How precious we are in His sight. God has drawn close to us in an intimate relationship. We seek to serve God with our heart, mind, and strength. Our soul embraces God and God in turn embraces it. It is the work of His left and right hand for He addresses all the aspects of our life - as it is written:

"According as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness." 2 Peter 1:3

We are being formed in a manner that renders us capable of giving God fuller expression. All discussion of God's Plan, Purpose, Intent, and Will pertains to the fact that we seek to apprehend that which has apprehended us. Our calling, our election, glorification, transformation, and manifestation as sons are established in a relationship that reveals God's own desire to have a dwelling place on earth. Christ within us has prepared us to do so gloriously.

Psalm 16:11 "You will show me the path of life: in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures for evermore." The right hand also represents the Word - The Lord came from Sinai, and from His right hand went a law for them.

"Deuteronomy 33:2 His word embraces us. "I delight to do Your will, O God: yea, Your law is within my heart.

Psalm 40:8 We have been joined to Jesus Christ and we have access to the heart and mind of God as it pertains to His creation. Through Jesus Christ we have entrance to all that God has brought forth as recorded in His Word. It is a finished work. Since we have access to the Will and Purpose of God - the beginning to the end - the first and the last we never have to be overcome by our old nature. The entirety of that which God has done, all that has been revealed in His Word can become for us - present truth. As present truth it operates within us as faith.

1 John 5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith."

The faith that we manifest is a gift from God by the Spirit. God has dealt to each of us the measure of faith. It is a faith that increases and it is a faith that is uncovered progressively. We know in part, and we prophesy in part but we move towards a day when we shall know as we are intended to know. We have received promise that we might be partakers of His divine nature. "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now we know in part; but then shall we know even as also we are known." 1 Corinthians 13:12

Our Pastor has taught, "you can only know that which is in you." God has granted us a divine ability, an anointing. If we can say so - God knows Himself in a particular manner. He is the knower, the knowledge, and that which is known. In like manner shall we know Christ in us," then shall we know even as also we are known." God has revealed Himself through a relationship that discloses His intention for those that have eyes to see. One must fully believe that the kingdom of God Is within them. We have the Lord's consent to speak of His presence as our acquired nature. We have the authority to manifest His existence as our own - therefore we have permission to be transformed and to maintain the hope of that transformation. We are permitted to declare that:

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20

What would be the inducement for God to manifest sons? God desires to be revealed. He appears because it is the nature of the relationship that He has chosen. He manifests the hidden relationship of the Godhead to us and within us. We have received the life of Christ so that we can put on Christ. Paul was able to see his own transformation and to prophesy concerning its nature. We are called to see the character of our own transformation. We must continually challenge ourselves. We have got to arrive at the point when we know that this transformation is really possible - that it can be accomplished. Paul saw it - so he was strengthened to work at it. Faith is the absolute belief that you can do it because God is working with you. When He dwells in you, Christ in you is the hope of glory. We are changed into the same image; the same nature and we are able to manifest the reality of sonship in Christ.

"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And 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. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18

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