“As He is, so are we in this world”
1 John 4:17 (KJV)
The Lord Jesus is the express image of God. He said in John 14:9 “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father”. God’s plan is to reveal Himself—His character, ability, and His nature of love and righteousness—through each one of us. God created man in His image to function like Him, as an associate of the God-kind.
The Word of God is a seed, and every seed reproduces after its kind. Since we are born again by the Word of God, and Jesus is the Word of God made flesh (John 1:14), it means we are the offspring of the Word. Like our Lord Jesus, we are the Word become flesh. You are no longer in the class of the natural man; instead, you are an associate of the God-kind. God is our Father, we have His life and His Name, and we are in Him and He is in us. In Him we live, move and have our being (Acts 17:28).
The Lord Jesus said, “…Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” John 10:34 (KJV). Think about yourself the same way you would think about Jesus when He walked the earth; He walked on water, spoke to the wind and the waves, unstopped deaf ears, opened blind eyes, healed lame legs, restored maimed limbs, and even raised the dead. You have the same ability functioning within you by the same Holy Spirit that was at work in our Lord Jesus and now alive in you. You are to express this extraordinarily to the full, for as He is so are you in this world (1 John 4:17).
PRAYER/CONFESSION
Dear Father, thank you for making me the associate of the God-kind, and manifesting yourself through me by the power of the Holy Spirit. I go forth to display your virtues in every place in the name of the Lord Jesus.
WISDOM NUGGET
“But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” Matthew 8:27 (KJV)