The Bishop’s Mind: Christian Wisdom, Daily Devotionals & Empowering Messages for Kingdom Living

  The Aerial View: Rising Above with Christ’s Perspective (Ephesians 2:6–8) "By grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."   Ephesians 2:8 (KSB)    Sometimes people are squinting and straining to see God in their situation. They are trying to find the good but are looking from an eye-level view. Yet when you rise in your consciousness into the Christ mind, the Christ consciousness, the heavenly realm you begin to see things differently. Perspective changes when consciousness ascends.    In Ephesians 2:6, Paul tells us that when Christ rose from the dead, we rose with Him. When He ascended into the heavenly realms, we ascended with Him. We did not merely observe His resurrection; we participated in it. We died to our old selves: old habits, old thinking, old speech. And when He rose, we rose to a new life, a new way of being.  We are not bound by what we see on earth. Because Christ ha...