Restoring Spirit of
Father to the Church
Today’s Focus: The
Single Mind and Single View of the Sons
Scripture: Genesis
1:26; Romans 12:1,2; Philippians 2:5; Colossians 1:19; Hebrews 1:1,2
Greetings Sons of
God:
If we are sons who
are called to represent the Father in the earth and we will talk about the
representational principal later. If we
are sons of God, representing the Father then we should have a single mindset
and single view.
Philippians 2:5: Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
Romans 12:1,2: I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed 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.
The single mind is
the mind of Christ and the view from the Son should be one of the Father. When we as sons completely obey the voice of
the Lord through submission and sacrifice of our own will and desires, the
perfect will of God will be shown. Our
sole purpose in the earth as sons is to occupy our mind with His Will. Our primary objective as sons is to represent
the Father and bring pleasure to Him.
Now the Father can only be expressed in a representative called a son:
Colossians 2:19:
For it pleased the Father that in Him should all the fullness;
Hebrews 1:1,2: God,
who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers,
by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.
So it pleased the
Father that all the fullness of the Godhead dwell within the Son and it is also
through Son that the Father speaks. The
perpetual nature, identity, expression and work can only be expressed in a Son
and it is the son whom He sends so when you see the son, you see the
Father. We have been called to be
ambassadors of Christ and that is representation of the one whom sends us. When we embrace this identity and paradigm
shift, burdens will begin to be lifted and the bonds and yokes of religion will
be broken because God did not create you to be a member of some institution but
He created to be His son and the son carries not only the image of the Father
but also the likeness and that likeness can only be demonstrated:
Genesis 1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
We are made in His
image (spirit) and after His likeness (character). Image is given, likeness is matured. And in the next message we will talk about
the importance of obedience of the sons of God in expressing the likeness of
the Father.
Peace, Love and
Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
