Part 11 Understanding Unity Part 3

Part 11 Understanding Unity Part 3

Colossians 2:10	And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Acts 17:28	For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
John 15:4	Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:7	If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Unity with the Lord Jesus is one of the most pressing requirements of the hour, it is vital for us if we are to come into the next phase of God’s purposes in the earth for our lives.

Birth-Pangs are upon us

At the present time we are experiencing the beginnings of profound change. Many things are happening that can bring confusion to us unless we understand what is going on.

The culmination of years of promises prophesies and words from the Lord are intersecting in time with us now, the set time for many things has now come. Some of the most profound changes in the church since the early church period are now in the birthing process.

Isaiah 66:9a

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord:

Births are messy and painful

Nothing disrupts a household more the birth of a baby. The birth of a baby requires the death of certain things for the parents. Their time is no longer their own, and for sure they will get less sleep than they are used to. Much of the old ways of life cannot come over into the new.

The Anatomy of the Placenta:  From the Wikipedia   Encyclopedia The placenta is composed of two parts: One of which is genetically and biologically part of the fetus the decidua, which is part of the mother. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and is connected to the fetus via the umbilical cord, which is composed of blood vessels and connective tissue. Filtration and transfer The placenta receives nutrients, oxygen, antibodies and hormones from the mother’s blood and passes out waste. It forms a barrier, the placental barrier, which filters out some substances which could harm the fetus. Many substances are not filtered out, however, including alcohol and some chemicals associated with smoking cigarettes. Several types of viruses, such as Human Cytomegalovirus, may also cross this barrier; this often leads to various degrees of birth defects in the infant.     After delivery When the fetus is delivered, the placenta is delivered afterwards (and for this reason is often called the afterbirth). After delivery of the placenta the umbilical cord is usually clamped and severed or may be left attached to fall off naturally.                                                                                                                                                                                      This is known as Placentophagy. The site of the former umbilical cord attachment in the center of the front of the abdomen is known as the umbilicus, navel, or belly-button.

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When the baby is in the womb the placenta is vital to the baby’s life and survival it is part of the nurturing process it is also has a part in filtering out anything that would be harmful to the baby after it has been born. Once the baby is born the afterbirth which had a vital role before the birth, is discarded, if is not it could poison and kill the baby; it has to be CUT OFF.

Likewise in Spiritual Births: 

Conception takes place when a seed is placed into your spirit, that seed is plant there by a word form God , a prophesy, and dream or in many way that God implants vision, purpose, and destiny. When Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit she said this.

Luke 1:38a

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.

When that word form God is implanted into your spirit you conceive; then everything goes quite it is just as if nothing had happened you go through the routine of wondering; was that God? Did God really say that to me? It is interesting that God put Mary with another person who was also experiencing a miracle baby simply to encourage her to believe.

Luke 1:39	And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
Luke 1:41	And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42	And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

After that long quiet period, finally and suddenly contractions start. This is the painful part.

When you are birthing something in God you will receive opposition from the enemy, and the severity of the opposition is governed by the magnitude and importance of the vision and purpose of what is being birthed.

	Revelation 12:3	And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4	And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5	And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Satan will always try to kill off the vision God gives you

Spiritual births require spiritual warfare in order to bring forth, often they are bloody, messy, and exhausting and require something in us to die. Your life will not be the same again. 

The things that nourished the vision the spiritual placenta, the afterbirth has to be cut away and discarded.

The new always requires the death of many things of the old, things that played a part often a vital part but they can’t come across into the new or the baby could be poisoned. A chicken when it hatches from the egg leaves the shell behind. The scaffolding on a building has to be dismantled when the building is finished.

The warfare can be fierce and the death to the old can be difficult

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

You may say what has this to do with unity?

We can only survive the future if we walk with the Lord and that walk requires being in unity or union with Him

John 15:4	Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:7	If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you

There is no condition or circumstance in which you may find yourself, for which God has not provided a promise in His Word for.  You can find a scripture to fit anything you want to do.  When there is something in life that demands faith, Christians usually goes to the Word of God, to find a promise that fits the situation. When they find it then they pray to God to try and force God to fulfill it.  God does not ask us to find a promise which could relate to the situation, He says “whatever I say unto you DO”. There is only life in the words the Holy Spirit quickens to you and in order to clearly hear Him you have to be in a certain level of union with Him. This union or unity come from constantly surrendering our will to His will and constantly staying connected to Him.

God is birthing a new day in people lives, Churches, and Nations but the old ways have to be discarded,” Behold I do a new thing saith the Lord” Walking in unity with the Lord is essential, the new order lives in the reality that “It is no longer I that liveth”

Birth Pangs – are the promise of a new day that requires union with the Lord in order to enter into and sustain the new.

A few months back I said to watch for an unusual amount of babies being born around the world and in your churches especially twins, this is a sign that the Lord is about to release doubles portions of many different kinds of blessings and anointings. It also speaks of the coming harvest. Statistics are showing a phenomenal increase in births around the world especially that of twins.

Unity of the brethren can only be achieved to the level that we are in unity with the Lord.

God Bless you N Johnson © Feb 25^th - 2007