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      It is so important that we discover how to draw things out of our heavenly account.  Everything that we need to fulfill our divine purpose was accomplished in the cross of Christ.  When he ascended up on high, he filled (or fulfilled) all things (Eph. 4:9).  According to Ephesians one, we have been blessed, "...with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 1:3).   Paul even mentions, in his letter to the church of Philippi, "My God shall supply all your need according to "his riches in glory" by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19).  This supply contains everything we need to live an overcoming, productive Christian life. Health, peace of mind, provisions, wisdom, strength, guidance, all of it--it is available to you, but you much learn how to create a heavenly atmosphere so that things deposited for you in that realm can be transferred to you into this realm.

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"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.'

- Eph. 1:3

    The first thing that every believer should discover, after he or she gives their life to Christ, is the fact that redemption is a finished work.  Although it is certain that "He which began a good work in you will complete it at the day of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:6), the underlying truth is "YE ARE COMPLETE IN HIM!" (Col. 2:10).  Although this may appear to be a contradiction of terms, it's not.  To our natural way of thinking we see this as a mystery. After all, how can one be complete in Him, when it clearly states that the work he started will not be completed until he returns?  Are we a work in progress or are we a finished product?  Actually, both statements are correct!  We are being conformed into the image of Christ.  That is part of what "growing up in him in all things" means (Eph 4:15).  However, the scriptures also teach us, "As he is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17).  Would we even dare begin to think that in some way he is not complete!  If we are indeed, "as he is" then we much accept the fact that we are a product of what he finished!   John even went as far as to say, "Of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace" (John 1:16).  What seems to be an enigma can easily be explained by recognizing and understanding the difference between the legal side and the vital side of redemption. 

The legal side has to do with everything that has been done as part of the finished work of Christ.  When the Lord finished what he came to do, the Bible says, "He ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things" (Eph. 4:9).  The word "fill" should have been rendered "fulfill."  All that was needed to be done to redeem us was now accomplished.  Everything we could ever need in life is at our disposal.  When the Father looks at you, through the eyes of redemption, he sees you perfect.  Romans chapter eight says, "Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Rom. 8:30).  The tense, used in this verse, clearly establishes the fact that this has already been completed.  You were predestinate. You were called.  You were justified.  You were glorified. You can see this same trend of thought in the first thirteen verses of Ephesians chapter one.  Everything he states is in the past tense.  "Yea, but the Bible says we won't be glorified until the rapture of the church." That is true, but if you accept the fact that he predestinated you, called you, and justified you in Christ, then you must also accept that he glorified you in him.  Just as the scriptures tell us that "Jesus is the lamb slain before the foundation of the world,"it also declares that, "We were chosen in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love" (Rev. 13:8; Eph 1:4). In other words, Christ came and identified with everything you were, so that now you are identified with everything he is.  When he was raised up, you were raised up.  When he sat down at the right hand of the Father, you sat down with him. Positionally speaking, you are (not hope to be one day in the sweet by and by) a king and a priest unto God (Rev. 1:5).  You are as righteous as you will ever be!  You are one with Christ as much as you will ever be!  You are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. That's what has been done in you and for you, and it exists in your heavenly account!  Now you have to access it by declaring, "I am what God says I am.  I can do what God says I can do.  I have what God says I have!"   All that is legally yours becomes a vital reality by declaring it so!  The Bible says, "We are being changed from glory to glory" (2 Cor. 3:18).  This is the vital side of redemption.  As we see who we are "in Him," (a finished product) we behold, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord.  As we come face to face, beholding this finished work, we are then changed from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (a work in progress).  We could actually say, "We are becoming what we have already become!"

When Paul said, "We are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places," we understand, from a legal standpoint, that every form of spiritual blessing now resides in our heavenly account.  But I want you to see another side to this.  From a vital standpoint, we have the opportunity of creating an atmosphere with our faith, where things that are of a heavenly nature can manifest in this present realm.  Every time you stir yourself up in the Holy Spirit, God's presence is made real to you.  You become aware of his presence.  Your spirit comes into contact with heavenly realities. You actually create an atmosphere that becomes heavenly in nature.  In that atmosphere is where you access all that you possess in him.  If all you see are heavenly places somewhere in the distance stars, where heaven itself resides, you are missing something of tremendous value to accessing your heavenly account.  Deuteronomy chapter eleven, says, you can have days of heaven on earth! (Deut. 11:21). In other words: You can experience days, where things of a heavenly nature manifest down here, in this earthly realm.  The surest way to draw from your heavenly account is when the atmosphere around you becomes a heavenly place.  Jesus said, "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 18:20).  Is this not one and the same? When we gather in his name we create an atmosphere where Christ, who is in heaven, comes among us to stand in our midst!  We sense his power.  We feel his presence.   It is our right and privilege, as believers, to stir ourselves up until these heavenly places are tangible to our spirit, until we are standing in the midst of a heavenly atmosphere where we can fully access our heavenly account. 

What are you waiting for! Start now, by believing that you can access everything that is in your heavenly account, where it can come into manifestation by simply stepping in to those heavenly places that you create down here below, with your faith! 

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