Seated
…and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6, ESV
When we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal savior we are born anew, meaning we were immediately washed of all of our sins, given eternal life, the spirit of Christ moved in us, and we were seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. For a long time, it was hard for me to understand the “seated” part of this scripture because I am here on earth, so how could I be seated with Christ Jesus in heaven?
Scripture says, “In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead” (Colossians 2:11-12). When we accepted Christ Jesus, everything He did on the cross, we did. Our old fleshy sinful person was cut away and buried with Jesus in death. When Jesus was raised up, we were raised up in our new spirit and where He is seated, we are seated. We have moved from the position of seeing from the eyes of our own flesh to the position of seeing with the vision of Christ. We now see from Christ’s vantage point.
This means that when there is an incurable sickness that comes into our lives, we don’t see devastation and the end of the world anymore. We see from the position of where we are seated that God is Jehovah Rapha the healer and all is not lost. We see that we can agree with His word that He is our healer. We can now see the healing power of Jesus, claim that for ourselves, and speak it out. When there is no provision, we can see from the position of where we are seated that God is Jehovah Jireh our provider and therefore because we can see that, we can claim that God our Father will provide and stand on that Word. We now sit at the right hand of God so we can see who He is, claim what He says, and stand on that! And now because He lives in us, we have the mind of Christ! We are in a new position with a new mind! Hallelujah!!!
…but we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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