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Be governed by the world above

Look to the sky and let the Greatness of God be your way to the impossible

10/04/2018

By: Bishop Amaury de Farias

Jesus Christ was in the world, but he was not of the world. He was not ruled by the rules of the world, but by the standard of God. He lived by the spiritual vision that comes from the Lord. In John 8:23, he said that we are from below, out of this world, but he is not. To be "underneath" is to live under natural rules, to be a natural man, who does not understand the things of God, subject to the natural order of things. It means that if the economy signals a crisis, that person falls. If the medicine says that the problem has no cure, the person will not have a cure. The natural person lives under the natural orders of things. Consequently, natural people will suffer, suffer, because of the natural dangers that life presents, unable to change any situation, because lives under the natural orders of things. However, we who believe in God are subject beyond the rules below. In times when we need to manifest the faith, to open a door on a wall that does not exist and to get a door, an access, where I want to go, I can cry out to God, in faith, to receive this change for a great conquest. In this way, when I receive a diagnosis under the laws below, as a diagnosis of medicine that would condemn me to death, I can thank for the precise diagnosis, but I can claim something from above that goes beyond and, like Jesus, I only spend time here.

By faith, I can accept the laws and the rules up there and change everything, because the rules and laws above are above natural rules. We live in the world below and we are subject, as Jesus said, to all adversities, difficulties, circumstances, but we are not of this world. The world below is the circumstance of the moment we meet.

Our eyes need to be focused on the moments above, so that when we come across moments and situations from the world down below that would destroy or stop the lives of natural people below, the one that is common from above continues because his faith surpasses this world and accomplishes what, to human eyes, is impossible to do. Being in the world is different from being in the world. We live in the world below, where we feel pain, we receive negative prognoses, we run into problems, chaotic situations. In this world below, all of this exists. Now, when we speak of the world from above, to which our eyes must be pointed, the miracle happens and none of this is relevant to the power of God. For those who look to the heavens and see the greatness of God, there is nothing that prevents a son of Abraham from growing and overcoming. The guidance of the Father comes to him when he looks at the world from above. The Lord invites you to have faith and look to the world from above. We live in this world only in the sense of existing, not in the sense of isolating ourselves and living according to the natural orders and laws of life. Get out of the tent and look at the stars, see the greatness of God, a world from above, that you have been beaten to realize that it exists, is real and should govern our lives. This world is the Kingdom of Heaven.