| • Self consciousness died and Christ | | | | Who is my life, to |
| consciousness came alive. I was restored to the | | | | • “I” living who is the “Christ I” |
| original experience of the Garden of Eden, before | | | | living. |
| man fell from union consciousness to self | | | | Those are the stages one goes through. You are |
| consciousness. | | | | actually in the third stage at this point in your life, |
| • In receiving a new spirit, I went from a dead | | | | and you were talking as though you were in the |
| spirit -- one cut off from Christ -- to a live spirit -- | | | | second stage. Thus you experienced confusion. |
| one reunited with Christ. I went from separation | | | | You have not distinguished the fact that there is |
| to union, from self’s strength to divine flow. | | | | a progression in one’s revelation and thus |
| • I no longer ask God to help “me” | | | | one’s vocabulary as he goes through this |
| become better, because that prayer betrays a | | | | process. |
| still resident belief that “I” am separate | | | | Q. Lord, am I to speak of the old man, or only |
| from Him, and thus shows that I am still living | | | | the new man? Would I want any more to speak |
| “self conscious” rather than “Christ | | | | of the illusion, or only the reality? |
| conscious.” Instead I simply ask Jesus to do | | | | Mark, you only want to speak of the new reality |
| the job through me -- demonstrating that through | | | | you have found in Christ. You only want to speak |
| revelation knowledge I have moved back to union | | | | of the truth, never the illusion, never error. So |
| consciousness, and I now see myself as the | | | | don’t speak of whom the “self I” is. |
| “Christ I” acting. | | | | If self seeks to rear his ugly head (resurrect |
| • My spirit was reconnected to the Holy Spirit | | | | himself), confess that which is true (who you are |
| Who is working out my soul’s salvation, for it | | | | in Christ). That is whom you are to speak of, and |
| is Christ at work in me, healing my shattered | | | | only of that, not of error. Not of the old man, |
| heart, restoring my soul and healing my body (Phil. | | | | because he has been done away with and a new |
| 2:12,13). | | | | man now lives. Speak and live only out of the |
| He doesn’t want to give me strength; He | | | | new man, never the old man who has been done |
| wants to BE my strength. | | | | away with. Thus I have spoken, and thus it is to |
| He doesn’t want to give me wisdom; He | | | | be done. |
| wants to BE my wisdom. | | | | Mark, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So |
| He doesn’t want to give me love; He wants | | | | the flesh will express weakness, but the spirit will |
| to BE my love | | | | not. So you may say, “My flesh is weak but |
| Q. So, Lord, what was my problem? Why am I | | | | my spirit is strong.” That is a true confession |
| uncomfortable when I teach the seminar on | | | | and that is permissible. However, your focus |
| Naturally Supernatural? | | | | should always be on energizing your spirit through |
| Mark, you have been accentuating the fact that | | | | My Holy Spirit, so that its energy overcomes the |
| you are a vessel. Mark, you are more than a | | | | weakness of the flesh. Always put the accent on |
| vessel -- there is also an organic union. Eventually | | | | the spirit, never on the flesh. Always speak of |
| you become conscious of Me at all times; there is | | | | the spirit much more than you speak of the flesh. |
| no more this illusion of separation, that I am | | | | Always fix your eyes on the spirit much more |
| something within you and separate from you. | | | | than you fix your eyes on the flesh. Even though |
| There comes the revelation that we are one, and | | | | you acknowledge the flesh, you never fix your |
| so life and vocabulary take on a whole new | | | | attention upon it. You always fix your attention on |
| perspective. | | | | the union of My Spirit to your spirit and the flow |
| You no longer say that “I am the negative | | | | of My life into and through you. That way you |
| and God is the positive.” You are joined to | | | | are always fixed upon the positive and never the |
| God, so you have become positive, for you have | | | | negative. |
| learned to live out of your roots at all times, and | | | | So you will never accentuate the fact that you |
| to be conscious of your roots at all time. You are | | | | are weak, or powerless, or ignorant. It may be |
| no longer self conscious. You are constantly Christ | | | | true from time to time that your flesh is, or you |
| conscious. So you no longer say, “I am the | | | | are, if you step back from the “Christ I” |
| negative and Christ is the positive.” The new | | | | to the “self I,” but speak instead of who |
| reality is that the two have become one. You say | | | | you are in Christ. Your eyes are fixed on Christ. |
| “I” and you mean “Christ.” So you | | | | Your mouth confesses who you are in Christ. And |
| begin saying, “I am the positive.” | | | | you live in Christ. Thus you have been overcome |
| There is a progression. You go from speaking of: | | | | by Christ, and it is the “Christ I” who lives, |
| • “I” living, out of my own strength, to | | | | and not the “self I. |
| • “I” stepping to the indwelling Christ | | | | |