Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting (Week 2_Day 3)
Date: Wednesday, 15th November 2023
Transcript Summary
1. When more light begins to shine, we will have a more accurate definition of what God is saying. When Paul said, “I show you a more excellent way” (1 Cor. 12:31), it was because the light that was shining had increased.
2. “Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. [22] And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost…” (John 20:21-22). We see clearly that the Lord did not send His disciples without breath. Jesus sent them with breath the same way the Father sent Him with breath. This was why Jesus could confidently say that the words He was speaking to His disciples (and us) are ‘spirit and life’ (John 6:63). The disciples were with Jesus for three and half years, and He taught them continuously. The course of teaching can also be called formation, for they were being formed by reason of the teachings that the Lord was giving them. But in John 20:21, it was time for them to be sent forth and Jesus sent them the way His Father sent Him (with breath/Jn. 20:22). It was on this day that the disciples received their apostleship and were sent. There are many apostles who are not sent and do not have breath. Apostles are sent by breath and they have to be souls that carry breath.
3. The breath of His lips and the rod of His mouth is what the Lord would use to slay the enemies (Isa. 11:4). Both the breath and the rod are from the mouth, for the rod is from the mouth and the breath from the lips. These are functionalities of what the Son inherited from the Father, in His soul. This means our inheritance is a soul type. The inheritance in 1 Peter 1:4 is a soul type that is of God; this is what God desires to upgrade our souls into. The kind or type of soul one becomes depends on the quality of breath that the soul is able to capture. This breath is the breath of life. There are different kinds of souls. Angels are spirits, not just spirits because they are spirit beings but because of their soul type. Some are fiery and this is because of the soul type given to them by God. God has breath; this is why the Bible calls Him the Father of spirits. He can create and give breath. The giving of breath to the soul is the inheritance of the soul.
4. (John 3:35). What makes the Father blessed, potentate and higher than any other thing is that He has all breath. It is the kind of soul He has that makes Him different from everyone. God does things in patterns; if he created man to have a soul, He must also have a soul (Heb. 10:38). His soul is however different from the soul that creation has. His type of soul is what makes Him God.
5. God is a Spirit like no other spirit. When you worship Him, it is so that you can give Him pleasure. The part of Him that can take pleasure is His soul. This is why the Father is looking for a kind of pleasure (John 4:23). The angels give God very high pleasure and yet, God is seeking worshippers who will worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). This shows that His kind of soul demands a kind of worship. God's kind of soul can take all honour, glory, adoration and worship from angels and yet, He is still looking for a soul that is His own kind of soul.
6. Jesus was made a quickening spirit and yet, He worshipped God. This made God believe that He could multiply that kind of soul that would produce that kind of worship. God wants to upgrade our souls; this is what it means to have the inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away (1 Pet. 1:4). The soul that God has and wants to share with us is an incorruptible breath. This is why the soul is called ‘breath’, both in the Greek and Hebrew translations.
7. (John 20:22). The breath of Jesus upgraded the souls of the disciples and it reflected in how they handled the gospel. They handled the gospel with a kind of heart. In our present day, ministry is defined by a kind of expectation or success mentality; this is not salvation. This is what propels men to do some things that they do and make some sacrifices that they make. The Apostles however made sacrifices without expecting anything. Someone like Paul was constantly pursued from one city to another for the sake of the gospel. Some of us would have stopped if we were in his shoes. Some would even be angry with God or doubt that those experiences are truly of God.
8. The motivation of the Apostles was not a physical one; they were rather motivated by breath. When this breath possesses a man, he has to yield to it. Jeremiah described the experience when he did not want to preach, that it was as a fire shut up in his bones (Jer. 20:9). That means he could not stop speaking. Paul also said, “Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16). This showed that there was something that was driving him, which was not external or for the recognition of men or for what people define as success in ministry. What was driving him was breath. This was why although they were being killed, stoned, etc, they continued. What they had was a soul type. The persecutions they faced and the things they confronted were spirits, and it will only take spirits (like the Apostles) to fight with such spirits, like the beast of Ephesus (1 Cor. 15:32).
9. Paul was a spirit — this was the quality of his soul and as such, he could fight spirits. It is such souls that can wear out, wrestle, and stand against spirits until those spirits give up on them. Those spirits gave up on the Apostles. It is such souls that have become spirits that can also wear off the spirit of the antichrist. However, Satan does not want such men to be raised. This is because he knows that if they are raised, he cannot have an inroad to the Church, for they will keep him at bay.
10. "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." (Job 32:8). The word ‘spirit’ in the above verse is also ‘breath’. We receive breath to get breath (inspiration). When Jesus breathed on His disciples in John 20:22 saying, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost”, this was not referring to the new birth nor was it the baptism of the Holy Ghost (in the sense of the infilling of the Holy Ghost). Jesus had not yet prayed to the Father to send the Holy Ghost at that time, so the transaction that happened with that breath was a soul upgrade.
11. There is a relationship between breath and understanding. Without breath, there are certain understandings we cannot come into; meaning that, without some kind of soul, one cannot come into some level of understanding. So, Jesus needed to breathe upon them for their souls to come into that understanding. One of the essence of soul upgrade is understanding. If one’s soul is not upgraded, such would not be able to see or receive certain understanding. And one who does not have understanding is dwelling in the congregation of the dead (Prov. 21:16). Hence, the soul needs upgrading to fetch an understanding. Eternal Life is an understanding.
12. (1 John 5:20). The inspiration of the Almighty is meant to upgrade the soul to an inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven (1 Pet. 1:4). It is a soul that has been upgraded like this that would be able to comprehend Eternal Life. Presently, Eternal Life is yet to be comprehended. It is just being taught and it is still being taught darkly, that is, not with complete understanding because we do not yet have the understanding. But if Jesus were to teach us Eternal Life, we would understand. However, before we can receive His teaching, our souls need to be upgraded in order to be able to have fellowship and understand what He says. This is because our Lord Jesus is light, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another…” (1 Jn. 1:7). To participate in His fellowship, our souls need to be upgraded. There is a kind of soul that will fetch some kind of understanding.
13. "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." (1 Corin. 15:45). Adam was first a man and then he was made. This means “breath” is not given to children, but to sons. It was the process of making that brought Adam to a place where he could become a living soul. The last Adam, our Lord Jesus, was also made a kind of soul called a “quickening Spirit”. This is our inheritance and we should be glad about it.
14. “For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.” (John 5:2). Both the Father and the Son quicken by giving breath to as many that believe. Souls are being upgraded and changed from being natural souls to becoming the kind of soul called quickening spirit. This is a great inheritance. I feel that when God saw Jesus and who He had become, He was excited because He would have many children like Jesus.
15. What motivates God to count on an unstable being like man? If it were angels that were being raised to become quickening spirits, the Godhead would probably have finished the work by now because angels have the capacity to comply with God. But what made God come down so low to man? It is because of the joy that the Father has – which is that He would have many children like Jesus.
16. The last Adam, Jesus, was made; this means we would be made also. This is the process we are undergoing right now. We are being made. Some of us already have a kind of soul right now that is heavenly. We would not be shown, but we have gained some kind of breath. This reflects in the kind of decisions we make. There are some decisions one can make now that someone who does not have our kind of understanding would consider such to be abnormal, or out of one’s mind. This is because the soul has captured some breaths of God. But there is more of God’s breath we ought to capture; we must keep moving from one breath to another breath. The soul keeps changing as this occurs until we capture the breath of the Almighty.
17. Our inheritance is to capture the breath of the Almighty. This is how our soul will be upgraded to the soul of the Almighty. What kind of fellowship would that be? A fellowship is with the Father and the Son! (1 Jn. 1:3). This means it is a kind of soul that can fellowship with the Father and the Son. Such a soul would have risen to the state where it can fellowship with the Father and the Son.
18. As we proceed in prayers for Anamnesis, our souls would be catching breath for greater understanding and comprehension until we fully capture the soul of the Almighty. God’s soul will have pleasure in us. We must desire these things because they are faithful and true. The name Almighty is the breath of the Almighty. We desire that it should be breathed upon us; that the Lord would not withhold it from us (Amen).
Blessings!
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