I wanted to share this passage by E.W. Kenyon, and hopefully it gives some much needed encouragement and some revelation to others.

SOME "IN HIM" FACTS

IT is very important that the believer know the difference between the legal side of redemption and the vital. The legal is always in the past tense. It is what God has done for us in Christ. The legal begins on the cross and ends when Christ sat down at the Right Hand of the Father. The vital begins with the New Birth and ends when we leave our personal habitation, the body, and go to be with the Lord. The vital is what He is doing in me today, taking the things of Christ and building them into me. It began when I first accepted Christ as my Saviour and confessed Him as my Lord. The Holy Spirit overshadowed me and poured into my spirit eternal life, the nature of the Father, and I became His child. All that He did for me can be done in me; His word becomes a part of me. He opens it up to me. He unveils Himself in it. He begins to build the Word into my spirit as I practice it, as I come to understand its spiritual significance, and I become Jesus like. John 15:7 is a good illustration. "If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." Now notice what that means. "If ye abide in me." When I was born again, I came into Christ. That is the vital aspect of divine life. This illustrates it. "I am the vine and ye are the branches." The branch is in the vine. It is part of the vine. We are a part of the vine. Now, "If my word abides in you." The Word lives in me in the measure that I practice it. My spirit feeds on the Word just as my body feeds on food. So, as I meditate on the Word, I let it have free course in me, teaching and governing me. Then I recognize its lordship over me as I would recognize the lordship of the Master if He were here in the room. That Word is a part of the Father Himself, and the Father is love. So I let the Word live through me while the Spirit builds the love nature of the Father into me.

Then He says, "Ye shall ask what ye will." One translator says, "demand your rights." That means taking my place as a son. I am a member of the family. I have come to appreciate my position in Christ, and I am laboring together with Him. I am taking Jesus' place in His absence. I am doing the Father's will as Jesus did in His earth walk. I am not a slave ; I am a son. I am a love son, and I am carrying out the will of my Father. And so, now having the Word built into me, I have come to know His will. I am not worrying about His will. I know it. The end of that verse is very striking. "It shall be done unto you." Or, "it shall be gendered unto you," as one translator gives it. The idea is to give birth. It is to be borne unto you. As Miss Rabe translates it, "If ye abide in me and my words have their place in you, you will pray to the Father, and He will create, or give birth to the thing, make it come to pass." Because you are a branch of the vine and you are bearing God's fruit. You are giving birth to actions that are inspired of God the Father, love actions, while He is building Himself into you. In that next verse He says, "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much love fruit." It is a wonderful thing to bear His fruit. John 6:63: "The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life." They are born of the spirit and they possess the life of God. In lips of men they recreate men. They give courage to the faint. They give faith to the doubter. They transform the weak into strong. They have in them the element that puts men over after they have been long defeated. Let us take a very familiar passage, Col. 1:12-14, and note this translation, "Giving thanks unto the father who has given us the ability to enjoy our share of the inheritance of the saints in light." You see He has built into me His own ability, and now His ability in me enables me to partake of my share of the thing that Christ wrought in His Substitution. It is my inheritance. It may be wisdom, so I will know how to use the knowledge I have gained through the Word.

It may be forbearance so that I can have joy in a hard place where everything is disagreeable, and where bitterness and selfishness run riot around me. Or it may be forbearance, so I will be like the Master with those that are weak and selfish. Or it may be that I need strength in my inward man, to keep me steadily in my place in life, so that I may live as the Master would live in my place. You see, I am going to have my share of the inheritance of the saints in life. Regardless of how much that may mean, it belongs to me. And perhaps I will need it if I understand the next verse: "Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love." So few know that they are delivered out of the authority of Satan. They do not know that Satan has been defeated and that they were redeemed. Satan has no legal authority over them, and they have a legal right to their liberty in Christ. They do not know that Satan has no dominion over them now, without their personal consent to it. They have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life." This is a strange expression, "Light of life." But the word, life is "Zoe" which means God's life. "And God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." You have been translated into the life realm. You are in God's realm. You are in the beloved. You are in Him. You are in the family of God. As a member of that family, you have authority over the circumstances that surround you. Paul says in Phil. 4:11, "Not that I speak in respect of want for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be independent of circumstances. I know how to have sufficience and not lose my head. I know how to be abased and not lose my poise." (20th Cent. Trans.) I have come to recognize that my Father is greater than all and that every need of mine is met. He is the God of all ability, and He is my Father. Now Philippians 4:13 becomes part of my daily life. "I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me." That is simple.

I am moving out of the realm of human weakness into the great big, wide open realm of life. Now the fourteenth verse is suggestive. "In whom I have my redemption and the remission of my trespasses." You see, I have my Redemption. Satan has no dominion over me. I have it; I am free. I am as free as Israel was from Egypt's bondage when the Red Sea rolled upon their former masters. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ has delivered me from my former master and set me free. I am united, tied up, one with my seated Lord. You see, it is no longer a life of struggling and trying. I am in it, because He put me in it. He took me out of bondage. He put me in the realm of freedom. I reign as a king through Jesus Christ, my Lord. I pay no attention to the things that formerly filled me with fear. I am occupied with my Lord. The Lord is my care-taker and my bread-provider and the strength of my life. Of whom, or of what, should I be afraid? I am not afraid of disease, sickness or of old age. The human spirit that has received the nature and the life of God knows no age. There are no days and years to the human spirit. Days and years belong to the mortality, the body. We have received Eternal Life into our spirits, and now we are walking in the fullness of that life. "We walk in the light as He is in the light, and we have fellowship one with another" and with the Light-Giver. \'Ve are not walking in darkness. We know where we are going because He has become the light of our life. You see there is such a reality in this union with Christ that it changes our whole outlook. We become Righteousness conscious. We have become the Righteousness of God in Him. That is the end of condemnation. That is the beginning of real fellowship. That is the beginning of an unveiling of our rights and privileges as Sons of God. That is the beginning of bearing fruits of Righteousness. What a wonderful life this is. Jesus was the first to bear the fruits of Righteousness. Then when we were grafted into the vine, the branches became the Righteousness fruit-bearers. We are the masters of our old slave-driver, Satan.

We are not afraid of anything the he can do because our Father is greater than all. And Jesus said, "If a man love me, he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come and make our home with him." I am not afraid of poverty or of lack of any kind, because He lives with me here. He knows what I have in my pocketbook, and He knows what my needs are. He knows what the bills are. The Father himself loves me. This is beautiful. Now I appreciate what it means to have been made Righteous with His Righteousness. So without condemnation I walk into His presence at any time. I never think about faith any more than a child who is walking happily and sweetly with his parents. All that a father has belongs to his child. All that Jesus did and is, belongs to you and me. You see, Righteousness gives us our standing before the Father. It is what we really are in Christ, not what He is trying to make us or what we are trying to make ourselves, but what we are by the New Creation. Some of us are coming to be God-inside minded. That was one of the greatest days of my life when I became conscious of the One inside. I had asked Him to come in years before, and I knew He was there. But I did not know how to make use of Him. Then I remembered the Master was made unto me Righteousness and Wisdom and Sanctification and Redemption. Yet they did not mean anything to me. I could not use the Wisdom, could not take advantage of my Righteousness, nor enjoy my Redemption. Then the curtain was lifted. I saw the thing as it was. The light shone in. I was in Christ. All that He is belongs to me. The great mighty Spirit, who raised Jesus from the dead was in me, to make this Word that I have been reading a living reality. I wept for joy. I was thrilled; Oh, I was thrilled with joy unspeakable. He was in me! And He began to take the Jesus things and make them real to my spirit consciousness. It was like opening up one treasure box after another.

I saw the riches of His glory, of His grace. And it was all mine. I did not have to struggle to get Wisdom because it was there on tap. Now I had ability to meet every emergency. I had strength enough for anything. I was rich with His riches. I was redeemed, and I know how to enjoy my freedom. I was Righteous with His Righteousness, and I began to know what that Righteousness could do for me and enable me to do for others. Oh, those were glad hours, big hours, rich hours when fellowship took on such a rosy hue that life became very different. My life was hidden in Him; His life was revealed in me. I began to know the secret of the Name of Jesus. I shall never forget the first time I said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, you are healed." And to see a man that had been in bondage for years become perfectly free and leap up and begin to dance and shout for joy. I had made a discovery. No man was ever more thrilled when he discovered gold, than I when I discovered the reality of the ability of the Name of Jesus. I shall never forget the first time I used His Name with an unsaved person. He had said, "Mr. Kenyon, I want to be saved, but I just cannot seem to do it. I seem to be bound." I said, "In the Name of Jesus, I set you free." That man is preaching the Gospel now. I set him free with the Name of Jesus. The authority was in the Name. When I approach the Father in His Name, I can reach the Throne at any time. "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it to you." Jn. 15:16. The early church preached the Name and the Word. We have never done it. We have preached about the Name, and we preach about the Word, and men write books about the Lord. They do not mean much to us. It is the Name, in the lips of love, that breaks the power of the Devil over the broken human. So we are moving out now into the realm of Life, as sons of liberty. In the freedom that He has given us, we are enjoying our rights and privileges, and we shout our praises in that marvelous Name.

What Happened From The Cross To The Throne By EW KENYON