February 8th 2009

A Video Recording of this Letter

Rebuilding Our DNA
Daniel Yordy

It is most important to stop and see yourself in Jesus and Jesus in you when you are feeling your worst. When you are blessed and happy and filled with love for God and man, it is easy to rejoice in a personal intimate relationship with Jesus. But when you feel rebellious and sinful and proud and antagonistic, when people anger and frustrate you, when God feels far away and you fell empty and alone, then, and always, is the most important time for you to reject what you feel and to see yourself as being utterly in all of your weakness, inside of Jesus, and to see Jesus in all that He is filling all of you as you are right now.

Medical experts are beginning to reckon with the possibility that because worms have lived inside of the human body for so long, the human DNA has adapted a need for the presence of those worms. The human body seems more able to deal with some modern diseases when the worms are present.

BBC News gives the following report:

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'Professor Graham Rook, an expert of medical microbiology at University College London, said: "What we think is that the immune system has become dependent on signals from certain organisms."

He said a fascinating recent study had illustrated this.

Bacteria were introduced to a group of amoebae. The amoebae did not like the bacteria and tried to kill them - but could not. And five years later neither organism could live without the other.

The amoebae had deleted certain genes in their own immune systems and the bacteria had done the same so they could coexist peacefully.

As a result, the amoebae no longer had a complete genome unless the bacteria were present.

Professor Rook said: "It now looks more and more likely that the development of our regulatory immune system depends on molecules that are encoded not in the genome of the human but in the genome of some other organism we lived with throughout history."'

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The natural gives us a view of what is true in spiritual reality. The fallen human soul has lived with demons spirits for so long, gaining its identity from its relationship with those spirits, that it has gained a 'need' for the demons in its own identity. The believer in Jesus, living in the fallen world, is yet subject to the deceiving thoughts of demons and views the world through their eyes much more than we suppose.

Let me make this more specific. The need to accuse and to be accused, to control and to be controlled, to discourage and to be discouraged, is so much a part of our identity that it seems, almost, that we cannot live without it.

Our spiritual 'DNA' is rebuilt primarily in our minds by how we see ourselves, by how we see Jesus, and by how we see our relationship with Him. It is in those times and places where accusing ourselves or accusing others is so familiar and almost 'needful' to us that we must deliberately replace that accusation with the acknowledgement and the certainty of our union with Jesus in our own minds in spite of how we feel.

The great battle of this end of the age is the casting down of the accuser.

I must confess that since beginning this series of letters, I have sustained the most constant and overwhelming barrage of accusation against myself in my own mind and heart in a lifetime of oh so familiar accusation. Seeing myself in Jesus and Jesus in all of me feels so desperately like heresy, almost like blasphemy, yet I know that I have found that precious relationship with Jesus that I have longed for all my life. I know that this is what God says in the gospel. I know that God calls those things that be not as though they are. I know that we are right now in the transition moment between two ages. I know that the ages are turning on this point.

And so I stand. And especially when I feel most like weeping, like saying, "Oh God, please forgive me for being such a miserable wretch," then, I must take myself in hand and look, almost forcibly, if you will, at me in Jesus and Jesus in me.

Jesus is my life; I have no other life.

I am no longer afraid of God.

All of my Christian life, I have believed that God required something of me and I have known most certainly that I could never produce it. With God's help, I could produce what I believed He required for two, maybe three days, then it would all collapse into 'reality.' A dishonest Christian might say, 'With God's help, I can do it.' But I always knew that, no, I could never produce what I believed God required, even with His help. Yet, with all my heart, I loved God and wanted to be with Jesus as He stands in His glory, triumphing over all of His enemies.

I am no longer afraid of God, because I am not separated from Him in any way.

"And we have known and believed the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love." 1 John 4:16-18

"As He is, so are we" stands right in the midst of the day of judgment. It is there that we stand in absolute boldness. I, as I am right now, am He, as He is right now.

And because I am no longer afraid of God, I am perfectly willing to say to Him, "Father, make me willing to do Your will, as You say that You do." And I am confident that His will is expressed in my heart, and I am perfectly willing for Him to change me utterly, as He sees fit.

But I will give nothing to the requirements of obligation. All that God wills, must come out of who I am, for I am as He is. I do not seek His will; I am His will.

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I more fully understand the critical importance to us right now to change the way we think. We must see ourselves, our circumstances, and other people through God's eyes. Most of you who receive this email also have a copy of my book, "The Jesus Secret." The book itself is not important; you, confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus, is. Don't just set it on the shelf. My take on things is not why you need to have it open -- speaking what God says you are is your life.

Extraordinarily, however, as I re-read "The Jesus Secret," I understand what I wrote two years ago on a much deeper level than I did then. We once saw through a glass darkly, the time of seeing "face to face" is upon us.

If you have not read all of the "Christ Our Life" letters, you can access them through www.dyordy.com, just click on "Christ Our Life Archives." I suggest you start with the first and read them in order.

Finally, I want to recommend that you spend time on two websites. First is www.christasus.com In the left column, click on "Fred Pruitt" and read his articles, particularly the page marked "Fred's Latest Articles." Then, also, www.sonsofgod.com. On this site, "Current Words" is what I strongly advise you to read. However, to protect the precious word God is giving them from the abuse of the Internet, Edward and Anne, the moderators of the site, require a login to "Current Word." Their email is at the bottom of the home page, just send them an email and they will give you a login name and password. What God is speaking to them for right now is vital for us.

I pray that God would include you fully in the awesome and wondrous thing He is doing in our lives right now.