How To Produce Signs and Wonders in God's Kingdom

There are five things which God executes by faith and which are needed in order to produce a miracle, a sign or a wonder, as the Bible calls them.

When the Lord showed me that a sign and a wonder is simply the creation of an event, a happening, or an occurrence in His kingdom, it made a lot more sense to me.

A Christian is one who creates, interposes and manifests the events of the kingdom of God into the events of this world. Because the events of the kingdom are greater, they will take precedence into what is occuring in this natural world. This is what Moses did in Egypt.

The Christian is an “event maker.”

The five things which are needed to become “ an event maker” are will, substance, time, reality, and the manifestation or the existence of the event. We will tackle these 5 things in five teachings.

Today we will discuss “Will.”

The believer has exactly same the power and authority which God has, since Christ Jesus, ( Jehovah Elohim, “The Creator” in the O.T.) dwells in him or her in order to produce the event.

God decrees and it becomes. God commands and it becomes established. God wills and produces an event. This is the nature of God as The Creator, and whose same nature dwells in us. How He does it, we know not. We simply must accept this and learn to do what He does.

The following verses out of the book of Genesis are all in the grammatical “jussive” mood, or the mood of will, desire, determination, pleasure, intention, or command.

Gen 1:3 and God saith, ‘Let light be’; and light is.

6 And God saith, ‘Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.’

9 And God saith, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen’: and it is so.

14 And God saith, ‘Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

We see that God simply wills and creates the event. God commands and brings a new reality.

The striking of Moses' rod on the Nile River which turned it into blood, brought an event which created a new reality and changed the existence of Egypt. We are global event makers, and reality changers by simple faith. This is the incredible power of the believer.

The most important and yet most difficult task for Christian is to act in total union and “glued oneness” to the still small voice of God in his or her heart, which operates in God's will, at every moment of every minute. In the moment to moment obedience to the voice of God, is His creative identity revealed to change realities and existences by the events of God which we produce.

This is the the greatest key to continual breakthrough, success and miracles in the Kingdom.

Tomorrow, we will talk about how you bring into this world the substance of the event which God wants to to create through you.

You think about that today.

4 Keys to Succesful Spiritual Warfare

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:



Many of us imagine that Ephesians chapter two is Paul’s discussion focusing on unbelievers. I disagree


This particular verse is in the present participle. Simply speaking it signifies that the sons of disobedience energize the scheme of the devil on a continuous basis.


The word for disobedience is being non compliant.


If a Christian is continually incompliant in an area of his or her life, will he or she energize the works of the devil? I believe that there is no difference; the devil is a legalist. He will always get in wherever he is given an open door.


I also feel, that the same degree of obedience or disobedience to the Lord, will result in the same degree of energizing or disengaging the works of the devil in our lives.


Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

We are encouraged here to take the whole armor of God and having done all to stand, to stand therefore. "Having done all" is the word "katergazomai.'

 Simply stated, “having done all,to stand,” is wonderfully depicted by the cartoons of the coyote and the roadrunner. In one of their many scuffles, as a ball of dull is kicked up, both of these guys always got lost in their dusty fights. When the dust finally settles, the roadrunner usually remained standing.

This is exactly what it means to “having done all, to stand.”! We must fight by the Spirit without compromise, or without discouragement, until we remain standing victoriously; as Satan, sin and the world lay scattered at our feet in full visibility, once our ball of dust finally settles!


John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.


In John chapter fourteen we find Jesus discussing about His soon to come confrontation with Satan through the hands of Judah, and his subsequent arrest and crucifixion. In all certainty, the words of Jesus are more emphatic in the Greek. In His own words He says, “The prince of the cosmos comes, and it is impossible for him to have even have the tiniest connection with me.”


It goes to say then, that the more that we die to self, so that the magnificent person of Christ is revealed in us, the more and more that the devil will find it impossible to have even the tiniest connection with us.


Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.


The true Greek interpretation; we have overcome Satan by means of the blood of the lamb and by means of the word of our martyrdom.

The word for testimony in our New Testament is repeatedly found to be our English word, “martyrdom.”


Satan and his minions will forever grasp, cling, torment, and torture us as long as he finds unrepented of sin, and lingering bondages and hurts from our past. Only the cross of Christ, through the death of our sinful self, will free us from all of this. This in turn will cause Satan to lose his deceptive hold upon us.

The activity of the cross works in direct proportion to our obedience to the voice of God, and the Word of God.


 The word of our testimony is not a simple spewing out of scriptural verses upon the enemy. It is a confession of what the cross has done and doing in our lives. Only then, will our words be backed up with the authority of a resurrected life that emerged from martyrdom. The devil cannot touch resurrection life and will back away from us.

The Keys to the Kingdom / The Wants of God

 Rev 4:11 ‘Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou—Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will (WANT) are they, and they were created.’

Matt 8:3 Mt 8:3 (YLT) and having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, ‘I will ( I WANT), be thou cleansed,’ and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Lu 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will ( I WANT): be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

These scriptures give us a glimpse of the operations of the glory of God. They teach us how to function in the kingdom of God, accessing and managing His invisible things. Much of what happens in the invisible kingdom of God is an issue of will or more accurately want or desire. What one will's is, is one's want. What God wants, He gets immediately. This is the authority of the Kingdom.

One of the greatest secrets to managing the affairs of the invisible kingdom is to learn to operate in the wants of God from moment to moment. This is the labor which must be instituted by us to acquire a renewed mind which will learn to operate in the wants of God. Whenever we tap into a want of God and obey it we will always find immediate and tangible results,breakthrough and anointing.

Matt 8:3 Mt 8:3 (YLT) and having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, ‘I will ( I WANT), be thou cleansed,’ and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Lu 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will ( I WANT): be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

Rev 4:11 ‘Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou—Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will (WANT) are they, and they were created.’

Revelation 4:11 tells us that the wants of God immediately come into existence in the invisible and become created in the natural.

This is how God created the earth when He said, “let there be light and there was light.”

Lets look further at the operations of the wants of God out of the book of Ezekiel.

Ezk 1:12 And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.

17 On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

19 And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.

20 Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit is to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit is in the wheels.

21 In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels over-against them; for a living spirit is in the wheels.

The chariot throne of God being moved by cherubim on wheels symbolizes God's throne in heaven and His wheels upon the earth carrying out the purposes of His wants. This throne chariot functions seamlessly and in absolute subjection to the wants of the Spirit of God.

17 On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

19 And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.

20 Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit is to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit is in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

The wheels which depict the perfect and seamless flow of the glory of God upon the affairs of the earth are managed by us according to the wants of God.

Th Spirit of God is in the wheels. When we operate by the wants of God we will cause the seamless flow of the glory of God to ride and glide effortlessly upon the earth

Here is the beauty of our learning to operate in the invisible kingdom of God by the wants of the Holy Spirit and faith which will immediately bring results in the natural.

You think of that today!

Upcoming East Africa Conferences in 2010 and 2011

While we were doing our last conferences in Kenya in February and March of this year God gave us a new strategy for future work East Africa. Kenya and Uganda are in the midst of a revival of training. Where ever one goes there is a hunger for revelatory and expository teaching, learning how to minister, training in worship, and a huge desire to receive ministry and prophetical words. Because of this the Lord has told us to go twice a year and do training conferences in those countries.

For a number of years we have been going to individual churches, many of them in the remote parts of Maasai land and the rural conclaves of these countries.

Traveling by car is very expensive in East Africa due to the price of gasoline and the frequent repairs that cars always need ,due to bad roads.

Kitengela, is the town where our family lived for almost two years while in Kenya. Its 45 minutes away from Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi. Kitengela it is one the fastest growing cities in East Africa and is close to Maasai land where a big modern day revival is taking place. It is connected to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean, Tanzania to its south, it is close to Nairobi which in turn is connected to Western Kenya and Uganda. Kitengela, is the locale which God has selected for our next conference. Instead of traveling all over Kenya and wasting precious time and money, we will set up a tent of about 400 and have pastors from all over Kenya attend. The provisional date of this next conference will be from Monday September 20^th through Sunday September 26^th We will be taking a team which will teach expositionally, train on worship, probably do some workshops, and will minister in the power of God. There is a wonderful hotel in Kitengela ran by Christian pastors called the Masai Discovery ( shown on the photo). The trip itself will be comfortable in that the team will fly in, take a 45 minute ride to Kitengela, lodge and minister there for week and then fly home.

In February 2011 we have an invitation to do similar training in Uganda where there is another revival brewing. I will update you more as the time gets a bit closer. This is what he Lord appears to be doing now. God bless.

Our Special Africa Needs

  
                                         
 We began an “Adult Reading School” in Kenya when we saw many adult Christians who could not read. Today, there are 12 that are eligible for government certificates due to their reading skills which will get them jobs.    
$ 840.00/ $70.00/ person

Apostle Jeremy Gichuru of Quality Discipleship Churches in Kampala, Uganda needs 90 chairs for his main church. Gichuru has been fasting sitting on chairs at his churches until God answers his need. Gichuru sits on a small wooden stool. The cost of each chair is $10.00.

Total cost $ 900.00 COMPLETED

Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma has four children which our ministry has been putting through school for a number of years. Part of his school fees were due at the beginning of April. His oldest child Kennedy was sent home due to the fees not paid.

Total cost: $550.00 COMPLETED

Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma, though he leads over 40 churches in Kenya, lives in a hut. The thatched roof on his hut has rotted away and rain comes in. He really needs a new roof that will cost him about $3,000.00. A temporary roof will cost him $1200.00.

Total cost $1200.00.COMPLETED

You can donate to any one of these needs, in any amount that you want to, through our secure “Pay Pal” button found our web site. You can also write out a check. The instructions for giving are on our web site. Thank you so much!

Jose and Mary Alvarez

Web Site: http://www.thepattern.org

The Believer is God's Trophy and His Crowned Achievement.

Eph 2:6 and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift,

9 not of works, that no one may boast;

10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Eph 2:6-10 are an amazing set of scriptures . I think that we have not had the full revelation of what Paul; was has been trying to tell us.

V6 We have been raised up with Christ when He was raised up. That is a given. All that has happened to Christ has happened to us. This is what separates the Christian for everybody else on the planet

Our current position now, and here on earth, is one of sitting on the very throne which Christ sits in.

If we have the revelation that we sit on the very throne which Christ's is sitting on, then we operate in exactly the same authority and power which He reigns with...right now!

The fullness of this can only be realized,however, when we live existentially or experientially in places which are found in the realms of God's kingdom. As Christians we will sadly spend most of our earthly lives living by the realities of earthly places and earthly things. We must press in by faith to become transcendental people with transcendental thinking that can enter into the transcendental places of God's kingdom and access His invisible and transcendental things. This is the definition of a renewed minds. We must ask God to transom us until it becomes the norm to live out heavenly places and access heavenly things and unnatural and uncomfortable to live out of earthly places.

Its obvious that the more that our experiences are within places which comprise the kingdom of heaven, the more that we will be our experience to access the hours, times and seasons of that kingdom which God continually desires to reveals to us.

God's heart is always one of kindness. The riches which God reveals to us in heavenly places are designated to fulfill specific functions of his kindness. Every object which God has placed in His kingdom and which He reveals to us is used by Him to demonstrate His kindness to us and more so His kindness THROUGH us to hurting and lost humanity.

I suspect that what Paul was intending to say in verses 9 and 10 is different to what we thought he meant.

Everything from verse 6-10 is connected. Paul always connected his thoughts in his writings.

Yes, the transcendental riches of His grace made up as functions of His kindness have saved us..but I also see him saying so much more than that.

The transcendental riches of His grace, all which demonstrate different aspects of God's incredible kindness to humanity, have been all poured or funneled into the believer. This pouring into us of all of God's incredible riches of kindness have created, molded, and completed the believer into something that God had in mind.

Think of molten, fiery, red hot steel, being poured into a metal cast iron mold, and creating an object once it cools down. Lets take for example, the frame of a car.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

This is exactly what Paul is saying in Eph 2:10.

The word “workmanship” is the Greek word “poiema.” This rare word, a noun, only appears twice in the NT.

As the fiery hot molten steel poured into a metal cast mold produced the frame of a car, all of the transcendental riches of God's kindness, power, and glory have BEEN POURED into the believer. The believer now is the workmanship, masterpiece, God's crowned achievement, the trophy, the completed product of all of God's blessings to humanity. You see, we must learn to minister to people as THE COMPLETED masterpiece of God's power, Gods healing, Gods finances, God's riches to humanity. We simply exhibit, demonstrate and release by faith.

This is why its not out works. It is an undeserved gift of God. We learn to minister boldly, confidently and with total authority realizing that all of the completed masterpieces, centerpieces and achievements of God's power, healing and riches for mankind lie deposited us finished and perfected. The more faith and the more revelation that we have, the greater will be the release of what is already in us.

You think about that today!

The Transcendental Love of God

Eph 3:18 that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

19 to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled—to all the fulness of God;

2Th 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

The Strong's word 5235 is Huperballoo.

Huperballoo is the word transcendental which is defined as passing beyond the limits of nature, the natural laws that govern this world, or the universe.

For God, it talks about the impossible, the limitless, the thing that can grow exponentially, the infinite, and the things that have no measure and no bounds and are not limited by form, substance, quantity and physical dimensions. It is a matter that is not subjected or ruled by the four dimensions of length, height, width and time and can in one moment supersede all natural laws and dimensions.

Jesus was able to walk through a wall, and his face shines like the sun in its power.

The invisible objects of God in His kingdom are all transcendental. The dimensions of their transcendence are pushed to increase or decrease by our faith and our ability to reveal them.

The glory of God is transcendental.

2Co 3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth <5235>.

The grace of God is transcendental.

We have been teaching grace incompletely as the unmerited favor of God. In reality, grace is the superhuman power of God available to us.

2Co 9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding <5235> grace of God in you.

The power of God is transcendental.

Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding <5235> greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

The riches brought to us by God's superhuman labor are transcendental and infinite.

Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding <5235> riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Faith can grow transcendentally and in a few moments!

2Th 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

Glory, power, superhuman labor, riches and faith are all invisible objects in the realms of the kingdom of the heavens which are revealed by our faith and their transcendence can be enhanced and manipulated ( in a good way ) by our faith, authority, the transcendence of our renewed minds, and the transcendence of our ability to receive.

We must become transcendental people to enter into the mysteries of the kingdom of God and work with His invisible objects.

Last night as I was going to sleep the Lord gave me a revelation about His love that I have not had before. Look with me at verses 18 and 19 of Eph 3.

Eph 3:18 that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

19 to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled—to all the fulness of God;

In verse 19 the love of Christ “exceeding” in knowledge is the word huperballoo or transcendence . The love of God is transcendental and it is received and revealed from His invisible realm. Paul tells us that we would know the revealed love of Christ that transcends whatever we can a acquire through the knowledge of our earthly minds. The greatest faith is found in love. The greatest healing is found in love. The greatest confidence that we will receive from the Lord is found in love. This is why the transcendental love of God will fill us with His very being.

Look at verse 20.

20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

Here, Paul attempts to define the transcendence of God which he has been teaching us in the previous verses. Literally its says “ now to Him who has the ability to perform “transcendentally extravagantly” above and beyond what the greatest requests of our hearts and the loftiest thoughts of our mind are...... This is the transcendence of God .

In verse 18, the dimensions of breadth, and length, and depth, and height, are the supernatural dimensions which govern God's transcendental kingdom. Paul tells us that we would be strengthened by faith to a measure of spiritual strength where we can then possess by that strength the revelation of transcendental dimensions that govern the things of God and thus adequately operate in the dimensions of God's invisible world.

You think about that!

What Is The New Alignment of the New Man

Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Receiving Christ is the word “paralambano”

Lambano is to physically get something, possessing something and making it our very own. Our American “receive' is a mental ascent..its just lip service. The “receiving” of the Bible says “Hey baby, this is all mine!” This must be the breakthrough that we get into our new identity who is Christ. We must not give up until the old man like Jack in Titanic ( Leo De Caprio) finally sinks dead, and out of sight in the cold Atlantic waters. This is the first breakthrough. This is called to break free Then Christ must be fully grabbed, put on like brand new clothes

7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Here is our new identity. The “rooted” is in the perfect tense. This means that once and for all we must be and remain firmly rooted, hooked into, and receive all our vitality and nutrients from the New Man Christ. Our identity must be totally conformed into and around this New Man. This is the second breakthrough. Graham Cooke calls the first breakthrough breaking free. He calls the second breakthrough, staying free.

The built and stablished are in the present tense. This describes a continuing and progressive work. Once that our identity gets hooked into the new man, then this new man, must continually be built in our lives from day to day. Its like building a massive skyscraper on the Miami skyline from day to day until its fully built.

The “stablished” is the word steerizo which is something massive, firm, stable, strong, “iron like”, unshakable and immovable.

This is the completion of our new identity. Ever last thing that we must do must align with our new identity. Much of this new identity is revealed through the study of God's word. This is why we must be students of God's word.

We Must Live Out of Fullness and Not Out of Need

Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Dwelleth, is defined as something which abides in comfort and rest.... such as being “at home.”
The world fullness is the word pleroma.

Fullness, is defined as the identity which makes something to be what it is in this universe different from something else. Fulness are all of the ingredients and attributes which make up an object and make it different to any other object. Christ IS ALL of the attributes and ingredients which makes God to be God, comfortably dwelling in us. He then has the ability to make God visible or manifested to us and in us. This is what it means “the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Verse 10 literally means, that you are completely filled with this fullness of God in you, once and for all eternity.

We do not come from a position of having to get the victory. The victory has already been won. It must simply be revealed. We must live from the position of having the won victory revealed in us.

We do not come from a position of having to get the riches of God. We already have all the riches. They simply need to be revealed.

Likewise, our identity as the fullness of God completely formed. dispersed, and filled within us must be simply revealed by our asking God. We must learn to live out of a position and alignment that all that we need, all the victories, and all of the riches, have been already completely given to us, and we are already filled with them and they remain full in us forevermore. What we need is revelation, not more things.

Eph 1:3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

The words “who hath blessed us” are in the accusative case which is the grammatical case of effect or a final goal. For simplicity's sake let me say that the goal or the funneling power of all of God's blessings is the church. You and I are the receptacle. God has funneled all that He is and all that He has into us. Every fullness and completion of every blessing, and riches ,and benefits have already been funneled into you and me. We are in a state of being completely full, and satiated and saturated with all that we need. We just need to get tons of revelation. This is our new identity and this is what we must align every imagination and thought with. We must operate out of a state of fulness.

This is the second breakthrough, to be molded into this new man.

Ro 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

The Good Measure, Pressed Down, Shaken Together & Running Over Anointing

Lu 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

During our prayer meeting last night I realized that the “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together and running over,” is an anointing that we can enter in, receive, and operate in, if we are givers by the Spirit of God.

You need to get into the habit of continually sowing by the rhema word of God to see the experiential reality of this. I must confess that I have not seen this because, I am not a great sower. Yes, I give, but I still have fear and I still count my chickens before they hatch, so to speak, when it comes to money. Yet, God revealed this to me and I am excited, and at the same time a bit fearful, which I know it’s not from the Lord. 


Give, and it shall be given unto you; Is in the present tense. We must be giving so that it is given back.

Pressed down, and shaken together; are both in the perfect, passive participle order. This grammatical combination is the most powerful indication of existence, realm, state, or reality in the Greek. In other words, if you are an active sower, the reality or the anointing surrounding your life will be one where God is giving back to you in a manner where blessings are being pressed together and shaken or sifted so He can give you more. This will become your natural mode of living.

The running over or overflowing is in the present signifying a continuous process.

How would you like to live in this mode of receiving from the Lord, and I am not just talking about money. This is God's natural way of being. God is a God of infinite abundance that must be entered into by ever increasing faith on our part. Our hindrance is our unrenewed mind.

Where Christ Is

Col 3:1  If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, WHERE THE CHRIST IS, on the right hand of God seated,

AW Robertson, the great Greek scholar calls this, “the condition of the first class;” or as something that is assumed as being true. Paul, as he wrote this assumes that you and I are endeavoring to live WHERE THE CHRIST IS. In other words, our reality must be that we have risen with Christ from the dead. Since Christ lives up in heaven, we must live where He lives.

Joh 14:3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

Ph3: 20 (AV) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

The kingdom of heaven is a future paradigm as well as it is a present one. Though physically we live on the earth our life is up in heaven. We are transformed by what is called the “reckoning of faith.”

Rom 4:9 ¶ Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Reckoning simply means that what we believe about the Word and receive it, which in the Greek means to make it into our own and to walk in it, it then manifests physically through our lives. The whole Christian life is one of believing first spiritually the position that we have in Christ. What we have believed then becomes physically manifested in this world. This is because faith is a law.

Rom 3:27 Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

We must reckon from the things which are in heaven and not on earth, WHERE THE CHRIST IS.

Ph3: 20 (AV) For our conversation IS in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

“IS in heaven” Paul does not use the simple word for “IS” in this scripture but uses the word “Huparcho”, which speaks about belongings and possessions. Simply speaking, our reality, our mode of being and thus our behaving and all of our possessions are found WHERE THE CHRIST IS.

Phil 3:21 who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

The Greek says' Who will change the schematics of the body of our humiliation so that it can adopt the same form of the body of His glory. Whereas form has to do with inward change, schematic is more so seen in the outward physical changes, tangible to the 5 senses. In the ploys of the enemy we see many outward and visible transformations, to the physical senses of people. This is why the world gets so easily deceived by what devil brings through our physical senses.

2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves (SCHEMATIC) into the apostles of Christ.

2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed (SCHEMATIC) into an angel of light.

2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed (SCHEMATIC) as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Php 3:21 Who shall change (SCHEMATIC) our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body ( THE BODY OF HIS GLORY), according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Rom 12:2 And be not conformed (SCHEMATIC) to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

It is amazing then that Paul in Philippians 3:21 can that that the more that we live out of our heavenly possessions, even the schematic of our physical bodies can begin to experience transformational change son this side of heaven through miraculous healing and so forth.

”According to the working of his power”; Literally :According to the energy of His being able. As I taught yesterday, dunamis power is power in ability or success. The energy inside Christ makes all things able.The more that we live WHERE THE CHRIST IS the more that we will see all things being made able.

Rom 12:2 And be not conformed (SCHEMATIC) to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We see the same word for schematic also in Romans 12:2
Literally:
Do not assume the schematic of this present age dispensation but be metamorphosized by the renewing of your minds....then you will be able to know the good and acceptable and mature will of God.

When we are reckoning every possession, every behavior and even every thought from the place WHERE THE CHRIST IS, Christ truly puts off our old man. The schematic of our whole life and even our body progressively changes.

2 Cor 3L18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed ( METAMORPHOSIS) into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The open face is in one which has nothing to hide. It talks about total obedience and total openness to the Lord. The perfect tense of this grammatical structure describes a permanent state. Paul assumes that as believers we live in a continual state of obedience and openness to our Lord.

“Beholding as in a glass” Literally means “down looking” This is a word for a mirror. The more intently that we gaze at our appearance in a mirror, the more that we will see and depict and analyze our own reflection.

The more that we dwell in the place WHERE THE CHRIST IS the more we will be down looking ( intently focusing) at the place where His transcendental glory dwells , the more that we will be able to capture the reflection of His glory and the more that we will be metamorphosied into the BODY OF HIS GLORY.

These things can more definitely commence to happen now, here on earth.

Everything has to do with intensity of our focus to live in the place WHERE THE CHRIST IS.