Untethering from this world

Romans 12:2 states the importance of untethering from this world, very succinctly.

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” – Rms 12:2

Evidently, there are problems with the paradigms of this world that will prevent us from being transformed (transfigured)… and from being able to prove the will of God.

We may wonder if we already have a renewed mind?  Well, Bill Johnson says,

“Transfiguration is the evidence of a fully renewed mind.”

And that is the Biblical litmus test, because of course, Bill is just stating Romans 12:2 in a slightly different way.  And when is the last time that you transfigured??  Well, with that, it becomes obvious that most of us believers still have quite a ways to go.

Can you imagine the liberties that we would experience if we untethered from the laws of physics of this world? Think of it: gravity, aerodynamics, speed of light, time, aging, singular locality, etc….

Untethering examples
If we’re untethered FROM time, then we’re not dictated BY time and we become free to live BEYOND time.  Remember, God lives outside of time and created time… He’s bigger than time.  And since we are “one spirit with Him” (I Cor 6:17) then we have access to all that God is!

In Earth paradigms, visual size and volume and numbers, all determine influence… or if we see the tangible size of a thing it leads us to believe in the power or veracity of a thing.  But in the Heavenly realm, Presence, love and character determine authority and influence.

The world says, “Seeing is believing,” but true Biblical faith does not come by natural sight.  In the Heavenly realm, true faith ONLY comes by hearing His voice.  So, disentangling from this world will release us from having to see by natural sight, and free us into hearing the rhema or Spirit voice of God.  And this hearing and the resulting faith, is what empowers us to ‘walk on water’.

My ‘Avenue of Angels’
To most people who use my prayer trail for exercise, it gets its importance and worth from its 10’ wide flat concrete with grass on both sides and greenery all around and it’s tranquility.  But to me, my Avenue of Angels get its importance and reality from the unseen realm.  And that reality came by familiarity and the frequency with which I have traversed this Avenue.  Each exchange of Heavenly commodity hallowed this pathway… so much so that I began calling it my Avenue of Angels.  This reality of Heavenly exchange has superseded and eclipsed any earthly value that concrete pathway may have to others.  This is just one place that my mind has been able to untether from this world.  Thank You, Lord.  How many more places in my life await this powerful dynamic?

Open wide you everlasting doors
So, it seems that we must find our personal doors that will facilitate untethering from this world.  Each of us will have to find our own rhemas, which are like ‘handles’ to our own personal ‘doors’.  Regarding doors: Maybe we should prophesy to our doors as in Psalm 24:

“Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors…” – Ps 24:9

Where to start 
A primary and crucial place to start is where you see yourself located… on earth… or in Heaven.  We’ve covered plenty of Scriptures to validate our Heavenly position – THEOLOGICALLY.  No need to reinforce our theology.  But we have not done well at EXPERIENCING being located in Heaven, NOW!  We must do whatever it takes… declare war on any opposing thought… take every thought captive… declare the Word of God… post post-its… pray out loud, etc.  And why is this important?  Because…

Thoughts create words… and words create (our) worlds

It is time to stop begging for something from Heaven when you’ve already “been given everything pertaining to life and godliness” (II Pet 1:3).  As long as we see ourselves as earthlings, we will be tied to this earth.  No need to pull down things out of Heaven anymore.  YOU ARE IN HEAVEN NOW!  It is time to see ourselves as being in union with God and function as the outflowing expression of God.  It’s time to begin to function like kings and emissaries of Almighty God.  It’s time to function as a life-giving spirit, in keeping with our Elder Brother Jesus.  We are Bible believing believers, so if the Bible says it, then we will embrace it… and our words will begin to reflect it… no apologies.  

And thus, the untethering process has begun!!! 

–MLH