The saying goes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Meaning we are like our parents…and siblings.
The moment we are saved we become grafted into the family line of God. God’s family becomes our family. In that moment our apple holds the seeds of the Spirit. We have been infused with all the seeds well ever need, we only need to allow them to take root. To grow. But first we must allow our original apple to die.
Dying is part of living in God’s kingdom. Not dying in our earthly way, dying to ourselves. Dying to our sin nature. Dying to a life without Him. We come alive in Christ by dying.
I have noticed that a lot of us feel so tethered to our earthly family line that we lose hope that we can change. Many believe nobody can truly change. That’s the worldly sentiment…the demonic sentiment… it’s so obvious that if Christ desires to change us, the enemy’s greatest trick would be making us think we can never change. We think that our family has always been a certain way, so we can’t live otherwise.
These are lies.
Bitter lies from the enemy bent on destroying that seed that God Himself placed within us. But the seed of the Spirit can never die. So the enemy is also bent on convincing us that our “apple” will never die allowing the seed of the Spirit to take root and form inside of us.
Look deeper. Look deeper within your spirit. The place where your spirit converges with Holy Spirit. What do you see?
When we become saved, our spirit comes into complete alignment with the Spirit of God. This is the truth. Look deeper still. What do you see? Yes, we are seated in heavenly places…not after death…now.
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. Ephesians 2:6-7
What does this mean?
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in Me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in My name, and I will do it. John 14:12-14
The greater things. Dying to our old selves and family lines so we can do greater things and glorify the Father. Are you willing to die for this?
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