A Heavenly Citizenship in the Third Day

by Joanne Panettieri

Editor: Kingdom Iconoclast

Hosea 6:2, "After two days will He REVIVE us: in the THIRD DAY He will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."

According to Watchman Nee in his classic book "Sit, Walk, Stand", we can not even begin walking our Christian walk until we are first seated with Christ. The command of the book of Ephesians is to SIT DOWN and rest by grace in the completed work of Christ, far above all rulers, authorities, powers, dominions and even titles!

I will never forget the day that the Lord made this a reality to me. I was at a prayer meeting in the spring of 2004 happily lost in worship. The Lord spoke to me very clearly and said, "From this day forward you will no longer pray from the earth realm up through the second heaven to reach my throne. After today you will pray from the position of being seated with me in heavenly places, far above, with the earth as my footstool."

The Lord then caught me up in a vision where I saw myself IN HIM and when I looked down my feet were in his feet and they were resting on the earth. All of my spiritual striving was then released in the total victory of the completed work of Jesus Christ ......I don't have to fight the devil because he's already defeated!! And he's UNDER MY FEET.

I must be SEATED in order to TAKE MY STAND, and maintain it!

I spent many hours pondering and praying and really trying to GET this and to make it a living reality. If I'm seated with Christ and as the Bible says, "Hidden with Christ in God", then I'm in HIM and He's in me AND WE ARE ONE. That means I don't pray TO HIM but His Spirit PRAYS THOUGH ME!

The prayer of faith becomes the prophetic declaration that is the two edged sword that changes my circumstances!

"For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (Heb. 4:12).