Before the Foundation of the World

God is eternal. He lives in a realm where time, as we know it, does not exist. Thus, God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  He is the beginning and the end; the Alpha and Omega. To God, today is the day of our salvation.

With God, our healing is a reality; by the stripes on Jesus’ body we are healed. There is no time lag between truth and reality. The word of God doesn’t say “going to be healed”. In the presence of God, His word reaches the fullness of time (kairos moment) and become a living word for us (rhema). Verily, verily, God words do not return to Him void.

If God is very happening, then what we need is revelation by the Spirit of God to take hold of God’s truth and translate them into a present reality.

Hear now the word of God concerning what He has already done for us before the foundation of the world:

“He (Jesus) indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” 1 Peter 1:20 (NKJV)

“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,” Ephesians 1:4 (NKJV)

If the aforesaid truths are too overwhelming for you, then you may find the following more manageable:

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV)

“For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.” Psalms 139:13-16 (NKJV)

Hey, God knows us from way back. What makes us think He doesn’t know about our present circumstances or our future, for that matter?

The truth of God’s word reflects God’s integrity:

“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)

“So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)

The carnal mind which is trained by worldly system of thinking cannot comprehend the truths of God. We need to have revelation so that the hidden truths could be revealed to us. Here then is Paul pray for the believers in Ephesus:

“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,” Ephesians 1:17-18 (NKJV)

Let’s pray the aforesaid prayer over ourselves so that we can grow in the grace as well as the knowledge of Christ – having the mind of Christ, knowing what He knows concerning spiritual truths and moving in the power of the Holy Spirit. All glory be to God!