*Matthew 5:3, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."*
So far, we have discussed spiritual food insufficiency, spiritual clothes insufficiency and now we are discussing spiritual abode or home insufficiency.
Yesterday, we discussed Adam as the younger son, who sold his part of inheritance, left his home, left his elder brother Jesus and his loving Father and has now spent everything he had and has no choice but to be employed by an uncaring employer called the devil, to take care of swines we called sin for a wage we called death.
We went on to say that Adam must *come to his senses* and remember that he has a Father, go to him, kneel down and accept to work as a servant or a slave. Because even if it is his Father's house, everything now by right is owned by his Elder brother Jesus. And this is why we are rightly called *"servants of God"*, and as Paul used to say, *"a slave to Christ"*.
We said, that Adam must realize that now he owns NOTHING. If he has to ask of anything from the Father, *he has to ask for it IN THE NAME OF JESUS his elder brother.* We finished at the point where I was explaining that *praying in the name of Jesus*, does not mean mentioning the name of Jesus at the end of your prayers, it means coming into a realisation that everything in this house you have come to after your prodigy episode belongs to Jesus, and you will not get anything unless He has first signed an authorization.
Praying in the name of Jesus is not a "names dropping", where you mention who you know to intimidate juniors. It only works after a sit down with Jesus, and him accepting your request, then you can go to the Father and tell Him, "Jesus has allowed me to use such and such a thing in this house." And such a prayer as Jesus said, will never go unanswered, in other words, God will never refuse to let you use what Jesus has already allowed you to use in His compound.
The problem is that people use the Name of Jesus to try and bully God into doing things and angels into serving them. They act like "spoilt brats", who squandered everything and just because the father forgave him and the brother has allowed them to be co-heir, he now wants everybody to tremble as they obey their command.
This is one of the reasons why prayers go an answered. Prayer must be in consultation with Jesus Christ before it is presented before God. And the Father's work will only be to allow, but many times people pray, and then the Father has to ask Jesus, "Did you agree to so and so using that Mercedes?" And Jesus will say, "We haven't talked about it", then the Father will deny you the Mercedes, and you will think He still hates you for what you did with your part of inheritance. But nothing is further from the truth!
God forgave you and looks at you like you never sinned. Jesus has already agreed to make you a co-heir. *A co-heir is not a partnership!* It is an arrangement of owning everything together communally.
This is why, even if Jesus owns everything, He could still say, "foxes have holes, birds have nests, but I, the Son of Man has no place to lay my head". He was coming to terms with the state and the situation of His younger brother Adam, who now has nothing.
When we talk about shelter, we need to know that our bodies are temporary shelter to the real son of God within them. I was trying to explain yesterday to a brother that man is made up of three components. A body that is born of a Woman, a spirit that is born of God and a mind that is born of knowledge. And non of these belong to man. This is why Jesus is saying, "Blessed is the man that realises how poor he is spiritually, for it is only he that can access the kingdom of God".
*Bless* means divinely engineer and empower or set up to prosper. You will never achieve the apex of your greatness until you start first by acknowledging the greatness of your nothingness.
You have to humble yourself before the LORD, for the lifting to be initiated.
Why do we have poor Christians?
Because very few understand how this kingdom works. Most believe that just because the Father welcomed them with a kiss, put a ring on their finger, donned them with a new gown, and slaughtered a fat bull for them, then now they can infringe on the *rights of their Elder brother*.
Many think that the reason God is not answering them is because of their sin. But the way to accessing the kingdom of heaven, is by humbling yourself and talking with Jesus first concerning everything you want and then presenting your unanimous concensus to the Father for approval.
But this *lastborn mentality* of "I am my Father's favorite" and names dropping will not help much.
Ask the sons of Sceva, they tried the "names dropping" business with a certain demon, their experience is lesson up to date.
In our part seven tomorrow, we shall look at how to consult with Jesus, for express approval of our pleas to the Father.
Shalom and keep the faith.
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