If you desire to see God in your life and manifest Him through your life, you have to learn to dwell in the bosom of the Heavenly Father

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 6 minutes
Good day, dear friends! Thanks God for giving us another beautiful day to us! Thank God for another opportunity to fill our hearts again with the living word of God! We will continue our discourse on our supreme calling as believers to represent and manifest God on this Earth. Jesus didn’t just want to be the only one who could manifest God, He wanted His disciples to also reveal, reflect and manifest the nature and power of God on this Earth. As we consistently fellowship with God, we draw the strength, the authority and all the power we need to succeed in our calling to manifest God through our daily lives on earth.. 
« But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit ». (2nd Corinthians 3:18).
 If we pay keen attention to the above passage, we can draw the following lesson: 
  • We are called to behold the glory of the Lord. In other words, this is a call to focus our attention on Jesus as the only standard and model for our life. We can do that by focusing our attention on His word, His life and His examples.
 
  • The word “beholding” in the passage above means a continuous action. In other words we should keep beholding the glory of God all the time.
 
  • We have to do it with open (unveiled) face (open heart). Prejudices, religious preconceptions or traditions as well as sin can affect our sight and perception or keep our eyes from seeing. To behold with «unveiled face» -talks of been sincere and without any trace of hypocrisy or self-deceptive attitude. We should be natural and sincere in our attempt to behold the glory of the Lord.
 Good day, dear friends! Thanks God for giving us another beautiful day to us! Thank God for another opportunity to fill our hearts again with the living word of God! We will continue our discourse on our supreme calling as believers to represent and manifest God on this Earth. Jesus didn’t just want to be the only one who could manifest God, He wanted His disciples to also reveal, reflect and manifest the nature and power of God on this Earth. As we consistently fellowship with God, we draw the strength, the authority and all the power we need to succeed in our calling to manifest God through our daily lives on earth.. 
« But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit ». (2nd Corinthians 3:18).
 If we pay keen attention to the above passage, we can draw the following lesson: 
  • We are called to behold the glory of the Lord. In other words, this is a call to focus our attention on Jesus as the only standard and model for our life. We can do that by focusing our attention on His word, His life and His examples.
 
  • The word “beholding” in the passage above means a continuous action. In other words we should keep beholding the glory of God all the time.
 
  • We have to do it with open (unveiled) face (open heart). Prejudices, religious preconceptions or traditions as well as sin can affect our sight and perception or keep our eyes from seeing. To behold with «unveiled face» -talks of been sincere and without any trace of hypocrisy or self-deceptive attitude. We should be natural and sincere in our attempt to behold the glory of the Lord.
 
  • We cannot change ourselves by any of our efforts. It is only the Spirit of the Lord that is capable of genuinely changing us. Beholding the glory of the Lord is the only thing we are to do. He will do the changing as long as we continue to behold Him.
 
  • The transformation and change from the Spirit of the Lord will take place gradually. So don’t give up if you do not see any rapid and immediate or obvious changes. This should not lead you to conclude that nothing is happening in your life. If we continuously press into His glory with an open and unveiled face in order to behold His glory, the Spirit of the Lord will definitely transform us from glory to glory.
 
«Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure». (1st John 3:1-3).
 God loves us, that is the reason He made us and called us His children. The Heavenly Father takes responsibility for us as His children. He cares for our lives and He is concern about the direction of our lives. You see, now I am a child of God and have a loving Father, but there are still many things potentially hidden in me that I do not know now. When those things are finally revealed, I will become more like my Father. However, these things are been reveal because I can l behold Him as He is. When we wait upon the Lord and behold Him through the spiritual discipline of devotion, quite time, solitude, bible study and so on, then are transformed all the more into His likeness. When I can finally see Him I’ll become like Him. Everybody who delights in seeing Him face to face, anyone who has the bold desire and expectation to be like Him will clean himself and live a more consecrated life even though he might be pure by some standards. If you desire to see God in your life and manifest Him through your life, you have to learn to dwell in the bosom of the Heavenly Father. For this reason you need to continuously cleanse yourself through His word and walk in His light. God bless each of you abundantly! See you tomorrow! Rufus Ajiboye, pastor

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