We now come to tasting the heavenly gift. What does it taste like? Before we go on let's remind our self that; any thing God gives us becomes addictive to our soul and it cause us to seek His face and die to anything in us as we hunger and thirst after His love and affection. As we experience His love; He burns up all the baggage and past hurts we may have picked up over the years and He truly restores and gives us hope of a new day with a new hope for the future.

When we taste; we actually eat up an all around security of well being and total wholeness that has an endless supply in what ever the need is and it has no ending. It makes us truly know who we are in Christ by knowing that; God has a purpose for our life and that His eyes are always watching and wanting to come to the aid of his children as a loving Father.

This word heavenlies in the Greek Concordance says that those that have become born again have had a superimposition miracle experience and God has impregnated His DNA in us which birthed us into his kingdom. This miracle in the Greek is defined as to place something such as a clearly recognizable understanding to our heart and mind of whom we are in Christ and our motives and the Holy Ghost's motives become transparent as His life over shadows ours often with the result that both things appear simultaneously, although one may partially obscure the other.

This obscurity represents that; God does not take our identity away from us because; He gave His creation a free will choice to follow the path he has ordained for our life. This is a life process of being transformed into Christ's image as our thoughts and ways become God's thoughts and ways. A true father passes his love legacy and heritage on to his children. This is why it is imperative that our earthly father's pass the true identity of God's plan to the understanding of the heart's of their children. Because the true gospel has been distorted with man made philosophies; in many born again assemblies our legacy in Christ has been replaced with religion and people adding and subtracting from the true meaning of God's word.

This is in deed profound and it is vital in the times that we are living that; we surrender and allow the Holy Ghost to enlighten us to any deceptions we may have in causing us to not truly know how totally secure we are as God's child. To simplify; we must rest in Jesus finished work and stop laboring through self preservation and obligated works which are unrighteous thoughts and actions indirectly telling God the Father that; sending His Son Jesus to the cross was not enough and we have to earn our salvation by working hard at being a Christian. God wants to lift us up over these mundane obligated responsibilities we put on our self by trying to make God into our own image and becoming a god unto our self.

Another word that the Greek Concordance brings out for heavenlies is the word distribution. This represents a child of God participating in the inheritance given to them by God their Father and sharing in His estate. A person can only participate in God their Father estate if; they TRULY KNOW that; God has covered them with a white robe of righteousness which is Christ Him self and they are complete and entitled TO ALL He possess not because of any righteous acts they have done but because; they are a child of God and He is a loving and fair Father who is the greatest giver of gifts to all His creation.

What greater love gift could He give then His first Son Jesus and have Him sacrifice His life for our restoration. Unless this conviction is for ever settled with in us and impregnated on the inner make up of our being; you will have no tenacity and inner passion to be a God seeker. God is the Author and Finisher of our born again experience. He doesn't need our help. We need to surrender and let Him complete the work he started in us and bring it to completion. Our motivation comes by us surrendering to the Holy Ghost and any thing else is flesh and utter nonsense.

We now come to being a partaker of the Holy Ghost. The Greek word says; we have contiguity with God. This represents a permanent umbilical cord connected to Him and our spiritual life is totally dependent on us allowing Him to give us tender care and protection as we stay with the mentality of an innocent young child as he helps us to grow and develop because; He has the answers to all our life's needs. Nothing we can ever do will disconnect this umbilical cord once we have entered into God's kingdom. This must be totally understood in the born again believer if; they are to participate with God and become what he intended.

We need to live with an inner awareness and guard our heart and know that the Holy Ghost is directing our path. Only He can mold us into the image of Christ. Mankind with out the leading of the Holy Ghost tries to make God into their image. The influences taking place in the world at this time is a scary thing to behold. Think on this for your self and ask God if; you are truly living the life of the good news gospel of Christ Jesus.

Jesus tells us from scripture that; those that are child like and know they are innocent before God are the ones that reach their potential and walk in their inheritance as God's child. He said that; he would send the Comforter to us and He would remind us of all the things that He said when He walked the earth. Our undisciplined self willed thinking does not want to stay child like because; it makes no sense to our natural mind because our flesh is untrusting. Our human nature with out God wants to take control and ram rod its way to success. It is the natural man living in a survivor mode of self sufficiency.

Paul when speaking to the Corinthian church made it very clear that; he was going to preach nothing but Jesus Christ crucified and the true meaning of the cross and nothing else.

In the day we are leaving; the gospel has been so distorted to the point that; there are those preaching there are other ways to make heaven your home other then going through Jesus Christ and having a born again experience. We have the anti-christ spirit of man's thinking making God into his own image and it is running ramped in and out of the born again church to the point that; there are many well known born again leaders in the public eye preaching new age doctrine in their churches and in their writings.

This is no time for the body of Christ to grieve the Spirit of God and surrender their freedom and stop going to the throne room and petitioning God for a restoration and ask Him to raise up voices crying in the wilderness to make their steps sure footed speaking freedom to the oppressed and weak in their particular arenas of life.

We know come to the person and personality of the Holy Ghost. We have touched on some of His characteristics already and what he was called by God to do. If we are going to participate; we had better become friendly with Him and trust Him with us being totally transparent in our thought life and stay unpretentious.

There must be no denial in us which will cause us to stay in the shadows living in some self righteous conformity to some religious endeavors by leaning to our own understanding of scripture. Jesus greatest adversity and suffering came from the religious crowd who had the Romans put Him to death on the cross. Let's see where the Holy Ghost was first mentioned in the scriptures and how he is defined in the Greek which the New Testament was originally written in and the Hebrew which the old testament was written in.

The Greek defines the Holy Ghost as a super human living entity who is holy and innocent and one who has the responsibility to foster God's children as an all surrounding wind or breathe. A person who fosters is one who nurtures a child and provides his development with encouragement by keeping alive with in him a living force with thoughts and feelings from a living God who created all of life in the universe as He brooded over the universe and the planet earth as stated in the Old Testament.

The Holy Ghost brooding characteristic represents Him affirming to us that; we are God's child and a member of God's family and we are an extension of God's own loins because; He is our spiritual Father and creator of all life. He makes us know that; we are peculiar people as compared to the world and as His children; we share a common heritage.

I hope this is a no brainer to all of us when I say; the Holy Ghost is a real person who we can communicate with and know that; He comes to us by God to parent us so; we can fulfill own call in our dispensation of time on this plant. That is the difference between Christianity and all the other religions or sects on the planet. We follow a living Savior and not dead gods of man's own making. Our human nature without the daily fresh inspirations of the voice of instruction from the Holy Ghost; keeps us inept and helpless and it has a crippling effect because; man kind has a tendency to forget where his roots come from and to easily become mesmerized by all the demonic voices that influence our mind daily and these voices are becoming louder and more confusing in this dispensation of time by them wanting us to follow their bidding. Let's tell it like it is. Jesus said; "You can not serve two masters. You will either love the one or hate the other. You can not serve God and mammon."

This word mammon means a lot more then us focusing and having as a first priority the personal seeking of wealth. It represents idol worship and any thing we put in place of our total submission to the Holy Ghost. Some people put their faith in people in leadership who are called by God to feed His sheep and there also those that were not called. Some people put their faith in their education. Some put their confidence in having worldly wisdom of trial and error. Some try to find it in alcohol, drugs and sex. Some try to find their identity in their mate or sweet heart.

The disguises of Satan coming as an angel of light are endless and deceiving many. I am also talking about born again believers who are deliberately living in un-God like behavior and knowing it; along with those who through their ignorance and being un learned do not know how to walk in heavenly places in Christ Jesus because; they have never been taught how to identify the Holy Ghost's voice between all the other voices that are vying for their attention and affection. This causes them to never truly experience the love God has for them and it stops the Holy Ghost from persuading them that; He has a better way for them to live and a person can not die to self and change.

Experiencing God's love is the key and power we need to succeed in our Christian walk. It motivates every thing else in our life and it's their too prosper our soul.

God is not against financial prosperity. He did not created us to toil and struggle to survive or create sickness to get our attention so we can continually be repenting and spend time examining our self and see if we have broken one of His commandments. If you have been brain washed and believe that this is the God who you serve; it is my prayer that the Holy Ghost brings you to the end of your self lest; you fall between the cracks and never reach your potential in Christ Jesus. We will continue in part 3 of tasting the word of God which is how we continue tasting God's heavenly gift in Jesus Christ by growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ Jesus. Continued in part3