Becoming God Inside Minded

                                                 

In Leviticus 23:15 God told the Hebrew people to count seven full Sabbaths and one day after the feast of first fruits and celebrate Shavuot with thanksgiving and praise. In Exodus 19:18, God manifested His presence and fire, as He shook the mountain and spoke to His people. Fifteen hundred years later on Shavuot, or Pentecost which is Greek for 50, the church was born. Yet the Jewish people had been celebrating this date for 1500 years. This time God sent His Holy Spirit which sounded like a mighty rushing wind. Instead of speaking to them from a mountain, He came inside them and filled them with His presence and fire and spoke through them (Acts 2). It is God inside of us. In Colossians 1:29 God inside us is described as a mystery "Christ in us the hope of glory".

In Luke 8:27-33, Jesus cast 1000 demons out of a man into 2000 pigs. The 2000 pigs could not contain or handle the 1000 demons and immediately the entire herd ran off a high cliff into the lake below and drowned. What is significant is that the man was able to handle and contain the demons. In Matthew 4:4 Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God." God can speak a billion words per second for the next billion years and we are able to hear and live by every single one! If this wasn't true, He would have never told us to live by every word He speaks. 

These two examples tell us that we have an amazingly gigantic spiritual capacity, which must be acknowledged and developed! We have generally thought God was way out somewhere and it has been tough to get His attention. We must line up with His reality. He is in us! Romans 12:2 tells us to renew our minds to truth, His Word.

We must become God-inside minded! Colossians 2:9 says that the entire Godhead bodily dwells in us. Instead of "feeling" the spirit of God on the outside where the enemy and the sense realm is always attempting to deceive, we must be led by the inside-sensations from and of our spirit man. Romans 8:14 says that those led by His Spirit are sons of God (not led by need or opportunity or feelings). Some translations render it mature ones. 

When The Greater One  is living on the inside of us, there is no reason to ever be desperate for God, fearful, alone, impoverished or a victim. He is with us (1 John 4:4), guiding, protecting, fellowshipping and encouraging us if we are listening and yielding.

I challenge you to look at the New Testament, especially the epistles, with new eyes. See Him in you, not way out somewhere waiting to be summoned. He is in us and we are in Him.

• Colossians 3:3  you are hid in Him
• Acts 17:28  In Him we live, move, have our being
• Ephesians 1:4 we were chosen in Him
• Colossians 2:6 we are to walk in Him
• 1 John 4:13 We know that we live in Him and He in us because He has given us His Spirit.

We don't need a touch from God, we don't have to chase Him. He lives in and with us.

In Romans 8, it says the righteousness which is of faith does not say Lord come down and touch or heal me. Rather it says the Word himself is near me, in my heart and in my mouth, that is the word of faith which we preach. 

As born again Spirit filled, Spirit-led Christians we are inside out people. We must be God inside minded.

Shout:  I am God inside minded, and because He lives in me everything I will ever need is in me. I will yield to and flow with Him! The Kingdom of God and the King Himself is in me, with me and I am walking in the fullness of THE BLESSING now!!