When We Look In The Mirror,

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For foundational knowledge on this blast, please read the following:
We Cannot Change God's Plan
It's Already Done
In His Image, After His Kind, Enter His Rest

Romans 8:29-30 tells us we were predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus. Think about what that means! He also said He would call us and if we came He would justify us, make us righteous, no matter what we were before the call! Yes, no matter how caught up in the world we once were or how far off we were from His will and Kingdom we would still be justified! We may have been a very ambitious one that pushed and worked very hard to build our own personal lifestyle, but … when He called, all our efforts can fall apart. The good part of being predestined is, if we answer the call of God, what we did in our own strength falls apart and a brand new life in Him begins! At that moment the thing He called us to be starts to manifest, that is, if it is our will to walk in His.

How can this be? The Word tells us God, the greatest architect ever, had all things planned or blueprinted before they were actually brought into being or created. Through His perfectly calculated formulas all creation, the whole universe, was created and has manifested each in their own time. All was predestined! In other words, that means you and I were created perfectly before the earth was ever formed! Then the Word tells us He rested. So where is the perfection, the restoration we all desperately are seeking? Is it not in His rest? So scripture tells us His rest can only be entered by those of us that can give up who we wanted to be so we can manifest into who He predestined us to be! In other words, as we enter into His rest we enter His original plan and begin to manifest His will for us before time began.

After all this time we may wonder, does God remember what He created us to be and even what we looked like?

Of course He does, He knows every hair on our heads according to Luke 12:7 and remember, Romans 8 told us we were predestined to be made into the image of His Son who was Himself in the image of His Father.

Do you understand what that means for us? We too that have been conformed to Christ's image are also in Father's image!

Our spirit and soul is shaped to the image of God, our bodies are to be conformed to the image of the Christ that dwelled on earth.

So understand who we are and that what we do was predestined and is not at all depending on our works, it was Father's plan. All we need to contribute is our obedience.

In other words, our work and lifestyle within the Kingdom is not according to our desires and agendas. It is according to God's purpose, our obedience, and predestined ability plus His anointing to accomplish our job for Him successfully. All of this is by His grace. So again, it is He that gifts us with the ability to do the job He asks us to do.

God's conversation with Jeremiah shows us an example.

Jeremiah couldn't study hard enough or put out enough effort on his part to become a prophet, God had already set him aside, prepared a time, cleaned him up and made him one. All it took on his part was to be obedient to his call! You see, we all have a free will and many do not answer when He calls, too busy with their own thing. Scripture says many are called, but few are chosen. Why? Because they couldn't stop fulfilling their own plans to fulfill His! Now let us look at Amos. He was a simple sheep herder, but God called him to be a very prominent prophet, one created to speak against his own people!

Sometimes our call is just plain not easy, takes real courage! Let us read from Amos.

As we can plainly see, being obedient to our call can certainly take great courage!

Speaking of courage, look at the courage of Jesus! He knew who He was predestined to be and what was expected of Him. He clearly understood God's plan for Him!

Imagine, living your whole life knowing you were going to die that horrific death! Talk about courage, fortitude! Is this not also love beyond comprehension?

So what is predestination exactly?

Now let us read from Ephesians.

It is the Father's good will that we be happy, sin free children, healthy, full of life as created by Him. That is our destiny if we answer His call, choose His knowledge, eat it, swallow and become it. We will manifest in the image of Christ, the Word, and happily let go of the knowledge of the world. We understand it is the warped knowledge of the evil one that challenged the Word in the first place and came against the knowledge of God!

Satan thought he knew as much or even more than the sovereign God that created him! Since Father didn't design him with the ability to create either he needed man to work through as they were created in God's image, in the image of Father. This is why he beguiled Eve into tasting of his knowledge. He knew if they disobeyed God would put them out of the Kingdom and he could start things rolling for him to build his own world, design his own systems and fulfill his plans. Unknowingly Eve became the mother of a whole species of mankind that are just as rebellious and are still fulfilling Satan's plans today. As we know however, Father had a plan also and it was formed way before Satan or anything else for that matter was ever created!

Again, because of Adam and Eve's compliance with the enemy, each and every one of us were born into this fantasy world created through mankind and Satan's knowledge. Everything we did from childhood on was done in his world and therefore tainted by his twisted thinking. The things mankind is still doing today many times reflect Satan's nature as he, without us understanding who he is, was our teacher, our mentor. We groped around in spiritual darkness thinking we were simply living life the way we chose when all the time we were fulfilling the plan of God's enemy! Many, caught up in this Satan-constructed vortex known as the world with its evil systems, committed terrible crimes, did immoral, unthinkable things and may have later wondered why they even did them! Little did they know they were urged by this evil creature through his warped knowledge. Evil mindsets, filthy traits, coarse language, immodesty, perversion of all kinds were a part of their everyday existence. They didn't know any better! Unfortunately the false doctrines and lies concerning God's knowledge taught through Satan's different religions were the guideposts for many that were truly searching for God.

Then there are those that were the victims of this evil realm. People that were raped, marred mentally by participation in wars, those that were cheated through the world's shrewd business practices and lied to, on and on. All of the above came from one evil source! Drawn into Satan's plan, some actually grew to love this wicked world and have made their decision to not change even when God does call them. These will sadly be given up to a reprobate mind, but … those that come to Him, those that hear the call and answer, are welcomed into His family and a whole new life begins! Our past life, before the call to our predestined place in God, was shrouded by the darkness of Satan's mind. Our now however, our future, is clothed in the Light of God's Word! Oh yes, we can see this evil world, but at the same time we know it will not last forever. Father will soon say “enough is enough”! Our new life is thankfully protected, our spirit and soul are daily being taught from God's unseen mountain and city, Mount Sion and New Jerusalem! It is all a part of God's plan!

This is such good news, especially for those freshly delivered from Satan's world, a most beautiful promise! Satan's vortex or fantasy world is absolutely promised by God to not be allowed forever!

It is important we understand that God is not interested in Satan's vortex nor is He any part of this world! He will not fix it no matter how hard we pray, He will destroy it! Trying to make Satan's world a better place to live in is a total waste of time and effort. It is all just Satan's dream world and he is the god of it. So all that is in it is also the manifestation of his prideful plan and selfish purpose. So the things that befall us in this world, before we answer God's call, are all Satan's fault, a part of his plan, yet many times God gets the blame! Family members may die in the vortex, ones that wouldn't answer His call to come out. Others have been killed in the vortex that identified with Satan's society and were involved with the world's evil that were loved ones. Not God's intention or His fault. We did so many things at the enemy's beckoning that destroyed our bodies, ruined our minds, ended marriages and relationships etc. and God was blamed for not helping us! Even after the call of God is answered and we are baptized and filled with the Spirit, many ignorantly still hold God responsible for what the enemy did to them or perhaps caused them to do to themselves while in the world.

Unfortunately these physically experienced situations can be more real to our carnal man than the promises of God. The pain from playing sports for instance is easier to identify with than the scriptural fact “by the stripes of Jesus we are healed”. Scripture is law! The world's knowledge will try to ruin our faith in God and hinder us from believing His promises thus bringing us defeat!

Remember, the enemy is a shrewd puppeteer that uses the world's people as his puppets quite expertly. Understand, those highly trained in his knowledge will ruin our faith in God's Word and even pull us back into his world. You can see why we must circumcise ourselves from the world and its highly educated people if we want to experience restoration. You see, those filled with the world's knowledge will unknowingly have the wrong perspective, warped reactions, bad advice for us though unintentionally straight from the mind of Satan! God's people in leadership positions on the other hand ask the Lord to put His words in their mouth and His Wisdom in their hearts.

Who is better equipped to give good advice? Satan and the world, or God's leaders predestined for their position and chosen for His Kingdom? To add to that, God Himself backs the counsel of vessels He leads through. They are a part of His plan for this time.

First Corinthians tells us God's opinion of the world's knowledge.

Okay, so God is not a part of the world's people or their knowledge. In fact, we are beginning to see He is not of this world, it's all Satan's. God loves His creation and in His timing calls us out of the world, we each have a chance. Even in the most remote areas of the earth the truth can reach His people on the wind. They will somehow just know God, feel His presence and not have a clue as to why. God says, prophesy to the wind and we do, believing, knowing there are those that will hear and be attracted. We also know the Lord will watch over His Word to perform it if they are interested, and see to it that they are fed even more. In other words, God despises Satan's world, but He loves His creation caught up in it!

Thankfully all creation will be set free as the Lord's children begin to appear on the planet.

These will be ones that are the manifestation of the knowledge of God. Knowledge gleaned from all the moves of God over the 7000 years from the garden to the year 2000 AD, plus they eagerly receive the new revelation and insight God has preserved for this end time, the eighth day. This knowledge will bring all of those that love it and are shaped by it back into sync with the universe as in the beginning.

This is God's promise to all those conformed to the image of His Son!

So in closing, if we want to be ones set aside for the Master's work, ones that will be here when the evil is removed to build the new heaven and new earth then we must allow Him to mold us into the image of Christ. We must see ourselves through the eyes of our Creator. Is our spirit manifesting the fruit of His Spirit?

Does the desires of our soul man reflect the world or the Kingdom of God?

Is our body dressed in trendy clothes following Satan's plan to disqualify us at the final harvest?

Who do we use our spirit, soul and body to serve? Self or God's Kingdom? When we look in the mirror, who do we see?

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