Our faith in his Word is our provision

God has given us duties to perform that require faith.. we often struggle with this but in actual fact the faith we need in order to perform these duties is found in the command he has given.

Its like he has given us the complete package in each statement he makes, on initial glance all as we may see is the command or statement he may be making but then we as look deeper into what he has said we will always find everything we need in order to full fill the requirement.

When we look at the fact that God has said we are brothers and co heirs with Christ we dare not look further into that word for the possibilities of that statement automatically place us in the realm of faith.. you must have faith to even dream on the possibilities of such a word. I mean think about it, we are one with Christ who is one with the father.. we are to do as he has done!! that takes us so far past what we ever imagine for our lives because what is required can not be produced out of our lives. we may even say that it may not be produced from the natural man we have been born into and this can be very relieving for us as a statement in itself WE ARE NOT TO REQUIRE ANYTHING FROM OUR NATURAL SELF , it can only come from the spiritual man that we have been reborn into, first i was born of the seed of my natural father and now i have been born of the seed of Christ.

instantly when we make that revelation, that WE CAN NOT DO MIRACLES then we must assume that if God is requiring us to do miracles then we must be of Christ, we literally must exist of the same substance as he GOD.

For most people religious fear has forbidden them from wandering down this path, they fear that to say they are the same substance as Christ is to say they are the same as Christ and to say they are the same as Christ is to say they are the same as God. Scary thought!! but this is actually the path that God wants us to travel.. its OK to say we are the same as long as we remember he is first. The first of many brothers.

 Now if we are to search the scriptures to back us up in this pattern of thought surely we would be looking to find statements that are applied to us that place us in the same realm as Christ and therefore as God, we most likely taking into account the circumstances of his life need to be looking at moments Jesus got into trouble for making himself equal to God.  we see in scripture that when Jesus healed he said  Get up, your sins are forgiven..  we see a conflict here where the natural man says wait a Min you cant say that because only God has power to forgive sins.

Jesus offers his answer in an action and says what is easier to say your sins are forgiven or get up and walk? Jesus knew he was dealing with the effects of the fall/sin when dealing with sickness and he also knew that by belonging to the new creation he had power over the old. In order to take authority over the sickness he knew he was not operating out of the natural seed but out of the substance of God, he was born of God and knew it and by knowing it he knew that he had authority to heal.. and it is this whole knowing and understanding that he offers us when he gives us the command to do the same.

because we can not do the works of the father and that should be permanently clear in our hearts and minds  we now exist in Christ, we are born of him, we are sealed into our new creation and as such we must know that the works he has called us to actually give us the faith to perform them.

Do you not know that you have the power to forgive sins?