God is love and divine mind and seeks full expression. He finds this expression as us. We are the personification (the Son) of God (the Father). He is the infinite and absolute and therefore, we are the personification of the infinite and absolute.
Jesus continually revealed this principle of being to us when he said for example, "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30) and "He that has seen me, has seen the Father" (John 14:9). This is the Christ-mind which is "all and in all" (Colossians 3:11). We are identical (the same identity) to Him.
"Truly, I tell all of you with certainty, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you." (John 16:23)
In the above verse, the name that Jesus was referring to was, I AM. This is the infinite and eternal name of God as revealed to Moses (Exodus 3:14) and Jesus identified himself as I AM (John 8:58). The word "ask" here does not mean to beg, but rather it is defined as 'to demand for something due'. As the personification of the absolute, we can therefore declare:
I AM love, therefore I will experience being loving
I AM joy, therefore I will experience being joyful
I AM peace, therefore I will experience being peaceful
I AM health, therefore I will experience being healthy
I AM wealth, therefore I will experience being wealthy
I AM success, therefore I will experience being successful
The above are conclusions of being one with the absolute. Whatever I AM we believe (feel to be true), will be given to us in our experience. When declaring ''I AM'', we immediately place ourselves in the first person. We cannot speak of someone else as ''I AM''. Now we declare the truth about our eternal identity and that must be experienced, with certainty! However, to speak of ourselves as I AM in the negative, is to take the Lords name in vain (Exodus 20:7). We do this when we declare, ''I AM sick, I AM poor or I AM weak'' etc.
"And He said, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you" (Exodus 3:14).
The "sons of Israel" are those beliefs that we have about ourselves that take the Lords name in vain and keep us in the experience of captivity and bondage. The way to freedom is to exercise the Christ-mind and declare to these erroneous beliefs, "I AM has sent me to you!"
על השם שלי
