Topic: Rise of Sons
Greetings Sons of God:
When we talk about the rise of Sons in this day, there are
fundamental concepts that we must discuss so that we understand how we are
emerging. When we speak of the rise of
sons we must first understand there can be no sons without the Father birthing
them. Those who have come to Christ and
have made Him Lord and believed that He is risen from the dead have all been
born from above or as we say commonly “born again”. In being born again we are no longer in the
image of the first Adam but now in the image of the second Adam who is
Christ. So we have the image but because
the image is spirit, it is invisible to the carnal eye but the way we know that
one is a Son, let’s use Jesus, the way they knew He was from God was by the
power.
1 Corinthians 4:20: For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in
power.
You may ask, when will this happen? At the appointed time of the father when you
have matured to handle such power responsibly and your soul is blindly
following your spirit. You may think “I
will never get there!” That is not true
if you have been walking in the spirit and seeking the Lord. Let me share this Scripture:
2 Corinthians 5:17: If any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Since we are a new creation the Father is teaching us how to
live as the new creation, His Son, in the earth. He uses suffering to burn away the effects of
the Fall so that the Son and Father shines through. We are becoming and manifesting this new creation
day-to-day.
2 Corinthians 3:18: But we all, with open face beholding as
in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
As we are changing we will begin to walk in spiritual
authority and control when the spirit takes dominance over the soul. We must relate to the spirit realm. When we start to see in the spirit realm we
will see much more than what our carnal eyes could see and we begin to see
events and people from the eyes of the Throne of God where we are seated in
Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).
Let me share with you another crucial reason we need to see through the
eyes of the spirit. Limitations will cease.
When we see life through the eyes of the soul, there are
limitations to everything we do. Even
when God tells us to do something our soul will rise up and give us the reason
why things may not be able to be done and this is called reasoning. Our soul reasons on a linear plane and let me
explain. When a situation happens our
souls examine the past situations similar to this one, look at what you did
then to try to solve the problem and how it turned out and overlay it to the
current situation in the hope of the same result happening. That is the limitation of our soul. Even when we look at people and our
interactions with them, our soul limits our view to our opinions about them in
the attempt to make ourselves either feel better, protect ourselves or if need
be use people to help us provide for ourselves. When we see things from the eyes of the
Spirit, there are no limitations, everything is possible if Christ directs us
and shows us. As the Father burns the
soulish nature from us we will cease to live in the mentality of limitations
because there are no limitations in Christ.
Am I advocating that w do what we want and live without
restrictions. No!!! We are called to mortify the deeds of our
body and not serve sin. What I am
advocating is that when we hear from the Spirit we fully obey and comply
without question because of the One who is empowering us.
This is what God is doing NOW! You can either comply with the work of the
Holy Spirit within you or rebel and face judgment. Isaiah 2 speaks of the House of the Lord
being exalted in these days. The Lord is
building His House and doing a new thing and within that thing is the grace of
God to accomplish His Will. The
decision is yours and yours only. No
one, not even God Himself will force you, your heart must desire it. As your heart desires more and more, the
Father is changing you day by day. Just
stay in the teachable position and watch you change from glory to glory to the
Son that the Father sees.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
