Harnessing the Power of God’s Prophetic Personality

Function vs. Relationship

The commands of God before Jesus were referred to as the law.

…became a practice and a religion that eroded and did not enhance people’s relationship with God.

…promoted a task-driven function that placed people in a pecking order based on their degree of performing the function.

The adjudication of how well you did the function was judged by an establishment of those who created the function. 

And all this was done under the guise of obeying the law and God.

In many instances, only a little has changed. We still claim relational elements of our faith, like grace, mercy, and forgiveness, but we walk in function and judgment.

When we walk in obedience to function alone, we are walking in disobedience to how our relational God created us. 

The most profound form of disobedience is not disobedience to law or function but disobedience to the wonder of the personality of God.

Example: Speeding ticket vs. treason

The Fall Of Man

Genesis and the fall of man demonstrated not disobedience to a law (eat of the fruit) but to a relationship (when God sought Adam, he hid).

Disobedience to our relationship with God breeds dysfunction in our lives.

Here is why…

In John 4:24, Jesus states, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 

We respond to God through His personality, not His laws.

Our worship is based not on a set of laws but on divine personality traits.

John 14:6

Jesus said “I  am the way, the truth, and the life. No one may come to the Father except through me.” – John 14:6

“Man’s way to reach God is religion, but God’s way to reach man is Jesus.”

Jesus is the very expression of God’s personality – “the Word became flesh.”

Obedience to his commands as a function vs. obedience to His commands as a relationship.

Romans 8:6

So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

Function is Flesh – Man made (death), but relationship is spiritual – God’s personlity (life).

Being spiritual is simply being in love with and expressing the personlity of God.

Religion is our way of taking authority over our eternity.

We are expressing authority in a space where we do not have charge.

Eternity is not a function of living forever; it is a relationship with a God who is eternal.

We don’t get to be the divine personality that governs the universe; we get to mirror it. 

Our authority comes from displaying His personality, not expressing our own.

The world will tell you that’s a human rights infringement. 

The balance of our faith requires us to be in a relationship with the unseen and to embrace the unknown with confidence in Him and who He is. (FAITH)

Faith vs. Religion

Operating in religion is operating in knowledge and not faith. Faith is trusting God in the unknown. Religion is about limiting the unknown through control.

Romans 4:4-5

“Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.”

God wants us to pursue Him and His personality. Religious function kills this life-giving intimacy.  

Relational Obedience 

We are obedient to Him because it’s what fits. It makes sense at a level we can not explain. It’s because it is more familiar to our psyche than what we think.

We were made by Him to be like Him.

We are made by a God with life as a personality trait, not a function.

The highest level of obedience is allowing His personality to become our guide and to allow that expression to have the greatest volume in our lives.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord . “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Plans are ta