In this chapter, we are going to be considering the questions: Who am I? Where am I from? What am I worth? These are very vital questions that must first be answered, for you to operate in the supernatural. I believe if you truly understand who you are, where you are from, and your worth in Christ, then you will cheaply command the supernatural.

The supernatural is what validates Christianity; nothing defines Christianity as the supernatural. The future of every believer, therefore, defined by his understanding of his root. He must know who he is, where he’s from, and what he’s worth, otherwise he may never have a worth on earth.

They came to John and asked him, “Who art thou? Are you Elias or one of the proph-ets?” He said, “No”, because he knew who he was. “I am the voice of the one crying in the wilderness”, he said. He knew what he carried. Many don’t know who they are, what they are worth, or what they carry; that’s why it’s so easy for them to fail.

I want to show you your root in Christ; and if you can see it, it will change your perspective, giving you your place in destiny.

You Are A Spirit Being

Jesus, answering Nicodemus’ question on how to be born again, said in John 3:6:

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”

At new birth, you are not born again a spiritual being; you are born again a spirit being. New birth makes you a spirit being in human flesh. Adam was a supernatural personality in the garden. He operated in the class of God.

Adam single-handedly named all the animals in the garden, all the fowls in the air, and all the fishes in the waters. God brought everything He created before Adam to name, and whatever name Adam called them, that was the name by which they were called. He was in the class of God, so he thought like Him. Adam was a supernatural being.

What made him supernatural was the spirit that was alive in him. But at the fall, his spirit-man died, and Adam was reduced to a natural being. However, when Jesus came, what died in Adam was restored back to man through salvation. So, every redeemed child of God carries in his body today whatever virtues Adam carried in the garden before the fall. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, not spiritual.

Jesus again tells us in John 4:24 that God is a Spirit:

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.“

That means new birth enables you to share divinity with God. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit, and God is a Spirit! Adam was in the class of God when his spirit-man was yet alive. He shared divinity with God.

God always came down in the cool of the day to have fellowship with him; they were in council together.

You need to understand that new birth is not merely an adjustment of lifestyle. New birth is a miracle of recreation. New birth is a regeneration, a restoration of your human dignity under God. It is restoring dominion back to mankind. If you understand this, you will throw sickness, disease, and frustrations away. You will shake them all off you, casting them into the fire.

“That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” Who are you? If you are born again, then you are a spirit being inhabiting a human body. What then does this imply? The Holy Ghost speaking through Isaiah prophesied thus:

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.” Isaiah 7:1415

In a world of dead men and women, vie you are born again, you become a sign among men. Redemption makes you a spirit being, which makes you a living sign among men.

Who am I? You are a spirit operating in human flesh. But if you don’t know this and walk in its reality, or when you disregard the supernatural, you become vulnerable to every wicked act of the devil. Jesus knew who He was so much so that He became the greatest headache of the enemy. He said to the Pharisees:

“…Le are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.” John 8:23

Hear what the word says, “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8). 

When you are born of the Spirit you become a sign among men. They can’t tell where you are coming from, but they can’t deny your effect. That’s going to be your experience from now…

This text is an extract from the book “OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
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