CHILD-LIKE

And He said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." 
Matthew 18:3

The longer I walk in my kingdom identity, the more I see great importance in the above verse. The biggest thing facing the church today is the religious spirit. The religious spirit is grounded in complexity. If we read the scriptures for what they say outright, instead of trying to interpret them, we would see more of the kingdom, more salvations, more freedom in the church, and less division in the body. 
For example, check out Ephesians 2:6-7...

"And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus."

The religious spirit reads this as once we arrive in heaven, but read it again like little children and see it for what it actually says...

"And God RAISED us up with Christ and SEATED us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus."

The actions of God in this scripture are past tense! We are seated with God the Father in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus RIGHT NOW! Now some will say, "Oh I know that already, but it's just symbolic." NO! We are called to be child-like! What child would read that verse and say that it is symbolic of something else, and come up with a totally different meaning?! Some others will say, "Now that's just silly! I am quite obviously not in the heavenly realms because I am sitting at my computer on the earth reading this right now." Of course you're on the earth right now, but the Word also tells us that God lives outside of time...

"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2 Peter 3:8

and that He is Spirit...

"God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4:24

So if we read all these scriptures with child-like faith, we see that we are indeed on the earth, right now, inside of time, but we are also seated in heavenly realms, with God, outside of time, in Spirit! 

Okay, that's cool, but what's the point?! There are several points, but I'll just touch on a couple...
1. We don't need to pray toward heaven, we need to pray from it! When we are praying for healing, provision, revelation, or whatever, we need to remember that it is all within our grasp! We are not reaching for straws, trying to scale the enormous stairway to heaven (which is not biblical either, but that's for another blog), or begging of God to move! We have total access to everything in the heavenly realms! "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Ephesians 1:3 Whoa! There it is again! We are in the heavenly realms in Christ, but this time we find that God the Father has blessed us with ... how many spiritual blessings? EVERY spiritual blessing! It's all ours! It has always been all ours! We need to lay siege to our portion, to our inheritance, and walk in the fullness that God says we possess!
2. We can stop focusing on when we get to "go home", and just walk with kingdom mentality right now. After all, we are already there, whether or not we choose to see it. We don't need to live miserable lives with the hope of a better place! We have been given inexpressible and glorious joy (1 Peter 1:8), the peace of God which transcends all understanding (Philippians 4:7), freedom from the yoke of slavery (Galatians 5:1), a new life (Romans 6:4)! Let's bring heaven with us everywhere we go, and give it to everyone we meet, instead of being eager to leave everyone who doesn't know the Truth behind to burn!!! 

Let's receive the Word with child-like faith, realize the access we have to heaven right now, and be a heavenly manifestation for the world to see! 
Run with me church!
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