Saturday, May 14, 2005

God Desires & Empowers Us To Be Fully Pleasing

"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son; In Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" Colossians 1:9-13

It is the desire of God that we always walk worthy and pleasing to Him, and that we are fruitful in every good work! We never have to fail, we can be victorious in every area of our lives, we can be successful in every action, and every one of our actions can be fully pleasing to God and every action that we do can be fruitful! “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 “If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:7-8 Through the power of Jesus Christ within us, we can be used by our Father to produce much fruit and not only will the fruit benefit us, it will also bring glory to God! So many of us walk around thinking that there is Jesus and then there is us, and we will never really be able to fully measure up, but we never read that in God’s Word. God’s Word tells us that through Christ we will measure up, and we will measure up to God’s Standards, because it is God within us doing the Works! God actually tells us that anything that would hinder us from walking in full righteousness, He will prune out of us! Faith comes from hearing the Truth that it is God’s will and desire that we be fully pleasing to Him and that we are fruitful in every good work through Christ, and that to enable us to live this way, He has placed Himself within us to accomplish His desires for us!
God has strengthened us with all might, because He has given us His glorious power! “And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are One.” John 17:22 Whenever we think of Jesus, when we consider His glory and His power, that is what God has given us! God has strengthened us with all might and all glory! Because He has strengthened us with all of His might and all of His glory, just as He does with Jesus! God sent Jesus to accomplish the task of obtaining our salvation, so He empowered Jesus with all of Himself, and Jesus accomplished what He was sent to do, by the power of God that was within Him. Now, we are one with God through Jesus, and all that Jesus has, so do we. We have His Spirit, we have His mind, we have His gifts of the Spirit, we have His glory, we have His love abiding within us, we have His righteousness, and we have His wisdom and His knowledge, because we are now and forevermore one with Him. We are His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! Faith comes from hearing the Truth that we are strengthened with all of God’s might and that we have His glory! Faith comes from hearing that through Jesus, God can now do all things through us!

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