Do you know what God’s desire is for faith? Now that God has restored His spiritual government to oversee the church, the things of God – His character, purpose and plan are no longer hidden. His desire for faith is made known through the holy knowledge God unveils through His elect stewards, as was the case throughout the scriptures.

To have the knowledge of Christ laid in the heart by living apostles, is key for the Spirit to unite faith with God. In this unity, believers learn to work with the anointing, which is the coming together of the record of Christ’s truth, and the witness of His Spirit quickening understanding. The anointing reveals the hidden things of God in a process of spiritual growth and transformation. The anointing is God’s gift to those separated unto Him by holy covenant, for the purpose of honoring His call to spiritual transformation as the Spirit enlightens and transforms the soul to the likeness of Christ. A soul transformed knows the desire of God’s heart.

In the absence of the anointing, believers experience a lack of enlightenment by the Spirit and they remain ignorant of God’s perspective. Ignorant means: “lacking in knowledge or training; lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact; uninformed” (lexico.com)

When all men stand before the throne of God on the Day of Judgment, ignorance will not be permitted to be used as an excuse, as it is void of innocence in the sight of God. There is no excuse because God has given to the church through His ordained stewardship, all the tools, the pattern and the plan by which to engage with the anointing, for our faith to perfectly reflect Christ.

The Spirit of God is gentle. Although God has given believers these things to partake of Him in faith, He still awaits our consent to allow Him to work within. It is man’s choice by consent of faith to live a life free from ignorance and to be part of the life Source that gives the perpetual increase.

Many experience the awakening effect of grace in those moments where a marked desire for God is ignited, but resist laboring with the Spirit by conforming to God’s call to covenant and the work of regeneration effected by that due order He designed for our faith. They replace the anointing with a meaningless theological hybrid language that sounds like faith but bears the corruption of death in being mingled with false knowledge. Misled by theories that base faith on good conduct, they remain ignorant of God’s perspective.

Others answer God’s call but refuse the oversight of God’s government. They choose to be independent and therefore they lack the foundation of Christ which is the bases to work with the anointing. The anointing of God works with His elect stewardship, so without the anointing God’s desire for faith remains hidden from the eyes of such believers’ souls.

Without the anointing, faith is like a half-eaten apple. The experience believers had with the Spirit soon darkens and dies off. All that they are left with is their own drive to direct the experience into something ‘meaningful’. Some hold onto the scriptures, memorizing verses, sharing the scriptures and holding on to the words as if the text caries the power of God.

These attempts to keep the flame of God alive show a lack of the present power of the anointing. It is the power of God within grace that directs faith to God and keeps the flame of His life alight within the soul. Though the Bible testifies of Jesus as the Living Word, it cannot replace Him – and He provided a covenant for His present power.

There is nothing of man that can generate the transforming power of the anointing. Within the first lesson of our free IDCCST Course (referring to God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation), students learn about the power of God in the 5 key definitions of grace: revelation, communication, illumination, enlightenment, and awakening. It is vital for faith that believers comprehend the operation of God in grace in order to commit themselves to the work of the Spirit, as we access His grace through the spiritual tools of worship God provided in Jesus Christ.

One of the many positive outcomes of Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation is that believers gain discernment. Discernment is key in second covenant faith as it means that the eyes of the soul are sharpened by grace to discern the things that are equal to God’s character, and purpose, plan, from things that are folly and make the soul to wither. A discerning heart can make wise choices for faith’s increase and in doing so partake of the deeper things of God.

God is our Alpha and Omega, meaning that His character is to follow through from start to finish. His desire is for the soul of man to increase in His substance daily. Therefore God has sent His Spirit as the advisor to direct faith to Him. Faith is not sporadic experiences of spiritual encounters, but the continual flow of grace from God to the believer; calling forth an equal reciprocation from the believer to God. The outcome of consistent faith is that believers daily experience God in His fullness, thereby fulfilling God’s desire.

Apostle James testifies in James 4:6 of the heart of the Farther to give grace upon grace to those who humbly work with the truth concerning Jesus Christ. “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”

The things the Spirit reveals are meant to blossom and bear fruit and are meant to continue to be fruitful. Faith grounded in the foundation of Jesus Christ (truth) and guided by the power of the Spirit (grace) is like a tree planted by rivers of water that bears fruit season after season. This is the heart of the Father: for believers to be rooted in Him in a sustainable living relationship that increases daily and lacks nothing.

God’s desire is for you to gain understanding and not be misled by false interpretations of scripture. Therefore he gives us the opportunity to labor with the anointing for His heavenly perspective. The wisdom of God, the knowledge of God and the understanding of God are gained by the sanctified spiritual works of faith and are engrafted within to give the soul eyes by the Spirit to see and partake of God.

In a recent IDCCST class, Teacher Wendy explained that when an arrow slightly deviates from its course, it misses the target completely. She continues to explain when the scripture is slightly changed; it misses the meaning of what God intended completely. When the meaning of the scripture is slightly changed, the believer no longer works with the Spirit of God but with the spirit of this world. The spirit of this world and the knowledge of this world in conjunction with the flesh, bring forth a kind of faith that is insignificant to God, being unsanctified and unfruitful.

The power and knowledge which second covenant believers use for faith’s discernment is clearly stipulated by Apostle Paul. He brings out in these verses that it is the Spirit that gives the understanding to the knowledge of God. We know God by the knowledge and power that He gave us; meaning that both the record (apostles’ doctrine) and witness (Holy Spirit) must be present.

1 Corinthians 2:11-13
¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

¹²  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
 
¹³  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

When the eyes of the soul are opened by grace, the ears of the heart hear God’s voice and the revelation is labored with in faith, retained and carried forward from one cycle of growth to the next. This preparation of faith by the Spirit within the soul gives godly insight to rightly interpret the scriptures.

Scripture is hereby not merely text, demanding good conduct; but by the presence of the anointing in the instruction of stewardship, the Spirit unlocks therein the mysteries of Christ which transform the soul unto His likeness. Believers who carry God’s likeness carry the virtue of Christ and God’s perspective. This transformation of the soul from darkness to light is God’s living testimony in the soul.

The time is at hand to worship the Father according to the law of the second covenant: in Spirit and in truth. True faith is not based on scripture alone, nor on revelation alone, but on the foundation of Christ which is empowered by the Spirit and manifests the heart of the Father.