2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Consciousness is an awareness of something or someone. This means that if we are God-conscious, we are very aware of God and His promises to us. It includes but is not limited to an awareness of God’s presence, provision, power, and principles. In this Kingdom, things work for us based on awareness or consciousness. If we look at the opening scripture, for instance, we can see that everything we need for a godly life has been given to us but we can only lay hold of those things through the knowledge of Him and that’s awareness. If you don’t know what you have, there’s no way you’d boldly collect that thing but once you know something is rightfully yours, you’re more confident in your approach to taking possession of it. Daniel 11:32b but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. So there’s a certain strength that comes to you once you’re aware or have knowledge of a thing.
For the longest time in history, many Christians have become more conscious or aware of the power of the enemy than the power of God that has been made available to them.
Based on this, we live more in fear than in faith. Most of our prayers reflect this because a larger portion of our prayer is committed to binding demons. I know that there are evil spirits and people in this world because I’ve encountered some and so I don’t downplay that fact. However, why not look at the power God has given us over them. Jesus didn’t come to die for us to despise the power His resurrection gave us. We are not fighting for victory but from a place of victory. Jesus has paid the price and what we need to do is to become aware of what He made available to us by the price He paid and then the next step: Enforce them.
I can share a lot of instances where God had to correct me on my attitude regarding certain situations I faced. An example was when I was ironing my clothes for church and all of a sudden, the iron stopped working. Now I was getting frustrated and God asked me if I knew I could speak to this iron and get it working now because it’s already too late to get a new iron. At that moment, I was like wow, I never really thought of it and then I said: This iron will not stop working until I’m done ironing my stuff. Immediately, it came on and I knew that the power was available but until I was aware of it, I couldn’t do anything about it. Another time, I had pains in my ear and it was affecting my gum as well. I took some medicine some days before but nothing happened. Then after a few days of my struggle, God said to me: Won’t you open your mouth and say something to this pain? Again, I was like, why didn’t I do this a long time ago? After speaking to the pain, I was shocked and kept checking if the pain was really gone.
There’s so much that Jesus’ death and resurrection brought us but we are more focused on what the devil is doing to the extent that even things that have nothing to do with the devil, we blame him for it. We can only get to know all these benefits of the divine nature when we look into the Word. This is the mistake many Christians are making today: They are praying always but not studying to see what the Word says to appropriate it to their lives and by doing that, the prayers are empty and lack power. Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, This means that once we accept Jesus, there is a power that is within every one of us and how God is going to respond to what we ask is based on that power. Now once we have no idea what we have within us, we’d be handicapped. In the verses before this one, the Apostle was praying for them but particularly in verse 19 he said and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. They had to first come to a place of awareness or acknowledgment of what they had received before the power within them would work.
I mentioned earlier, four things to be aware of when it comes to God-consciousness and interestingly they are all Ps. Presence, Provision, Power, and Principles. Being conscious of God’s presence means that I’m aware God is with me. Yes, many of us know on the surface that God is omnipresent and lives in us by His Spirit once we receive Jesus but this knowledge has to be deeply rooted in our hearts and not just be a head-knowledge kind of thing. The consciousness of God’s provision also comes from an active relationship and growing in the knowledge of God. There are many dimensions to God because while someone knows God as a Healer, they may not have experienced God as a Provider. Being conscious of God’s Power means an awareness of what I can have authority over based on what Jesus did and not my works. For the principles of God, these are the guidelines God expects to regulate our lives. So a person who is conscious of God’s principles makes decisions based on what the Word of God says and not what people are gravitating toward because trends are constantly changing in the world today but God’s principles are constant and sure.
Peter was walking on water until he took his focus off Jesus. God-consciousness is focusing on God. The more God-conscious we are, the more we can hear from God what to do to solve the problem. Be more intentional about being God-conscious and that way even though there is turbulence in the sea, you will not drown but walk on the water.
The Word In Clarity 