I thank God that He has power in my life, my soul and spirit and my body. The book of Psalms says power belongs to God. Power does not belong to governments. If God didn’t want a government to have the kind of power that they have, He wouldn’t allow it.
We are three-part beings.
Scofield put it like this, the spirit gives God-consciousness, the soul self-consciousness, the body world-consciousness. If we say we are world conscious and we have a worldview, then we are saying we are self-conscious and we are aware of our own place in the world. When people talk to you about having a worldview, they’re asking you what’s your philosophy or your belief system in life. If you talk to people about their worldview and they’re Christians, they will most definitely include God in their worldview.
If you have a kingdom perspective, if you have a God view, a fourth-dimensional view of life as opposed to a worldview of life, then you’re going to have a much better understanding of yourself as a spirit being. If I am self-conscious, then I am going to be very aware of everything that defines me as myself; my happiness, my space in the world. How am I going to be successful in the world? Who can I connect with to be successful in the world?
None of us can be self-conscious without our body-consciousness because our body permits us to be in the world. You can be very body-conscious, even though you’re unhealthy, there are different things wrong with your body.
The more you move up the scale of – I have my needs taken care of, the more people move from having a needs-driven orientation in their self-consciousness and body-consciousness, to a desire-consciousness and a dreams-consciousness. Your self-consciousness begins to increase. Now you are world-conscious because of your body, and you’re self-conscious because of your soul.
If I’m self-conscious as a parent, then I will take a perspective that my self-consciousness is somewhat wrapped up in what happens to my children. It is wrapped up in what they can become because I’ve taken care of their body-consciousness (what to eat and where to stay). Very often my identity of self-consciousness gets wrapped up in the success, the development and the continuous momentum of my children and their place in society. Now my identity gets connected with their ability to be self-conscious rather than body-conscious.
The more self-conscious my children are, the more they are able to dream, desire and in some cases, place a demand on their bodies to excel at the highest level because I’ve taken care of them so much that they could focus on the potential of their body, not the survival of their body.
The power of the self and the soul is so powerful that the whole world exists and everything that’s being created in the world is existing because of self-consciousness.
Many times, people give God the glory for what they’ve done, but actually, He’s got nothing to do with it. I know I’m being very controversial to many people but, you know, if I don’t talk about it, then we’re never going to make progress because we’re going to get caught into a vortex of thinking. We have to be able to change our thinking so that we can do what God wants us to do.
I’ve preached this for as many years – most of the very wealthy people in the world are not Christians. You don’t need to know God to be a successful businessman. You don’t need to tithe. Most business people out there don’t need God and they don’t want God. They are very self-conscious, they are not God-conscious.
Jesus came and He said, “I’m anointed. I have come to change some things.” (Luke 4:18,19 TPT) “I’m not coming with self-consciousness, neither with body-consciousness.” He’s come into the world from the God dimension and He says, “I’m coming into your world and I’m going to readjust the things that are out of order in your body-conscious world. And I’m coming to bring adjustments and reorder and restore your self-conscious world. I am sent, enabled by the God of the universe, the God dimension, to come into your third-dimensional world and change it.”
Welcome to the spirit world. O spirit beings, recreated in the image of Jesus, you now have access to the spirit realm to go fetch what you need there and bring it into your soul dimension and your body dimension. The world cannot do that. The world focuses all of their energies on the development of their soul and their body and they say, “Let me liberate the potential of my soul so my soul can get for me what I desire and I dream and I wish for.” By the way, intellect, absolute brain power, is part of your soul.
Say this: Profuse favours abound towards me. Many, many favours abound towards me. Multiplication of favours abound towards me. This is the year that we’re living on as we’re accelerating into our future.
The Father is saying, “Find Me as your Father. Because when you find Me as your Father, your soul power does not have to be tapped into. Your soul power can only take you so far, but I want to give you the God power, the God heavenly Father provision for your life so you can use your soul power in connection with your spirit power, and together we can do God-dimension power on the earth.”
So, “First seek Me so you can get to know Me because when you get to know Me, you don’t have to think about how you’re going to take care of your needs. Because I don’t want you to be aware of the things you need in your body. I, your Father, want to take care of all the things you need in your body because I want you to live according to your desires, your dreams, your imagination, and your wishes, and you get that from where? Your God-consciousness.”
“But if you don’t know Me as your Father, then what are you going to do?” “I’m going to tap into my soul power to provide for me. The more I can tap into my soul power, the more secure I’m going to be because I’m doing me.”
I want to tell you that as a Pastor, if you say to me, “Pastor John, I am confessing that my needs must be met. I need a car and I’m going to speak my car into being.” Then I’ll say to you, “Okay, I understand that as a young person in God, you don’t know your Father well enough, so you’re going to start attaching your soul power to a spirit power at such a low level that you have to believe Him for a car.” I did that. I’m okay if you do that, but just understand, that’s the kind of thing that a baby looks at. We attach performance to outcomes. So, what do we think God the Father wants us to do? He says, “I don’t care, just seek Me. That’s all you have to do is seek Me. Just put Me first.”
If you have to believe God for a house, a car, food – that’s baby talk in your relationship with God. Okay, be the baby talker because at least you’re getting to know God when He comes and says, “Do it this way. I’ll help you.” But hey, God wants us beyond baby talk relationship with Him.
God never wanted to dominate Adam and Eve or have authority over them. He wanted Adam and Eve to recognise His authority so that He could partner with them in running the earth. Authority is not something that you must demand. You only demand authority if someone is completely breaking the law. But you receive authority so that you can partner with authority because that’s where power and governance are released.
You may ask yourself, “Pastor John, I really want to be Spirit-dominant. I don’t want to be soul-dominant. But I don’t know how.” Just begin to make a declaration; I declare that my spirit man is dominating rather than my soul man and I desire that. I want that. I desire that, Lord, help me.
I’d like you to agree with me. I believe that this is going to be a year of great peace because the true peace of God that’s in the realm of the Spirit will come and affect your mind. I declare that 2025 is going to be a year of peace because it’s going to be so peace-driven that your spirit man is going to dominate your future so that there is nothing missing in your world, there’s nothing broken in your world, that everything that Jesus said, “I’ve come to heal the broken hearted, I’ve come to set captives free, I’ve come to bring sight to the blind, I’ve come to make the poor hope again that they don’t have to be poor,” – that’s peace!
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