Graduating out of the crib

From nepios to huios

Graduation from old heavens and earth (crib) to the new heavens and earth (Heavenly places)
Nepios is the Greek word for ‘babies’.  In order to keep babies safe, many times we place them in a crib.  This protects them from the danger of falling down the stairs or touching a hot stove, etc.  I wonder if while we are baby Christians, Father keeps us in a crib of the ‘old heavens and earth’.  There are less consequences there and less opportunity to mess things up.  It’s low power and low impact. 

But in Scripture it’s easy to see that Father is waiting for us to grow up into huios sons (Greek word for mature sons) so we can graduate out of our ‘crib’ and begin to learn to live in a new heaven and new earth (the Heavenly places).  This is what God dreamed of before the foundations of the world (Eph 1:4).  He’s excited about the saints transitioning from being nepios needy consumers of Heaven to being huios co-partner governors – with God – from Heaven – down into earth places.

Can you feel our minds getting renewed?  Can you feel old stronghold beliefs beginning to crack and fray?  A huge shift is happening on the personal level and in some of the corporate body of Christ!   We’re being transformed by the renewing of our minds.  We’re disentangling from this world and reorienting to a higher plane.

These new Heavenly places are governed by laws and principles that are different from earth’s laws.  Our transition from earth laws to Heavenly laws is in full swing.  As Jesus modeled for us in John 3:13, we’re realizing that we are fully human and fully spirit at the same time.  We’re learning to walk on the earth with its earthly laws, but without being mastered by them.  The Heavenly laws are now replacing and superseding the lower laws.  And this is only right and normal for all huios sons of God.  The staggering truth is that our inheritance includes becoming co-governors with God over all the greatness and the sovereignty of all the kingdoms that are under the whole heavens (Dan 7:27).  And that is the TRUTH!

The writer of Hebrews gives us a few clues as to what qualifies us to graduate from nepios to huios sons.  It says that becoming skilled in the “word of righteousness” is a predicating factor for maturing into “perfection” (see Heb 5:11-14 and Heb 6:1-3).  There’s another qualifying factor in this Hebrews passage.  See if you can catch the two qualifying factors in this passage.

“For everyone who partakes only of milk is 1) unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.  But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use 2) have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” – Heb 5:13-14

So what is the 1) word of righteousness?  What does this mean?  And what does 2) exercise mean and how does it apply to us?  With these two factors in mind, here are two questions:

1. Which do you think about most… your unrighteousness or your righteousness?
   Your answer is evidence as to whether you’ve embraced the righteousness Jesus gave you.
2. Since exercise is essential for growth, how often do you exercise your spiritual senses?
   Where do you push yourself beyond your normal comfortable spiritual boundaries? 

I admit, this may be a significant challenge… but since we’ve been made aware of these things, we’re beginning to make progress.  We’re growing!  Thank you Father!… we’re transforming from ‘nepios’ needy earth-based consumers of Heaven   TO   ‘huios’ Heaven-based confident life-giving sons who are learning to co-rule – with God – from Heaven – down into the earth places.

Wow!  Can anyone say hallelujah!!??!?!!! Yes, Lord!

— MLH

Resource:  Ascended Life Study Course   (New)
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Transition from CIE to CHR

Transition from ‘Crisis Intervention Event’ (CIE) to ‘Continual Heavenly Reality’ (CHR)

In keeping with our larger theme of ‘untethering from earth’, here is another epic mindset transition that is occurring.  It will become common in the mindsets of believers in our near future. Let me explain.

In the past era, the works of God in human’s lives were seen as Divine interventions… they were out-of-the-ordinary Heavenly invasions to fix our areas of pain.  These fixes were requested and expected to come from another realm.  And beyond all of that, we saw ourselves as plaintiffs, with little capacity to fix the problem on our own… so it was ‘little-ol-me’ begging God for another handout from Heaven.  This ‘helpless’ mindset affected all areas of life where we experienced felt need.

In the past, we asked God for a Crisis Intervention Event (CIE) to ‘rescue us’ from our felt-needs, but in the future, we’re being invited to live in the normal life-flow of Continual Heavenly Reality (CHR).

Contrasts between CIE and CHR

CIE seeks for an ‘emergency’ breakthrough from a distant God, down into our lives
CHR is the natural outworking of a renewed mind that ‘sees’ ourselves as living in Heaven in the saturated environment of Heavenly realities

CIE puts God at a distance and us trying to ‘change His mind’ to show us favor
CHR embraces God in us and us in God, so that the Life of God is present continually

CIE needs healing breakthroughs to get from one crisis to another
CHR rests in Divine health and a normal expression of union with God

CIE requests healing for our broken world/body, etc
CHR expects wholeness and health as our continuous upgraded reality

CIE needs a fix for the influences and ravages of death and dying
CHR rests in the realities of restoration of our youth and immortality

CIE hopes for crisis intervention for provision and to pay bills
CHR knows that I have already been given everything pertaining to life and godliness

CIE hopes to receive a problem intervention FROM GOD
CHR activates the life flow FROM WITHIN US because we are a life-giving-spirit

CIE keeps us apart from God and in a mode of asking Him for special favors
CHR naturally and consistently manifests Heavenly realities from out of our spirit

The norm for those who are living in new creation realities, and new heavens and new earth environments and are living in His Holy Mountain, (Isa 65) will include

Revelation, burden free, victory, joy, prospering, peace, harmony, union with God, long life/immortality, etc

These realities will become more common in this newly emerging age.  But, even though the People of God can choose to live in these outstanding new Heavenly realities, there will still be people who will choose to live under the previous norm of death, need for healing and curses, etc. (Note Isa 65:17-25 and Rev 22:2) 

So, can the saints still minister in Crises Intervention Event type healing (or any other type of crisis management system of the past age)?  Yes!  We may have to minister to people who are still living from the last age norm with modes that they can relate to.  But just because we CAN function in that mode, does not mean that mode has mandated its identify upon us.  We are of an upgraded and updated reality which enjoys the God-life flowing out from us (John 7:38).  Like Jesus, when He used the Crisis Intervention Event healing mode to meet people where they were, that DID NOT define Him, because He lived from the eternal realm… from the Heavenly realm.

For a specific example, let’s address the contrasts between healing and Divine health.  When we move into immortality and into union with the consistent life-flow of God in and through us, healing is not needed as a Crisis Intervention Event.  Rather, in the Continual Heavenly Reality mode, sickness just doesn’t happen, because we are living in a reality that is higher than needing frequent fixes.  Our reality now is living in and from Heaven so that His Kingdom manifests down on earth and His will is done on earth as an expression of the Heavenly norm – which flows through us – from Heaven, where we now live.  It’s important to remember that we are ‘life giving spirits’!

The Heavenly norms include

Continual health, wholeness, light, joy, peace, eternal life, supernatural life, etc…

Who are the purveyors of this reality?  The saints!

I don’t believe that this is just another trendy focus on ‘better believing’.  I believe that this is a dynamic spiritual reality that is being awakened in God’s people.  And if I was to be so bold, I feel that this may be a part of the “New day dawning and the Morning Star arising in our hearts” found in II Pet 1:19.  This dynamic awakening may be something that has lain dormant in our being since the Fall and has been waiting for this epic timing in history.  Without a doubt, this restoration will affect major core tenets of our believing and living.

For more comparisons, it may be as radical as the shift from Old Covenant to New Covenant… or from pre-Pentecost to post-Pentecost.  Think of it, no one could have predicted that a radical new experience would invade the lives of those who lived through each of those epic transitionary times!

So, gird up your loins!!!  Let’s ride! ☺

Companion Scriptures

Rom 8:19-23, John 14:12, Isa 65:17-25, Rev 22:2, John 7:38, II Pet 3:13

— MLH

For more on this subject:

Transition from CIE to CHR – 22mins
https://youtu.be/A8VmRvcSuVQ