Sitted Beside Christ

The body of Christ needs to acknowledge the fact that we as believer's are not on our own and because of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have been given a place of authority and the power to carry out exploits here on earth to the glory of His name. We are not just ordinary believer's anymore all because of Jesus who came here on earth to die for us - John3;16.

We are not just called believer's without a purpose, we have God given rights to do more exploits for the kingdom of God and not to take it for granted. God Himself as put His power in us when He created us in His own image and likeness - Genesis 1: 26 -27 and gave us His own breath at the same time.

As believer's in Christ, God raised us up by Himself and sat us with Christ in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 2: 6

And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus,

This simply means that as soon as we believed in Christ, God did not hesitate, he lifted us up and sat us with Christ as believer's. remember that Jesus said to us that the work of God is to believe in Him whom God sent - John 6:29.

We are in this realm as the body of Christ but in the Spirit we are now seated with Christ in the heavenly places, what a privilege it is to us that God in His love for us all sat us down with His Son, and when we look in the spirit realm our focus should be where we are seated.

Therefore, as believer's in Christ we are to set our minds on things that are above at all times - Colossians 3:2. Believer's are seated in a place of honor and power, and it's all about the love that God as for us all. The Bible records that we are one spirit with Jesus - 1 Corinthians 6:17, and as we are one with Christ, all that is in Him is also in us as His children that is seated beside Him in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 1: 15 - 23

[I always pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son]. And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the [b]saints (God’s people), and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength which He produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion [whether angelic or human], and [far above] every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and world but also in the one to come. And He [d]put all things [in every realm] in subjection under Christ’s feet, and appointed Him as [supreme and authoritative] head over all things in the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all [believers].

God lifted up His Son from the dead and seated Him beside Him in His right hand in the heavenly places, far above the principalities and power and might and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this time but also in that which is to come. Every thing is now under the feet of our Saviour Jesus Christ. In the position that God as placed us, beside Christ in the heavenly places where we are seated in Christ, we are also above the principality and the powers.

This place that we are seated is a place where the enemies are subject to us, if we are actually in Christ as believer's and in this place we are also called children of light - Matthew 5: 14 - 16. Let us remember that God said to us in Colossians 1: 13 that we have been transferred from Satan's kingdom into the kingdom of His Son, it simply means that we are no longer in the realm of darkness as believer's but we are now partakers of the kingdom of God.