You are dear to God and His people, brother Roy. It is just that we are dealing with several topics here for our mutual edification, one I pry into here. I want to be forgiven for not looking up cross references because of haste. The word should be recognized by many reading, and others not familiar with Scripture should experience agreement with the revelation of truth.
Jesus says, "Who receives your receives not you, but me; and who receives me receives not me but Him that sent me;" and, "In that day ye shall know that I am in you and you are in me and that we are one, even as I and the Father are one." The apostle says, "We are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones." (Ep 5) As well, hear the famous statement of Jesus' basis of judging the nations: "Who has done it unto one of these, the least of my brethren, has done it unto me." These truths reveal an inner reality of the conscious presence of God within humanity. It's there even if it is mostly unrecognized, as is the case. Even in all creation, God lurks. The recognition of dark matter and energy gives new depth to the fact that God wraps Himself with thick darkness.* It is the meaning the songwriter reached for, though often criticized for choice of words, " Standing somewhere in the shadows you'll find Jesus." One said, "Surely You are a God that hides Himself." In people and in the cosmos, it seems all else is appearing while God is nowhere to be found. Truthfully, the unbiblical term to describe God's activity on display as "supernatural" is a misconception, as there is no such thing as "natural law," as though Nature was a god. What is referred to as natural law is only God's usual way of doing things. What is referred to as supernatural is God doing things in an exceptional way. "All is of God."
The inwardness of our secretive God Whose glory is to hide things is a personality trait balanced by the fact He loves to be seen and praised. "All is of God." This continuation of a well know passage of Scripture is usually omitted. "...if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God..." (2 Co 5:17-18, AV) And returning to what leads up to this expression of universal totality is an inner disposition that directs the course of life: "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead..." (vs.14) This reality inward to all living is regardless of appearances. All has been disconnected from its Source, Guide and Goal, that what is reconnected would in liberty be redirected toward the union with the origin and sustenance of reality's identity. "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." (vs.15) The outward changes the Seed underwent, dying in its solitary self transferred it into new revealed identity extending into the center that draws all into it. Christ is within all, either crucified or risen. "He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things." (Ep 4:10, AV) The imperceptible Divine operates external extreme transitions with inner consciousness. Being disposed to spirit, having died to the flesh, in union with Fathering love, "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. (vs.16)
"Ye" is plural. "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." (1 Jn 2:27, AV) Who needs no man to teach is the many membered body. Who the anointing teaches all things is not the solitary in private interpretations. Though the Lord is holy, set apart from all else that is, He has joined with creation in redemption. He is in union with His Bride whose members in particular operate spiritual gifts as it has pleased Him to impart. He determines the making known of Himself through many sons. "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being 'many, are one' body: so also is Christ." (1 Co 12:12, AV) This is the true Christ: "Many are one..." And "except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer," you cannot dismiss either the sons or the made universe when dealing with the real God. So you cannot say God's manifestation has nothing to do with this or that servant or son. "For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it." (Ps 132:13-14, AV)
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* "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was." (Ex 19:21, AV)
"Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness." (1 Ki 8:12; 2 Ch 6:1, AV)
"He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies." (Ps :18:11, AV)
