Addressing and Re-Addressing

EVERYTHING/everything, bar nothing, in the physical and spiritual worlds have coordinates at any point in time. Consider such coordinates as their address at that moment --their "coordinate address".

All of life is always in motion, fluid, spinning, spiraling and rotating. Therefore, in the physical world, coordinate addresses of anything alive is never fixed. Even in physical death, coordinate addresses exist. You may think of such addresses as 'fixed' in death, since every dead thing has a grave of some sort. But consider this extreme application. Various Biblical discourses affirm, and Jesus confirms, that every dead person shall one day hear His voice, commanding them to rises from their dusty graves (read: 'graves of dust'). They will arise to be judged for their life's work, and their "Yes/No" decision regarding who Jesus was/is to them. This signals that every iota of decomposition or dust of every person who will have ever lived, has a coordinate address in earth, or somewhere in the dusty, physical universe (for those particles of dust that may have left or were carried away from the earth). This includes Abel, the first human to experience both physical birth and death! And if this is possible for ever person, it certainly is no challenge for it to be possible for every other thing that will have ever lived!

"Can I go deeper?" (a familiar question frequently posed by T.D. Jakes)

We know everything physical is first conceived, spawned or birthed within the spiritual world, and is then birthed from that world into physical existence. We also understand the spiritual world has a far higher degree of ordering/orderliness and exactness than our physical world. In light of this, the concept of 'coordinate addresses' must also apply to the spiritual world, and do so with an exceptionally degree of accuracy higher than anything we humans can imagine. This idea may well "fly in the face" of those who ardently believe there is no time or distance in the world of spirit. While I believe it is true that, to The Godhead (Father, Son and Spirit), the past, present and future are plainly before them, I believe this may be where the concept of no time/distance may end. The entire Bible is rife with stories where people, angels and even The Godhead "changed their positions", both in the physical and spiritual worlds! Consider Ezekiel's vision of God's portable royal chariot! (Ezekiel 1 and 10) Another good example is the theophany of Jesus, as recorded in the last few chapters of the Book of Daniel. If there was no time or distance in the world of spirit, it certainly would not have taken 21 days for angelic help to arrive to win the battle so God's critical message to Daniel (and the world) could get through!

Thus, I reiterate, EVERYTHING/everything, bar nothing, in the both the physical and spiritual worlds, have address coordinates at any point in time.

So what, you might ask?

Jesus had an impeccable habit of speaking to rather unusual things -- things not commonly recognized as having the ability to be spoken to, or "addressed" (Can you perceive where I'm heading?), or with a capability/faculty of HEARING, let alone RESPONDING to that which was spoken! He spoke to a fever, diseases, a tree, lack, a legion of demons in one man, corpses -- and the list goes on, and on.... (You might say every person to whom He spoke was a spiritual corpse -- dead to God, since His death and resurrection had not yet paved the way to spiritual life). As He spoke to such things, and as they responded, He was giving us examples to follow.  Then, in a totally shocking move, He instructed us to do likewise!!! "Speak to the mountain...!" By mountain, His examples suggest/reveal He meant spiritual entities and events manifesting themselves as blockades in one's life.

Each thing to which Jesus spoke was forced, under the pressure of His faith, authority and dominion, to change its coordinate address. The result was what we call miracles -- effects or extraordinary events in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers, and is thus ascribed to a supernatural cause. In John 5:19, Jesus clarifies He was only exercising His physical role while in the earth, but The Father was the righteous power backing Him up.

Jesus commands us to follow His example in our daily lives ('LIVE by faith' is cited 4 times in The Bible). He expects doing so should be just like breathing, the results of daily life in The Spirit. He was attempting to 'hit the reset button', so to speak, to show us quite simply, "this is how you do it". Imagine how Adam and Eve must have lived and spoken before they sinned. That's where we believers are heading, eventually.

The route to getting there is being much more vigorous in developing and practicing the skill of "RE-Addressing" things, that is both speaking to them, and changing their addresses, both 'into' and 'out of' our lives. This in no way suggests we, in and of ourselves, have the power to change anyone's or anything's address. God remains our power source. But we have clear roles and responsibilities regarding how His power is released and applied in our lives, and beyond. But note: This does not include habitually petitioning Him to perform our assigned roles! This deal is a partnership. 2 Peter 1:2 -4 reveals all the things God has already "pre-addressed" to us, and this message is reiterated in countless Bible promises. Though pre-addressed spiritually, they need to show up physically in our lives on their appointed schedules, and we have roles and responsibilities to ensure they do, indeed, show up, and that the wrong things don't, or if they do, to re-address them away, post haste and quite ardently!

Just as it is a skill to learn how to address envelopes/packages, address people (singularly or in small or large groups), program destination addresses into your GPS device, and using cyber addresses to find things on the Internet, re-addressing spiritual things (calling them to, or sending them away from you and others) is a learned skill, developed with consistent practice. As mature believers in Christ, let's better equipped ourselves, and strengthen others to apply this grace until we are performing it...

...just like breathing.