Wednesday, February 22, 2006

God's Hope Purifies Us

“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:3

God bore into us His very Own lively hope and God has given us His very Own Holy Spirit, so that we may abound in His hope. And we now have Jesus Who Authors and Finishes our faith. So if we are truly saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, we absolutely have hope! And praise God that means that we are pure, even as our Father is pure! Salvation goes so far beyond what is being preached by the masses. God gave it all to us, He gave us all of Himself, and there is nothing lacking in our salvation through Christ, nothing! We can open up our Bibles and read about how God worked through Jesus, and when we do, we can rejoice in the Truth that God gave us the same hope, the same faith, the same Anointing, and the same Spirit, so that He can do the same things through us! God did it so that we could be used as servants, just as Jesus served! We are not saviors, but we are part of the Savior, and we are tools of our Savior. When Jesus was here as a man, He was physically used by God to lay hands on the sick and they were healed, and we are now our Fathers instruments of righteousness to do the same. When Jesus was here as a man, He allowed the power of the Spirit to show people that God was real, and now we are part of Jesus’ body to do the same! Jesus is Lord and we are now members of His body and He will use us to glorify God as He serves the needs of those around us!

Jesus is Lord!

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