Saturday, February 05, 2005

God Works Through Us On This Earth

"Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6

Who will perform the good works through us? Do we? Absolutely not, our Father is the One Who performs His good works through us and He will do it until the day that Jesus returns! We are confident and we are strong in this very thing, that as long as we are on this earth, our Father, Who is God, will perform His good works through us! As long as evil is allowed to be here on the earth God will be within us performing His good works, His works of love, faith, hope, healing, prophecies, and miracles! Our Father never leaves us or forsakes us and He never stops performing His good works through us! Our Father is able and willing to perform all of the miraculous things that we have studied in these postings and we have Jesus Authoring and Finishing our faith to believe this Truth that sets us free! Our Father wants us filled with all of His fullness as He works through us; He wants us to be part of them, actively involved in them, and one with them as He does them. Our Father wants us strong in His might and He has Anointed us with the same Anointing that He gave Jesus, so that we can be! Our Father has sanctified us, glorified us, perfected us, and called us; God is for us, who can be against us! Our Father now lives vitally united and permanently united with us! We are now His flesh, His bones, and His body. No weapon formed against us will prosper and we are now more than conquerors through the power of Christ Who loves us. Our darkness is as the noonday, we are blessed beyond expression, and in Him we are above only and we are not beneath. Today is the day of our salvation and God strengthens us and allows us to rejoice and be glad in it!

"And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land I gave your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:" Ezekiel 36:27-28

When we were chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, God took over! He placed His Spirit within us and from the very moment that we said yes to Jesus, He was directing our paths in the ways of righteousness! Our Father saved us from all of our uncleannesses and He Anointed us with His glory! We became His Temples and we became the instruments of His righteousness. God now uses our hands to be laid on the sick, so that they may recover. He uses our lips to proclaim His Truths, so that the captives will be set free! He uses our bodies to go into all of the world to preach His Gospel and all of the time He is working within us! “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.” John 14:10

“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 John 2:27

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 The Anointing of God, which is Christ, has established us and sealed us, and since it has we are able to be taught all things and be used by God to do all things! We can now be used to do all things by God, through Christ Who strengthens us! We are now strong in the Lord and the power of His might!

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30 The Holy Spirit has sealed us until Jesus returns! He has strengthened us until Jesus returns! We now have the mind of Christ and we are now confident through it. We are confident in Jesus’ abilities and we don’t grieve the Holy Spirit by denying our Father the ability to use us to do all of His good works through! We can’t deny God, because we are now crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who is living, it is Christ within us Who is living! Jesus has never denied God and He never will, and we are now His body!

“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 15:5 Our Father began this within us and He will continue to produce abundant amounts of fruit through us! Our Father is the God of action. When He called the heavens and stars into existence He never said stop and to this day the Universe is growing! Our Father's first miraculous work through Jesus was to turn hundreds of gallons of water into wine! Jesus called upon God and fed thousands of hungry people with only table scraps and had basketfuls of leftovers! God worked through the Apostles to heal the sick and whole cities turned to Jesus! God has always worked abundantly through those who believe, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so He always will!

I think you probably get the picture, it is God in all His forms, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Who keeps us and Who now works through us! I thank God that He reveals this to me every day. We live in a world that looks to itself for advancement. So many preach that we are limited by ourselves and by our own abilities and actions. But the Word of our Father teaches us that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we can ask or think! The Truth that allows us to be set free is that God is the One Who places the burden of our salvation on Himself. Our Father is the One performing His good works through us and we just don’t live in a world where that is believed. I have heard, as I am sure you have, God helps those who help themselves. This is absolutely a false teaching and because it is so widely accepted, we need to daily encourage each other with the Truth. The Anointing of God that abides within us, and which is no lie, will show us that our Father is the One within us allowing us to walk righteously. The Truth is we are now one with Him, and because we are He can now do everything through us, because through Christ the two of us have become one flesh. Born again, born of righteous seed, born of love, this is who we are now in God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! God began His good work within us and He will continue His good works through us for eternity!

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