God Fills His Vessels…with Himself

God gave me a revelation one time; here’s what He told me:

“I live in you.”

Let’s get this out of the way first…some people don’t think God speaks to us today, except through His word.  But doesn’t it stand to reason that if we truly are filled with God, that His spirit would speak to our spirit?  If He is inside us, won’t he communicate with us, and even through us?

That may seem too far out for some of you to comprehend.  The scriptures bear out time after time that when we become a child of God, He moves inside of us, lock, stock and barrel…and He brings the Son and the Holy Spirit with Him.

Jesus told Judas in John 14:23, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”

Paul said in Galations 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me….”

1 Corinthians 3:16:  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Those are just a sampling of the scriptures that tell us that we are filled with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Believe me, I had heard and read these scriptures all my life; I had sung songs about Jesus living in my heart. But that truth became real to me the night the Lord said to me, “I live in you.”

I am a vessel of God who is filled with God.  Think about that.  Meditate on that awhile; try to comprehend it.

Maybe this will help you understand; maybe it will blow your mind even more!

It did mine.

In 1 Chronicles 12:18, the Bible says, “Then the Spirit came upon Amasai…” which literally means, “the Spirit clothed Himself” with Amasai.

Remember, God is the potter; we are the clay…we are the vessel that God fills with Himself.  We are the “skin” of the Spirit.

Here’s an analogy that helped me to understand this:

In the movie, Ghost, Patrick Swayze’s character died, and came back as a ghost to the one he loved; trouble was, she couldn’t see or hear him, so he had to enlist the help of Whoopi Goldberg’s character, who could hear him, because she had that gift…I know, I know..this isn’t in the least spiritual, but bear with me here.

Patrick so longed to touch Demi Moore’s character, and let her know how much he still loved her, that Whoopi finally agreed to let him use her body….so he entered the body of Whoopi, and he then controlled it.  He was able to touch Demi, to caress her and communicate with her.

In the movie, Whoopi became Patrick….because Patrick “clothed” himself with Whoopi’s body.

Paul said he no longer even lived, but Christ lived in Him.  The Lord had clothed himself with Paul.

I want to be that way…like Paul.  I want what I do, what I say, how I feel, how I live, to reflect the Christ that lives in me.  I want Him to control my body, my spirit, my mind.

Like those who watched “Ghost” no longer saw Whoopi in that scene, but Patrick, I want others to see the character of God when they see me.

The meaning of this verse just now became clear to me:

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.  1 John 4:12

Some translations even add the “but” in there…..no man has seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us, and that’s how men see God….they see Him in us!

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