Managing The Fathers Estate | Francis Isibor | PHB | Aug 9, 2025 | PHB

Preparing His Bride | Aug 9, 2025 ## The Path from Spiritual Childhood to Divine Sonship You must understand that there is a fundamental difference between being a child of God and becoming a son of God. While many believers prefer to remain in spiritual childhood—where others make decisions for them and they bear no responsibility—God calls you to mature into sonship, where you actively participate in managing His kingdom affairs. As a spiritual child, you are no different from a servant, even though you are destined to inherit everything. You remain under the guidance of others, subject to the basic elements of this world, until you reach the appointed time of maturity. But when you embrace sonship, you step into your role as a joint heir with Christ, which requires you to suffer alongside Him in order to be glorified with Him. Your primary responsibility as a son is to maintain your Father's estate. This means nurturing and protecting the divine life that has been placed within you through God's word, which comes to you in seed form. Just as the prodigal son lost his inheritance when he abandoned his father's house, you cannot sustain spiritual inheritance apart from close relationship with your heavenly Father. The resources of heaven—described as the unsearchable riches of Christ—can only be accessed and maintained when you remain connected to the source. You must recognize that the miracles recorded in scripture are primarily signs pointing to deeper spiritual realities. When you read about the blind seeing, the deaf hearing, the lame walking, and the dead being raised, understand that these point to the transformation that needs to happen within your soul. The real miracle is not just physical healing, but the opening of your spiritual eyes to see truth, your spiritual ears to hear God's voice, your capacity to walk in the Spirit rather than the flesh, and your transition from spiritual death to spiritual life. To function as both son and priest, you must meet certain qualifications. You need the capacity for spiritual reproduction—the ability to generate spiritual seed through your engagement with God's word. If you cannot bear spiritual fruit, if you cannot reproduce the nature of God in others, then you lack the essential qualification for priestly service. This fruitfulness comes through deep engagement with God's word, which contains the genetic code of divine life. Your growth into sonship will not be comfortable. Like a coconut that must be beaten from every angle until its meat separates from the hard shell, you must undergo tribulation that removes every trace of your old nature. This process cannot be rushed or avoided—it is the pathway to manifesting God's glory through your life. The greatest battle you will face is not with external circumstances, but with your own heart—that "unjust judge" within you that fears neither God nor man. Your heart naturally resists God's truth and prefers the familiar patterns of spiritual childhood. You must learn to wrestle in prayer, crying out to God with the persistence of the widow who demanded justice, until your heart surrenders to divine truth. Remember that Christ already dwells within you, along with every spiritual blessing and divine resource you need. The issue is not God's willingness to bless you, but your heart's willingness to receive what has already been given. When you engage in persistent prayer and fasting, you are not trying to convince God to act—you are breaking down the resistance in your own heart that prevents you from accessing your inheritance. As you take communion, understand that you are participating in tokens of your sonship and priesthood. When you eat His body, you are consuming who you are in Christ. When you drink His blood, you are receiving the end of everything that makes you fall short of God's glory. The goal is not just to remember what Christ did, but to manifest who you are in Him. S