There is no education that beats this school called life if you are teachable and willing to laugh at yourself. When we combine classroom studies with life situations; education takes on a whole new meaning, perhaps this transformation aids us in becoming habitations of God’s amazing glory.

At MSU College of Theology, we encourage students to study with Holy Spirit for deeper revelation so that the knowledge they gain in their heads will drop to their hearts and acted on in faith to become a reality. We also help them use what they are learning to find their answers to the challenges they face through discussion and relationships. We believe this helps to shape our God-habitations.

Some years back the Lord gave me some clarification on 1 Corinthians 14:3 as it says, “But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.” The cognate of the word edification means to do what it takes to make a dwelling place for God. What an awesome thought, people are God-dwellings and habitations as He increases His presence in our lives.

It has been said in the ancient Mesopotamian history, idols were built and their mouths cleansed in hopes that a god would come and dwell in the idol to be worshipped. This is why, when, Moses said we are made in the image of God, it was a powerful statement and an affront as Moses was saying that man was made perfect and that a god would dwell within him. Because of Christ we are cleansed and made perfect. God does dwell and tabernacle in us by Holy Spirit.

We have been taught gifting and training does not equal position. Ephesians 4 talks about ministry positions, yet the goal has never been the position. The goal is to see the body attaining maturity and the fullness of Christ, to say the least.

¹¹And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, and teachers, do ¹²equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ¹⁴so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. ¹⁵Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Yet, as God-containers we have the ability to do amazing things when we align with the Lord. God is no respecter of persons or age. We can do and be anything the Lord leads us to do. This is an empowering idea for young and old, it takes the religious notion or ‘performance Christianity’ out of the picture and offers deep relationship and opportunity for all believers in Christ.

Rick Joyner says, “we can be as close to the Lord as we want to be. If we are growing closer to the Lord, and abiding in Him, we will be in the right place doing the right things regardless of how much we understand them.” This is open to everyone walking with the Lord.

You can see the difference between individuals who just have the gifting and those who have cooperated with the dying process of the old man and self, along with the process of Christ being formed within. I have had the honor and privilege to meet incredible people, some who are hidden, whose “spiritual containers or vessels” were made ready to stand in powerful positions in which God had called them and yet they do not see the position as the goal it is only their vehicle to complete the Ephesians 4 goal.

It is evident they had pressed in for years digging their own wells and finding God in every battle with no complaint. They know how to war, they walk in peace and authority. Their gifting has risen to accommodate their need. No one can hold them down because when a person is filled with God they become a gusher of Holy Spirit. Man does not have to give his approval or position as their gift makes way for itself before the kings that are set before them. They compete against themselves to do their very best as they buffet themselves (1 Corinthians 9:27) and study to show themselves approved. They are caught in the vision that is ever before them, not a vision to please man but a true vision from God. They are single-minded.