Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Jesus Dwells Within Through Faith

"That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. A-men." Ephesians 3:16-21

We have now been strengthened with the might of the Holy Spirit, so that we are able to now be filled with all the fullness of God! We are not just partially filled with God. We are not somewhat filled with God. We are not filled with just as much of God as a human can handle, O no, God wants us filled completely with all of His fullness. He is God, He is everywhere, He knows all, sees all, has all power, and a-men He wants us filled with all of Him. I know that sounds big, but look at what John writes in 1 John 4:17, "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world." As God is, so are we in this world. The only way that we can be as God is, is to be filled completely with His fullness. On our own we have no capacity whatsoever to even be somewhat like God, yet God had John proclaim that as He is, so are we in this world.

Jesus has the fullness of God within Him and we now have Jesus within us! “Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” John 14:9 Jesus was able to say this because He was born of God and because He was filled with God. Jesus was perfectly God because He was One with God. Now we are one with God through Jesus and just as Jesus was perfected by the presence of God, so are we! Not by works, least any man should boast, but because of the abundance of God’s grace! We are perfected in Christ because the Blood of Christ continually allows God to exert His influence on our souls, strengthening us in His faith and love!

Do you see it, do you see what these scriptures are saying? In Jesus' name the Holy Ghost is revealing to us who we are in Christ Jesus this day! In Jesus' name the Spirit is revealing to us the complete power of the sacrifice of the Cross for us. We have the strength of God Himself within us insuring that we can know completely the love of our Father! We have the strength of God Himself within us allowing Him to do more through us than we can ever even begin to imagine! Why does He do this, so that all of the world may believe and walk in Jesus' complete salvation. All of the world, young and old, male and female, and each and every nationality! “That they all may be one; as Thou Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are One. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:21- 23

Our Father is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask, and He does it by His power that is within us! How cool is that? Exceedingly abundantly: perfect, whoever, whatsoever, all, and now, these are the Words that God uses concerning us. John 14:12, "Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father."

Man has absolutely no ability on his own to be perfect, but with God, who can do above all that we ask or think, we are perfect and we are filled with all of our Father's fullness! This is where so many of us loose it. We want to limit God’s ability to be successful through us. We want to believe that God’s success is limited to our ability to believe and accept His Truths. There are many who preach that we only have as much as we can believe for. That is flat out wrong! We are limited only to God’s ability to believe and His abilities are limitless. We have been strengthened with God’s Anointing, so that He can fill us with all of His fullness, so that He can do far more through us than we can ask or think of! Look at the man at the Pool of Bethesda, John 5, this poor guy had no faith whatsoever. Jesus asked Him if he wanted to be healed and the guy only talked about his problems. He never acknowledged Jesus as Lord and showed no faith, none whatsoever. Yet Jesus healed him. We see in Ephesians that God had Paul write that He could do exceedingly abundantly above what we could ask or think of. God used these verses to first show me that faith is not our human ability to believe for His Truths, faith is His ability Authored through us to accept and believe His Truths. We could never author or finish anything close to believing what God has for us. But He sure can, and praise God, He is willing and He is able to do it.

The glory that God gave to Jesus as His Son, Jesus gave to us, so that we can be one with God, just as He is One with God, and why, so that the world may believe and have the exact same thing! This unity is not just waiting for us in Heaven; it is for us right now! Carnal minds are unable to grasp this, but we now have the mind of Christ. We have the glory of Christ and we are now one with Christ, so even if we don’t understand it fully, who cares, God understands fully and He is able to allow us to believe and accept it. Our Father will cause us to believe far above what our carnal mind's can believe or ask for! The Anointed mind that our Father has given us knows that we are filled with the fullness of God! It knows that the full breadth, length, height, and depth of God’s love now abides within us! We have Jesus living within us and He knows exactly how to use the love of our Father that passes all understanding. We are never alone, we have the fullness of our Father within us at all times. We have Jesus Who has always lived in the fullness of God within us! Together and in the power of Their might we are more than conquerors!

"One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all." Ephesians 4:6

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