yet, none of these slow him down. These are examples of men who had manifest their new man in Christ. We must all come into oneness with who we are in Christ and experience this greatness. Stop holding on the the old man and his irritating habit of complaining, nagging, fussing about, withdrawing into self-pity, and all feeling sorry for himself. You are strong, you are unbreakable, you are indestructible. You will pass through the fire and come out glorious. 

"For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy." (Heb 10:14).

You are not half-baked, you are complete, perfected forever. Yes, you are too perfect to crack. The only uncreated thing is the Godhead. Now, just as God made Eve out of the side of Adam, God has made you out of the side of Christ. You are made out of a material that is uncreated — a material that is far superior to any created thing. How then can a created thing break you? Oh, think about it. How can you be broken by that which came after — which was merely created? You came from eternity before time and you will continue after time, moving from eternity to eternity. 

There is nothing in time that can break you. Time will come and go but you will remain standing. Every situation you are currently experiencing will come and go but you will remain here. Why are you afraid of that which has not yet happen as if it can break you? When you realize how unbreakable you are then you will fear nothing. Too much money cannot break you, neither will too much poverty. Too much power cannot corrupt you, neither will a complete lack of power. You have nothing to fear or worry about. 

No humiliation or shame can diminish the glory that you have in Christ. Jesus faced worse. He was humiliated by mere mortals that he created. They spat at him, mock him, and abase this glorious king. But none of that affect the glory he has in God. Till today he is still the glorious king. This glory that we have in Christ can never be diminished. We are set above all, sitting in the far heaven, supreme over every created thing. We are untouchable. 

Whatever victory that it seems the devil is getting over us, it's all an illusion. It is not real. We are forever glorious, we cannot be touched. All we do is rise and rise more glorious. Even when it seems we are breaking, in actuality we are only rising — breaking forth in glory that was once hidden. Yes, all that the hardship could do to us is help those glory that was hidden to break forth. It is bringing out hidden dimensions of the glory of God in us. So rejoice, for you are moving from glory to glory, unstoppable. 

Anatomy Of The New Man: The Fiery Eyes

In Scripture we would find several vision and encounters of men of God where the Lord was described as having "eyes like flames of fire".

"The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire," (Rev 1:14).

"His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude." (Dan 10:6).

"His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself." (Rev 19:12).

What does this fiery eyes mean?

It is the eyes of judgement. The eyes that is able to burn through every hidden thing and expose the truth. Eyes of light that can pierce through every darkness and reveal that which is hidden. It is the eyes of revelation of truth, and the eyes of discernment.

"Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done." (1Cor 3:12-13).

Many work might look like genuine work of God, but with eyes like blazing fire, one would be able to see through all the charades and hype. When Jesus appeared to John with eyes like flames of fire, he came with a message for the seven church. He came to judge them and expose the their works, revealing their hidden flaws and unperceivable shortcomings. 

Nothing can be hidden in the eyes of blazing fire. It exposes all things. All secret sins and secret works of righteousness are revealed. The true value and nature of everything is exposed. This fiery eyes is an ability of God, something we've inherited as sons of God. Yes, we can operate with that blazing eyes. We can activate it, for it is a feature of the new man in Christ. We are one with the Lord, as such everything he has we also have.

If he could come with fiery eyes, we can also do the same. We can look into every hidden thing and expose the truth. We are light, our eyes is light and it shines into every darkness and unveil that which is hidden. Every secret whether past or present is exposed as we operate with this eyes. Every mystery and knowledge is uncovered. This is why the Scripture tells us that we "know all things" (1John 2:20).

You have this fiery eyes and you need to grow conscious of it. You cannot operate in it if you are not conscious of it. We all need this eyes, for there is so much deception in the world — so much that has been masked as the work of God. If we are to remain undefied we must have eyes that can discern. 

One of the job of the priest in the Old Testament is to judge sacrifices. The eyes of the priest must be sharp enough to spot any fault in sacrifices that are to be offered to God. This is to ensure that only the perfect and acceptable sacrifices are offered to the Fearful and Holy God. In the New Covenant we are all priests. This means each one of us must have this eyes to judge everything that is to be presented to God. We cannot continue to offer defied sacrifices and abomination, yet expect that the Kingdom would manifest.

These faulty sacrifices drives away the Kingdom, for the Kingdom is holy and it cannot mix with abomination. Hence, it is very essential that each one of us will begin to operate with this fiery eyes that judges and exposes all things. Eyes that burns through every barrel, penetrate every covering, till the truth be revealed. 

Anatomy Of The New Man: Introduction

Here I begin a new series that is aimed at giving a good description of the glorious features of the new man in Christ. The goal is to unveil the real you so that you can embrace this new creation and come into the reality of who you are in Christ. When you don't know who you are it is easier for the devil to cause you to live a false identity — an abase reality.

This thing that we are in Christ is so powerful and glorious. But we cannot become it until our minds are renewed by the knowledge of its reality. Yes, we must see and know this reality. Without knowing this new you, there is no way you can become conscious of it. And if you are not conscious of it how then can you manifest and express this real you?

Hence we would take some time to study this new person that we are in Christ. We would look at this overcomer, this might son of God. We would learn about his endowment and all the things he has been equipped with. I don't know how many post will be in this series, but please follow closely. Utilize this teaching, meditate on them and let it transform you. 

Oneness With God Entry Stage

 

Oneness With God

Introduction To The Course

This course is not just about attaining spiritual abilities, rather it main focus is spiritual maturity.

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me." (John 15:4). 

One thing I have learned over the years of studying Christ is that spiritual maturity comes from abiding in the land (Christ) and being occupied by it. No one can abide doing nothing, he would get bored and move on to something else. So to keep him abiding in that land you must get him occupied with the land. I want to keep you occupied with the riches of the land so that you will end up spending more time in the land, hence abiding and developing fruit. To abide in Christ we have to be actively engaging him, and when we come to a place where we are so occupied with Christ that he becomes our occupation then we would find ourselves completely settling in him, and that would result to the most rapid spiritual growth.

For many of us living in Lagos, the main reason we are here is because our occupation is here. If we have our occupation somewhere else there is a high tendency that we would move and settle wherever that place is. But we are here in Lagos because we feel that the land is rich, you can easily get something doing and start making a living. When we have a very poor Christ we tend to be bored and then we go get to ccupied with the flesh. We need a very rich Christ, one filled with many riches to explore, things to keep us occupied to the extent that we abide and even settle in him. Yes, we are born again Christians and we are in Christ, yet most of us spend more time in the flesh than in Christ, and the major cause of that is because we have been taught a very poor Christ.

Christ is so rich, there is so much to explore in him. In this course we are going to be exploring a lot of things in Christ. We are not doing it just for the sake of these spiritual things, but for the sake of Christ our lover, and for the sake of abiding. The more you abide in Christ the more fruit of the Spirit you will have; and the more you are occupied with the riches of Christ the more you find yourself abiding. So we are actively exploring these riches not just so we can have spiritual abilities, but so our activities in exploring will cause us to spend more time abiding which would then cause us to develop fruits.

This is what we are going to be treating. It is much and it would take time, for each level as different stages and each stage has its own unique exercise(s). But below is just the list of the levels and what we hope to attain in each level.

—Level 1: Oneness With Gods Heart; Intimacy

Becoming one with God's heart: knowing God as love, becoming acquainted with His heart, communicating with God heart to heart, living from His heart, being able to feel His heart for other people, loving others and interacting with them from Gods heart. 

—Level 2: Oneness With Gods Mind; The Prophetic

Becoming one with the mind of God: becoming one with His knowledge, hearing God's voice, drawing knowledge from God's mind, knowing God's mind for your life, knowing God's mind for others. 

—Level 3: Oneness With Gods Nature; The Indwelling Christ

Becoming one with the nature of God: oneness with the righteousness and holiness of God, overcoming sin, the prayer of the Godhead, oneness with the wisdom of God, oneness with the faith of God etc. 

—Level 4: Oneness With Gods Essence; Releasing The Glory

Becoming one with the presence of God, learning to emit that presence. We are light beings, and we are is glory. Knowing the power of God and walking in the faith of Jesus. Expanding and emitting the glory within.

Introducing The Coach 

I am David Emechete, I would be playing the role of a couch in this course, because what we are doing here is mainly based on practical exercises. This means I would be giving certain instructions concerning the exercises that we would all be doing, and I would share messages that would help you in doing these exercises. Your role is to do these exercises and answer when I ask for a report about how you have been going about the exercises. You can ask questions where you don't understand, and you can chat me privately any time when you are having problems doing these things. 

I am not a pastor or a prophet. By calling, I am an apostle. In this course I will not be playing the role of your pastor or prophet. If you need pastor or prophet, then go get one. Don't expect me to leave my work and start trying to see for you or pray for your personal issues. What I do in my time of prayer is very crucial, and I cannot abandon it to start helping people solve their personal issues. Of course, I love to help as long as it doesn't affect other crucial things. God has placed different ministries in the body to help us. 

As an apostle my work is to discover and break new grounds, then establish the foundation so that the prophets, pastors and the rest can build on it. So in my place of prayer I am exploring in the spirit, testing things, experimenting and discovering. I cannot abandon that important work to begin prayer for people's personal issues. God has established other ministries for that, so go to them, go get a pastor or a prophet, and don't turn me into yours. The reason why I stated all that is because of past experiences, I hope you understand. 

Now, because your coach is an apostle by calling, it means my approach and concentration in this course would be different from that of a prophet. I am not training you to become a prophet, I would not be going super deep in the prophetic. I am training you to be a mature Christian that would be able to move in every area of the fullness of God. 

I am sorry, I would not be going into a lot of teachings, just a few that I feel cannot be avoided. I have a teaching ministry, so if you want my teachings you can visit my blog https://www.hiswordxray.com/?m=1 

I also have two Facebook pages, one is titled Centrality and Supremacy of Christ, and the other is titled Intimacy With God and School of The Spirit . I have also authored 11 books, of which I am giving two of them for free on e-format. You can ask me for them if you are interested in reading, they are titled The Procession Of Holiness, and Victory Over Sin. We are going to be doing a lot of personal studying in this course, so if you are not used to it you better start getting used to it. 

Rules 

1. Immediately you join, get active: Please, this is a very active group, it is a group for people who want to actively engage God and grow in his fullness. If you know you don't have time for that, please just leave immediately. Don't wait till I begin to say something you will not like, because I will not take it easy on you. 

2. You must be highly motivated: Well, if you are not, at least have a strong desire to be very motivated. You need to be very motivated because what we are going to be doing is really tough and hard on the flesh. We are not petting the flesh here, we are not even flesh any breathing space. If you are not ready to be hard on your flesh, please leave. I don't want anybody giving me further stress, just leave please. 

3. You must be adaptive: Some people are just attached to one way of praying or living the Christian life that it has become difficult for them to accept any other things. In this course I will be asking you to do a lot of things that you've never done before, things that you probably have not heard of, and things that you never thought you could do. So we have to be flexible, to be able to adapt and learn fast. We must learn to be able to take up challenges, face them and conquer them. Yes, you need courage, a lot of it. And by courage I mean faith. 

4. Only relevant content should be posted in the group: You are not allowed to post anyhow in this group. I don't want people to be overwhelmed with a lot of posts. It's okay to share things but let it be relevant things, and keep it minimal. No advert of any kind, let us just focus on what we are here to do. 

5. Lastly, please visit the group frequently and read my instructions: My posts are also very relevant. I don't want people who only open their Whatsapp once in a while. We need to be committed to what we are doing here. I would ensure that the group does not become overwhelmed with a lot of posts so that it would be easy for you to follow. 

Now, below are instructions and exercises that you should start immediately. Read them carefully and start working on them. Your efficacy in doing them determines whether you are capable of doing this course. This initial group is just an entry stage, you have not fully started. I am not asking for any fee to be paid, your true qualification for entry is your ability to follow instructions and carry out the exercises. And that is what we would be testing in this entry stage. Please, get started immediately you join, I will not be accepting any excuse.

Level1: Oneness With Gods Heart; Intimacy

Becoming one with God's heart: knowing God as love, becoming acquainted with His heart, communicating with God heart to heart, living from His heart, being able to feel His heart for other people, loving others and interacting with them from Gods heart.

EXERCISE 1: Pursuing A Revelation of God's Love

Get materials to explore in the quest to attain a revelation of Gods love. Materials such as books, audio and video messages, the Bible, songs, blogs and articles etc. Allow the Holy Spirit lead you in choosing the material to explore. With the material you have chosen create a study plan with the help of the Spirit, and then follow through with the plan. Spend a lot and lot of time meditating on Gods love and asking God to give you the revelation of His love. Learn to see His love everywhere and in everything. See His love in creation, in nature, in the life that He has given you, in the death of Christ for you, in Christ finished work and the rest (the Sabbath) he has brought you into.

See His love in the relationship He has with you, the love He shows you daily, the way He treats you, care for you and forgives your sins. Meditate on the wonders of His love, think about His love from every angle you can think of. Then you can share in the group the things you are coming to learn about God's love. You can also share with the rest of the group materials that you have been exploring, such as ebooks, worship songs, articles, audio messages etc. And you are encouraged to write poems on the topic and share with group. It might be a poem written by someone else, maybe even a spoken word. Just share with your fellow brethren what you have be ensuing and try to encourage and edify one another.

EXERCISE 2: Developing A Habit Of Worship

Separate a time every day to just worship God. You can create a playlist of your favourite worship songs use them during your daily time of worship. Allow the Holy Spirit lead you in the place of worship, and freely express the Spirit. Spend that time just loving God and adoring Him, and allow yourself be soaked in worship. Try to be faithful to the time you have picked for your daily worship, and develop consistency in practicing this worship. Habits are developed through consistency.

EXERCISE 3: Teaching Your Heart To Love God 

Each time you have a break during the day, even if it is 5 minutes or less, you can take advantage of that opportunity. Shut every other thing, put your phone aside. Stay quietly and just begin to teach your heart to love God. Just keep telling him that you love him, and that you enjoy him. Telling him that you enjoy pursuing him, that he is your greatest desire and it just excites you as you chase after him. Don't use empty words, pour out your heart; let every word correspond with your heart. Rest your heart on God's love, and just enjoy him. Tell him that he is your pleasure, that you enjoy him, that he is sweet.

"You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore." (Psa 16:11 NKJV). 

"You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever." (Psa 16:11 NLT).

Seek for the joy of pursuing God and the pleasure of being with him. Do this with every opportunity you have. Even if you have to pause your work for a minute and just do it. Do it as many times as possible. Lean into God's presence and just enjoy him. The more you do this, the more it will become real to you. You will find that indeed you enjoy him, you will feel the pleasure of his presence, that sweetness that sweeps all over you and overwhelms your heart. Yes, as you lean on him and seek the pleasure of his presence you will feel waves and waves of his sweet presence pouring all over your body and overwhelming you. Whether you feel anything or not, just allow yourself desire and enjoy God. This will really help you in your pursuit of God. It will no longer be so difficult  for you to do the things of God, you will just be enjoying God all the way.

EXERCISE 4: The Prayer Of Affection 

You will quiet your mind while focusing on God and paying attention to your heart. You don't need to speak in tongues or say anything just be still, remain silence while channeling your heart towards God, pouring it out from within you without saying any words. I am asking you to do it without words because I don't want you to get too attached with words, we humans are too attached to words and other outward things that we are unable to recognize things in the spirit and in our hearts if they have no words tagged on them. 

So the way you are going to do this is by resting on the Holy Spirit. Yes, you first rest your heart on the Holy Spirit and from there you pour it out unto God, channeling it towards Him, and just remain like that. Don’t allow your mind get distracted, just remain for as long as you can. Soon you will feel certain rush of emotions. A cry, a desire, a longing for God (here is where you can utter words, just few passionate words), and as this continues you become undone, complete overtakened by this powerful longing for God. Yet don't stop, just remain there. You will discover such strong and intense longing for God, something you never taught was there all along. It is the Holy Spirit that put it there, and now you are becoming awakened to what the Holy Spirit is doing in you. 

As your emotions pours out and touches God, just remain there loving and adoring Him. You can create a picture of Him in your mind; maybe you are in a garden together, holding hands, walking, or sitting, just spending time together, or you are with Him in the throne room and you sit on His lap and place your head on His chest. This is the time to get intimate with God, He is your Father and your Lover. The purpose of imagining these things is to help your mind make sense of what is happening in your spirit, and to help anchor your mind so that it doesn't wonder away. This way you will be able to stay focus and enjoy the fellowship. But don't be too focused on the imagination of your mind that you give little concentration to your heart. 

When you give a greater concentration to your heart then it would begin to bend and control the imagination of your mind to properly reflect what is going on in the spirit realm with the Father. So what is happening is that you are submitting your heart to the Holy Spirit, and then submitting your mind to your heart. Then by the Holy Spirit your heart becomes flooded with the intimacy going on in the realm of the spirit with God, and then your heart sends signals to the imagination in your mind in order for it to become conform to what is happening in the spirit. This way you are seeing in your imagination what is happening in the spirit, and you are also experiencing that intercourse in your heart. 

Please, before you start ask the Holy Spirit to take hold of your heart, tell him you are placing your heart in his hands and you are doing everything by resting on him. Again, I hope you get how many things I asked you to focus on? You focus on the Holy Spirit in you, then rest your heart on the Holy Spirit in you. After that focus on your heart in the Holy Spirit, and then pour it out unto God as you keep your focus on Him. Remain like that for a while till you could feel your heart pouring out onto God, then you create the imagination and align it with the spirit while enjoying fellowship with God through the Holy Spirit. Read this instruction several times over so that it can sink in properly and you will know what to do when you start. If there is anything you don't understand you can ask your questions.  

LASTLY: Developing The Habit Of Daily Practice

It is important that practicing exercises that builds your spirit-man becomes a daily habit to you.

In fact, these exercises should become your lifestyle. A body builder would have to make exercise a habit whether he likes it or not. He would have to develop a lifestyle around going to the gym, because body building would not work if he only exercises every now and then. We humans like sharp and quick things, something that we would just do once and get what we want. But anything that has to do with building takes time and patience. When you are building a house or some structure, there are points you will get to that you would have to wait for something to dry, cement, or become stronger.

You cannot rush things otherwise the building would collapse, it requires patience and time. We must understand that what we are doing here is building. No, we are not doing impartation, I am sorry; it would not come and jump on you. The Lord wants you to be well built in him, that's what leads to maturity, and maturity is the main goal here. So you must learn patience and persistency. You must learn to be consistent with the exercises. In order to develop a habit you must build a stronghold. By "Strongholds" I mean mental walls built to keep you within a pattern of behaviour. Once this stronghold is built it becomes difficult to deviate from that behaviour, you would just find out you cannot go to bed and end your day without doing these things. To build this requires an unbroken chain of consistency.

Yes, you do it today, tomorrow, trying very hard to continue each day without breaking the chain.

If you break the chain you would have to start all over again. So it requires a lot of energy and carefulness to build this stronghold. You will do whatever it takes, whether setting alarm, or asking someone to remind you. Whatever it takes just maintain the chain till the stronghold is built and cemented. It is important we do this otherwise we would have problems later in the future as we continue. So I will give you seven days to try and maintain this chain, and at the end of these seven days (on Sunday) I will ask to see how well you have done. If we still cannot maintain the chain I will have to intervene. The seven days starts today, and we are practicing disciplining the mind, I have explained how it is done. I expect every one of you to do it. 

If you haven't noticed by now, the approach use in this course in attaining the supernatural is not impartation. And I have my reasons for that. The writeup below will help give you some understanding.

Spiritual Laws In Christ; Foretaste And Fullness

The understanding of this law is very important in Christianity today because we are currently experiencing this agitation to have the supernatural. We must understand that there are two ways to attain the supernatural. It is either we attain it through foretaste or through fullness. Foretaste is having a taste or an experience of the fullness before you enter into the fullness. It is a temporal experience that you have in a state of immaturity, an experience that is only meant for when you possessed a certain fullness, perfection or mastery in Christ. 

It is a tradition of God to give a foretaste before bringing us to fullness. The wisdom behind this is that the foretastes makes us hungry and passionately pursue the fullness. The gifts of the Spirit is a foretaste that God gives us through the Holy Spirit. And the goal is to increase your hunger and cause you to pursue that fullness. When you have a prophetic gift that causes you to experience the prophetic once in a while, soon you will develop an appetite for this experience. Appetite leads to hunger and hunger leads to pursuit. Pursuit leads to growing into maturity and fullness. There is a spiritual law; if you desire something of God earnestly you will have it. 

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled." (Matt 5:6).

"When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else," (Jer 29:13).

"So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him." (Matt 7:11).

As you grows deeply hungry and pursuing it with all of your heart, you would grow and get to a point where you can enter into the prophetic at will. This point is what is called fullness, it is when you have finally possess that dimension of God. In foretaste you do not possess it, it is in the hands of the Holy Spirit, and it only manifest on you whenever the Spirit wants. But in fullness it is now in your possession and you can manifest it at will. The gifts of the Spirit is meant to move you from foretaste to fullness, however some people get stunk in foretaste. They create a theology that it is wrong to manifest the dimensions of God at will, so they refuse to possess the land. I will elaborate will elaborate this principle of foretaste and fullness from scripture. 

“The Lord now said to Moses, Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes. So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He sent out twelve men, all tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp in the wilderness of Paran. (Num 13:1-3).

The Israelites were about to possess the land of Canaan—the land of God's fullness, where they would enjoy the fullness of the covenant promise. Just before they possess the land God asked them to go to the land of promise and explore it. God asked Moses to send one youth from each of the twelve tribes. The twelve youth would represent the whole of Israel and they are to go and have a foretaste of the land i.e. to explore and experience the land even before it became their possession. The whole of Israel, through those youth, would have a foretaste of the land of God's fullness. Can you see that not everyone will experience foretaste? It is only some chosen ones that will experience it on your behalf—they will represent the others. 

This is a picture of the New Covenant as some believers through the Spirit of the Lord can have a foretaste of God's fullness. Christ is the land of promise, he is the land of God's fullness (Col 1:19; 2:9). Foretaste is the sovereign work of God as it was God that commanded the people to go explore the land and it was God who made the journey easier and faster. The people that were to experience it were chosen by the sovereign will of God. 

"All these gifts have a common origin, but are handed out one by one by the Spirit of God. He decides who gets what, and when." (1Cor 12:11).

In foretaste it is the Holy Spirit that hand pick the people that would experience it and which dimension of Christ they will experience. Foretaste is totally in the hands of God and it just comes on you without any effort from your side. You just find yourself manifesting certain spiritual abilities. You are not in control of it, it just comes whenever God wills it. This is because in foretaste that thing has not become your possession, you are only experiencing it. But God doesn't want us to remain in that place, He wants us to possess the things of the Spirit. This way we will be able to manifest it at our own will as mature sons of God. 

"Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1Cor 1:24). 

The gift of healing is a foretaste, however Christ is the power of God and anyone who have Christ inside of him can heal the sick. Even if you don't have the gift of healing, as a normal Christian you can train your faith to heal. You can even train yourself to the point where you heal more people than one who has the gift of healing. Gifts does not come by training, it just comes on you by the Spirit sovereign will. But even though you don't have the gift, as long as you have Christ in you, you can train your faith until you attain fullness, manifesting great power. Even those who have gifts of the Spirit also need to go for training, because that is the whole essence of the gift. It is there to give you more hunger that will motivate you towards the rigorous process of training. 

So whether you have the gift or not, as long as it is a dimension in God, and Christ the fullness of God is in you, then you can build yourself to possess that fullness. Unlike foretaste, fullness takes effort. It took much effort from the children of Israel before they can reach Canaan—the land of God's fullness. It took 400 years of trying to overcome unbelief and develop faith. Those that cannot nurture and develop faith will never possess the fullness; remember the generation that couldn't have faith was wiped out. The Israelites had to fight a series of battle while trying to possess the fullness God had promised them. Yes, the promise of the fullness is yours but you must fight to possess it. God has promised every one of us his fullness, not just people with gifts. Those things that those gifts people are manifesting is a foretaste of a fullness that is meant for you. So don't just sit there, fight to attain that fullness. 

This fight is important because of the deadness of the flesh. Death and sin had done serious damage to your flesh, as such it has become dead to the things of God. This is why after developing faith you still need to go through a process. You must conquer the effect of death in your body, you must get your flesh filled with life so that it will be able to access the things of God at will. This process is what I take my student through in the course Oneness With God. Death is separation from God, and life is the way to reuniting with God. The more life you have, the more you become one with God, possessing His fullness. So attaining fullness requires a lot of effort and takes time. All of this helps in developing character. 

That process of waiting, pressing and being broken would help to develop your character. Waiting requires brokenness and emptiness. Those who are full of themselves cannot wait, but if you must wait then you must be broken. Yes, the process of attaining fullness helps to develop character. And we are tired of seeing gifted men without character. This is why I don't use or teach impartation. Impartation is a way of entering into foretaste. Impartation is spiritual abilities coming upon you through another member of Christ body. It just came on you, you did not grow into it, you did not press and wait, it is a foretaste. 

While foretaste is good, we must all press for fullness. Yes, even after attaining foretaste you must press till you possess the fullness. There are many people that attain the supernatural through foretaste but overtime it develop into fullness. But sadly they do not know the difference, they did not know that what they first had was foretaste which later developed into fullness. Anyway, the reason why all this knowledge is coming out today is so we do not become overly dependent on gifts of the Spirit and impartation. 

Christ is the fullness of God, whether gift or no gift, impartation or no impartation, you can possess the fullness of God as long as you are in Christ. Trust me, this is not just a theory. I have taken people who never had any prophetic gift, and I brought them to become prophetic people. This thing is empirical, and it is practical. It has been proven, it is a law. We all have access to God's fullness, and we should press till we possess it. 

The Resources And The People Of The Land (Christ)

I have often described the reality in Christ as a land, a whole new world, a new creation. Like stepping into planet Mars for example, that's a whole new world.

"For in him we live and move and exist." (Acts 17:28).

He is the land and we as his people, we are a community in this land. When the Israelites entered into the land of promise, manna stopped falling from heaven. This is because God wanted them to work for their food, they were to tend the land, and yield its produce.

"The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness. For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did. For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’ So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”" (Psa 95:8-11)

               

"The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it." (Gen 2:15).

Canaan land was called a place of rest, the garden of Eden was also a place of rest that God gave man when he entered into rest from creation. In both places of rest they were given an assignment, "tend the land". Yes, rest does not mean doing nothing and hoping manna will fall from heaven. They must work hard in cultivating the land. However, this work would be greatly blessed so that they will yield more than they worked for.

"For we who believe enter his rest... For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world." (Heb 4:3,10).

Christ is the place of rest that God has given us. In this rest we must tend the land. The land is filled with riches, it is a land flowing with milk and honey. But if you do not tend it you will go hungry despite how rich the land is. Yes, there were still poor people in Israel even though every family was given a portion of this land flowing with milk and honey. There will always be poor people because people are lazy. The resources are there but they are too lazy to explore.

"To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ," (Eph 3:8).

Christ is filled with unsearchable riches but we have not been taught to tend the Land. In fact, most of us have not learn how to rest in the land much less tending the Land. Most of us are still largely in religion, we are not even in the Land, we have been taken captive into religion. We must break free from religion, learn to rest, and then begin to tend to the Land. Yes, stop working for your righteousness, rest in the righteousness you already have in Christ. Until you rest in that righteousness you can't begin to work out (tend) the righteousness (Phil 2:12).

You have to stop paying for your own sin by punishing yourself with guilt. Rest in the payment that Jesus made with his blood, and from there nurture a right walk with God. There are so many ways we have been in religion rather than tending the land. We see power and blessing as something that we have to make God give us. So we keep looking for ways to manipulate God, force his hand, or appease him so that he would give us these things. Please, come out from the wilderness, stop begging for manna to fall from heaven. The days of the wilderness has ended, come into the land and tend it.

"Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1Cor 1:24).

"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ." (Eph 1:3).

"For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours," (1Cor 3:21-22).

In Christ you already have the power of God—yes all of God's power. In Christ all of heaven have been emptied and poured on you. You have all the blessings you will ever need, but physically and spiritual. All the spiritual gifts you will ever need are available  here in this Land, you only need to learn how to tend the Land. However, there are those who would be too lazy to tend the Land. We have been taught a culture of laziness. We were taught that we do not need to tend the Land, that only the pastors are meant to tend the Land, and we should all become beggers at the feet of the pastors.

The dream of the rich man is that the poor should worship him. Yes, they prefer not to teach the poor how to be rich, they want the poor to be dependent on them so that they can have power over them. Spiritual impartation is likened to going to the rich man to beg for some gifts—the same gifts that you can get by yourself if you learn to work and be rich. There is nothing bad in collecting gifts or asking for gifts, but when you are taught that it is your normal life and you have to be begging for gifts from one place to another, then you are being served a great injustice.

Most Christians have been turned into beggers because the rich (the gifted men) wants to be worship. They have taught us to be beggers, to heavily depend on them, to run to them for every little thing when we all share the same Land. Wake up! The same Land (Christ) where they got their riches is also yours. You can tend this Land and become as rich as them, or even richer. Don't let anybody deceive you that certain riches of Christ can only come through impartation—that's a lie. 

Over a thousand years in the history of the Church there was scarcely any supernatural. There was no gifts of the spirit, the fivefold ministry was extinct, and there was hardly any miracle. So how did people got back the gifts of the Spirit and the fivefold ministry? Did the Apostles of old came back from death to give them impartation? Of course no, these men became sick and tired of being so powerless when they knew they were serving a Almighty supernatural Being. They were tired of reading all these miracles in the Bible and not have it manifest in their lives. 

So they press and press deep into Christ till they were able to work out the power of God living inside them all this while. The people that spoke in tongues in the early 20s after speaking in tongues had been extinct for over a thousand years, how did they do it? Did the apostles of old came to lay hands on them? Did they receive any impartation? No, they pressed, they tend the Land. Charles Parham held a Bible study, he gave his students an assignment to study the books of Acts and find out the initial evidence of the baptismal of the Holy Spirit. 

After studying they were all convinced that speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of being baptized by the Holy Spirit. And as they continued to press that experience broke loose in their midst, they started speaking in tongues. That experience sparked the Pentecostal Revival and spread the whole body of Christ. It is much easier to go to a rich man and beg for a gift. But the Lord has called us to tend the Land. While it is good for us to help each other and give each other gifts, we must all learn to tend the Land. We cannot afford to nurture laziness in our midst. 

How can a land filled with thousands of people but only a hundred is rich, and the rest are taught to pursue the rich people about begging for substance. Yes, that is the Christianity we are practicing today. People are pursuing men of God up and down, struggling to touch their clothes, begging to be prayed for, begging and even paying for impartation. There are more teaching about impartation than how to tend the Land yourself. This is a conscious effort to keep us in perpetual poverty. 

Men wants to be worship, they love it when you are on your knees begging them, ready to do anything for them. They enjoy that treatment and they want things to remain that way so they continue to promote the teaching of impartation. I am not saying impartation is bad, but when the teaching of impartation has become the main teaching then the people will be subjected to spiritual poverty and a life of constant begging. We simply cannot continue to like this. We must exalt the need to tend the Land above the teaching of impartation, otherwise the Land will have very few rich men. 

If a land has very few rich men yet overwhelmed with poor people then that land is said to be underdeveloped. Yes, Christ our land is underdeveloped. Look at the Church today, so powerless and weak. We have no voice in the nation, the government kicks us around, we are nobody. We have no influence, nothing. Yes, that is the characteristics of an underdeveloped nation, it has no say among the nations but rather falls under exploitation. 

In order for this Land to be developed we need more people tending the Land. This is why I have refused to use impartation in my training on the supernatural. It's intentional, the body of Christ needs to stop being so lazy and learn how to tend the Land. Oh, there is so much glory, power and blessings that you can attain if only you stop being so lazy and start pressing hard, tending the Land. Yes, nurture Christ the power of God in you, for he is already inside you and you only need to nurture him still he blossom. Tend and nurture all of the fullness of God in you till you become filled with his glory. 

CONCLUSION:

While going through everything, you may already begin to feel that this thing will be very difficult. Yes, of course it would be very hard on the flesh, but thank God you are not the flesh. You are not this carnal man that finds it difficult to do the things of the Spirit and to pursue God more vigorously.

"Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work." (John 4:34).

"My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." (Gal 2:20).

It is your old man that finds these things difficult, and it is going to be hard on the flesh because it is designed to disable and break the flesh. But thank God you are not the flesh, you don't need to suffer his pain and experience his hardship. You can become so awaken and conscious of the son that lives in you to the extent that instead of you being overwhelmed by the hardship your flesh (old man) is going through, you can be caught up in the joy and pleasure that the son of God in you enjoy when seeking the Father. Every exercise in this entry stage is designed to help you become awaken to the son in you that loves and enjoys the things of God. When you become awaken to him then you will have enough motivation, will and power to scale through every challenges that you may encounter in this course. So do your best to practice every of the exercises described here. 

I know you may feel you already do these things. But now you must do them with more vigor and consistency. Remember, you will be asked to give a report every Sunday. If you can pass this entry stage successfully, then the rest will be much easy.