According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue (2 Peter 1:3).

Ephesians 1:3 says God has blessed you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and 1 Corinthians 3:21 declares, “…all things are yours.” God has given you everything you require to live victoriously and be a success in life.

Meanwhile, it is about your “knowledge of Him.” There’s nothing you could ever need or desire for a godly life that’s not already yours in Christ. However, making it a reality in your life is a function of your knowledge of Him.

This kind of knowledge is full, exact knowledge—“epignosis” (Greek). God’s provisions aren’t going to come to pass in your life just because they’re written in the pages of the Bible; there’s a knowledge of Him that you must have; knowledge that unites the knower with that which is known; knowledge beyond the senses; specific knowledge, without assumptions.

Something so beautiful and powerful about knowing Him is that not only do you get to know and are able to appropriate all that He’s given to you, you also get to know yourself. The more you know Him, the more you know you; He mirrors you. His Word mirrors you; in Him, you see you. You can never really know yourself as God knows you until you know Him. He made you, so only He knows what’s inside you and what you’re capable of; He alone can reveal you to you.
Therefore, the way to know Him and get to discover you is to study and meditate on the Word. 2 Corinthians 3:18 shows that the Word is the mirror of God that reveals your true description. It says, “…we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Search and discover who you really are by looking into the mirror of God; by getting to know the Lord. The moment you get a hold of what the Word says is yours, or who the Word says you are, respond by affirming accordingly. That’s how you endorse His Word into manifestation in your life.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me…(Galatians 1:15-16).

There’re those who attempt to understand God through their intellect as though God could be studied in a laboratory. However, knowing God is not something that can be achieved through mental effort or intellectual exercise. Even Paul the apostle, a highly educated man, realized that his learning was insufficient when it came to knowing Jesus Christ. He needed revelation.

You can only know God by the revelation of the Spirit. There’s a level of humility required to reach that point. You must come to the realization that no amount of intellectual prowess could help you here; you need God’s revelation. And when you humble yourself, God will reveal Himself to you as He did with Paul.

Paul was an erudite scholar; read Philippians 3, where he declared his resume and made some very thought-provoking statements. He said, “Concerning the righteousness which is in the law, I was blameless”; he knew it all (Philippians 3:6). Then he says in verses 8-10, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: …that I may win Christ, and be found in him…That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection…” (Philippians 3:8-10).

Then in Galatians 1:15-16, he said, “But when it pleased God…to reveal his Son in me.” It was by revelation that Paul eventually came to know Jesus Christ. No wonder he prayed a beautiful prayer of the Spirit for the Christians in Ephesus that God would grant them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17-18).

He understood that you couldn’t “experiment” or hypothesize to know God or discover Him through history alone. Without revelation, no one could truly know God, and that’s why we pray for those who don’t know Him, that their eyes be opened to the truth of the Gospel and that the veil of darkness in their hearts be removed by the Spirit to receive divine revelation and experience the fullness of God’s love and salvation.

Many don’t understand the Spirit’s language in the verse above when it says, Ye are of God; it means you hail from God; you’re born of Him. This is what makes the Christian a divine being, and not a mere human person. Hallelujah!

This is where some have missed it; their lack of consciousness of who they really are in Christ. The Apostle John, addressing this, said in 1 John 5:13, These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life. God wants you to have the conscious, active knowledge that His life is in you. You’re a divine life-carrier; a God-conveyor.

Referring to the Lord Jesus, the Bible says in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him (Colossians 2:9-10). Notice the expression, And ye are complete in Him. This means all of divinity resides in you as it does Jesus. No wonder Peter calls us Associates of the God-kind; partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

You’re filled or replete with God. That’s what it means to be complete in Him; nothing else needs to be in you to make you divine. This is why sickness, disease, and infirmity can’t be a part of your life. If you’d meditate on the God-life in you, you’d never be sick another day of your life.
You were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13). The same life that makes it impossible for God to get sick, be defeated or have anything happen to Him is what you have in you. Your consciousness of this reality will make you eternally triumphant and walk in dominion every day of your life. Glory to God!

-GSW-