Being1inChrist

I grew up in a family where God was not spoken of much. I went to an Easter service once, when I was very young, around 7 or 8 years old, with an uncle. I remember walking into the building and into what they call the “sanctuary” and feeling scared. Up on the wall behind the “altar,” was a picture of some men dressed in robes and hanging all over another man in the middle. They all looked effeminate and very white. I only went there for the food because I was told there would be lots of good things to eat. When I got home I told my Dad about it and asked him “Who is God?” He told me there was no such thing as God and that God was for weak people who couldn’t handle their own lives. My Mom believed in a god and had a picture for awhile of “Jesus” on the wall until my Dad broke it. The wisdom of men in our home was god was for weak people and we knew what Jesus looked like because we had a picture of him. Then in my teens, I went to another religous service of about 10 or 15 people at most. These people told me that God was angry at me because of my sin and that if I didn’t do a sinner’s prayer I would go to hell, a place where bad people go to be tormented in a flame of fire for all of eternity. So, hey I wasn’t stupid, I confessed I was a bad person and got saved. I can go on and on about different religous meetings I was driven to throughout the many proceeding years, and all the different slants on the truth of Who God was and Who Jesus was.

From about 16 years old until I was in my early forties I was driven by the Spirit to read and study different Christian doctrines all claiming to be the truth. Everyone had the truth and everyone was right. There were countless different denominations. And there were splits and denominations within denominations. There were divisions between people in the same denomination all the way down to divisions in the people who gathered together under the same roof. There were endless doctrinal divisions from what bible to read, how to be baptized, the Lord’s supper, how to pray, how to be saved, who is saved, who is not, etc etc. No denomination had unity. There wasn’t unity even within the same gathering. It was a given that everyone had their own ideas based on their own thoughts because everyone believes that everyone has the “God given right” to believe what they believe based on their own free will. Here in the sleepy little community we live there are at least 50 churches. Two of them are directly across the street from each other. There are divisions on every corner and in every corner of every building that is titled a church. As of this writing, there are approximately 45,000 different denominations that say they believe in the same man called Jesus. This reality of division isn’t just in what’s called Christianity but it’s in all religions around the world. This is a result of man’s belief in a free will. Whether religous or secular, all believe they have free will and are their own gods. All believe in their hearts that they are the god of their life, making their free choices and directing their lives based on these choices they’ve made by sorting through a litany of competing ideas and information. To the beastly mind, nothing can bind it. It moves about where it wills and rules itself so it has been given over to believe. Until we are converted, and Christ begins to rule and reign within us, our world lies in darkness, and we live among the dead because we have been given over to the idea that we are directing our own life. Myriads of spirits (ideas/beliefs/thoughts/opinions) are running amok throughout our world. This is described in the parable of the man on the island of the Gadarenes:

“And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes (which means “reward at the end”). And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:  Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.  And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.  But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.”

All of what I have just explained outwardly about denominations of division is happening inside of a believer because inside of a believer is the old man, called a Dragon in scripture, who slithers through him from one place to another with thousands of different thoughts that claim to be the truth – not just thoughts about religion but ALL thoughts. We are the man on the island of the Gadarenes. There is a world inside of us created by God that is filled with unconverted heathen (thoughts) that worship countless false gods and this world within is ruled over by the Satanic doctrine that claims “I am the god of this place.” He sits in the temple of our mind claiming to be equal with God. As an Elect of God, once you are converted, you will spend the rest of your life fighting against these powers and principalities – the legion of false kings all vying for preeminence in your little fiefdom. This is the revealing and subsequent toppling of the man of sin that Paul talks about. It MUST happen before the end can come. Before we are converted, we are the man on the island of Gadarenes, but once Christ takes up His position on the throne, toppling the man of sin, then we witness the truth that “the Kingdoms of this world (our world within) have become the kingdoms of Our Lord and of His Christ and (we know) He shall reign forever.” This is the gospel of us being crucified daily. Like the man from Gadarene, we are told that we must go back to our “home” within and fight the daily battle to remind ourselves of the false doctrine Christ has freed us from – that we are the god of our world. All of the Elect must be brought into the submission of Christ being Lord of our world. Though nearly all of scripture reads like “one and done” events, the truth is nearly all scripture is written in a Qal or aorist tense which means all things are happening over time, and coming into being. God sees everything outside of time so for Him it is one and done as He knows the end from the beginning. But we are being recreated by Him and this is a process that is played out in our time on this earth.

The Apostle Paul said he died “DAILY.” If he had been perfected then what was he dying to? If he was perfected already then why did he need a “thorn in the flesh” a “messanger of Satan” to buffet him? “…lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations.” He was given to wrestle with something so that he was not exalted in his flesh. We all have thorns in the flesh that God has created and uses for molding us into the image of Christ. The wisdom of men lures us into saying we have attained and we do not need to wrestle with anything. But scripture says we are not yet reigning:

“Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.”

The Corinthians were believing they had attained already and failing to recognize the wrestling that was required to rule and reign. The fight within us against our everyday thoughts is strong and constantly leaves our flesh feeling foolish. Last week we gave personal examples of building our cow feeder and growing grass. We told these little stories to show the seeming silliness of the flesh’s struggles. Some may think they’re inconsequential but if you’re fighting the Dragon within you then you understand that every previously taken-for-granted seemingly nothing thought becomes a struggle between the Truth and a lie. And these two small examples really only scratch the surface of the struggle because as scripture says, we must bring EVERY thought into submission to Christ. Stop for just a moment and consider how many thoughts go through your mind in one day, one hour! When Christ takes over the throne of your mind, every thought will be judged in the light of Truth and separated like sheep from goats. And it’s this process that kills the old man a little more every day. The beast that rises from the sea of humanity in me is a beast that dedicates every minute of every day to himself so much so he creates an image of himself called the man of sin. And unless your man of sin has been revealed to you, you’ll find these struggles laughable because you believe you’ve attained already. Every thought must be brought into subjection to Christ’s authority so every thought is a struggle. Stop and think about what this verse is saying don’t gloss over it….”every thought” has to be brought into obedience to Christ. Every thought has to be scrutinized and examined as to where it is coming from.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

This is the simplicity of the gospel and the wisdom of God. There’s no special prayer, no magic spell, no special ceremony that will make us overcome the flesh in a one and done. When we deny the flesh its “rights” then we are walking in the Spirit. It is Christ in us that makes this happen. Left to our own, the beast nature cannot ever deny itself. Every morning we pray that God’s will be done and that we see Him in all things. Yet throughout every day we forget Him and go about doing what the flesh desires at any given moment. But even in the seeming failures, the kingdom of Christ within us grows ever stronger. We have to remain in faith that Christ is the Author and Finisher of our faith, not us, and we know He does not fail. So we take our chastisements knowing that without chastisement we would be bastards and not sons. When we are walking in the spirit of Christ, knowing that He is one with the Father (which makes US one with the Father) then the fight gets easier with every battle. You will begin to see real changes in your life. Changes in your heart. Changes that you know with certainty you could not and did not achieve but it is the power of Christ within you. Your desires will change. And where we are not walking in the spirit, this too will be conquered because “he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” and we “…Press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” Notice scripture uses the word “mind” because this is where the battle is waged.  

In my previously darkened, worldly Christian view, Christ was served on Sunday, (which is the first day of the week, not The Sun god day, from which the name is derived) and the rest of the week was mine. I went to the building every first day of the week, stamped my card, praised the speaker for such a powerful message, went to the “linger longer” and ate some homemade food and then off to wherever my flesh desired. Then, because I am an Elect, God began creating some big problems in the life I called mine. He began chipping away at my flesh. Recreating my world through trials, through earthquakes and floods that shook my world to its core. Then once He laid the foundation He began to work on the more subtle things that are deep within my earth’s core. And that is where we are today. The gross outward fleshly things of the flesh have been conquered. Now the hidden things in me must be driven out to expose them. The great temptations and wonders that I have seen, that the great stretched out arm of the Lord used to bring me out of my spiritual Egypt, will be used to uncover the hidden things in me.

“The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.”

We are now to the simplicity of the gospel. Every thought, which is a Canaanite, Hivite, an Amorite that is secretly holding on to itself, will be driven out by a hornet, a stinging truth that will expose it and crucify it. This is bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ. It doesn’t matter where you live, how you were raised, how poor or rich you are in the flesh. If you are an Elect of God then you will be made into the image of Christ where every word, every thought, every action will be to the glory of God, consciously.

“Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. As he spake these words, many believed on him.”

“When you”….have lifted up the Son of man…..”Then shall you know”…That Christ is The “I Am” of every minute of your life and that you do nothing of yourself! When I am given to see my man of sin as the one who has crucified Christ as being my Creator, THEN you shall know that your life was a creation of Christ and that you did not create anything, good or evil. Then and ONLY THEN, can you speak what has been taught to you by God. I crucified The Son of God by claiming my worth or worthlessness upon myself. To preach Christ crucified is to understand that out of anyone ever created, Christ had the rights to claim His own goodness, but would not, “why call me good? there is none good but God.” He actually had rights as the only begotten Son of God, as the True Creator of all this is seen and unseen. But even though He had all these rights He still laid all His life, thought, word and deed, at the feet of His Father’s power. “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” He claimed nothing as His own. He had the power to do anything He wanted but denied that power of self to be one with His Creator, unto the death of His flesh. He had the power over death but did not claim that to save His own flesh. “He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.” That’s the message. Christ could have saved Himself but He didn’t. He gave up His rights and died for those who could not do what He did. This is the message of Christ crucified, unto the Jew a stumblingbock and the Greek foolishness. Flesh claims to be the creator of its good and evil in its life, not Christ. Flesh is all about coming off the cross, saving its own life, saving itself. Yet, this is the path to death! This is the stumblingblock and the foolishness of the message of the truth. Claim your life as a free will being over your good and evil and lose it all. Claim nothing as yours, good or evil, and gain Christ, which is everything. It’s an unthinkable and impossible message to the flesh.

“For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.“

To the religous Jew in me this is a stumbling block because I want to establish/claim my own good works based on a law. I am a whited sepulchre. I look good on the outside but inside am a ravening wolf and don’t even know it. This is the truth of all flesh. The Jew in me loves law because he still thinks he can attain his own righteousness through law. The Jew within me hates Christ and is jealous of Christ because Christ sets the bar too high for the flesh. He obliterates my righeousness by revealing my heart, the truth behind all my good works – self glorification. “There is none righteous, no not one.” Christ himself even asked “Why do you call me good? There is none good but God.” EVEN CHRIST would not claim His own righteousness. The Jew in me is appalled at such a doctrine because it says I cannot ever be a child of God through the good works I desperately wish to claim as my own. To the Greek in me this is foolishness because he believes in intellect. The Greek within me mocks the idea that God has actually used His own Wisdom to make me believe I’m wise and then blinded me with my intellect. He mocks the truth that his intellect is worthless rubbish next to the truth of Christ. The Greek in me is appalled because this doctrine says I must crucify my intellect, in other words, the myth that all the data in my head is contributing one iota to the preservation of my life, and leaves me at the mercy of what I see as chance and not my own wisdom. Faith in Christ destroys these two versions of false doctrine but not without a fight.

“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”

The wisdom of God was manifested in The Son of man because as a man in the flesh He lived His life as a sacrifice of self unto His Father, a sacrifice unto every thought. He never claimed a thought as His own. The Elect of God are known of God even when they do not know Him. He has clothed us even though, again, we didn’t know Him, as the above verse from Isaiah said. We walk through life every day struggling between the flesh and spirit. My flesh urges me to do something for my flesh and the spirit urges me to submit every thought to God. One is for the flesh and the desires of the flesh, good or evil and the other for the spirit where it is always for the good of another, not my flesh. I either take enjoyment out of giving to Christ or I take enjoyment in giving to my flesh. This is where the dying to self daily comes in and the crucifying of myself comes in.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

“I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”

This is where I learn to do all things without murmuring and complaining, because I know that it is God within me creating a will in me to do His good pleasure.

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

The daily challenge is to fight the urge of the flesh to do its will and good pleasure. But as the sons of God, Christ is doing exactly that, creating a will in us to see Him as all things and to glorify God for all things. This is what God told Moses. “I AM, that I Am.” There is only ONE I AM and it’s not me. There is only God and He is everything. This is a stumbling block to my religous man because he does not submit to the truth that God made him a beast and that it was God Who made Him with a serpent in him. It is foolishness to the Greek in me because it says that it was my own wisdom that has made me or broken me. It is foolishness to my flesh to believe God is interested in even the minutest detail of life…what I wear, where I go, what I eat, who I associate with, when to talk, when not to talk, and each and every one of my thoughts. We cannot escape His Sovereignty. We must learn that everything has a season.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”

Each season is a season planned by God, not me. And all of it is inward, inside me, in the world God has created in me, the world God so loved that He gave His only begotten Son for it. A man must be born again to see that he is a world and not in a world. The spirit of God blows me where He desires I go. It is not my planning or my intellect or my works.

“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man (a world) be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (is within himself). Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit….For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

The word world is “Kosmos” G2889 and means “orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]): – adorning, world“. Did I “decorate” my world or “arrange” my world or did God? Did I morally create what I am today or did God? Your answer within yourself is the revealing of who you are and will be. If Christ is The Creator of your world and you see Genesis one and two as your daily creation by God then you are a Son of God. If you confess that you thought you were your own world’s creator, then your man of sin has been exposed and you are on your way to crucfying him. If you believe it was your own freewill choices that created who and what you are then you are spiritually dead and in the place of the unknown. There is a great chasm between you and the truth and your rich man cannot be with the beggar Lazarus, (who did not own or possess anything), in Abraham’s bosom. I do not want to claim anything as mine, good or bad. Our world should be adorned and decorated by The Creator not ourselves. There is no condemnation to those who believe Christ is their image, the Son of man, their man.

“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”

Flesh loves flesh. Flesh loves darkness. Darkness hides the truth that we are beasts with hearts of stone. The Light exposes everything and my flesh hates that exposure as much as looking into a magnifying mirror where every wrinkle, freckle, scar, hair and blackhead is exposed. Flesh loves the darkness, which is the lie that it’s its own god. But the Spirit rejoices in the Truth. The Elect come to The Light, the Truth. Why? Because Christ is in them and He rejoices in the Truth that our deeds ARE WROUGHT IN GOD through Him. Everything was a working of Christ that has planned my life and I lay no claim to it. Our life is a “work, a wrought” of God by Christ, for Christ and all for the glory of God. Who IS The All in all of us. By Him we live and move and have our being. He IS THE I AM, THAT I AM. Come to The Light and see all your works were a work of God creating you into the Image of Christ. Look at the Serpent on the pole and be healed. See yourself as The Serpent that imagined himself as a god independent and separate from The God and be healed of its bite. The alternative is to stay in darkness and die in unbelief. See every day as an opportunity to be healed and you grow more into the image of Christ, healed from the serpent’s poison of free will. This is the simplicity of the gospel. Die to self, live unto God. Sacrifice your godhood and be made into the image of Christ Who gave Himself for the life of your world that He created. Sacrifice it all now and get abundantly more in the future.

“Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, (your world) for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”

This is the wisdom of God that seems so foolish to our flesh. It seems like suicide to my flesh. But that is exactly the point. What seems so foolish to my flesh is the wisdom of God. My flesh cannot comprehend denying its own life for something it cannot physically see or touch. It comes down to who do we want to be the wise masterbuilder of our world? Christ or myself? Is Christ The Wise Carpenter or am I? The wisdom of God is the foolishness of the cross, where we are crucified, and is wiser than anything we ever thought we had created.

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

This gospel of the kingdom of God must be preached in all your world for a witness, then the end will come in your world. In all areas where you have claimed freedom from a power outside yourself.

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

When all our world has been preached to, then the end of the flesh ruling us will come, it’s power will be broken and hung upon the cross as a thief. The end of our world and the reigning of a new world where Christ sits as King of kings and Lord of lords of it. But, until then, we need patience to endure the fight.

“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”

It will take patience to continue in faith and not turn again to works of righteousness based on my own free will. I fight to the end because He that has begun a good work in me continues to work in me a will to fight. It is not me but Christ in me. The faith of Christ is moving mountains and parting waters within our earth. Healing the sick, the blind, casting out devils and raising the dead. Every thought is brought into obedience to Christ as the power and as its Creator. Christ is the force that is burning my world up and at the same time creating a new world. I am seeing a new world descending from my heavens arrayed in white, holy and pure because it is the truth that Christ is King.

“And I saw (am seeing) a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away (passing away); and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. “

To be an overcomer I must submit to Christ as my sole Creator and overcome the thoughts of self creation. I created nothing, nor am I creating anything. God is The All in all of me. God is The I AM that has made me what I am. When I am crucified with Christ then I will know I am what Christ created me to be and that I did nothing of myself. The Father has always been with me and has not left me alone. I have always done what has pleased Him.

“Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”