Adoption and DNA

Days, weeks, months all run over and together these days. The busier our lives get the more we need to prioritize or triage our activities. Our Lord Jesus conquered the grave, Yes He conquered the grave and the sting of death has fallen by the wayside for those who believe.

This is a season of business for us!-How about you? There is a cry from heaven falling over the earth : "Is there anyone who will sup with Me?" In my quiet time the Lord has been showing me the truth about adoption and grafting in the vine.

The spirit of adoption fell upon Abram bringing him closer to the Lord and the promises God had for him and his generations. Once Abram was an alien to God; then the Lord called him into his destiny and foretold the legacy of his future. Hence, the Lord breathed upon Abram and changed his name to Abraham! Abraham is the Father of our faith. He was the first to believe in the one true God! He was the first Jew.

We were once gentiles, without God, now believers who were adopted into our heavenly Fathers family.

Romans 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

In the courts of law if we were adopted, we would have the birthright and could claim the inheritance of our adopted parents. We stand as equals in the courts of law with the natural siblings of our adopted parents. But we are not of the same DNA. We are adopted by law.

Romans 11: 23-24 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

God showed me that we are not only adopted by our heavenly Father but we were grafted into the vine through Christ. That for us is the tree of life, Jesus the Christ. We take on His DNA! This is big! Real big! His blood is ours. We no longer carry our old DNA. Praise God, we became NEW. Notice the kind of tree Romans uses to describe our grafting!-OLIVE tree, the tree of the Holy Spirit Himself.

What a freeing experience the Lord has for us all! It is the freedom to be called His own. It is our choice. Do we accept the grafting in Him or not? Choose life I say, choose eternal life and all the love, power, and authority that comes with our inheritance.