What Do You See In The Mirror?: Mirror, Mirror! Flesh or Spirit!

By Geovanni Israel Guerra

What Do You See In The Mirror? A timely book designed for you to discover your power and identity in Christ. If you want to walk free and fearlessly in a world full of fear, pandemics, depression, and divisions, you need to be confident in your God-given identity. Amid the chaos and uncertainty of what the new norm will look like due to

• Language: English
• Publisher: Overcoming The World Publishing Inc
• Release date: Aug 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9780996410342

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Preface

You can search all eternity and you will never find anyone to truly love you as much as God does. Him giving His Son, Jesus Christ to die for the sins of the world was a demonstration of that love and through that sacrifice man’s true identity could be restored from God’s redemptive plan. Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh to show mankind who they really are as members of His Body, and God’s Living Word is the mirror that reflects and shows them who they really are as His sons. The way we are to walk is in the unity of knowing that it’s God the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and the sons of God who are hid in Christ Jesus. Together, all are operating as one on earth as it is in Heaven.

Understanding that we have a throne in Heaven and a portion in Christ, we are to operate as kings under the Master King and Lord of all Jesus Christ. Our position in Christ is that of joint heirs with Him and it is time for the Body of Christ to get in their rightful position as sons upon the earth—ruling and reigning in this life as kings. This is why God has me writing books so that the Body of Christ may be awakened to know who they are.

We are citizens from Heaven who should arise in the earth and shine bright with the glory of our King through each and every expression and manifestation we release upon the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit. Get ready as you read further to continue to discover who you really are and the fullness of what you are here to do. What Do You See In The Mirror?

Chapter One

God calls you Spirit but Satan calls you Flesh!

Those who truly operate in the Spirit of God could never agree with the judgment of the flesh. That is why I rather be in right standing with God by faith in Christ Jesus who sees me with the eyes of His Holy Spirit and appear to be a fake and a failure in the eyes of those judging me by the flesh. The flesh gives an opening to Satan, which is why you must stay alive in the Spirit—giving no place to the devil. What if, from God’s perspective, man is man His creation and the fall of man was simply apart of the process, which man being deceived took a route in which God would lead him through a series of lessons to finally understand whom He really is as a son of God? Perhaps the natural way in which a father who loves his children and teaches them things that they will have to encounter or overcome in order for them to enjoy a blessed life is exactly what man whom was deceived would have to go through in order to come to understand and prove what is that good and acceptable will of God—to a place of maturity? This is just a question to ask the Holy Spirit. You see God looks at all mankind through the blood of Y’shua/Jesus the Messiah and calls us sons because His love for justice has been satisfied against sin through the perfect work on the Cross. However, Satan sees all mankind and calls them sons through the fall of man and the lustfulness of the flesh, which is of the influence of the carnal mind. The carnal mind is exterior, which is why it’s called the carnal mind. The carnal mind is to Satan what the Gospel of the Kingdom is to God. One brings death to mankind as the other gives life. Satan uses the carnal mind as He was cast into the earth after attempting to exalt himself above God’s throne. (See Isaiah 14:12-19; Ezekiel 28:12-19; and Luke 10:18-19).

Who a person obeys determines their destiny; source of provision; what they choose to have faith in; and what they believe to be truth. Absolute truth is in the jurisdiction of the person who is in the will of God. I say this because many times I see so many wonderful people suffering condemnation because of the carnal mind. This mindset brings forth accusations of past sins. If you are a believer in Christ Jesus, I want you to know that God calls you spirit. He sees you as He sees Jesus Christ, and what He says about Jesus Christ, He says about you because you are one with the Lord in Spirit and in Truth. By Christ we have been given the power to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, (See I Peter 2:11).

What lustful flesh or the carnal mind calls you means nothing. Do not respond to the carnal mind or those who speak out of it. If you heed to this then you will fall victim of the same lust of the flesh and reap death. We must come to grasp that in order to respond to the lust of the flesh in a way that flesh can understand, you will have to operate from the carnal mind, which is enmity against God, so do not do it. If you ever feel attacked by a person directly or indirectly by what they said or did not say, you should know that it is the carnal mind influencing your flesh and if you are dead to the flesh as you should be, then you will not get offended. Perhaps the reason why you get annoyed is because you are still giving life to a nature that is not genuinely of love. We are hid in Christ Jesus our Lord, therefore, we must learn to overcome evil with good by abiding in the Spirit in which we are now one with through Christ, (See Colossians 3:3 and I Corinthians 6:17). God calls us spirit but the world calls us flesh. As we meditate upon this statement we come to understand that God calls us life, He calls us who believe unto Y’shua/Jesus the Messiah—His sons. God calls us His divine offspring. Mankind was made to be the sons of God, however based on the fall of man, their identity was distorted because of sin. Through this fall Israel was the son of God and finally Y’shua/Jesus came and restored mankind back into fellowship and communion with God being the second and last Son of God. (See Luke 3:38; Genesis 1:26-28; Exodus 4:22) The Son of God not only brought us back to Him, but God to us in that God would come and dwell in the heart of man. (See John 14:23-24 and Colossians 1:27).

He has given as many as believe unto Jesus Christ the power to be made the sons of God once again. (See John 1:12). We must realize that we as believer in Christ walk around with God inside of us. Often times we are calling for God to come and God is saying I am right here in you, with you. Wherever you are, I am. God is inside us! Often times we are asking God to come forth with His miracles, signs and wonders, and God is saying You are My sign and wonders, which is why I have you in the earth, to be My miracle. Whatever we need is already within because God is inside of us. Ephesians 1:3 and Luke 17:21 tells us that every spiritual blessing is in us!

Is there anything that God doesn’t know? Yet the Word of God says in I John 2:20 I have given you an unction from Me the Holy One and you know all things. Who is telling the Truth here? God’s Word, or the opinions of the world according to its perverted knowledge? God is True, for He is the Truth and He is telling us, I have given you an unction and you know all things. Your reasoning might think that you do not know all things when you actually do. You know all things because they are in your spirit man.

What is happening to most of the members in the Church is an identity crisis. Most believers pretend in knowing who they are, and while some have somewhat of an idea, they’re not fully convinced of the reality, which is God’s reality in Spirit and Truth that we are His sons. God doesn’t operate by a pretense manifestation, He is not a pretender. He doesn’t call us His sons because we go to church or have ministries. He sees us as His sons of light and knows who He has made us—in Christ Jesus, which is His mature offspring! He awaits for us to align our soul as we renew the mind and subdue the flesh by the power of His Spirit in us to manifest the fullness of who He is in us. By this, we should no longer allow sinful behavior to be expressed in our lives as we are the Body of Christ. He awaits for us to grow into the full measure of the Son of God Y’shua/Jesus the Messiah in order that through unity the world may come to know Him through us, His portals expressed images, members of the Body of Christ in the earth. (See Ephesians 4:11-16 and John 17:21-23).

Most believers don't understand what happened to them when they received Jesus Christ as their savior and Lord. Most don’t understand that when they became saved their spirit man was born again from the dead to the living state and reconnected unto God their Father and Creator. When we become born again, it’s like when Jesus was placed inside the womb of Mary and what happen to Mary, having Jesus inside of her is what happened to the born again believer. When you became born again, you have God inside of you, and you are literally walking around with God in you waiting and longing to be expressed in you and through your flesh that all may behold how beautiful and good He is. Your body is now sanctified by the Spirit of God who indwells you and is Omnipotent in Power to cause the members of your flesh to yield to express the goodwill of God in the earth. Most of the time we have failed to realize that Y’shua/Jesus shows us who God has made us. The question one must ask is did Jesus Christ ever sin? Did He allow the members of His bodily flesh to rule over Him or did He by the Spirit of God in Him rule over His bodily flesh? The next question we need to ask is; If Jesus Christ destroyed Satan and his agent the Carnal Mind as a Man, and we who are now born of His Spirit and have His Spirit in us, is it possible for us to live lives as Holy and Righteous as His life in this world by the nature which we have been graced to have if His Spirit is now our Spirit? (See Romans 8:9, 11-15 and I Corinthians 6:17).

For too long has the enemy of our soul kept us from realizing that as far as God our Father sees us through the blood we are Holy, un-blamable and above reproach. For we are to come to the revelation that by the power of the Blood of Jesus Christ as Y’shua/Jesus is now in heaven so are we in this world. We must realize that though this outward body is decaying and will one day return to dirt. God shows Himself strong in our weakness, and so to the point that where the members of this natural body at one point was ruled by sin, now the power of God has enabled us to buffet the body into subjection that our bodily members become yielded members of righteousness. (See Psalm 103:13-14; I Corinthians 6:20; 15:43; II Corinthians 12:9; Hebrews 11:34; Romans 6:13, 19).

God is saying I have you covered, I know everything and all that you need is already inside of you. One might ask, then what is the problem? Why haven’t I manifested as a son of God in Christ Jesus yet? It’s because God call’s you spirit but the world, it’s god Satan, his agent the Carnal mind keeps calling you mere flesh and you are believing the lies of his temporary false reality as being real, but it’s a false appearance of life. Only Y’shua/Jesus is the Truth, Way and Life! We must renew our mind and take God’s Word in the New Covenant which is in Christ Jesus our Lord to be our only reality. As we embrace the Truth of His Living Word, Jesus Christ as being the very mirror who is showing us who we are—we will no longer live as mere men but rather as the mature off-spring of God in which Jesus Christ is the first born among many. (See Romans 8:29).

The world has been giving you an identity that is not the identity that God your Father has given you. The world has trained you up and your body and soul was born in sin when you were born into this world because sin existed in the flesh because of fallen man. The enemy has put up a world system that has trained you and it has you thinking a certain way. It has you speaking a certain way; it has you moving a certain way; it has you believing in a certain type of reality that’s not the true reality that exist but it is the truth of your untrue reality because you decided to take ownership of this false identity.

Sin has trained you up since you were a baby. It begins to feed you all the untruths like you are just human flesh! You are not just human flesh. You are the Righteousness of God made in His image and likeness. The god of the dark world who is Satan, fed you that lie and his agent the Carnal Mind encouraged you to believed it! Remember, the Carnal Mind is external, it’s not who you are, and it’s not your way of thinking but it’s a voice that is externally used by Satan to influence your soul mind to have you use the will in your soul to side with it so that you may express a lustful behavior in this world. God doesn't say anywhere in the Bible that He created man just a human! You won’t find that, but what you will find is that God said that He created man, and man became a living soul that is made in the image and very likeness of God.

Now through the blood of Y’shua/Jesus the Messiah we have been restored back to our rightful image and our identity in Christ that we may be what He has made us, which is the salt of the earth. Christ in us the hope of glory. (See Colossians 1:27) The thing is that most don’t know how to express that, but what many fail to realize is that they don't have to try to make it happen but only need to come to the revelation of being who God has made them to be. You just have to know that you are now love because you are ONE WITH HE WHO IS LOVE! It is by Him through us who are born of His Spirit that the power of His love in us defuse the carnal mind in others. You just have to know that you are anointed, how much more anointing can you have? You are one with the Spirit of the Living God, it’s what the Word of God says. (See I Corinthians 6:17). The Word of God says if any man has not the Spirit of Christ then He is not of His, but if you are of Christ, you have the Spirit of Christ in you and it’s the very Spirit of the living God. There is no two spirits, you’ve become one! So now you have the Spirit of God in you and He is longing more than ever to manifest Himself with love, faith, power and the Kingdom of God that is inside of you. He is longing for you to step out and do good because it’s your true identity and nature as a son of His in Christ Jesus our Lord. Please listen and take note of what I am about to share with you. I have been observing in many places that had few people to hundreds of thousands. I have gone to different nations, cultures, settings, and both denominations and non denominations churches. What I have noticed is that people have been taken captive by something false, they think church is a service in a building, and believe being filled with power is for shouting and dancing in a building. Although some of those expressions are genuine from time to time, many times people in the local gatherings or conferences are looking for people to come around and blow upon them and people to fall to the ground. Please don't misunderstand me here, there’s nothing wrong with that and I have at times experienced it myself and been grace to be used by the Spirit to be a point of contact for others to experience it, however, this is not what the power of God is for.

Most people are looking to have someone lay hands on them and for them to start shaking. Again, some of it is genuine please don’t get me wrong, by no means am I attempting to devalue genuine experiences, but we must understand that the power of God is to serve others and reach the world with the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. The power of God is not just for us to get together and have these manifestations and then for a whole week not witness and bring forth life to a world who is still in a sinful nature headed to a lake of fire unless they turn to Christ Jesus as their Savior and Lord.

Again, I don't deny that there are manifestations of the Spirit of God and people are impacted by Holy Spirit’s power because I’ve experienced it many times and I am all for that. But the ultimate power and demonstration of it is when the Love of God is moving you to take a selfless action toward another person to bless them in the name of Jesus Christ. This has more power and validity than someone falling on the floor to get back up and not show any love or selfless actions that will bring Christ Jesus to those around them. We are to win souls and go about doing good as Jesus Christ of Nazareth shows us in Acts 10:38. He healed and cast devils out because He loved people, not because He wanted to be seen as the anointed of God—Jesus already knew He was the anointed of God. What if the body of Christ woke up and asked their neighbor how can I help you today and not just bring the Word of God to shove it down their throats, but actually lived the good news and became the good news as they engaged in selfless acts of kindness and love. These selfless acts can be done through council, or laying hands on them to be healed in Jesus name. Through this way, becoming one with the Gospel of the Kingdom of God because it’s who we have been made. How about we manifest as living examples that the world may see the good news as they see us. What we have is real and it’s to show forth fruit and proof in which God has made us.

At times as believers in Christ, we don’t realize that we are not just saved to go to heaven. If this was the case, we would instantly go to heaven the moment we are born of God’s Spirit. However, God who so love the world, continues to give forth His Son Jesus Christ through each and every member of the Body of Christ. We can not be selfish, we must preach the Word of God by being the Word in action as the Spirit and truth indwells in us. The fullness of our redemption is that we have become sons of God, that now God desires with His love in you to be one with you—spirit, soul,