Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Jesus Is Glorified In Us

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them." John 17:10

Jesus is glorified in us! If that doesn’t get an A-men from the choir, than nothing will! Stop and really allow the glory of this Truth to be ministered to you by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit fully understands and fully comprehends the power of this Truth and He knows how to reveal it to us in all of its fullness! We are taught in church from the very beginning of our salvation to think of our Father's magnificence, His glory, His omnipotence, His miraculous power, His Throne, Heaven and how marvelous it is! We sing songs about Heaven; we dream about Heaven in all of its glory. We sing, “I’ll fly away O glory, I’ll fly away.” Yet as glorious as Heaven is, it is not where the King of Kings receives His glory. Jesus is glorified in you and He is glorified in me. Really grab hold of the fact that Jesus is glorified “in us!” To God we are the grandest place of all and in us He chooses to receive His praise and His glory. Even though this is what our Father has said, there are not many songs reflecting the magnificent Truth that Jesus receives His glory within us! We are that special to God; we are the vessels that glorify Him! We are a chosen generation and a royal priesthood, and we have been raised up together and have been made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! We are joint-heirs with Jesus, the King of Kings, and in us is where He is glorified!

Jesus prayed in John 17:1 Amplified, …Father, the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and extol and honor and magnify You.” We should pray the exact same thing, because the only way that we will ever be able to boldly glorify and testify of God within this earth, is by God doing it through us. “That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.” John 17:21 Amplified

Jesus glorified in us, think of what that means, and ask yourself how does it happen? How can the King of Kings be glorified in us, just mere human beings? Turn to John 15:8 Amplified. “When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.” And how do we produce much fruit so that God can be glorified? "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5 Without Jesus empowering our lives our Father can never use us to produce His righteous fruit. But through the power of Christ, we now have the strength to be used by God for all things! With Jesus there are no limits and through His power within our lives God can be glorified by our every action, thought, and deed!

Jesus is glorified by us, because He is within us, He is abiding within us, and dwelling within us. We cannot bring glory to Jesus by ourselves or through our own actions. The only way we are able to bring glory to Jesus is by allowing Him to produce much fruit through us! The fruit that Jesus produces through us glorifies God, and by Jesus being able to do it through us brings glory to Him, and as He works through us, we are also glorified by it! The world will see and know that we are one with God through Christ. They will know that there is salvation because no man can produce Godly fruit on His own. The world will accept and believe on Jesus as Lord because of our unity and oneness with the Father, just as Jesus is one with the Father, and A-men the Harvest grows and multiplies! Satan loses and Jesus wins! And since we are now one with Jesus, we win to, and that brings glory to God! Jesus teaches us in Mark 16 that signs will follow us if we believe, the sick will be healed, devils will flee, we will speak in new tongues, and deadly things will not harm us, these are only possible because of our Father within us, He does the works! These are the works that the Vine produces through us and these are the works that bring glory to the Truth that Jesus now abides within man!

Jesus being glorified through us is what will end terrorism, this is what will cure cancer, stop abortion, defeat divorce, end violence, and bring about Godly change within our world! The fruit of Godly love, peace, joy, faith, hope, and patience, produced by Jesus within us; this is the fruit that brings glory! Too many Christians believe that this power of God working through us can only happen when it all ends and Jesus comes back for us. But I believe that the power of Christ has strengthened us so that our Father can now do all things through us! Jesus teaches us in John 17:21 that by our oneness with God through Him, is how the world will believe and be saved. Heaven and earth will pass away but the Truth that God can work through us completely and fully is eternal and its power is for right now. In Ephesians 5 God talks about the glorious church that Jesus is coming back for, a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. That is a church that Jesus is being glorified in, and that is the church for right now. Jesus in John 14:12 talks about God doing the works through us that He did through Him and that God will do even greater works through us than He did through Him; this is a Godly Truth for right now that will bring glory to Jesus.

Too many are putting off our glory to sometime in the future; which actually means they are putting off Jesus’ glory until sometime in the future! Jesus is to be glorified right now! Waiting until our future in Heaven is not how Jesus teaches that the world will believe and be saved. Jesus taught that the world will believe when we are one with Him, and when we are one with each other through Him! The world is hurting and they need the Truth that will set them free right now, because now is the day of salvation! Our Father working fully through us brings Jesus glory! Jesus is not coming back to save us from the ill’s and evils of the earth. He is coming back when the harvest is ready and the harvest is ready when the fruit is ripe! And praise His glorious Name that is when we are glorious through Him, without spot, wrinkle, and without any blemish! That is a much fruit producing church; that is the church that God receives glory from, because that is the church that He is fully working through! It’s not in Heaven that this occurs, it’s right now, it’s today, and it is all possible because of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and He receives His glory by what He has allowed God to do through us because of His sacrifice!

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