You are a unique variety of divinity!

“Every individual within the human family – offspring of God – should be an excellent expression of a unique variety of divinity.” ~ Pastor WD Favour

Previously

Yesterday, we unraveled two fundamental aspects of self-discovery – your vital connection with divinity, and the infiniteness of the varieties of divinity. Your awareness of these realities is basic to a genuine experience of self-discovery. In other words, to discover yourself, you must

#1. Become aware of your vital connection to divinity, the truth that you are an offspring of God, as well as,
#2. Acknowledge the infiniteness of the varieties of divinity.

Hopefully, your appreciation of these two aspects of the process will enable you understand the rest as we continue this series.

Today, I want to introduce you to the third aspect of the self-discovery process.

#3. Understand that you are a unique variety of divinity

A variety is complete in itself, yet it’s a unique expression of the whole. For instance, there are many varieties of the rose flower. A certain specie of the rose flower, is complete in itself, yet it’s just another unique expression of the rose family.

Again, think of the human family; it has many varieties – Caucasian, Negroid, etc. Each of these varieties is complete in themselves, yet they are unique expressions of the human specie.

It is in the ongoing sense that I mean that there are infinite varieties of divinity.

As I pointed out yesterday, you are an offspring of divinity. This is to say that you are one of the visible, and tangible, expressions of the infinite varieties of divinity. Look at it in this order:

• Divinity has infinite varieties (as we noted yesterday).
• You are an offspring of divinity, meaning an expression of divinity.
• Though the infinite varieties of divinity can be expressed in time and space, no single unit of creation can manifest all of these varieties even in eternity.
• Since you are a unit expression of divinity, you can only manifest a certain variety of divinity.

My point is this: There is a variety of divinity that you are uniquely designed to manifest and express in time, space, and eternity.

You are gods!

This unique variety of divinity – that you are uniquely designed to manifest and express in time, space, and eternity – is the real you, the true, eternal, god-you. This is the ‘yourself’ that you need to ‘discover’
Your real self is that unique variety of the infiniteness of divinity you are uniquely designed to bring into manifestation one earth.

So, the third aspect of the self-discovery process is to understand that you are a unique variety of divinity.

When you discover yourself and begin to function in that expression, you begin to experience and exercise dominion in time and in eternity. Everyone that comes within the sphere of that expression invariably submits to your dominion.

It is your realm of omniscience

When you operate in your unique variety of divinity, you experience and manifest the omniscience of that variety. All of the information and mysteries needed for the excellent expression of your unique variety of divinity is within that variety. It’s always within you; it’s fully built into you.

It’s actually a full package containing personalities, gifts, talents, abilities, passions, and so on.
In this sense, you don’t need anyone to teach you to be you.

It is your realm of omnipotence

When you operate in your unique variety of divinity, you experience and manifest the omnipotence of that variety.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. ~ Philippians 4:13

First of all, “I can do all things…” means omnipotence! Every one on this planet has a dimension of operation in which they manifest the omnipotence of God. When it comes to the expression of your own unique variety of divinity, there’s really nothing that you can’t do.

Secondly, “…through Christ which strengthens me” means that there’s a constraint. Christ is the divinity, or the nature of God within you. In the context of self-discovery, it is the specific variety of divinity that you are uniquely designed to manifest and express in time and eternity. So your dominion and omnipotence in time and space is defined by your own unique variety of divinity. Your grace and enabling operate without limitations within that dimension.

Thirdly, outside of this dimension, you are practically impotent…you can do nothing! This is why it is written, “…apart from me, you can do nothing.” ~ John 15:5. In other words, when you function outside your design, you become impotent, you are defeated, failure occurs.

For instance, if you are designed to express the wonders of creation through painting and sculpting, and not as a spiritual leader or teacher, as I am, you’ll be frustrated doing what I’m doing, and vice versa.

So we can paraphrase Philippians 4:13 to read, I can do all things, everything, that I am designed to do because I am designed, programmed, and fully enabled and equipped to do it.

Until you discover yourself – your own unique variety of the infinite dimensions of divinity – and start expressing it, you’ve not started to live, but merely existing. If you die that way, time and history will have no records of you. It won’t notice that you ever passed through this time and space continuum. You need to discover yourself, connect with him, tap into all the resources built into him, and express him fully without reservations and inhibitions.

You must harness all of the divine resources within you. Then fine-tune and metamorphose that variety into perfect excellence. Every individual within the human family – offspring of God – should be an excellent expression of a unique variety of divinity.

It is your realm of rest

Every individual within the human family – offspring of God – is anointed, graced, and supernaturally enabled. But all of these resources are only suited for each person’s own unique variety of divinity .

The moment you move into the expression of your own unique variety of divinity, you automatically activate the anointing and grace for it. Then you cease from all struggles and enter into pleasurable rest – which, by the way, is nothing other than fulfilling labour of love and joy! In this sense, it is your sphere of rest.

Using the simple illustration that I gave earlier, I’m anointed, graced, and supernaturally enabled to do what I’m doing – communicating spiritual mysteries through teaching and writing. I’m not wired to express the wonders of the universe through painting and sculpting. Imagine then that I leave my sphere of operations to venture into painting and sculpting? I’ll definitely struggle there and experience untold frustrations. But as long as I stay in my own sphere of design, I enjoy the grace, anointing, and supernatural strength wired into me for the expression of my own unique variety of divinity.

This rest is not passive or idle. It is actually extremely active, creative, and productive. It is a life-renewing and immensely refreshing labour. It is labour, but it is not tiresome. As a matter of fact, the more you labour at expressing your own unique variety of divinity, the more energy is released from within to do more, and more, and more!

The frustration of the divinity within

When you function outside the sphere of your own unique variety of divinity, you can never excel, you will never experience distinction, or dominion. This happens because your own unique variety of divinity is trapped and frustrated.

The result is that the divinity within you feels crippled and stunted because a channel of expression is failing to manifest a divine dimension. And anytime divinity is frustrated within a being, that individual experiences the phenomenon we know as ‘curses’.

If, for instance, I abandon my own dimension of communicating spiritual mysteries through teaching and writing, and venture into painting and sculpting, the divinity in me would instantly feel crippled and inhibited. The result would be lack of excellence and personal success in my efforts as a sculptor and painter.

Yet the failure of a human being is nothing in comparison to the frustration of divinity. This is because the failure of a being to excellently manifest his or her own unique variety of divinity in time and space, causes ‘death’ to millions of others and by so doing grants undue advantages to darkness. ‘Death’ here is not merely the cessation of earthly life – it is rather the chain reaction, or downward spiral of the incapacitation of other beings from expressing their own unique dimensions of divinity.

For instance, what would have become of humanity, had Jesus Christ not been who He is? What would have become of human progress today, had individuals not invented electricity, telephone, the internet, and so on? What would have become of human history had men like Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and their likes not expressed their own unique varieties of divinity?

So, let your light shine!

Darkness always shrinks back from a genuine manifestation and expression of divinity. Hence it is written that ‘A man’s gift makes room for him…” and that “The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not comprehended it…” The ‘gift’, and the ‘light’ are both various synonyms for the ‘ expression of divinity.’

Your unique dimension of divinity is what Jesus meant when He said, “Ye are the light of the world.” But unexpressed light is no different from darkness. So He says, “Let your light so shine…”

You and I are unique expressions of different dimensions of the Light. Your distinction begins when you discover yourself – that unique variety of divinity you were designed to manifest - then excellently express it. The moment this occurs, a throne is established for you to exercise divine dominion over a sphere of creation.

So far…

We’ve examined three aspects of the process of self-discovery:

#1. Become aware of your vital connection to divinity.
#2. Acknowledge the infiniteness of the varieties of divinity.
#3. Understand that you are a unique variety of divinity.

We’ll go on to other points tomorrow.

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