You Are the Wealth of Nations.

       To speak a thing is to somehow give consent, license and acknowledgment to a substance that has beckoned to take up residence in your members.  This is the power of life and death that the tongue possesses.   To speak is to name and to provide a framework and method of transmission to something that beforehand although real, was only contained to the realm of the evidence of things unseen (Hebrews 1:1).  There is faith on both ends of the equation.  It is through faith that things are created, by the naming of such things.  When Adam named the animals in Genesis, he was actually exercising faith through the manifest creative light of God flowing through him.  It was his inheritance and birthright, and at this point in the unfolding of humanity, this was the only reality Adam had been exposed to:  Divine union with his creator, and being in a state of no separation, there were no limits to his creative expression.  So thus Adam named the animals (Genesis 2:19), and assigning to each a nature imparted through the sovereign power given to him through The Father.   

                We have the creative light of eternity pouring through us (Ecclesiastes 3:11).  From this position, whether or not we are aware, we are participating in the creation and shaping of our perceived reality through our speaking.  Affirmative statements can agree and stand in the truth of who we are.  Indeed, we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free, as John 8:32 states.  It is coming into agreement with truth that manifests through the active measure of faith in us, catapulting us into humility and the momentum of our true identity.  Yes, I said humility, although by worldly standards, true humility may have an appearance of arrogance.  Think about it—walking around stating that you are the same as your creator, you are one with omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, light and most importantly love, may offend a few people.  But this is the nature of who you are to the core.  I suggest you try it.  Just as God presented Jesus to the world and said, “this is my beloved son in who I am well pleased,” (Matt. 3:17), The Father holds you in the same esteem.  If this wasn’t the case, why would Jesus give us the mandate that we would do even greater works? (John 14:12)  Having this as your paradigm completely changes reality.  You are now free to be okay with thinking that you are an awesome person, and you no longer have to agree that you somehow have a debt to pay.  True humility in this light, is agreeing with what you know to be true.  To speak any less of yourself is prideful, and is nothing more than an attempt to attach a nature to yourself and others for which you were not designed. 

                In the naming of things, we can speak affirmation to what we know in truth, and thus life flows from us abundantly because we understand our union in eternity with Jesus Christ.  These words of life are never accusatory, and will encourage, build up, celebrate individuality and launch people into the boldness of their destiny.  Where life is more life abounds.  On the other side of the coin, where there is accusation, belittling, where there is more emphasis placed on being “right” than there is on truly hearing a person, where the individual is not celebrated and the direction of a group is deemed more important---in all of this there is death.

                To give access to something that did not have a root of origin inside yourself, a stray thought or word, etc, is to speak into reality something that does not have any life of its.  Jesus teaches that the Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you, it is not merely observed (Luke 17:20-21), meaning that anything coming from the outside in does not have original residence with you and thus asks for your consent to empower it.  This is why Satan is always referred to as the accuser.   When an accusation is made, it comes from outside of the person.  The person is now in the place of accepting or rejecting the accusation.  If the person accepts, now this lie, the entity of separation, has been given access and can use you as conduit to further propagate the lie through all kinds of gross manifestations.  These kind of words are manipulators, hijackers and parasites that leech off of your value!  A lie has no value of its own, no life of its own, that’s why it has to use fear and intimidation to scare you into agreement.  To me this brings a new element to when the Apostle Paul encourages us to rejoice in times of trouble and contradiction.  For if we are in the midst of lies and contradiction, we can flip the coin on its head and understand that this stuff is only coming against us because WE ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY VALUEABLE. 

                Humanity, every human being, you and I, we are the most wealthy beings in existence and are the only ones who have been divinely infused with the authority to wield the power of and steward the creative light of God.  But POWER IS NEVER THE POINT (Please read I Corinthians 13 for more on this).  LOVE IS THE POINT, and ironically the love is the source of power.  If any manifestation is not rooted in love or informed from this source and perspective, then the power must be derived from somewhere else.  All things are held together by Him, but the human being can allow lies, distractions and other spiritual entities to hijack his thoughts about himself and thus man's power is stolen and channeled towards other ends, ends that inevitably do not have the individual man’s nor humanity’s best interests at heart.  This being the case, I can hold no man subject to a lie about himself (to do so is to name him other than who he is) even if his deeds are increasingly evil.  These deeds are not a reflection of who he is at the core, but are simply manifestations of the confusion he has allowed to overtake him.  It is neither my job or yours to point out the wrongs or sin in someone’s life, but rather to speak to who they really are.  This is otherwise known as the “ministry of the word of reconciliation” (II Cor 5:18).

                This is why identity and the understanding of our identity in the context of reconciliation is the foundation of speaking through faith.  The very act of man killing God was the same act that redeemed all of humanity, thus no man is mere flesh and blood.  Even if we delve into the physical properties of these substances, science has begun to uncover that there is much more than the western mind has reckoned.  Our flesh is good and holy and is infused with the life of the spirit (I Cor.  6:17).  You cannot separate the two.  To do such a thing or attempt it, unleashes waves of destructive anti-matter, which is of the same spectrum of dense frequency that cancerous cells comprised of.  Just as scientists began disassembling the atom, and thus unleashed a great destruction upon mankind, so it is even greater when the value of human life is only relegated to only spiritual counterpoints, and thus the separation of physical and spiritual is sought after.  God wouldn’t have given man a physical body, if man was supposed to beat up his body in order to reconnect with his spirit.  The Father already had legions of angels at his beckoning, and you were and always have been with him in spirit since the beginning.  Being given a physical body infused with the spirit and life of the creator is a beautiful mandate that The Father gave to humanity.  Your physical body wasn't mean to be a limitation.  For in doing so, God has named us his children, and encourages us in our participation in running the family business.  The angels long and rejoice to know the things we know and to see us carry out the tasks set before us and to live out on this earth and in heaven simultaneously, the exercise of our full inheritance (I Pet. 1:12). 

                The attempts to separate the physical body from the spirit (unfortunately, this is exactly what most religions attempt to do) is nothing more than witchcraft that will eventually kill you.  This is a Gnostic idea at best and is the same mentality that Apostle Paul was addressing in The Corinthian letters and in Galatians, specifically.  These people had come out of all kinds of weird ritualistic practices that bolster the spirit but deem the human body as a dirty cask of rags that would prevent one from gaining power in the spirit realm.  They were also being heavily influenced by Gnostic religions that were emerging and combating with them.  Many of these Gnostic religions believed in Christ to an extent.  They taught Christ and were fascinated by his teachings, but the basis or their beliefs were essentially:  spirit is good, flesh/physical nature is evil.  With this mentality the means will always justify the end, because after all, it’s all about gaining power in the spirit realm.  This is why ritualistic abuse and the sacrificing of children was so common among many of the nations listed in the Bible (this stuff is more common than you think and still is practiced today). 

                In my view, I see this as the origin of war itself.  The purpose of war being to buy and sell one group of people for another, have them adjured under one set of rules and ideologies and thus the people caught up in the mix die fighting, or die because they’re unwittingly caught up in the middle of it.  The blood of many people is shed, which doesn’t matter to the regime because after all, the good of the many is much more important that the value of a few measely individuals.  Through the game of war (yes, it’s a game, all of the wars in modern history have been carefully constructed, calculated and carried out), buying power in the spirit realm is sought through the covenant blood of the people who died with their names attached to the so-called “cause”.  War in its truest sense then, is nothing more than a deceptive attempt to control spiritual atmosphere and thus convince individuals that their lives have no value apart from the ruling group or regime.  All of this is demonic in origin, it is strange fire, and its power pales in comparison to what really exists even in one single cell of human life.  The realized individual, in union with The Father has more power in his/her pinky finger than do all the armies of the earth and all principalities and powers.  Therefore, we never have to submit to such authority as our inheritance is already secure.  All enemies have already been defeated (Col. 1:19-20).

                All that being said, your true identity is rooted in love.  In fact, your body, your voice, your presence, all are expressions and manifestations of the very substance of the love that formed you in the beginning.

                All of this, although written for your edification, is more of a note directed at myself.  Sometimes the heart is so overloaded with the unspeakable, that a person may have to stand outside of himself for a while just to get a grasp on what needs to be expressed.  This is an encouragement to myself, but you can apply it to yourself as well:  I know God through all of the confusion, and I know who I am.  

 James 1:25, "But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."

Look deeply and thus drink deeply.

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Matt.