A renewed mind operates and executes according to GOD’S Almighty Power!
Paul emphasizes that we are one with Christ.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Colossians chapter 3:
1 Christ’s resurrection is your resurrection too. This is why we are to yearn for all that is above, for that’s where Christ sits enthroned at the place of all power, honor, and authority!
2 Yes, feast on all the Treasures of the Heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with Heavenly realities, and not with the distractions of the natural realm.
3 Your crucifixion with Christ has severed the tie to this life, and now your true life is hidden away in God in Christ.
4 And as Christ Himself is seen for Who He really is, who you really are will also be revealed, for you are now one with Him in His glory!
Can you grasp this reality? We are to fill our thoughts with Heavenly realities rather than worldly distractions. We must understand that we too were crucified with Christ which has severed our ties with the old life. We have a true life hidden away in Heaven above. We are to walk in all power and authority in Christ.
To feast means to eat a large, rich, and enjoyable meal, often in celebration or with a group. We are to celebrate the Treasures of the Heavenly Realm! We must allow these verses to come alive in us, spirit, soul, and body.
The Beloved Disciple recorded by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 3:
1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
We are to be teachers AND doers of the Word. Nicodemus noted this Truth when he spoke to Jesus. Doing the Word confirms the Word to be Truth. Our culture is accustomed to teaching without doing. Our culture is accustomed to embracing lofty ideals with no change in how we behave.
You can go to school and be taught a business class by a teacher who has never owned a business. We don’t always require performance equal to what we say.
The Bible approach to training and education is quite different from that. It is learning through experience. Would you listen to anybody’s teaching about being born again who wasn’t born again?
In verse 3, Jesus revealed that conversion gives you the capacity to see.
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Born of water is natural birth, the water breaks.
Revealed Truth is the platform for greater Truth.
Jesus continued:
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Jesus used earthly examples to reveal the Spiritual. He used parables to reveal the Spiritual for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see. As we renew our minds, our spiritual eyesight will improve and will provide us with the platform to receive and embrace greater Truths. As we embrace the greater Truths which are Heavenly treasures, we will enjoy a magnificent feast!
Whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in Heaven. You cannot bind on earth if you do not know how Heaven operates and what is allowed versus what is totally unacceptable.
We are to bind those things that cause death, loss, and destruction for the adversary came to kill, steal, and destroy. GOD has given us a contract of authority that is binding on the devil. In order to exercise that contract, we must know what it says. A transformed mind understands how to execute and bind the enemy.
Whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in Heaven. If we don’t have the insight to know what to release into a given situation, Heaven’s solution will not manifest itself.
If you want to live an ascended life, you’ll think there and have a Heavenly perspective. All things are possible to those who believe.