{"id":16029,"date":"2017-03-23T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16029"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:31:06","slug":"partakers-of-his-divine-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/partakers-of-his-divine-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Partakers of His Divine Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"2 Peter 2:5 says that we, yes, WE can become partakers of God\u2019s divine nature.\u00a0 We can ingest who God is and partake of Him and all that He has for us.\u00a0 Only then can we EXHIBIT the goodness of God to all around us.\u00a0 To try to exhibit God\u2019s goodness apart from His living in us is pure hypocrisy and would not be sustainable because of who we are.\u00a0 The true you will eventually come out.<\/p>\n

God never intended for us to be on Earth while He is in Heaven.\u00a0 He intended and intends to bring Heaven to Earth through our participation in His divine nature.\u00a0 How on earth can we mere mortals partake of God\u2019s divine nature?\u00a0 We can do that through His exceedingly great and precious promises (2 Peter 1:4).\u00a0 As we ingest His living Word and meditate on His promises they become ALIVE in us and we begin living them out spontaneously.\u00a0 It\u2019s not an EFFORT, it\u2019s the result of what we have been PARTAKING of.<\/p>\n

The Christian life is not a duty or performance.\u00a0 I tried that and it\u2019s miserable!\u00a0 The life God called us to is actually easy.\u00a0 He gave us Jesus, the incarnate Word of God.\u00a0 Jesus is the Word of God who became flesh.\u00a0 He is the prototype of what we are to become.\u00a0 As Jesus was the Word becoming flesh, so must we be.\u00a0 We must ingest God\u2019s Word until He become manifest in our lives.\u00a0 The people will SEE God\u2019s grace and reality exhibited in and through us.\u00a0 Thus we don\u2019t only preach the message, we become the message!<\/p>\n

Jesus said in John 6 that unless we eat His flesh and drink His blood we will not have life, God\u2019s eternal, divine life in us.\u00a0 He was not speaking of his actual flesh and blood, but rather His words which were Spirit and Life.\u00a0 Without partaking of His words and letting them abide in us until they are lived out of us we are lifeless people.\u00a0 We end up looking and sounding like everyone else.\u00a0 Sure, we may be more moral and ethical, but anyone can do that by the choices they make.<\/p>\n

It takes the Word becoming flesh to heal the sick and raise the dead.\u00a0 It\u2019s takes the Word becoming flesh to manifest supernatural provision.\u00a0 It takes the Word becoming flesh to love the unlovable.\u00a0 It takes the Word becoming flesh to take authority over demons and evil spirits.\u00a0 It takes the Word becoming flesh to shift world governments and powers.\u00a0 It takes the Word becoming flesh to exercise dominion over ALL things.<\/p>\n

I have determined that HIS life must become MY life.\u00a0 Every day I get into God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 I pray it, I meditate on it, and pray in the Spirit so that what is on the pages of The Book can get into the crevasses of my heart until what is in the Word can be seen in my life.\u00a0 It\u2019s a process and it\u2019s fun!\u00a0 I love seeing God\u2019s Word show up in my life and in the life of those who practice the same.\u00a0You will never have what the Word says until you partake of His promises and become occupied with them.<\/p>\n

This is a short and simple article, but the truth contain here takes diligence to realize.\u00a0 Start your journey to be partakers of His divine nature through His exceedingly great and precious promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Christian life is not a duty or performance. I tried that and it\u2019s miserable! The life God called us to is actually easy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[276,278,280,279,275,206,277,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}