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“The Gospel announces what is actual— the DISPENSATION of Grace. Grace is the Person of Christ, who preceded us in the mind of the Father (2 Timothy 1: 9 - 10). Understanding the FULL scope of our oneness with Him is vital to experience and manifest the life that He has shared with us […]”

 
Post-resurrection, we have come to the ALREADINESS of God, where Christ has fulfilled all the law, previous covenants, and prophecies, bringing to light the Father’s promises to us. These promises were a prefiguration of Him who has now come. All that was promised is made manifest by His appearance. Although this is already a done deal, we cannot experience this reality beyond what we KNOW of Grace, and understanding which comes through the Gospel.

Grace teaches us from within—to deny indifference toward our likeness and compatibility with God, and to live with FOCUS and openness to all He has shared with us. It TRAINS us and requires the willingness to experience God’s self-bestowal. By Grace, we are beneficiaries of God’s unilateral covenant, living in the actuality of the Gospel where Christ has shared His life with us—re-orienting our human nature, transforming us from the inside out to become responsive to the Father and conformed to Him. God’s Grace is all-inclusive, yet superlative. It's an endowment to a life of sonship. We believe that as you OPEN your heart to receive this living transmission from Dr. Annie Smith, you will start experiencing tangible effects of God’s transformative grace.

“I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] John 10:10 AMP.” 

By this statement, Christ was announcing during His earthly ministry that the reason for His coming was more than what could be seen externally; His appearing was beyond miracles. He came to do something in us so that we may enjoy His life within, have it in abundance till it overflows to others in our spheres of influence.


Christ in you is the FULFILMENT of everything. Life is in Him. In Him, all things find their true meaning. The abundant life that He gives implies a superior quality of life where we are satisfied in our inner man by the understanding of the implication of Christ's salvific work. The fact that you are not experiencing the fullness of God’s life in you does not mean that you don't have it. This is the reason why Apostle Paul says that we should not be conformed, but transformed. TRANSFORMATION means that our mindset has to become attuned to the Truth that is the way that God sees.

God has OFFERED us His thoughts through the gospel and His life sanctifies us, but until our mind is renewed to this reality, He won't violate our FREE WILL to choose His flow of life on our behalf. God is love, and love isn't forced on us, it is enjoyed. The gospel is the power to therapeutically renew our minds and restore us to God’s original intent for us. When we intentionally open our minds to listen to the gospel and be disposed to it, we begin to EFFORTLESSLY espouse God’s thoughts and yield divine results. What is your motivation for hearing the gospel? Do you want to know more about the secret to an abundant life? Then, tune in to this latest podcast Episode with Dr. Annie Smith as she unveils how Christ brings to light life and immortality.

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." Colossians 3: 15 NKJV

Let your unity with Christ rule over your heart and dissolve every doubt. Allow His peace to be present in you at all times through your awareness of your oneness with Him. This higher consciousness produces the peace required to fully participate in His divine plan. Peace is the agreement of our hearts and minds, leading us to respond properly to the grace of God within us. The peace of God watches over our entire being. Yet, what often overwhelms us stems from a distorted perception of life—one that can be corrected through thankfulness.

Christ is our one and only life. His Body is our life, and our life is His Body. This awareness dissolves all dualism—there is no separation, no lack, no deferred hope in Him, for everything is already found within us because He, the Lord over all, indwells us. The prayer and supplication of the believer in Christ is not done expecting something apart of us. We pray with boldness, acknowledging every good and perfect thing that already resides in us through Christ Jesus (James 1:17). What often delays our experience of the fullness of divine reality is not a lack of spiritual provision, but the quality of our responsiveness to the Word of God. The only “precondition” to experiencing what is already true of us in Christ is our gratitude to Him. What we experience in life is deeply connected to what we’ve responded to with joy. When you respond to the Spirit’s leading and direction, He takes you into new dimensions. As you respond to this word, may the Father open your heart and show you new ways to respond accurately to His Word.

“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end?” Hebrews 3:6, KJV

“But Christ is more than a servant; he was faithful as the Son in charge of God’s house. And now we are part of his house if we continue courageously to hold firmly to our bold confidence and our victorious hope.” Hebrews 3:6, TPT

Christ is the faithful Son over the house of God, whose we are. We belong to Him, and as a loyal steward over us He prayed to the Father that none of us would be derailed or destroyed (John 10:29 ) — and by His life within us, He quickens our whole being. He makes us loyal sons who serve in His mission with a pure consciousness and a purified heart. Paul’s emphasis on “unfeigned faith” speaks not of faith as a confession, doctrine, or conduct, but as keeping our CONFIDENCE and sense of TRIUMPH in who Christ is and His mission concerning us. He is the object of our faith and hope; He has complete control over us.  We acknowledge His death and resurrection, and in Him, we have an unshakable hope that He is faithful to keep us. We hold fast to this confidence by REJOICING in the hope that He is the truth, and the faithful one — our true supply. 

Unfeigned faith is SINCERE, agreeable, always triumphant, and totally reliant upon Christ. It remains STEADFAST despite situations or circumstances because nothing will ever reduce His glory or sway our hearts from this confidence. God swore by His own name that He would not cancel His prerogative to rule over us— He gave us the guarantee of the Holy Spirit as the seal of this promise. Isn't that a great hope? Tune in to this week's Podcast with Dr. Annie Smith, and let this divine Truth purify and prepare you to manifest the glorious Christ that is in us.  

“[…] Our union and participation with Christ IS our new way of being human.…”

What Christ has revealed concerning Man, in His incarnation and resurrection, is TRUE and IMMUTABLE. What is said of us in the Gospel is a present reality, and there is nothing that keeps us from fully experiencing it. The only thing causing a dilemma between "the now" and "the not yet," that is, our full participation in what Christ is and has, is when we attempt to attain by works what grace has freely supplied. We have received eternal life—God's quality of life, and this gift cannot be taken away. Although we are already what the Gospel says of us, we are still becoming aware of what this Christian life entails. As we grow in our understanding of what God is doing in us daily through the light of the Gospel, we undergo a radical mind adjustment within our inner man for our full salvation: the wholeness of our spirit, soul, and body. 

All attempts to substitute God’s nature in us to produce something satisfactory according to our human efforts—will hinder us from fulfilling our calling. But the moment, we acknowledge that our body is a temple of the Lord and we present it to Him to live His life through us, we offer our reasonable service to Him (Romans 12:1), and this keeps us effective in our WALK of faith. We trust that you will enjoy this life-transforming Podcast Episode with Dr. Annie Smith.

“[…] Christ descended, not that one person should ascend, but that all should ascend together with Him. When the Lord declared at the cross that He will bring all men to Himself (John 12:32), He was changing the game — He was unveiling His plan to include all men into His shared-life…”

In Genesis, when God created everything, He called it GOOD, meaning it will fulfill His PURPOSE. What God calls “good” is thus in relation to His plan for all.  God foreknew us, and He has set us apart before the foundation of the world that we should live holy and consecrated, without blame in His love. In Christ, He has shared with us all that He is in relation to His attributes to make us by grace who Christ is by nature: sons of God. The story doesn't end with us acknowledging who we are because if we only know our identity, and it is only limited to ourselves, then we have not truly known the goodness of God. God is OBJECTIVELY good and in His goodness, He has made us means of mercy through whom many come to the knowledge of Him as the Good God, and they are introduced into the DIVINE DANCE that is happening between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, divinely supplied fully to us. In this DIVINE EXCHANGE, Christ is the supply and through Him, we are made His supply to the world. 

God's plan includes the WHO, the WHAT, the WHY, the HOW of His inheritance. To know “the what”, we first have to know “the who” because the blessings and attributes of Christ are found in His Person. His supply and His plan have become who He is. In knowing “the who”, we know “the why”, which is that He is leading all things unto Himself, and “the how”, which is that He will do it in the community of His Being, that is His Church. Are you looking for God's plan? Look no further and delight in what He is doing corporately! Through this doxology, Dr. Annie Smith shares a New Testament revelation on how to find the realization of your dreams and so much more – while delighting in God’s great plan: the bigger picture.

“[…] For this purpose, Christ has reconciled men to Himself and gave them the ministry of reconciliation…”

Peace as the capacity to maintain perfection and wholeness is no longer an indicative of Christ’s salvific work. It is now an imperative, a new way of being in Christ. Righteousness came through Christ’s death as a free gift for the justification and life for all men. However, there is a category of men who simply receive the peace of God and others who are viewed as God’s reconciliation and peace unto others.

In this teaching, Dr. Annie Smith unveils the full capacity of Christ within men as she expounds on the gift and purpose of righteousness.

Listen and enjoy this series entitled “At the service of His Righteousness”.

“[…] For this purpose, Christ has reconciled men to Himself and gave them the ministry of reconciliation…”

Peace as the capacity to maintain perfection and wholeness is no longer an indicative of Christ’s salvific work. It is now an imperative, a new way of being in Christ. Righteousness came through Christ’s death as a free gift for the justification and life for all men. However, there is a category of men who simply receive the peace of God and others who are viewed as God’s reconciliation and peace unto others.

In this teaching, Dr. Annie Smith unveils the full capacity of Christ within men as she expounds on the gift and purpose of righteousness.

Listen and enjoy this series entitled “At the service of His Righteousness”.

"[...] Every believer is a saint, every saint is a minister... We are made sons of God once, we are sanctified once, we are made His righteousness once, but we undergo the process of being made a minister."

A steward is one who administrates  the mystery revealed. The word "administration" comes from the Greek word "Oikonomos" and it speaks of an economy; the manner in which resources are distributed for the functioning of a government. Paul explains this term "administration" in Colossians 1 as a dispensation of the mystery.  TO BE an administrator of the mystery, one is to UNDERSTAND some key cardinal points highlighted in Ephesians 3:1-3.

When Paul says that he was made a prisoner of Christ, he is speaking about his unwavering commitment to take quality time to explain the mystery revealed everywhere he went so that all Men come to the understanding  of that which was PROVIDED in Christ. Paul's entire life, mandate, message, and race was to minister Christ to the Gentiles. He understood the benefits that come with the Gospel which are hope and peace. The Hope of the Gospel is a manner of living that SUPERSEDES the five physical senses. As long as our life on this physical sphere is still dictated by our five physical senses, we won't EXPERIENCE the benefits  that come with the Gospel, nor the untold experience in terms of expressing Christ  to others.

In this Podcast episode, Dr Annie Smith reminds us of our sonship vocation which is to reveal the Son in us. To be made a minister requires a predisposition of the heart to learn by experience what it means to be a prisoner of Christ in this dispensation of the grace of God. In our maturing process in the understanding of the mystery revealed in the saints, we learn that the liberty that we obtain from Christ comes with responsibility and the rendering of account so much so that our lives can no longer be led according to our needs or physical senses. 
 

"[...]  You are God’s expression in this earth. As you become God-conscious, His life and nature flow in you. His abundance flows in you..."

The inestimable VALUE OF GRACE is Christ joining Himself with Man. Christ received all of you in spite of your failures and short-comings. He sees you as His self-expression on earth.

The only way to prove what is the good, pleasant, acceptable and perfect WILL OF GOD is by accepting God’s own opinion of Man. The good, acceptable and perfect will of God isn’t progressive and successive but it has to do with your lifestyle. Christ MADE you perfect, acceptable and good when He raised you up from the dead.

The renewal of the mind is required in order to become conscious of God’s indwelling. This transformation process isn’t based on head knowledge but it is lived and it produces tangible FRUITS that reflect the expression of Christ in the world.  In this week's podcast with Dr. Annie Smith, we trust that your mind will be renewed as you discover and receive the In-Christ message.

" The resurrection has inaugurated a new humanity, a family of sons in the Son par excellence. We have been begotten into the very nature and status of the firstborn: Christ. Yet, many in the Church worldwide are still living as orphans without experiencing and fully benefiting from their adoption and placement right [...]"

Christ is the REINTEGRATION of man into the life of sonship. Through His life, He revealed the original life of the Father which His Spirit now conducts within us. His Faith has introduced us to a NEW way of living. He has brought us into ANOTHER kind of relationship that redefines our awareness of ourselves. It is only when a son comes to maturity that he starts responding to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. A mature son is awakened to the Father’s EMBRACE from within. He delights in his inner life. He is aware that he has been fully accepted by God, and He responds fondly to Abba Father. He conducts the affairs of the Kingdom with reverence and immediate obedience. He is RELIANT UPON the Father. He values and is accountable to divine relationships because he understands the INTERDEPENDENCY that we have as the Body of Christ. He lives by the royal law of love. He understands that the man that he sees represents the God that he doesn't see, and how he reverences the man sent by God will be tantamount to the reverence that he gives Him. 

Are you enjoying the newness of life in Christ Jesus? Would you want to be introduced to this life? Then, tune in to this Podcast Episode with Dr. Annie Smith and as you hear the Father's voice concerning your sonship identity and vocation, receive the heart and spirit of sonship. 

" The Gospel of Jesus Christ includes prosperity. God wants us to prosper in our souls because the prosperity of our souls upholds every area of our lives that is related to our happiness [...]"

Prosperity begins with the soul and goes beyond material gain. It has to do with all-round supply: spiritually, mentally, physically, socially, and financially. There are three pillars of the prosperity of our souls :

• The KNOWLEDGE of who Christ is in us and who we are in Him. This knowledge of God and our true self is already in us and it inspires us to commune with His life within, with His Word. The awareness of Christ's indwelling leads to better relationships with ourselves and others.
• WISDOM is to find our satisfaction in Christ. It is the greatest asset that God has invested in us to prosper. Wealth is found in the wisdom that we have acquired through prayer and communion with the Godhead to bring forth those solutions that are within us to express Christ and satisfy others.
• UNDERSTANDING is to be refreshed and reshaped by the Word of God. With understanding, we espouse the mind of Christ, His intentions and motives. We operate in knowledge and wisdom. Our life is at the service of others. All that we are and have received is used for the furtherance of the Gospel. 

Get ready to embark on a prosperous journey with Dr. Annie Smith as she takes you within to discover how your inner world impacts your outer life. As you align with God's thoughts for your life, you will receive a prosperous soul— an inner satisfaction of knowing who and whose you are.

"God wants us to be fruitful and abound in every good work because our supply glorifies Him. He is praised when we produce fruits [...]"

The word "fill" from Ephesians 4:10 is "Plero" in the Greek, which means to fill up, to make full, all, each, and collectively. "Christ filling up all things" is not that He will overshadow the earth with clouds, but that He will fill the believers with His fullness, such that we become fruitful, multiply and attain our FULL potential. He supplies us with ALL that He is and all that He has through the Word of God, yet He doesn't determine what we receive from Him. He gives Himself liberally to all and from the abundance that we acknowledge, we give to others and become sowers.

Christ is limited in His assignment to fill all when we are fruitless. He DESCENDED to the inner corners of the earth to make captivity captive; to remove every single obstacle that could make us powerless or fruitless. He fills all by filling us full to the overflow. He ASCENDED with us, to be above everything, to be complete  in Him and to continue His priestly ministry at the right hand of the Father. 

As you open your heart to behold your glorified image — the living person that you are in Christ, may your awareness becomes your full experience.

"[...]  the ministry of the righteousness exceeds in glory far more than the ministry of condemnation..."

Paul does this comparison to speak of the failure of the ministration of self-righteousness which is about man deriving his merits by respecting the law. 

The law can be summarized as any action to derive any merit on your own capacity.  God used the Mosaic dispensation to show the ineffectiveness of our self-performances. The do to be paradigm is the glory that fades, forit does not produce what gives life. When you try to use your own effort, you will continually try to become but without becoming.

God INTRODUCES another ministry whereby we no longer live from the things that we ought to observe outwardly but from what we have IN US which is life. The ministration of righteousness exceeds in glory because it is the ministration of life. It transforms, generates life. It is only the Spirit that gives life. The blessing that we receive from Christ is the blessing of life. That blessing is meant to propagate and extend life.

Hearing "thou shall not” has never transformed lives but knowing that you are saved by GRACE through Christ Jesus, renews your mind. 

"[...] In the beginning when God created everything, creation was deformed but then He said: "let light be".  God (who was life) spoke to Himself for the life in Him to be transferred to creation as light..."

We are LIFE and our whole existence is summarized as life. This is the reason why there are multi-dimensional graces of life that can be manifested to us according to our level of APPREHENSION of what we have in Christ.

When areas of your life become deformed or things go otherwise, you can come back to who you are in essence. You are defined by the source of life. The moment you properly get life, life GAINS you back. Nothing can take away that life when you are defined and led by it.

By receiving God's pattern of thoughts, our surroundings begin to adjust accordingly to His pattern of thinking. That is the power of the mind!

As you listen to this 2nd episode of the series entitled “All things freely given”, you will receive the blessing that God conferred to Man which is life that propagates itself. 

"[...] But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ..."

The plan of the Father from the beginning was to share His life with us. Through Christ’s incarnation, we were ENRICHED with everything that was made by life. The life of Christ isn't His body. It is not His existence nor His breath but it is His essence, the very essence of God. He gave us what He was from the beginning and that by which all things were made.

Grace is given to all but it is only according to our PARTICIPATION that we receive the measure of the gift of Christ.

What you apprehend about Christ in you, determine how you appropriate what you heard and know of Him. 

As you dive into this new episode with Dr. Annie Smith, you will remember your origin and avail yourself for the life of God to take a grip on you.

In the Christ event, we were dead, quickened, raised and seated together with Him. This is grace manifested. Once we begin to understand this exchange, we’ll start seeing that as Christ is, so are we in this world. It is all about Christ and there is no possible separation between Him and the believer. In the greatest event of Christ's life, He wasn’t alone but we were together with Him. In like manner, we are to approach life with the consciousness of our togetherness. Ponder on the ramifications of the Life of Christ being revealed in you in all dimensions of your life. 

"[...]  Grace is the gift of God in Christ. The Son of God became Man making us partakers of His Divine Life. He gave Himself unreservedly so that we receive His completeness. Our minds should be renewed to live in the supply of the Grace that is already available within us."

Christ was incarnate to reveal to us the reason why He SUPERSEDES all things, including what we see outwardly. He came as the gift of God, the divine exchange: Grace. Grace can be received and experienced at any moment, but the dilemma is that to fully enjoy Him as God's gift, we should forget about our human inabilities and needs to perceive from Christ's perspective. When we do, we receive the supply of Grace that is already available within us. Grace is not more palpable in our inabilities —that will be a misinterpretation of His gift. The gift that we have from God in Christ is ALWAYS the same the same way that He is unchanging. He has already fully given Himself hence the "alreadiness of Grace". As we REFOCUS on Christ, and on the excellence of His knowledge, we reawaken to the Image of God that we have received to TRANSFORM the world. Transformation comes when we enjoy the gift of Christ in the state of wholeness in our minds. 

In this new episode, Dr. Annie Smith takes us on a journey to see Christ in all His supremacy, above the notion of needs, so that we respond to the Lord’s invitation and participate in what He is doing. As we grow above all limitations in our minds, to perceive from Christ's perspective, it leads us to ENJOY His gift — His fullness, our togetherness with Him: our union, communion and participation with Christ. 

TO BE CHANGED

"[…] God placed us within His economy, endowing us with His resources to administrate the mystery revealed in Christ for the FUNCTIONING of His government. For this purpose, sons of God are made ministers, administrators of the mystery!"

After having a face-to-face encounter with Christ, Apostle Paul still said that he was made a minister. On several occasions, he mentioned the fact that he had learned. This implies that to be made a minister, there are things that we are to learn. Sons of God are made ministers (Colossians 16: 15-16), and this making process means that there is a predisposition of the heart required to go through a learning process to come to the experience of Christ — the encounter with His life within. We should have an experiential understanding of what it means to be a prisoner of Christ, to herald the Gospel. In our LIBERTY in Christ, we have the great responsibility to take quality time to minister the mysteries revealed in Christ and be His living witnesses in our spheres of influence so that all men come to the understanding of what was provided in Christ. This should be our reason for living — to make Christ known, visible. Grace frees us from all excuses to be efficient ministers in God's government who see the way He sees and respond the way He does. We respond to the flow of Life so that Christ is formed in us. We receive the excellence of His knowledge for the sake of administering it to others.


In this excerpt, Dr. Annie Smith reminds us of our duty in our stewardship as ministers. This exhorts us not to live as if there is nothing attached to the liberty that we've received from Christ. She encourages us to value our calling as ministers, and to carry it out by proclaiming this wonderful Gospel of Life everywhere we go.

‘’ […] As we give, we have more. The lifestyle of giving is the practice of our liberty…”

In Christ, liberty has become our true nature. Our lives are no longer limited to what we have, what we can do or what we can obtain. GIVING is a major aspect of our liberty in Christ, but most believers don't experience it because they walk in the pain of not having. They are entangled by the consciousness of their needs which leads them to holding on to finance as if the accumulation of money can help secure their future. Money cannot guarantee a future and those who try to have money for having money sake, end up not enjoying it because they are consumed by the fear of not having. 

Christ has given us His life so that we cease to live for ourselves and start living for Him who died for our sake. As you move away from a life focused on self, you learn to see things from God’s perceptive and you accept the call to give away what was once controlling you. You learn to focus on God's purpose and attune your life in participation with Christ. As you focus on His purpose, you see the course of your day being directed.  You are no longer left to yourself but you learn to walk with God in this journey of life. You choose to live a lifestyle of giving which is the practice of your liberty. As you learn to rely on God as your source, you walk in the grace of the God who richly supply all good and perfect gifts for your enjoyment. Watch this 3rd episode of “Our Glorious Liberty” and be in awe of God’s generosity towards mankind"

“[…] When you enter into your glorious liberty, you no longer run after things to define your life because your liberation from self, frees creation from its bondage. Your view of others changes, for you equally see them as being reconciled with Christ and recapitulated in Him…

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law and in Him we are FREE. He opened the prison door and translated us into a life of freedom. Our freedom took place in Christ; it is therefore an indicative of His life but the unrenewed part of the soul always wants to be focused on self and remain in perfect comfort, isolated from others.  We are not saved to live for ourselves nor for our personal gain but our life should be a daily ministry of Christ. 

To be efficient in the faith, you are to choose to STAND in-Christed on every occasion, for that is your real liberty. In the practice of your liberty, you go towards others for the love of Christ. Many Christians lack peace because they search after material things. They don’t understand that until God’s purpose that is His kingdom isn’t their main purpose, things in creation won’t willingly yield themselves to them. You are redeemed for a great purpose; God fulfils all your needs once you are led by His purpose and you learn to live for others. Enjoy this 2nd episode entitled "our Glorious Liberty" and as you do, discover the purpose of your union with Christ.”

‘’ […] Your identification with Christ has to do with the whole world so your true liberty is practiced daily vis-à-vis others in your acknowledgement of their own inclusion in Christ…”

When Jesus Christ died, we were liberated from every obligations of the Mosaic law. As sons of God, we were freed from the bondage of corruption, that is alienation from God in our minds. Although freedom was given through Christ as a free gift, some Christians are still living in bondage. They are enslaved by the deceitful loss of relying on themselves and their works. 

We are not only free from the law but there is an expression of our liberty as a practice which we are to experience in Christ. We no longer live but it is Christ that lives through us that is why we stand fast in liberty. You will either live by the law or you will live by the faith of Christ alone, believing in the identity that He has provided to you. There is a difference between liberty and freedom. Freedom is a gift acquired by Christ and given to us freely while experiencing and expressing liberty is a choice”. Enjoy the real life, a life worthy of the name of Christ and refuse to be limited to what that life is not as you learn more on this series entitled "Our glorious liberty"

[…] Our experience of MATURITY is always derived by the manner in which we receive the Gospel in the first place. There’s an outward expression of what is happening inside us, that can be seen and heard by others…”

In the Church of Thessalonica, their labour of love could be perceived because they perceived the necessity to propagate the Gospel. They were missionary–hearted. They always possessed joyfulness at the hearing of the Gospel and received it, not as coming from man, but as the Word of God. This caused them to have the effectual working of the Power of the Gospel within them. It resulted in diligence, labour, constrain of the love of God. We are all inter–related because we are part of God’s inter–penetration that happens between the Father and the Son.

Discover how Dr. Annie Smith makes reference to the Church in Thessalonica to further expand on Our Work of Faith in this episode.

“[…] If you do not know the purpose and the details of God's plan, how can you cohabit perfectly and faithfully with it.”

The purpose of God which redefines humanity is the life of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father’s eternal plan before the worlds began is the SON SHARING WITH MAN the most precious thing to Him, which is his relationship with the Father. 

We have been introduced into the INTIMACY of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This implies that we ceased being merely natural man subjected to needs and cares of life only. For us to live coherently with God's plan, it is essential that we reacquaint ourselves with it and build our conviction on the life we share with the Godhead. To understand the ramification of living in the integrity of God’s plan and to effectively BEAR FRUITS attesting to the Christ life already in us, listen to Dr. Annie expound on the subject of “Living in The Integrity of God”.

[…Giving is a lifestyle; it can be compared to our lifestyle of salvation…]

Money shouldn’t become the chief goal of your life because the love of money always leads you to distress, severe anxiety and sorrows. Money shouldn’t be sought after. It shouldn’t be before your spiritual growth and life, for money is meant to serve you for good works.

Although everyone has something to give, some people miss the proper opportunity to give because they don’t give when the opportunity presents itself. Instead of fighting the good fight of faith to lay hold of their salvation, their fight is rather to gather and accumulate money. To assess your love for money, you don’t need to focus on how much you search for money but rather how much you are plunged into severe anxiety because of an unfulfilled need. Your love for money can be determined by looking at your daily calendar to see whether you focus on spiritual things or not. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love and patience instead of following after money.

Money can suffocate your mind just like Christ’s life suffocates your mind. "Suffocate" in salvation term refers to divine life taking hold of you. We are the new man in Christ so we are to renew our minds in our handling of money, in how our minds think about money or handle the lack of money. In this new podcast episode, Dr Annie Smith will show you the purpose of money and how the blessing of the Lord causes you to abound and be abased.

"[...] There is a threefold cord of prosperity which is not based on anything monetary nor material… Dr Shawn Smith"

This statement is not surprising because the value of a thing does not depend on the thing itself but on the quantity and quality of joy it brings into one's life. If someone spends his life, accumulating wealth in a bank account or acquiring for himself material assets, he is the poorest man on earth because he never enjoys these external resources. Prosperity is therefore about what we ENJOY and not about material things.  And if prosperity is all about what we enjoy then the resources that are meant to be enjoyed are IN US; WITHIN our spirit man.

Until what we have is converted and put into the plan of God, we will live our whole lives without ever BEING joyful or finding our true fulfilment.  This is because any monetary value that is not attached to the joy that we have in our heart, which converts it into something permanent and coherent, has no value.  Understanding God's plan and walking in it, brings a never-ending joy that makes the whole course of our life enjoyable.

Proverbs 10: 22 (AMP) says that "The blessing of the Lord brings [true] riches, And He adds no sorrow to it [for it comes as a blessing from God]."  This implies that RICHES come from the blessing of the Lord, not from something we work for day and night, nor from something we try to build ourselves. The Father Himself adds nothing sorrowful to what the blessing has brought in our lives, but He sustains and backs up  what the blessing has covered in our lives. In this excerpt, Dr Annie Smith reminds us that once we understand that it is blessing that causes the OVERFLOW of resources in our lives, we can make the most of it in furthering the Father's plan for His creation.

"[...] The ark of the testimony got its name from the fact that, it was the housing of God's testimony to His people, representing God's testimony, God's agreement, God's covenant..."

Under the Old Covenant, the ark of the Covenant was the ark of His Testimony, referring to an agreement which God had with His people. It signifies God's presence amongst His people. Since the resurrection of Christ Jesus, God no longer dwells in arks of covenants because we are now under a new Testament. Discover more on the first episode of "The Testimony of God" as you listen.

"[...] Many view the word "testimony" as a record that is given in a court of law according to people's unique peculiarities, opinions, and subjective experiences, but for the believers in Christ, should our testimony be limited to God's operations and acts in our lives? Is He God based only on our subjective experiences? What makes Him God?"


God is Lord over all, He is Lord of All — He is not be limited to our outward experiences. Since our words and opinions may vary over time, our testimony cannot be based on what we see with our natural eyes. Rather, our testimony is the person of Christ in us and the perfection of His work for all. Christ is our ultimate. God has revealed Him as the evidence of who He is, what He has, and what He says and thinks of us and this EVIDENCE should be confirmed in us.


There is what God confirms in us and who He confirms us to be — This means that  what is true of us should become true to us. What God confirms in us is the testimony of Christ and when that confirmation happens in us, we have God's confirmation about us — we become PERSUADED of His opinion of us as revealed in Christ Jesus. Our conviction about what He wrought on the cross gives us a complete readiness of speech and knowledge. In this episode entitled "Christ our unfailing assurance," Dr. Annie Smith shows us that the testimony of Christ is the in-depth knowledge of the Truth in us and when this testimony is confirmed in us (becomes true to us), we are persuaded of it, and it redefines our lives and motives. Having this testimony of Christ endows us with an abundance of spiritual gifts that pertain to His own nature. Our speech and knowledge become a reflection of this confirmed testimony of Christ in us. 

"[...] Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love," Ephesian1v4 NKJV

It is great to know that we do not derive our ORIGIN from the INCARNATION, nor from Genesis when God formed Man, not even when He declared His intention to form Man in His image. Love preceded the world and everything that was made. There was a MEETING before the foundation of the world, in which God made a decision concerning US. This decision was about our pre-election in the Elect to live IN LOVE, to be holy and without blame before Him in Love. 

Knowing that we are IN CHRIST is an absolute truth but knowing why we are in Christ will establish that reality of being in Him.  We are in Christ so that we may live in perfect Love.  We need not to fear for our lives, because long before God laid the foundation of the earth, He had us in His THOUGHT. He made us the FOCUS of His love so we may be made whole, secure in Him.  We are not made holy by anything else but His love; Love is the place and the means. He intended to make His love so real that He placed us in that love to make it a reality to the world. 

God's purpose was Love and there was no better place but Love to FULFILL the purpose.  He appointed a person: Christ through whom the purpose and the place was reunited. Christ had to be incarnate as the tangible expression of His Love. He proved God's existence but to prove that God loves, He went further by laying His life down in the worst possible manner that could exist so we may live in Him: Love.  The cross is the marvelous proof of His perfect love. Christ REDEFINED all humanity through this act of the CROSS. From here, we have THE BOLDNESS and understand why we need not to fear. This gives us the assurance, and we stand without any intimidation in the days of pressure, of crises because as Christ is so are we in this world. In this episode, Dr Annie Smith reminds us of our pre-election as sons in The Son and the fact that there is no fear in PERFECT LOVE, but perfect love banishes fear. And without understanding what the CROSS declares, there is no way to remove fear.

"[...] Everything that was revealed to Apostle Paul by Christ could not compensate the learning process that he acquired through personal experience."


There are things that REVELATION can bring to you but there are those that you learn through experiences. As believers in Christ, we learn to apply  the knowledge that we have received of our standing, identity, placement and participation in Christ so that the knowledge in us can be SEEN outwardly through our actions. Christ has established for us to stand on new creation realities, so we live in a state of permanent contentment and joy, regardless of the situations, circumstances or temporary needs that we face.

In this new series, Dr. Annie Smith expounds on the DIFFERENCE between our standing and state in Christ, revealing the importance of keeping a burning desire to learn whose we are, who we are in Christ and what we have received in Him.

"[...] Rejoice always! There is a level of joy that does not come in response to something nor an instruction and that is when we rejoice because of the understanding of the ATONEMENT..."

Apostle Paul speaks of a joy that is related to a knowledge: the understanding of the reason why Christ died, not just knowing the fruits and benefits of His death. In the incarnation, God the Son took the soul and body of the man Jesus Christ, and by so doing, He took on our soul and anything that may want to diminish the quality of our lives. At the CROSS, He took on everything that was wrong with Man.

The experience of the atonement is related to the exchange of Christ taking upon Himself our souls and bodies and transferring to us His own soul and body. He became one with us. He removed our illusion of separation from God. Our perfection is now totally dependent on our union with the perfect One - This was the reason for the atonement and we are to identify with Christ's death. By reflecting and meditating upon this knowledge, it is a sufficient reason to walk in joy.  The atonement is a whole school of life, and that is why Paul says rejoice always because of the understanding of what has happened in the one man Christ, which leads to our union with God so we experience the PERFECT ONE in this life. The life of Christ is experienced in our soul from His spirit and this requires our recognition. We are SAVED BY His life continually and we rejoice in Him. 

In this episode, Dr. Annie Smith reminds us of our unbreakable, immutable union with Christ. This is done through the atonement, which goes far beyond the forgiveness of sins; it is a question of our complete reconstitution in Him.

The earth belongs to the Lord and all its fullness thereof. The Apostolicity of the Church entails our role in leading and transforming the world. We lead by giving direction, by communicating the path of Life where we are, and this starts with us coming together to be INSTRUCTED. There is a far greater purpose for the gathering of the Church which goes beyond simply receiving so that our lives are changed.


The word “lead” here means to be conducted, guided, and instructed by the Holy Spirit. Instruction has to do with cultivating our minds to achieve God’s PURPOSE. To be instructed by Him, we lay aside selfish desires, knowing that the Lord will never instruct us against His own will and Being. Leadings and perceptions have to do with the workings of God in the desires of our hearts. It starts by us examining for ourselves if what comes out of our heart is in the Faith, if we are thinking in the Son if we are apprehending what is the Son’s apprehension of us within our own lives, if we are circumscribed by His purpose, His way of seeing


Is God silent? Then, your heart has to be inclined to listen. A certain level of maturity is required to quiet one’s mind, voice, and intentions to heed God’s. It requires the right disposition of heart and mind to hear Him, to receive His intention, and to walk before Him. Once God has your attention, He can reveal His purpose and intention for creation. We get His mind from observing, hearing, seeing, and being taught the way of Life (Faith, Patience, and Love) through the Gift men that He has sent to His Church so that our salvation can be efficacious. We keep our GAZE UPON Christ and pay closer attention to His own gaze so that we walk blamelessly on the right path. In the same way, we have received the light to the same extent we expose that light of God in us to others. We allow His Spirit to train us to be the perfect reflection of His light in the life of others. That is the reason why we believe and gather as the Church of Jesus Christ: to reclaim that vision that God has of His Church.

"[...] There is a successive and progressive process when it comes to our life in Christ which requires us to grow from within. Our inward growth affords us joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, and the merciful kindness by which God exerts His holy influence upon souls …"

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. 1 Corinthians 14:20 Webster Bible


When we speak of GROWTH, there is maturing, and transformation involved. As it is with the various stages of life to adulthood, our spiritual growth is made up of several stages and the end result is that we come to the MANIFESTATION of our sonship in Christ. We move from just hearing the Word without digesting it to understanding its implications and allowing the Word to influence our choices. We become conscious that as sons, we have RESPONSIBILITIES, and there is a consciousness that we need to have to come to the full measure of the stature of Christ, having our thinking trained. We become children in malice (evil), but we grow in understanding (perceiving and judging), giving way to the Lord to have His way in and through us.

 
Our Father is the God of all GRACES. His graces are multifaceted and multi-dimensional. The supply that He gives is the same SUPPLY for all, but it is manifested multi-dimensionally in each one of us, based on our AWARENESS. When we draw from God’s supply within us, we realize that there is less stress and there is more harmony in the way we do things, such that Grace is seen. Whatever they do brings sweetness, joy, and His HOLY INFLUENCE upon souls. God wants us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, having a tangible experience of Him so that we may be wanting nothing; being complete in Him. You can live a life of abundance daily when you rely on God’s supply.  In this episode, Dr Annie Smith presents Grace as God's supply in all things. Growing in grace means that you are exercising the holy influence of God over souls. In whatever we do, we do it with JOY, knowing that we are representing God while we serve, and there is a giving away of God through you to others.

Grace is the effectual working of God’s power in us which requires us to KNOW our placement in the body of Christ. The grace of God is such that though Christ was rich, He emptied Himself for our sake so that we might be rich through His emptying. Grace cannot be fruitless unless we insist on doing things without relying on it. It is multifaceted. Your reliance on this multidimensional grace makes you express it and reflect its fruits.

God is the God of ABUNDANCE. As we acknowledge that our Father is able to make all grace abound, we allow Him to express His completeness in us to the point that His grace is fully manifested in us at all times. We reckon that all things are ours, for we are ALIVE unto God, His life, His peace, His excess, His prosperity. We acknowledge that we are His recipients in every sphere of your life. Divine life is our reality so we reckon this truth in our minds. We acknowledge that we are already seated with Christ, in heavenly places where real things happen. We cannot be limited by space, time, or dimension.
 
We are beautified by grace; enriched to accomplish the will of God. We refuse to give into inferior thoughts and reckon that in nothing will we be ashamed.

"[...] While God is establishing us, we choose to abound by consistently been steadfast, unmoveable into our labour of love, into good works, into thanksgiving"

There is a state that refers to our natural conditions and outward circumstances, but by the grace of God, we’ve inherited a new state, a new condition wherein we STAND in our position as sons of Christ. We have been introduced into this permanent state of bliss by faith through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Though invisible to the natural mind, our new state in Christ is our AUTHENTIC state and we have the responsibility to stand in it by acknowledging our position instead of our conditions. Outward happenings and exterior circumstances should no longer be converted into internal stress leaving our souls unstable and out of tune with the Spirit of God. We are NO LONGER easily moved by circumstances but the Lord is giving us access to everything that Christ has made us to be in our new state. 

God Himself establishes you according to the logos, His gospel, the preaching of Jesus Christ, and according to the revelation of the mystery that is made manifest. In this series entitled Sterizo (to be established), Dr Annie Smith shows you through the scripture how to be established and how you can choose to stand in this grace that is your sonship in Christ.

"[…] For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

In His incarnation Christ walked on earth as us. God made Him unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30). He separated our minds from that which is common to the mortal man, so that our reflection about ourselves should be according to what He has become for us.

NOTHING can substitute the quality of life that we have in Christ as the sons of God.  As we learn to interpret every reality based on Christ, we learn to live as He lived among men on earth. 

In this series entitled "Sophronismos", Dr. Annie Smith shows us through the Word of God how we can practice the peace of God daily and choose to live  consecrated  lives unaffected by carnal thoughts nor subjected to world events.

[…] Just like there was a charge over the Lord Jesus to serve humanity and He gave the charge to Apostle Paul after His earthly ministry to continue to reveal His mind, so have we received the CHARGE in the Son to serve others. 

As believers in Christ , we are ministers of the Gospel. The Gospel is the power of God, and although it propels us to various dimensions of life, we are to use it to serve others. The moment we receive the gospel, we are not all called to preach it, but our lives were pre-destined to reveal Christ. We were commissioned to SERVE each other acknowledging that our service to God is our service to Man. The proof that we've received this Gospel is that Christ is made manifest in our service to others. 

In this new episode Dr. Annie Smith reveals through the scriptures, how we can become a sharer of God’s plan by participating in Christ's mission which is what is eternal, and what give us security. Be committed to His gospel, to His will no matter the inconveniences.

We are treated the same in Christ and we all benefit from His RESURRECTION by partaking together with Him. We experience the gift of redemptive salvation by receiving the Gospel. By faith, we make our initial confession to affirm the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Thereafter, our transformative salvation begins and this process of transformation is a subjective and progressive experience of our soul that is intertwined with Christ. It happens when you renounce your self-righteousness and learn what the Lordship of Jesus Christ truly means.  

When you come to the knowledge of Christ, your transformation is being made efficacious. You no longer have zeal without knowledge, you stop trying to establish your own righteousness. As you awake to your true IDENTITY in Christ, ~as such that the effects of His work are seen in and through you. You learn to acknowledge in your mind and heart, your unicity and oneness with Him. 

When you rest in the perfection of the work of Christ, you are quickened together with Him and understand that your role  as the son of God at the frontline of His agenda. Have you denied your own righteousness in order to rely on Christ’s own righteousness? Learn more about the mystery of Christ revealed as entrusted to Apostle Paul. in this series, entitled “At the Frontline of God’s Agenda” with Dr. Annie Smith

"[...] As a believer in Christ, you either live in the AWARENESS of what is effectually at work in you, which is what has been wrought in the finished work of Christ or you live based on external information…"

Every believer is a minister, to witness the things seen in Christ. Seeing here refers to our perception, which is the opening of the faculty of the mind to come to the awareness of what is already given to the believer. Your perception of self has consequences on your perception of Christ because we hear the Gospel the way we are. To perceive ourselves accurately as Christ sees us glorified in Him requires that we undergo a radical transformation from within to turn from darkness; the ignorance of the Divine to Light. Perception is, therefore, an activity of the spirit.

After the resurrection, we do not see things the way they seem to be, but we see them the way Christ has revealed them to be. The PURPOSE of what Christ has accomplished is that we should receive the revelation of Christ (who He is and who we are in Him), and be the representative of what we have received of Him as revelation.

In this podcast episode, we are re-appraising the goodness of God and the perfection of the work in Christ. We see ourselves in Him and no longer live as ourselves, but we live as Christ because Christ lives His life in us. Enjoy while rediscovering what it means to be crucified with Christ.

God created us in His Image and we are constantly moving in His Being (His Likeness). We were called to agree with Him to attain His capacity. When we embrace His accurate view and opinion of us, we are disentangled from the obscurations that previously prevented us from seeing His Eternal Image: Christ as He truly is within our earthen vessels. Our agreement with Christ and our communion with His shared life has great implications  — Transformation.


Transformation only happens when we embrace the reality of the Spirit of God from our hearts (the innermost recesses of our being). Our human spirit receives a new reality from the Holy Spirit beyond what we had initially perceived.  His logic is beyond our human logic. We receive a new mode of perception that flows from our oneness with Christ. He that is joined with Christ is one Spirit with Him. Our lives are lived in the realm of the supernatural because His faith in us is not just an impulse. It is active through the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead. His Spirit quickens our mortal bodies. 

When we embrace God's eternal perspective, there is a twin implication of union and participation. We allow ourselves to be sanctified by the Truth. We become Christ's own expression. He leads us into His doing in our places of influence. There is a co-resonance between the Spirit of God and our human spirit. As we acknowledge His indwelling, we are led by the Spirit into Christ's own doing and we live in a co-Christness (co-partnership) with Him.