20/08/2024
Inspiration for Today
20th August 2024
You Are A Partakers Of God’s Divine Nature
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:4; KJV)
According to the law of reproduction all living objects reproduce after their own kind or their own nature. For example, when dogs reproduce, they bring forth dogs; when cows reproduce, they bring forth cows; when fishes reproduce, they bring forth fish; when humans reproduce, they bring forth humans; and hence when God reproduces, He brings forth after His own nature. In Psalms 82:6, God said: I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. If you are born-again, then you are an offspring of God and hence share in His nature. For example, for Jesus to come into this world and function as a man, He had to take on the likeness of man, having flesh and blood, just like Mary who gave birth to Him. In Hebrews 2:14 the bible says: Because God's children are human beings-made of flesh and blood-the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. However, before Jesus became human, He existed as the Word of God. In John 1:1 the bible says: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In John 1:14 the bible further says: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. The Word was God and that Word which was God also became human by allowing Himself to be conceived and given birth to by a human being.
In the same way, because you were born again by the Word of God, you share the nature of God because the Word of God is God Himself. In 1 Peter 1:23, the bible says: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. You are a partaker of God’s nature and hence all the fullness of God are at your disposal. To make this a tangible reality, God gave us many promises that will enable us to experience that divine life while still here on earth. For example, in Mark 16:18 Jesus promised: They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. It takes a man of the spirit to drink poison and not be harmed; if a natural man drank poison, he would be hurt, if it doesn’t result in outright death. If you believe these promises and begin to practice them in your everyday live, you will begin to function like a spirit. That is the kind of life God wants you to live in this world so that you can teach Principalities and Powers the manifold wisdom of God. In Ephesians 3:10 apostle Paul said: His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. God wants to use you to display His wisdom by demonstrating how a Christian can simultaneously operate both as a human being and also as divine being in this world. In other words, God wants believers to operate in two worlds at the same time. You have been called to function in the both the physical and the spirit worlds at the same time. Beloved, if you develop yourself to simultaneously function in the two realms, nothing in this material world can take you by surprise. Since you have the nature of God, you are encouraged to work at developing yourself to function simultaneously in the two realms as Jesus did when He walked on the shores of this world. Shalom!
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for reminding me that I am a partaker of your divine nature. I declare that, all forces of darkness are subject to me just as they were subject to Jesus. I win always, in Jesus’ name. Amen.