Walking in the Fullness of I AM

Many years ago, a man named Moses had an encounter with God that changed his life and the world. During that divine appointment, God revealed himself to Moses in a burning bush as I AM. From that day, Moses was never the same, and he began to walk in a measure of the fullness of God. What Moses experienced in measure you and I can experience in its fullness. The coming of Christ and the giving of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost activated the fullness of God in all who receive Jesus Christ as Lord. In the coming days, we will see Christians walk in the fullness of God that includes not only the supernatural encounters Moses had, but also the works of Jesus, and the miracles seen during the days of the early church, and even more. Believers are being awakened and filled with the same fire of love God has for his children, and their lives are being radically changed.

Each of us are uniquely designed by God. From the foundations of the world, God planned your life. Psalm 139:16 (NIV) says, “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” God’s individualized plan for your life is who you really are, and you can walk in the fullness of that plan. To discover who you are, you must fully discover God.

Many define themselves by their old nature and behaviors before they became a believer in Christ. Our subconscious way of thinking always leads us to the same old patterns of behavior, but God’s word should change our views on who we are. Unfortunately, many still define themselves by how they feel, what they have, what they do, or their accomplishments.

Walking in the fullness of I AM does not involve working or trying hard. If that were the case, 20 years from now you would still be trying to reach a higher spiritual plane of existence. Trying hard is a works-based form of relationship with God that always sets you up for failure and disappointment. If you are going to learn to walk in the fullness of God, you must have an expectation and an anticipation of your future with God. Walking in the fullness of I AM involves changing the way you think, believe, and interact with God and the realms of the spirit. In short, it involves faith, repentance, love, and encounters with God. Before those religious words side-track you to thinking this will never work, let me explain. Faith is simply believing or recognizing something is true. Repentance is changing the way you think about something. Love involves the deeply rooted love of God as the foundation of your life. And finally, encounters with God naturally occurs when you spend time in the presence of God, and the Holy Spirit begins to move upon your heart and life.

Romans 12:2 (NKJV) says, “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” The word “transformed” in the Greek is metamorphoo¹ and it means “to change into another form,” “to transfigure.” It is where we get the word metamorphose. This word is used four times in scripture. It was used twice in describing Jesus’ transfiguration on the mountain top in front of some of the disciples, once in the scripture we just cited, and the 4th time in 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV) where it says, “we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

The transformation of your heart begins with a revelation of God and his kingdom. Once you receive a revelation of truth, your spirit and soul gain the capacity to align with God’s word and walk in the fullness of that revelation. When the Holy Spirit said to me “Walk in the fullness of I AM,” I spent the next several years trying to conform to that identity. Finally, the Holy Spirit helped me realize I did not have to perform, act, feel, or think a certain way to walk in that promise. I realized that I AM who God says I AM, independent of any other circumstance.

Before we discuss the application of these truths, let’s begin with an understanding of what the Bible means by God’s fullness. The Greek word for “fullness” is pleroma² and it means “that which is (or has been) filled” (i.e., the container) or “that which fills or with which a thing is filled” (i.e., the contents). In other words, the Fullness of God means the complete fullness of who God is has been poured completely into the life of the believer. It means you can be filled up to the brim, with no room to spare, with the completeness of God. Would you like to live this way?

This seems too good to be true and beyond anything most of us have heard. God created you to be totally saturated with all of himself. If you want to know what that looks like, look at Jesus. In John 14:9 (NIV), Jesus said, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” Jesus was saying there was no distinction between himself and the Father. In fact, the Bible says just as Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead, we are the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 1:23).