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January 2024

Fullness

Fullness – by responding yes to grace we have received Christ fullness. This is confirmed in the gospel of John 1:16: “For of his fullness have we all received, and grace upon grace.”

What is that fullness? It is what Jesus is in Himself. That is what made Him what He is.

When you received Eternal Life in Christ you received the very thing that makes Jesus what He is. You received of the Father His very Nature; so if you have received into your spirit that which makes God what He is, you are like Him.

This fullness is His power, His love, His kindness, His tenderness, His peace, His faith, and His joy. There is now in you fullness at all times. There is fullness of blessings of every sort and shape. The fullness of abundance for you to receive and explore. A fullness of who Christ is that lives in you. You can say, “I am what He says I am.” He has said that you are His child, and you are what He says you are. (1 John 3:2.)

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Joy

Joy – The life of Christ now alive in you, has been given to you and now your heart is filled with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory. The Holy Spirit has placed the joy of heaven in you. His fruit in you means that you have an abundance of joy and your fruitfulness with burst inside you with Joy. Now by grace the incredible Joy of heaven has been given to you.

Jesus’ joy is made full in us; our joy is made full in Him. This is one of the sweetest, most beautiful things Jesus ever prayed for us. The believer should never allow anything to rob him of his joy. The conquering power of the Church is not just knowledge of the miraculous, but joy. A joyful people of Christ is an attractive people of Christ. A joyful believer is attractive.

Peter says in 1 Peter 1:8, “You love him passionately although you have not seen him, but through believing in him you are saturated with an ecstatic joy, indescribably sublime and immersed in glory.”

In Philippians 4:1, Paul says to them, “My dear and precious friends, whom I deeply love, you have truly become my glorious joy and crown of reward. Now arise in the fullness of your union with our Lord.”

In 2 Corinthians 2:14, “Thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ.”

It is that triumphant, joyful spirit that is now inside our hearts. It is not something we seek and look for; it is not something we wait or expect. It has been given to us, Joy resides in us, and we can draw on it every moment of life.

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New Birth


New Birth – By responding yes to Grace I have been born a completely New Man. I have come out of the womb of God. I am born of God. I am a New Creation created in Christ Jesus. As soon as I am Born Again, Recreated, and became a New Creation, I became indwelt by the great mighty Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead.

This means I have been born out of Adam’s family into God’s family. I am as much a child of the Father as was Jesus during His earth walk. I have the nature of the Father, I have the love that dominated the life of Christ, and I have the wisdom of God in Christ. He is now the strength of my life. He has given to me His own ability. I have a legal right to the use of the Name of Jesus, and all authority in Heaven and on earth is in that Name.

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New Life


New Life – By responding yes to grace, we have become partakers of the Divine Nature, and our past has stopped being, our past is actually dead, as it died and was buried with Christ. We are New Creation people. In the first creation, in the Garden of Eden, it took six days to make the first creation. It took three days and three nights to perfect the New Creation. Everything in that first creation was the work of God. Everything in this New Creation is of God, man had no part in it . . . only that he accepts, receives, and lives in it.

We have been born of God by the Spirit. We have been born into the Family of God. We have received remission of everything that we ever did in our past lives. We have been made New Creations, created in Christ Jesus.

It is our spirit, our real self, the heart of our true self, that has been recreated. We have become a New Spirit, a New Self, a New Creation. This is far beyond forgiveness of sins. This is the complete death of our Old Man inherited from Adam and a New Life of Christ birthed into us from the incorruptible seed of Christ. The Bible declares, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, there is a New Creation, the old things have passed away, Behold, they have become new.” Did you notice that strange word, “Behold”? That is an exclamation of surprise and wonder. New life has happened in us.

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God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense

God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense means that Jesus through his perfect finished work of grace has given to us all things. Everything we need for life and godliness is in Christ and Christ is in us. We have now become partakers of the divine nature.

Grace gives us – new life, new birth, joy, fullness, union, adoption, A new heart, A new spirit, presence, A new nature, righteousness, love, faith, A sound mind, strength, holiness, blessings, power, authority, inheritance, worth, transformation, qualifications, anointing, belonging, acceptance, freedom, peace, security, gratitude, protection, relationship, light, intimacy, healing, wholeness, satisfaction, access, confidence, courage, redemption, boldness, liberty, hope, expectancy, kindness, delight, desire, remission, forgiveness and every promise of God.

Christ came to give us all He is. Not just all He was, but all He now is! Not in the world to come, not in the sweet by-and-by somewhere in the sky but right here, right now.

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