Pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is your hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
And what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places……,
far above all principalities and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. ( Ephesians 1:17-23).
Let us chew on the wonderful, beautiful word of God: what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe?…. This is the same power that stole from death the Son of the Living God. This Resurrected Life of Christ lives within us and quickens our mortal body! The same power that freed the bondage of death over mankind is upon and in us today. Just by our faith in the Lord, we are so victorious because of Him…. What a Savior! God always does more than we can hope, think or imagine for His children. How great is our God!
This same power seated Him at the right hand of the Almighty above all power and every name…. This same power put all things under the Lord’s feet and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church. The same power is in His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all….. Who is His body? You and me!!!!!!! Hmmmmmm….
So do you think we need to upgrade our faith a bit? Ahhh….. YEAH!
I am here not trying to get more power for the sake of more power…. I am here asking the Lord to give us eyes to see the availability of the power of His love that He has towards us every moment. What possibilities can we do in His name and in His love for His Kingdom….. if we really believe. Do we believe He answers our prayer? I know He does!
There is so much to open our hearts to receive so that we may receive the impossible. Then live the inconceivable life of God…. Complete His purpose in us…. and to not withdraw in slothfulness or fear or selfishness that would negate the power of His love for His Son working in our hearts. We are also His Son’s body corporately, the church, which is the fullness of Him that fills all in all…..
Do we fear….. why? Do we worry….. why? Do we know we are in His hands? Do we? Do we live knowing that all things are complete in His hands, including us? If we did, we would not be fearful but full of His peace. The peace that is beyond understanding because around us is chaos. That is God’s peace, beyond our understanding that we live in it when all hell is around us……
Bravery is living in faith in the total unseen world. We keep living as we were seeing all there is to see in the hidden realm of God….He said it so we believe it! It is also a life of joy and adventure…. Are we up for the task of living a life of faith in and by the Uncreated One?….. If there is a mountain before us, we know we have been equipped by God to pray against it, walk through it undaunted or ascend over it…..Whatever may be His will, He has more than equipped us for the task of achieving His glory here and now.
The Lord walked through the crowds that were trying to seize Him, He was untouched. He also climbed the mountain to pray and left the multitudes, they did not follow Him up, as if an unseen wall was there to protect His time with the Heavenly Father…..While other times the multitudes followed Him everywhere. Our Lord prayed against the bondage of Satan over the people over and over again…. He removed their mountain of bondage….. Do we have real faith in the greatness of His love for us and others? Do we?
Hear Him calling you to live the life of the unseen but seen by Him. Let us venture to go where He knows but we do not….yet! Do we really work on our trust in the Lord? Or do we stay inside the nice box we have made for us called the system of religion and keep Him belted in the pew that we have made for Him….. Like He can be contained…. NOT…
He just moves on and leaves us to our vain imagination. Just because we are comfortable in our imagination does not mean God is comfortable….. In fact, the only way we are to be comforted is by the Comforter, the Holy Spirit….. He never, never, makes our flesh feel comfortable. He does just the opposite, He stirs us up….. He stirs the love of God, the fire of God within, so we burn with an everlasting love of God.
We should be found by His watching eyes, full of His strength born from our weakness, and not flinching by the darkness taunting us… Knowing that we walk in the Light as He is in the Light…. For we are His body, filled with the fullness of Him…..You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world, ( 1 John 4:5).
The same God…. the same powerful God that took death captive is here with us this minute…. The same God that kept the lions mouths closed in their den to save His anointed follower is here today…..The same God that parted the Red Sea, has opened the doors to heaven and taken death captive for us is here with us today…..IF WE BELIEVE…..then we are to walk in our belief!
Better yet, He is within us, teaching, leading, guiding and protecting us with His everlasting keeping arms, by indwelling Spirit of grace. Our bodies are healed. Our hearts are restored in the hope of salvation and the love that God has for us….. We have been given the mind of Christ so we may walk in His Spirit in alignment or agreement…. When the resurrected life of God eats up our mortality, we will be immortal…
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heaven. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up in by life……( 2 Corinthians 5:1-4).
There is nothing that our God has not given us and blessed us in His love or His power that we cannot be found as overcomers from this world in His eyes. We are as victorious as our King, especially since we are abiding in Him as our all….. because the same Spirit of Jesus dwells within, the same Spirit, the same God, the same power……by faith, we can live this out to the fullest of Him! Do we believe or are we going to get stuck in religiosity…. It is up to us….because:
Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed, ( John 8:36).
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, ( 2 Corinthians 4:17).
Do we believe this? Do we really conquer our days with the power of His Spirit that is towards us who believe, ignoring the flaunting of evil, and choose to fly above with His word by His Spirit? Do we fly on His wings like eagles soaring the heights that are available because we can…by Him and in Him?
We can also die on the cross daily by Him and for Him. Is this not the way to soar?….. For the same power that Jesus Christ had that day to conquer fear and walk humbly to the nailing of His hands and feet is within us now to be able to suffer as He did….. Do we believe this?
Do we believe that we could handle the same cup as He? Do we believe that the same Holy Spirit who empowered the Lord will empower us to walk as He did on this earth….. The Spirit of God has not changed. The Son of God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So may be we need to upgrade the faith in the Almighty more? I DO, I DO!
Some of His chosen have been given this cup of suffering, some torture, some death……. Are we preparing ourselves, for it might happen in America? Are we ready for the exaltation of the Lord by us today?
Or did we not bargain for this kind of hardship in believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Hey, we just want to go to heaven. Let us not get too spiritual here…. I just want my free ticket to heaven when I die….. What do you mean I have to walk like He did on this earth?
His power, which is His love towards us, that never fails…..His love never fails or stops….. His river of love flows freely from His throne of grace……. Do we really drink from His river that flows freely from the throne of God?….
Do we really live in the river of His Spirit? Swimming in His love way below the depths and way above the the heights? Do we fly beyond the lengths and reach behind the widths to know our God? Do we live there now, beloved?… No matter, how much we have climbed there is more than the abundance left that we have not uncovered in knowing this great God and the inexhaustible love that He has towards us that love Him.
We should be, because He has freely given this abundant resurrected life now to us…. There is nothing that we cannot overcome in this world, even ourselves and awaken as His image as His beloved bride…. There is nothing can hinder us, except us….
Our unbelief can stop this wagon train as nails deflate the tires on a car……
This nothing that is impossible to those that believe….. Nothing….
There is a lot to meditate on here…. All the power that came in that very morning to capture death from our Lord and bestow on Him, the First Resurrected Son of God….. That Life is in us, beloved, now…. Canceling death and darkness and rising us in to our Heavenly Father’s own sons and daughters…..
Living a life that we could hardly imagine, but it is the truth and reality of God for those who believe. I believe the measure of resurrected life within us is small to start and as walk in obedience to life in the newness of Christ and consider dead our old nature. As the room of the Spirit grows within us, so does all that grows with His life – filling us with His fullness also…. Eternal life in growing stages, like any seed that is sown… But beloved, we have the incorruptible Seed within us, that exceeding greatness of the power towards those that believe…. Nothing is impossible with our Great God.
Sometimes I wonder if we would look at the riches of grace given to us as though we walked through the door to a toy store as a seven year old….. All is available to him as walks in. We both know the child will believe all the possibilities that exist for him and are available to him…. Do you think he will take advantage of the offer? YOU BET……Do you think the child will push the limit to obtain all the child can? You bet!
Do we take advantage of the offer of His grace to us? ( The answer should be YOU BET!) You know that God’s grace is inexhaustible as is His mercy and love….. Beloved, let us go after all the grace we can get as a child in a toy store…..Why? Because we can! Beloved, let us grow in the grace of our Lord.
As we grow in grace, we also grow in the knowledge of the Lord….. It is never ending, just as the life we have in Christ….. Neverending, never stopping, always flowing, always growing in Him. Does this life resemble eternal life in our God! YOU BET!
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think according to the power that works in us…..
to Him be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.( Ephesians 3:20-21).
Father, we ask in Jesus name, to give us the grace to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length, and depth and height- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, ( Ephesians 3:18-19).
To God be all the glory and honor for He is great and there is no other God like our God!
As we drown in the love of God, just live totally immersed in Him, the best attempts of evil to turn us away from the Lord, will fail miserably….. I am all for that…. Any way we can make darkness retreat is our goal…. We will not be offended at the Lord when we are made to ascend to His hill because of the trials and tribulations of the time….. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all, ( Psalm 34:19).
Let us remember and take heart as we live knowing the exceeding greatness of His power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is toward us who believe according to the working of His mighty power, ( Ephesians- paraphrase 1:19).
Amen! Let us eat the truth of His word as our only NEED!
Selah!
