Progression #7 “Take the luxury tour of life with a peace that surpasses understanding”

As you may suspect I have been traveling through these phases as I have been writing them to be published. I started with telling you that I believe there are 14 phases that we go through to find peace and contentment in our lives. Well, here we are at Phases 13 and 14. Sorry it has taken me so long to be able to publish these final phases but, my life has been incredibly full, and I believe that God wanted me to travel a little deeper into these phases before I could share them with you. In fact, I am completely unqualified to share much about these phases and have been instructed to primarily use the words of Paul and Jacob to describe them. I believe Paul lived decades of His life on earth in Phases 13 and 14 which is why God used him to write 60% of the New Testament. Some ministers and theologians have criticized some of Paul’s writings, but I believe that is because they have not even come close to the intimacy with Christ that Paul attained. I do not say this to be critical of anyone in ministry, but only to warn you not to look at those in ministry as being perfect or having all the answers. Always look to Christ for perfection and the answers will always be found through the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. It is rare that you may come across and get to know someone who is living in Phases 13 and 14, but it does not mean that they don’t exist. They are usually not household names, and the world will never write a positive article about them, but when you are in their presence, there is a depth about them that is tangible. There is such a deep sense of peace and contentment within them that they seem unmovable. Even in tragedy they are not shaken, because this peace and contentment has absolutely nothing to do with their circumstances or the circumstances surrounding their lives.

Phase 13 is: “You start to become one with Him”.

• by the power of the blood of the eternal covenant may he work perfection into every part of you giving you all that you need to fulfill your destiny. And may He express through you all that is excellent and pleasing to Him through your life-union with Jesus the Anointed One who is to receive all glory forever! Amen! (Heb 13:20-21)
  

Those that attain this phase, fulfill the purpose they were created for and change the people and the world around them, and it is a beautiful thing to behold.

• For you have acquired new creation life which is continually being renewed into the likeness of the One who created you, giving you the full revelation of God. In this new creation life, your nationality makes no difference, or your ethnicity, education, or economic status-they matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything as he lives in every one of us! (Col 3:10-11)
  

In this phase the Holy Spirit invites you into perfection, to become one with Christ. To see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.

• For the “law” of the Spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated us from the “law” of sin and death. For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish, because the law was limited by the weakness of human nature.
  So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living His life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit! (Rom 8:2-4)
  

   

  • Now Christ lives His life in you! And even though your body may be dead because of the effects of sin, His life-giving Spirit imparts life to you because you are fully accepted by God. Yes, God raised Jesus to life! And since God’s Spirit of Resurrection lives in you, He will also raise your dying body to life by the same Spirit that breathes life into you! (Rom 8:10-11)
    

     

  • The mature children of God are those who are moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit. And you did not receive the “spirit of religious duty, leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the “Spirit of full acceptance, enfolding you into the family of God.” And you will never feel orphaned, for as He rises up within us, our spirits join Him in saying the words of tender affection, “Beloved Father!” For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as He whispers into our innermost being, “You are God’s beloved child!” And since we are His true children, we qualify to share all His treasures, for indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that He is and all the He has. We will experience being co-glorified with Him provided that we accept His sufferings as our own. (Rom 8:14-17)
    

     

• For it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became the life-giving Spirit. However, the spiritual did not come first. The natural precedes the spiritual. The first man was from dust and has a race of people just like him, who are also made from dust. The One sent from heaven has a race of heavenly people who are just like Him. Once we carried the likeness of the man of dust, but now let us carry the likeness of the Man of heaven. (1 Cor 15:45-49)
  

We are the body of Christ, we are the people of God, we are the resurrected bride of Christ, we are His hands and feet, we are a victorious nation, we are His ambassadors, we are in Christ and Christ is in us, we are a Holy nation, we are His temple, God is love, we are his children, we are like Him. Know these things to be true and they will become your reality. Christ in us the hope of glory! In Him we live and move and have our being….

Phase 14: “You no longer live for self but start to live for others and you experience a joy and contentment that few experience.”

• Now God has offered to us the same promise of entering into His realm of resting in confident faith. So, we must be extremely careful to ensure that we all embrace the fullness of that promise and not fail to experience it. (Heb 4:1)
  

James (real name Jacob), Jesus’s half-brother who it is believed by many did not become a true believer until after the resurrection (see John 7:5), tells us in the following scriptures….

• Do not just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let His Word become like poetry written and fulfilled by your life! (James 1:22)
  

   

• True spirituality in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans, and widows in their troubles, and to refuse to be corrupted by the world’s values. (James 1:27)
  

   

  • Your calling is to fulfill the royal law of love as given to us in this Scripture: “You must love and value your neighbor as you love and value yourself!” (James 2:8)
    

I am not trying to convince you to go out and start serving and loving the under-privileged of the world and your communities. What is being stated by Jacob has absolutely nothing to do with religious duties or obligations. What I am putting out there is that if you truly have embraced Phases 12 & 13 you will naturally respond in service to others. Everyone else will notice it and think that you’re such an amazing hardworking, loving individual, but for you it will be mostly effortless. Something happens to the one filled with Christ who is continually caring for those in need. Their personal problems and cares of this world seem to fade away as they focus on the problems and cares of others. This freedom and joy are almost like a drug that energizes their very being. These individuals do not need to go on vacations to recharge because they are being recharged every day by being used by the Lord to set the captives free!

• My fellow believers, when it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest of joy that you can! For you know that when your faith is tested it stirs up power within you to endure all things. And then as your endurance grows even stronger it will release perfection into every part of your being until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking. (James 1:2-4)
  

   

  • If your faith remains strong, even while surrounded by life’s difficulties, you will continue to experience the untold blessings of God! True happiness comes as you pass the test with faith and receive the victorious crown of life promised to every lover of God! (James 1:12)
    

If you chose to pay for the luxury suite at the front of a cruise ship your experience is far beyond the experience of those who are riding along staying in one of the interior cabins. The designer of the ship specifically wanted to blow you away with an experience and adventure that you would never forget. He wanted you to walk away on cloud nine convinced that you got 10 times more than what you paid for. The amazing thing is, that the creator of the universe is asking us to take the luxury tour of His creation. And His tour is guided by Him. He will take you by the hand and show you wonders that you have never seen. Many of these wonders have always been there in plain sight yet some-how missed by the masses. The enemy of our souls has blinded the citizens of earth by the cares and values of this world giving a false hope of peace and contentment if we will chase after his mirage. God created the whole world for you and then created you to know Him and to be known by Him.

• Through our union with Christ, we too have been claimed by God as His own inheritance. Before we were even born, He gave us our destiny, that we would fulfill the plan of God who always accomplishes every purpose and plan in His heart. (Eph 1:11)
  

   

• I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know Him through your deepening intimacy with Him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of His calling-that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritance that He finds in us, His holy ones! I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the heavenly realm! (Eph 1:17-20)
  

   

• You are always and dearly loved by God! So, robe yourself with virtues
  of God, since you have been divinely chosen to be holy. Be merciful as you endeavor to understand others, and be compassionate, showing kindness toward all. Be gentle and humble, unoffendable in your patience with others. Tolerate the weaknesses of those in the family of faith, forgiving one another in the same way you have been graciously forgiven by Jesus Christ. If you find fault with someone, release this same gift of forgiveness to them. For love is supreme and must flow through each of these virtues. Love becomes the mark of true maturity. Let your heart be always guided by the peace of the Anointed One, who called you to peace as part of His one body. And always be thankful. (Col 3:12-15)
  

 

Thank you so much for the privilege and honor to share the Progression Series with you, I used the Passion Translation if you were wondering. When I started this so many months ago, I would have never imagined it would have ended up here. I would encourage you to share this with others. You never know, the one who reads this may have their heart begin to burn with love for God and for others and the world will begin to change.

• The entire
  universe is standing on tiptoe, yearning to see the unveiling of God’s glorious sons and daughters! (Rom 8:19)
  

Maybe your heart is burning right now?

• For our God is a holy, devouring fire! (Heb 12:29)
  

If so, please reread through this series and humbly see where you are and progress towards purpose, destiny, peace and contentment. Blessings to you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.