If you believe you can receive. How about, if you believe you begin to see what you already have? Until you believe in God you cannot see the dominion He gave you before the beginning of time. In our sequential existence we imagine that we received what was always ours when we begin to see. Faith is believing we have what we have before seeing. Faith is acknowledging the promises of God already fulfilled in our life, but first faith has to acknowledge God in our life. “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Heb. 11:6)
God does not start loving you when you acknowledge Him. When you acknowledge Him, you begin to see the love He has always had for you. In our sequential existence we imagine that God started loving us when we started to believe. We react to seeing a glimpse of God’s love and we start to claim that our reactions are the reasons we receive the gifts of God. Sadly we begin teaching others that our believing and reactions are the reason we have received what we really always had. Namely, God’s love.
“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:18). In our sequential existence we imagine and teach, believe, confess, repent, and be you baptized and be reconciled. All things are already reconciled to Him, but without acknowledging God one does not acknowledge being reconciled to God in and through Christ. The gospel is not telling us who we can become, but calling us to be who we already are in Christ. Without acknowledging Christ, how can you acknowledge who you are in Christ?
“That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:19). We dwell with God in Christ. Not just the believer but the one we call the lost also. They are lost from their identity in Christ, because they do not acknowledge God. “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor. 5:20). Be who you are in Christ, reconciled to God in Christ.
In our sequential existence we imagine and teach that we have done something to become. We give the glory to God with our tongues, because that is one of the things we are to do, but in our hearts we credit ourselves and our doing as if that is the reason. The reason is our being not our doing. Doing is the result of being, being is not the result of doing. God is not a creator because He created, God created because He is a creator. God loves because He is love. The reason is us in Christ and God in Christ reconciling us to Himself.