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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
Be a Partaker of the Divine Nature
"In the realm of the spirit, what you're responsible for is what you were given and what you did with it."
~ Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
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Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
—Psalm 37:4 ESV
DISCUSSION:
I remember at one point in my life I thought that I wanted to be somebody else and not myself. I was always looking at people and I’d say, "Oh, I wish I was that person." I'd hear people's stories and only focus on the ones that it seemed like something fell in their lap, like the lottery.
When I was growing up I was best friends with the most popular Christian singer in the world. Everybody thought that he was so talented. He made many albums with all the major record labels. I recall coming home from work after flying, and he would pick me up at the airport. He worked at the Church, and if I got there early, I would be able to hear him play. Everybody knew him as a piano player and guitar player, but he was a drummer and bassist. He could play those instruments upside down but he had to learn the guitar and keyboard because he couldn't lead from the drums or bass. They wanted him to be a music minister, so he agreed and said, “I'll do it,” but he didn't know how to do all of that.
He became number one in the world. I would hear him for 8 hours a day. He would practice scales on the piano and fingering on the guitar for hours and hours. Everybody thought he was born this way but it wasn't the case at all. He had the gift in him and he could sing at the drop of a hat, but he had to develop his gift. It didn't just fall in his lap. He said with tears one day, “Everybody thinks that I was born this way, but I work my butt off, and I practice all the time.” That's all he'd do is run and do scales on the piano all day. He could just walk into a church service and lead the choir and the band. We had 2,200 people in our Church.
Take a moment and allow the Father to minister to you that you are enough. He’s given you all you need to pursue the dreams inside of you.
GOD HAS GIVEN EACH ONE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY
It's so important to realize that there are certain things that God does for us, and there are particular things that we have to discern that have been given to us, that we have to implement into our lives.
When I was in Heaven, I saw that everyone has the same opportunity. People will argue with you and say, “What about those who are born in a poor country or born a certain way.” I say, “No, in the realm of the Spirit, what you're responsible for is what you were given and what you did with it.” Not one person I know that's successful had everything given to them. They had to work hard, and it’s the same way for people that are in the world.
❖ 2 Peter 1:1-4:
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Dave:
One thing that strikes me about that verse is in verse three, “As his divine power has given us all things.” Other scriptures that come to mind; “We've been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenlies in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:3). All the promises of God are yes and Amen in Christ Jesus” (2 Corinthians 1:20). I love the words “all” and “every.” Nothing is missing from that. The question is, Are we seeing all and every? If all the promises of God are yes and Amen, then I can look through the whole Bible and I can find those promises. Then for me, the revelation is locked up in that divine nature that we get to participate. Do we know that divine nature? Do we know the Father? The big revelation, I think that's going on right now, is He's good and only good. There's no shadow of turning into Him so we can stand firm in the real world and the business world. I would travel overseas, and I went in the name of my father. He had gone before me when I was sent overseas, I was received. They would pick me up in a nice car and put me up in a nice hotel, and in the factories, I would visit they would say, “Do you want to do this? Do you want to do that?” The revelation hit me that I was under my father's authority, thus I could walk in his authority. So, it's not only that our Father is good, but that we're not servants. He said, I no longer call you servants, but we're children and we're adopted in and a servant doesn't know the Father's business, but a son does (Galatians 4:7). So, those are the two big revelations. I see the goodness of the Father and the fact that we are sons.
Kevin:
Dave brought out a really good point about the fact that these things have been given to us and they're promises, and we need to implement them. It says that if you implement these promises, they give you the ability to partake in the divine nature, which is the word for partnership. Secondly, they cause you to escape the corruption that's in the world caused by lust. In these days that we live in those two things are very important.
How are you recognizing God’s promises have taken effect in your life and are you encountering the divine nature or partnership of God? Do you sense the separation of the corruption of the world in your life?
HEAVEN HAS AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY
❖ Philippians 4:19 NLT:
And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
• Here’s another angle where God has given us what we need.
• He's going to supply your needs from His glorious riches.
Everything up there is immaculate and of the highest quality. He has glorious riches. There's so much glory coming from those riches that you can hardly look at them. You can hardly look at anything it's so bright. There’s an unlimited supply that God has. Paul is talking about wealth here and how God is going to supply your need. 2 Corinthians 8:9, talks about giving and taking offerings. Paul says that we should have the same mind that Christ had.
He was rich, and though he was rich, he left all of it and became poor for your sake so that you through His servanthood, and His becoming poor, you could become rich.
You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich.
—2 Corinthians 8:9
Paul is saying that the same God who takes care of him is going to take care of you. He's going to do it by taking from His riches that are in glory and giving to you.
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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
These are two different realms, so there has to be some sort of transaction or transference. The way it happens is the new life that's in you comes out of your heart through your actions and your words. Your words and actions cause what appears to be another realm but there's not a gap between the spiritual and the flesh like you think. People put distance between these things but as quickly as you can say it, it comes into this realm.
I remember the Lord told me before my father passed. I didn't know he was going to pass, but my Dad called me, and he and I had a conversation. He was in tears because he said, “You have no idea what you're doing for people all over the world, never stop doing this.” Now, this is a person who wouldn't allow me to have a Bible, wouldn't allow me to talk about God. He would be so angry if I gave to the Church and he was a Deacon. He was mad that I was giving seventy-five cents a week because that was my tithe. He was mad at that. This is a person who has changed, but he was having the last conversation he would ever have with me and he wanted me to know that I was effective and that he loved me and believed in me and that I was helping people. At that moment, I told him how much I loved Him and appreciated Him. We just shared for an hour and the Lord prompted me, Tell him everything you want to tell him. I did not know that was the last time I would talk to Him. The Lord was telling me, you tell him everything, you tell him whatever you want to tell him because this is it. I thought he had been healed of cancer, but it came back.
These are the things that you have to discern. You have an opportunity and you need to take advantage of it and be a partaker of the divine nature. You're going to find out when you get to Heaven, that all these things were available to you and you just were waiting on God. The fact is, He's done everything that He can do for us. He's given us everything we need and this is where there is a disconnect and it shouldn't be this way.
I saw that God wanted to do something for people, and He told me, “This is what I want to do for them.” I said, “Well, just do it.” He said, “No, there's a process of them being drawn to Me, you can't just give something to somebody without them having to go through a process.” He said, “They won't be able to keep it, they won't manage it right.” I've seen this happen many times with people that come into wealth or they come into a relationship and they don't manage their whole life. They kind of get off because they're not ready for it.
The Lord is saying that He wants me to teach them, and work with them. He said, “Then at a certain point, I'll tell you, you can do this for them.”
I realize that there are so many people all over the world right now. You're watching, and you just need to pay your bills, and there has to be a place where you can begin.
What do you have in your house right now? What do you have in your possession that you can give to someone else? I don't want you to give it to me, that's not what I'm doing here. In all of the Warrior Fellowships, if any offerings are taken, it stays there in that country or in that Church. I don't want you to send the money to us. What I want you to do is see if there is anything in your possession you can give to someone else. Even if it's just your time, even if it's just a word, you can pray and get a word for somebody. Spend some time thinking about people who have children that you want to help and those that you can give to that won’t be ready for it.
What is going on with you right now that is preventing you from understanding that God has an unlimited supply? The lights in Heaven will not go dim if you ask for too much. You won’t catch God off guard, where He's going to have to borrow money. He is a person who is well supplied and has abundance. What is holding you back in your mindset from allowing God to give you what you desire, and what you need? Jesus said, “Whatever you desire, ask and you shall receive it. Just believe it when you pray, believe that you receive it and you shall have it” (Mark 11:24, John 15:16). The Father wants to do this so that your joy may be full.
Pray for each other. If someone has a need or needs to pay bills, and they can’t, maybe you're supposed to help them in any way. Be led by the
Spirit.
Most people want to help. They want to do things for other people, but they think that they don't have enough. It doesn't take too much of anything. It just takes something that you sow into someone else.
When I went to Heaven, I found out that I was supposed to be a partaker of the divine nature, which means that I’d lose friends the minute I decided to be a partner with God and a partaker of the divine nature. To be a partaker or a partner with God, I'm going to start to move like Him. I'm going to start to act like Him because I'm like Him. We're to be imitators of God as dearly loved children, and that is going to separate you (Ephesians 5:1-2).
I find that this is why people don't want to change and they don't want to separate themselves and be Holy as He is Holy, because they know they're going to lose friends. They know that people are not going to like them anymore. What if the whole world turns against you like they did Jesus? Everybody left Him, even the disciples whom He invested all His time and His heart into. They left Him. He was left alone, and He suffered. He left Heaven. He left all of that to become a servant, and He suffered and died for us.
You're going to see all of this when you get to Heaven. Paul said, take hold of those things which Christ has taken hold of for you (Philippians 3:12).
God will start to supernaturally pay off your bills if you will partner with Him, if you will partner with the Holy Spirit and move and live and have your being in Him, you're going to see mighty things. There's a fire in your belly that needs to come out through your mouth. You need to start telling the Lord, that you’re going to partner with Him, and you’re going to hook arms with Him wherever He goes.
You’re not going to leave Him, and that you’re full out for Him.
PRAYER:
Father, in the name of Jesus, I just speak fire over all of my warrior friends all over the world right now. Lord, the fire of the Holy Spirit, just prophesy. Just start to prophesy. Father, I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I know that I'm going up over the wall. I'm not going to be blocked in any longer. I'm not going to be limited any longer. Father, I know that every need is going to be supplied, and all the wealth that I need is coming to me in Jesus' name. Father, that You can trust me with great riches and wealth, Lord. I know that You can trust me and I know You want to pay off every bill. We believe, Father, that You're going to cancel debt right now in the name of Jesus, You're going to provide for all the families all over the world. In the name of Jesus.
Discuss:
1. What is stopping you from realizing that God has an unlimited supply in Heaven that He wants to give to you and provide for you?
2. What do you have that you can give to others? Even if it’s your time, your talent, or a prophetic Word to build someone else up.
3. When you get to Heaven, what are you going to find out based on scripture that you were supposed to be doing down here?
4. What will it be like when you stand before the Lord and you find out that all the characteristics of God were also in you, and you were supposed to separate yourself and become very productive?
