By Evangelist Obakeng
It is a recreated spirit gaining the ascendancy over the reasoning
faculties and ruling the whole man. The recreated spirit has been made
anew with the Love Nature of the Father. Jesus said, “I am come that ye
may have life, and have it abundantly.” That Life is the Nature of the
Father. A man is recreated by receiving God’s nature into his spirit,
which makes him a New Creation and gives him a new self. The old self
was selfish, but this new self is Love-ruled. This new life is like
Jesus. It is the substance and nature of Jesus. It is Love’s dominion
over man. The Holy Spirit comes into the man’s body and brings in more
Love. Romans 5:5 “For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Spirit.”
When the Holy Spirit comes in, He brings the Ability of the Father and
Son and builds them into us. Their very sufficiency, their strength and
wisdom is built into us. He opens the Word and makes it a living thing
to us. He reveals its depths and beauty, its riches and its grace. He
has taken the great Substitutionary fact out of “theology” and made it a
living reality in my spirit. My renewed mind is actually feasting on the
fruitage of that Finished Work in my own spirit. The Holy Spirit now is
doing the thing that Jesus promised He would do. He is guiding my spirit
and my reasoning faculties into the realm of the Reality of the New
Creation, and of my union with Christ.
I begin to understand something of the reality of the Finished Work of
the Master. My spirit catches gleams of the significance of the fact
that He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. He entered
into His rest, and I am invited to sit with Him in the place of rest. I
am invited to rest in His rest. What a wonderful fellowship this is. Now
I can see what it can mean to have my spirit in such close communion and
fellowship with Him, so identified with Him in this Love life, that I
lose my consciousness of the past. I live only in the consciousness of
my present, my new relationship with Him.
Out of this new and wonderful relationship, faith begins to grow. Faith
is not a product of the reasoning faculties.
Sense Knowledge cannot produce faith, except what is known as Sense
Knowledge Faith . . . faith in the things that the eye can see, the ear
can hear, or we can feel or taste or smell. That is natural faith. That
is the only kind of faith world folks have. We have the .new kind of
Faith, the Faith that counts things that are not as though they were,
and they come into being. We have the Faith that says, I have what I do
not see, but I know that it is mine, and I possess it without seeing it.
This recreated human spirit that fellowships with perfect Love, and with
the Author and Finisher of Faith, becomes unconscious of the need of
Faith or of having Faith.
Evangelist Obakeng