The chosen Bride is just like Jesus. She looks like Him; walks like Him; talks like Him; and even thinks like Him, because she has "the mind of Christ" (1 Cor. 2:16).  As Jesus was crucified, so is the Bride crucified with Him (Gal. 2:20).  Her very own flesh and carnal mind are crucified as she lives and moves and has her being in Jesus (Acts 17:28).
 
     Like Jesus, the chosen Bride has received from the Father the gift of the Holy Spirit (the "upper room" experience) and is filled with faith and power.  Like Jesus, she lives by faith by "calling those things which be not as though they were" (Rom. 4:17) and according to what the Word says, not what contradictory symptoms or circumstances say.  Like Jesus, the same love of God has been "shed abroad" in her heart "by the Holy Ghost" (Rom. 5:5), and like Him, she too can be found in the cities and in the countryside doing the same love works that the Master did.  Just like Jesus, she offers the people supernatural demonstrations of God's great love for them.  And finally, just like Jesus, wonderful signs and miracles follow her (Mark 16:17) as she walks in the Master's footsteps freeing the captives.
 
    The chosen Bride is holy as He is holy (1 Pet. 1:16) without spot or wrinkle and "sins not," because she abides in Jesus, the Word (1 John 3:6).  By abiding in Jesus and by having His words abide in her (John 15:7), she also keeps her lamp full of Holy Spirit oil; of faith; and of power "ready" for every good work.
 
    The chosen Bride is that special, select group of believers who have become the "overcomers" referred to in Chapters 2 and 3 in the Book of Revelation.  Through her faith in "the blood of the Lamb and by the word of her testimony" (Rev. 12:11) of what she is in Jesus, she has been given "the victory that overcometh the world" (1 John 5:4). Through the Bride's faith in what Jesus has already done, she overcomes fear, unbelief, sin, sickness, and devils, including Satan!!!
 
    "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son" (Rev. 21:7).
 
In Christ,
 
Susie and David Parker