"[...] Every believer is a saint, every saint is a minister... We are made sons of God once, we are sanctified once, we are made His righteousness once, but we undergo the process of being made a minister."

A steward is one who administrates  the mystery revealed. The word "administration" comes from the Greek word "Oikonomos" and it speaks of an economy; the manner in which resources are distributed for the functioning of a government. Paul explains this term "administration" in Colossians 1 as a dispensation of the mystery.  TO BE an administrator of the mystery, one is to UNDERSTAND some key cardinal points highlighted in Ephesians 3:1-3.

When Paul says that he was made a prisoner of Christ, he is speaking about his unwavering commitment to take quality time to explain the mystery revealed everywhere he went so that all Men come to the understanding  of that which was PROVIDED in Christ. Paul's entire life, mandate, message, and race was to minister Christ to the Gentiles. He understood the benefits that come with the Gospel which are hope and peace. The Hope of the Gospel is a manner of living that SUPERSEDES the five physical senses. As long as our life on this physical sphere is still dictated by our five physical senses, we won't EXPERIENCE the benefits  that come with the Gospel, nor the untold experience in terms of expressing Christ  to others.

In this Podcast episode, Dr Annie Smith reminds us of our sonship vocation which is to reveal the Son in us. To be made a minister requires a predisposition of the heart to learn by experience what it means to be a prisoner of Christ in this dispensation of the grace of God. In our maturing process in the understanding of the mystery revealed in the saints, we learn that the liberty that we obtain from Christ comes with responsibility and the rendering of account so much so that our lives can no longer be led according to our needs or physical senses. 
 

"[...]  You are God’s expression in this earth. As you become God-conscious, His life and nature flow in you. His abundance flows in you..."

The inestimable VALUE OF GRACE is Christ joining Himself with Man. Christ received all of you in spite of your failures and short-comings. He sees you as His self-expression on earth.

The only way to prove what is the good, pleasant, acceptable and perfect WILL OF GOD is by accepting God’s own opinion of Man. The good, acceptable and perfect will of God isn’t progressive and successive but it has to do with your lifestyle. Christ MADE you perfect, acceptable and good when He raised you up from the dead.

The renewal of the mind is required in order to become conscious of God’s indwelling. This transformation process isn’t based on head knowledge but it is lived and it produces tangible FRUITS that reflect the expression of Christ in the world.  In this week's podcast with Dr. Annie Smith, we trust that your mind will be renewed as you discover and receive the In-Christ message.

" The resurrection has inaugurated a new humanity, a family of sons in the Son par excellence. We have been begotten into the very nature and status of the firstborn: Christ. Yet, many in the Church worldwide are still living as orphans without experiencing and fully benefiting from their adoption and placement right [...]"

Christ is the REINTEGRATION of man into the life of sonship. Through His life, He revealed the original life of the Father which His Spirit now conducts within us. His Faith has introduced us to a NEW way of living. He has brought us into ANOTHER kind of relationship that redefines our awareness of ourselves. It is only when a son comes to maturity that he starts responding to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. A mature son is awakened to the Father’s EMBRACE from within. He delights in his inner life. He is aware that he has been fully accepted by God, and He responds fondly to Abba Father. He conducts the affairs of the Kingdom with reverence and immediate obedience. He is RELIANT UPON the Father. He values and is accountable to divine relationships because he understands the INTERDEPENDENCY that we have as the Body of Christ. He lives by the royal law of love. He understands that the man that he sees represents the God that he doesn't see, and how he reverences the man sent by God will be tantamount to the reverence that he gives Him. 

Are you enjoying the newness of life in Christ Jesus? Would you want to be introduced to this life? Then, tune in to this Podcast Episode with Dr. Annie Smith and as you hear the Father's voice concerning your sonship identity and vocation, receive the heart and spirit of sonship. 

" The Gospel of Jesus Christ includes prosperity. God wants us to prosper in our souls because the prosperity of our souls upholds every area of our lives that is related to our happiness [...]"

Prosperity begins with the soul and goes beyond material gain. It has to do with all-round supply: spiritually, mentally, physically, socially, and financially. There are three pillars of the prosperity of our souls :

• The KNOWLEDGE of who Christ is in us and who we are in Him. This knowledge of God and our true self is already in us and it inspires us to commune with His life within, with His Word. The awareness of Christ's indwelling leads to better relationships with ourselves and others.
• WISDOM is to find our satisfaction in Christ. It is the greatest asset that God has invested in us to prosper. Wealth is found in the wisdom that we have acquired through prayer and communion with the Godhead to bring forth those solutions that are within us to express Christ and satisfy others.
• UNDERSTANDING is to be refreshed and reshaped by the Word of God. With understanding, we espouse the mind of Christ, His intentions and motives. We operate in knowledge and wisdom. Our life is at the service of others. All that we are and have received is used for the furtherance of the Gospel. 

Get ready to embark on a prosperous journey with Dr. Annie Smith as she takes you within to discover how your inner world impacts your outer life. As you align with God's thoughts for your life, you will receive a prosperous soul— an inner satisfaction of knowing who and whose you are.

"God wants us to be fruitful and abound in every good work because our supply glorifies Him. He is praised when we produce fruits [...]"

The word "fill" from Ephesians 4:10 is "Plero" in the Greek, which means to fill up, to make full, all, each, and collectively. "Christ filling up all things" is not that He will overshadow the earth with clouds, but that He will fill the believers with His fullness, such that we become fruitful, multiply and attain our FULL potential. He supplies us with ALL that He is and all that He has through the Word of God, yet He doesn't determine what we receive from Him. He gives Himself liberally to all and from the abundance that we acknowledge, we give to others and become sowers.

Christ is limited in His assignment to fill all when we are fruitless. He DESCENDED to the inner corners of the earth to make captivity captive; to remove every single obstacle that could make us powerless or fruitless. He fills all by filling us full to the overflow. He ASCENDED with us, to be above everything, to be complete  in Him and to continue His priestly ministry at the right hand of the Father. 

As you open your heart to behold your glorified image — the living person that you are in Christ, may your awareness becomes your full experience.

"[...]  the ministry of the righteousness exceeds in glory far more than the ministry of condemnation..."

Paul does this comparison to speak of the failure of the ministration of self-righteousness which is about man deriving his merits by respecting the law. 

The law can be summarized as any action to derive any merit on your own capacity.  God used the Mosaic dispensation to show the ineffectiveness of our self-performances. The do to be paradigm is the glory that fades, forit does not produce what gives life. When you try to use your own effort, you will continually try to become but without becoming.

God INTRODUCES another ministry whereby we no longer live from the things that we ought to observe outwardly but from what we have IN US which is life. The ministration of righteousness exceeds in glory because it is the ministration of life. It transforms, generates life. It is only the Spirit that gives life. The blessing that we receive from Christ is the blessing of life. That blessing is meant to propagate and extend life.

Hearing "thou shall not” has never transformed lives but knowing that you are saved by GRACE through Christ Jesus, renews your mind. 

"[...] In the beginning when God created everything, creation was deformed but then He said: "let light be".  God (who was life) spoke to Himself for the life in Him to be transferred to creation as light..."

We are LIFE and our whole existence is summarized as life. This is the reason why there are multi-dimensional graces of life that can be manifested to us according to our level of APPREHENSION of what we have in Christ.

When areas of your life become deformed or things go otherwise, you can come back to who you are in essence. You are defined by the source of life. The moment you properly get life, life GAINS you back. Nothing can take away that life when you are defined and led by it.

By receiving God's pattern of thoughts, our surroundings begin to adjust accordingly to His pattern of thinking. That is the power of the mind!

As you listen to this 2nd episode of the series entitled “All things freely given”, you will receive the blessing that God conferred to Man which is life that propagates itself. 

"[...] But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ..."

The plan of the Father from the beginning was to share His life with us. Through Christ’s incarnation, we were ENRICHED with everything that was made by life. The life of Christ isn't His body. It is not His existence nor His breath but it is His essence, the very essence of God. He gave us what He was from the beginning and that by which all things were made.

Grace is given to all but it is only according to our PARTICIPATION that we receive the measure of the gift of Christ.

What you apprehend about Christ in you, determine how you appropriate what you heard and know of Him. 

As you dive into this new episode with Dr. Annie Smith, you will remember your origin and avail yourself for the life of God to take a grip on you.

In the Christ event, we were dead, quickened, raised and seated together with Him. This is grace manifested. Once we begin to understand this exchange, we’ll start seeing that as Christ is, so are we in this world. It is all about Christ and there is no possible separation between Him and the believer. In the greatest event of Christ's life, He wasn’t alone but we were together with Him. In like manner, we are to approach life with the consciousness of our togetherness. Ponder on the ramifications of the Life of Christ being revealed in you in all dimensions of your life. 

"[...]  Grace is the gift of God in Christ. The Son of God became Man making us partakers of His Divine Life. He gave Himself unreservedly so that we receive His completeness. Our minds should be renewed to live in the supply of the Grace that is already available within us."

Christ was incarnate to reveal to us the reason why He SUPERSEDES all things, including what we see outwardly. He came as the gift of God, the divine exchange: Grace. Grace can be received and experienced at any moment, but the dilemma is that to fully enjoy Him as God's gift, we should forget about our human inabilities and needs to perceive from Christ's perspective. When we do, we receive the supply of Grace that is already available within us. Grace is not more palpable in our inabilities —that will be a misinterpretation of His gift. The gift that we have from God in Christ is ALWAYS the same the same way that He is unchanging. He has already fully given Himself hence the "alreadiness of Grace". As we REFOCUS on Christ, and on the excellence of His knowledge, we reawaken to the Image of God that we have received to TRANSFORM the world. Transformation comes when we enjoy the gift of Christ in the state of wholeness in our minds. 

In this new episode, Dr. Annie Smith takes us on a journey to see Christ in all His supremacy, above the notion of needs, so that we respond to the Lord’s invitation and participate in what He is doing. As we grow above all limitations in our minds, to perceive from Christ's perspective, it leads us to ENJOY His gift — His fullness, our togetherness with Him: our union, communion and participation with Christ.