It’s been some time that I have been walking out a personal infirmity. No doubt, I know that God is healing me, or has healed me.
God took His sweet time with this process, though. Many a time I have wondered why?
When one possesses a land with great difficulty, one never goes back to the sin which caused the infirmity. The time it took was simply too long. The fasting, the prayers, the brokenness, put the fear of God and the horribleness of sin in me.
Fallen human nature does not appreciate what is freely given. When it has to pay for it, it cherishes it all the more. When things are free, you can take or leave them.
Someone said, “Grace is free but not cheap. “ Possession of our souls, is free, in that God has saved us. He does not make it easy though, so that we fear falling back into sin.
After battling long and hard with the infirmity, I know that I have been healed. Yet, I feel the pain of it, and the attack of the enemy with pain.
I am convinced that behind most infirmities there are demons.
Yesterday, I lay in bed saying, “OK God, I feel healed but still combat the pain and the demons.”
God replied, “Your mind still lives in the atmosphere, and the culture of earth. “
Heaven has an atmosphere, and a culture. We see it all the time in Ezekiel and Revelations.
An atmosphere: The pervading or surrounding tone, influence or mood of a place which is put out by the culture of that place.
Environment That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms and things are influenced and modified in their growth and development within that environment or place.
A culture is behavior, activities, values and beliefs which are reinforced by the members, and things within a place.
Paul calls this atmosphere and culture, heavenly places, or living in, or Inside of Christ. God has blessed us, past tense, with all spiritual blessings, in heavenly, but not earthly places.
In, or Inside of Christ, do all things exist perfectly created, not outside of Him.
It’s in heaven’s environment, with its own set of laws that healing manifests. There are no sicknesses in heaven. In earthly places there are. Earth’s base atmosphere allows demons to attack. The atmosphere of heaven will not, since demons live far below .
In my quiet time, it dawned on me how many things does God long to birth in heaven’s atmosphere and surrounding culture.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Complete/ perfect passive tense: Filled full with all that God is, owns, and wants to do and existing now and forevermore in that dimension.
We must see ourselves as complete. The warfare that we wage in flesh and spirit will battle and tells us otherwise. This is our great conflict, guaranteed. Because faith is a law, we obtain in proportion to seeing ourselves complete or incomplete. Has the work been completely done in you, or did Christ forget something? When you see yourself complete, you will experience complete salvation, as much as can be attained on this side of eternity.
If we still live in earthly places and in the old identity, God cannot birth. Birthing is the product of something new. The new only comes when the cycle of the old is complete. We must be done with who we were, and where we live, so that the birthing commensurate with the laws and customs of the new place can ensue.
Birthing occurs effortlessly. It just happens . You do nothing but receive it. If you are done with your cycle of old identity, old places, and old cultures, expect for new things to be quickly birthed in you. Oh yes, don’t forget to be thankful to God. This is a huge part of the new culture.
Re 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to be (birthed)and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
It’s the necessity of the case or binding (In God’s mind) that these things be birthed in swiftness or quickly.
Re 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be (birthed) hereafter;
The things which are about to be birthed
Re 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be (birthed)hereafter.
Up step here, and I will show you what things are binding and necessary to be birthed after these things.
Re 4:2 And immediately I was (birthed)in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
And immediately I in myself came to exist within spirit (or: in myself I came to be or: I birthed myself within [the] Spirit), and behold! A throne being laid down and lying within the heaven, and upon the throne [was] One continuously sitting. Jonathan Mitchell New Testament Version
Re 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is (birthed) salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
At this very moment, just now, is birthed…
Re 21:6 And he said unto me, It is has been (birthed) ( perfect active indicative) I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end (The origin and the completion or consummation of all things). I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely (lavishly and extravagantly).
Re 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be (birthed).
It’s the necessity of the case or binding (In God’s mind) that these things be birthed in swiftness or quickly.
Jose and Mary Alvarez 