A Generation Awakening to the More of God
By Aaron Jones
Believers all over the world today are sensing it: God is moving. He is up to something great in this generation, in our time, right now. Believers, young and old, are desiring to get into the fire—to step into the greater, the more, the movement of our time, the river of God. Many, though, are questioning, How can I step in now? Many feel stuck. Many are tired of hearing about what’s coming someday. People need God now. The Holy Spirit says it plainly in Scripture: “Today is the day of salvation.”
I can help.
The missing part for so many is the power of an “in Him” revelation—a right-now revelation. There are over 100 places in the New Testament that declare who we are “in Christ” or “in Him,” what we have “in Christ” or “in Him,” and also “in whom,” along with inferences of these truths. Boring? We’ll get ahold of this. Our Heavenly Father sees these things as already true for the believer—already facts concerning any born-again believer, whether we know it or not. We are not trying to get Him to move; He is trying to get us to move in the realm of our beliefs, activating the vastness of His inheritance in our spirit.
Heaven’s Reality in Us
This torrent of heaven’s power flows from the epistles in the Living Word to form faith, welcome encounter, create hunger, and move us toward transformation. No transformation is promised by response to emotional prodding, but by the renewing of our mind (Rom. 12:2). There is transformation for those of us who will take the finished work of Jesus as our only entry ticket to the greater of God—the shed blood of Jesus as our only answer to all interrogation by our opposition, the stripes Jesus took in His own body at the whipping post as the only necessary remedy for every sickness and pain, and the resurrection of Jesus as our proof of heavenly authority.
When we take God’s own testimony—the “in Christ” declarations of the New Testament—as present-tense realities, and let His Word dominate the way we choose to see, we settle the arguments in our minds. We no longer vacillate between our seated position with Him in heavenly places and a helpless human begging for help from far away. As sons and daughters, we cast away orphan symbols of sainthood such as suffering, striving, and trying to bend the ear of God to hear us, meet us, and give us His attention.
Instead, we see ourselves rightly—resurrected and looking down from our true place, inseparable in Christ; sons and daughters of inheritance, commanding and declaring in Jesus’ name: I in Him and Him in me—no distance, joined by Christ, closer than our breath. Now we are seeing into heaven, and heaven is looking out of us. This is the mystery of the new creation: Christ in us, the hope of glory.
We don’t waste these moments when we sense His presence by trying to get Him to do what He has already done, or asking Him for things He says we already have. We simply let Him fill us, refresh us, and we soak Him in until we are infected with hope and life. We walk in holiness because He has made us holy. We live set apart because He has set us apart. We experience righteousness because He has made us righteous. We experience healing because He has healed us. All is ours, and we get to live in this kingdom as we believe and act on His Word.
