YOU'RE ADVANTAGED!

I've got a message for the body of Christ: STOP WISHING YOU HAD WALKED WITH JESUS WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH. You are walking with the Holy Spirit! Stop thinking like the early disciples had some advantage over you. If you must compare yourself at all with the generation that walked with Jesus in the flesh, compare based on these simple & absolute truths:

1. They walked with the physical/incarnated Jesus; you walk with the glorified Jesus. He is much more now than He was when they walked with Him. Even John who laid his head on the bosom of the incarnated Jesus, when he saw the resurrected & glorified Jesus, "fell at His feet as dead"! (Revelations 1:17)

2. You know & walk with Jesus by His Spirit. They knew & walked with Jesus in the flesh. Sense knowledge (knowledge gained by the fleshly/physical senses) isn't always accurate & adequate. Revelation knowledge (gained by your spirit from His Spirit) is always adequate & accurate, in-depth (1 Corinthians 2:10 & 11; John 6:63). You can know Jesus more accurately than those who walked with Him in the physical.

3. Jesus Himself said that it was better for His disciples that He should go to the Father & the Holy Spirit should come (John 16:7). There has to be one or more of the following logical reasons for that:

a. He was going to do something at the Father's right hand for their benefit that He couldn't do on earth. He had to go to receive from the right hand of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit & then pour Him out (Acts 2:33). Also, He is today our high priest & intercessor, among other things (Hebrews 4:14; Romans 8:34)

b. The Holy Spirit would be all He had been to the disciples (Comforter, Helper etc.) (John 14:16) and then more (in quality & in quantity).

i. Quality: He could do those things better (by virtue of indwelling).

ii. Quantity: He could do more things than those e.g. giving life to our mortal bodies from within (Romans 8:11) & becoming God's power in us & on us (Acts 1:8; Ephesians 3:20)

4. If the book of Acts, the authorship & content of the epistles are anything to go by; Paul had more in revelation, results & manifestations than most, if not all, of the twelve apostles who actually walked with Jesus in the physical.

If you hold at least two of the above to be true, then you have to agree that you stand no disadvantage compared to the twelve disciples or anyone else who lived in the days of Jesus on earth. If there must be any comparison, you are better off. You have the bible they didn't have, you have the Holy Ghost some never had; you have the benefit of all the experience of all the Christians of the last two milleniums; you have modern technology, you can do more & do it faster, better, farther.

Stop wishing, stop wondering, stop whining; start living in the fullness of His grace. In case you were thinking before now that it's the reason you can't work miracles yet; hear the word of the Lord, "you can work miracles NOW, TODAY"!

Light dawns!

Dr Jesutola (Ayanfe) Adewumi
27/8/2016