Friday, July 21, 2006

God Has Given Us His Best

"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 our Father, which is Christ, has established us. Our Father's anointing has sealed us and because 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 our Father through Christ Who strengthens us! We are now strong in the Lord and the power of His might! The earnest of God and all of His fulness now abides within us! We have the best of God, we have His all, and we are sealed with it until the Day that Jesus returns!

“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! Our Father has strengthened us with His earnest 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 God the ability to use us to do all of His good works through! We can’t deny our Father, 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 and we have been given His mind. And with His mind comes His thoughts, through Christ we now think like Jesus thinks!

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 a God of action. When He called the heavens and stars into existence He never said stop and to this day the Universe is still 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 when they were full there were basketfuls of leftovers! Our Father worked through the Apostles to heal the sick and whole cities turned to Jesus! God has always worked abundantly through those who He empowers to believe and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so He always will!

I think you probably get the picture, it is our Father 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 God teaches us that our Father is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we can ask or think! The Truth that allows us to be set free is that our Father is the One Who places the burden of our salvation on Himself. God 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 that we are now one with Him, and because we are He can now do everything through us. Through the power of Christ the two of us have become one flesh. Born again, born from God's righteous seed, born of love, this is who we are now in our Father. We are all of this and more 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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