“Your Holiness!” scoffed Pattie and her gang at Anna when she walked past them in a cafeteria. Anna didn’t mind the name-calling as she was used to such criticism for her faith in Christ. Seeing she was undeterred by her comment, Pattie thought to “prank” Anna by putting some funny spices in her food the moment she stood up for a drink. Pattie watched intently with glee, waiting for Anna to choke on her food, but it didn’t happen! Instead, Anna finished her food and was totally fine, and Pattie’s jaw dropped! What was Anna’s secret? She was born again, full of eternal life, and meditated on Isaiah 54:17 and Mark 16:15-18 daily.
Church history shows how Apostle John faced intense persecution due to his faith. He was captured and plunged into a large vessel of boiling oil with the intention of frying him alive. They lit the fire while he was inside, but something remarkable happened: the oil burnt out, but John was still there; alive and unscathed! His persecutors, who couldn’t fathom how anyone could survive such a gruesome ordeal, concluded that his life was indeed divine, and for that reason, he was called, “Saint John the Divine.”
He was later banished into exile in Patmos, a Greek island, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. What made this apostle, in spite of that horrific treatment, invincible? He had eternal life, which he told the Church to be conscious of, as read in our opening scripture: “I want you to know that you have eternal life.” The word, “know” is translated from the Greek “eido,” and it means “to observe or become aware; knowledge with awareness.” John had come to a level of awareness that eternal life, the very essence of divinity, was at work in him.
That same life of absolute victory, glory, righteousness, and dominion in Christ is also in you and has replaced your human life, making you indestructible! Become fully persuaded of this truth. Don’t just preach, sing and dance about it; let it be a present-hour consciousness in your spirit that you’re a divine being, not a mere human.
Prayer
Dear Father, I thank you for the impact of your divine life in my spirit, soul and body. This divine life surges through my being, destroying and repelling sickness, disease, death, and everything that’s inconsistent with the Gospel of Christ. I’m invincible, indestructible and impregnable, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
