Ephesians 4:16

For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love. Ephesians 4:16

Because of Jesus we are now perfect. He supplies us with whatever we need and His love causes us to be mature even as our Father is Heaven is mature. That sounds crazy I know. But Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:48 that we have to be this way.

You, therefore, must be perfect [growing into complete maturity of godliness in mind and character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity], as your heavenly Father is perfect.

So being perfect as God is perfect is a need of ours and our needs are now met by our Father’s riches and glory through Christ Jesus. We really cannot talk about it enough, but we are really successful because Jesus is causing us to be. We have been grafted into perfection and we have become one with it. Everything that Jesus is and everything that He has we are now one with. He has held nothing back from us, even perfection.

Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water. Hebrews 10:22

I honestly believe that most people have no idea that because of Jesus’ success we now enjoy all of the privileges, rights, and honors that He does. There is absolutely no reason to have any guilt at all. Grace has trumped every last thing that could ever come against us. Jesus has made sure that we cannot fail and none of it is dependent on our own abilities. We don’t have to pray right and actually the Bible tells us that none of us even knows how to pray right. We don’t have to be righteous and once again the Bible tells us that none of us is righteous. We don’t have to be able to quote scriptures or belong to a denomination. We don’t even have to author or finish our own faith, because Jesus even does that for us. 

We are now one with Jesus and as He is, so are we in this world. He is our Head and He is now completely responsible for us. So never question yourself or allow anyone to ever bring condemnation on you because there is none to be brought. If our Jesus and our Father aren’t condemning you then there is no one of any consequence to bring any fault against you, including yourself.

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?] Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? Romans 8:33-34

Ephesians 4:!5

Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Ephesians 4:15

The great Truth with being one with Jesus is that we cannot help but to love. We can’t help but to love, even our enemies, because we now have the exact same love living in us that Jesus has living within Him. The same compassion that Jesus had for all mankind to be sacrificed now dwells eternally within us. 

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very] Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

John 17 let’s us know that we cannot help but to know the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth of our Father’s love. Jesus is living in you and I so that we can love everyone as He loves everyone. Because of Jesus’ abilities in us we will be used to produce much and abundant fruit and if there is anything that needs pruned out of us, our Father will prune it out! Because of Jesus we cannot fail or fall short. 

Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

In the previous verses of Chapter 4 our Father told to watch out for false preachers. Now right after He tells us that He shows us about love. So look at a preacher and see if they are taking account of the evil done to them? Look to see if they are rude towards those who don’t yet know the Truth. See if they are preaching about our rights when it comes to the world or are they boastful about being saved? See if they endure other’s, even when the other’s come against them, are they patient and kind towards all? Or do they require the person to confess Jesus first? If a person is truly gifted to be a leader love will be evident within them. 

Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth]. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

Love covers a multitude of sins. So because we have Jesus’ love abiding in us, all of our multitude of sins have been covered. Faith comes for us by hearing these Truth’s.  

Ephesians 4:14

So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead. Ephesians 4:14

Our Father gave us the wonderful gift of ministries: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. These gifts have been given to us for our perfection, but there are those who would try and pervert the Truth by claiming to be what they are not. So here are some things to look out for.

Beware of religious leaders who have been divorced. [These elders should be] men who are of unquestionable integrity and are irreproachable, the husband of [but] one wife, whose children are [well trained and are] believers, not open to the accusation of being loose in morals and conduct or unruly and disorderly. Titus 1:6

Be cautious of religious leaders who call their ministries by their names. What I mean is this, that each one of you [either] says, I belong to Paul, or I belong to Apollos, or I belong to Cephas (Peter), or I belong to Christ. Is Christ (the Messiah) divided into parts? Was Paul crucified on behalf of you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 1 Corinthians 1:12-13

Beware of leaders who try to place rules and laws on you. But He said, Woe to you, the lawyers, also! For you load men with oppressive burdens hard to bear, and you do not personally [even gently] touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Luke 11:16

Beware of leaders who preach about money all the time. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2 Peter 2:3

There is a Truth and it is that Jesus never changes and Jesus is the Word. He was before there was anything. He spoke and everything came into existence. All things exist through Him, for Him, and by Him. So because He is the Word and He never changes, the Truth never changes.

Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages). Hebrews 13:8

Jesus told us to beware of the wolves in sheep’s clothing. He told us to beware of the Pharisees and Scribes. The same warnings hold true today when it comes to religious leaders. There are no new doctrines, so beware of unscrupulous preachers who don’t line up with the never changing Word of God. 

It is really a blessing when our Father brings us into fellowship with a truly gifted pastor, prophet, evangelist, apostle, or teacher. Fellowship is awesome and we are never to forsake it and thank God that our Father will never allow us to, in-spite of the wolves.  

Ephesians 4:13

[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him. Ephesians 4:13

Our Father has given us ministering gifts so that we all may obtain oneness. All of us, isn’t that a wonderful saying, all of us? We have been given the gift of pastors, prophets, evangelists, teachers, and apostles so that we all may have the fullest measure of Christ within us. Notice that God tells us that it will develop. So don’t fret if you don’t have all that you desire now, it’s developing. Our Father knows what He is doing. 

The Truth that I get so excited about is that Jesus fills all things. Jesus created all things and all things exist by Him, for Him, and through Him. The issue isn’t that we all don’t have Jesus, the issue is that we all don’t have this wonderful knowledge, or in other words, this faith. Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us all free. So our Father gave us the gift of ministers, so that the Truth that we all have Jesus may be preached. The Truth isn’t that Jesus only fills a few of us or just some of us, the Truth is that Jesus fills all of us, whether we know that He does or not.  

But how are people to call upon Him Whom they have not believed [in Whom they have no faith, on Whom they have no reliance]? And how are they to believe in Him [adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him] of Whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? And how can men [be expected to] preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings! [How welcome is the coming of those who preach the good news of His good things!] Romans 10:14-15

For the most part religion tends to preach that Jesus is working for those of us who believe. But that is not the Truth at all. Jesus came for the world. Jesus never changes and when He was here 2000 years ago He served both those who believed and those who did not believe. He taught us that it really isn’t all that great if we only serve those who love us and to prove His point He served even those who didn’t love Him. He served those who would demand His death. Jesus healed people when all they did was complain. He fed people who doubted Him. He healed lepers who wouldn’t even thank Him and He forgave the people who were killing Him.  

The world hears far too often that Jesus will only be there for them if they first believe. This false message causes us to be immature and to be tossed to and fro. Because of this teaching we have thousands of denominations and several different religions all trying to get it right so that our Father can do something for them. But the day is coming when our Father will truly empower us to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to the world and then they will believe the Truth and we all will be set free. Jesus is returning for a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. So don’t look for bad things as a sign of Jesus’ return, look for a glorious time of preaching as the sign of His return.  

Ephesians 4:11-12

And His gifts were [varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us] some to be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers. His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ’s body (the church), Ephesians 4:11-12

Our Father gives us these ministers. The first thing to realize is that people do not choose to be an apostle, prophet, pastor, evangelist, or teacher it is a gift given to them.  It is a gift that has been given to them before they were even born.

But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw fit and was pleased Galatians 1:15

And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God’s purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them], It was said to her that the elder [son] should serve the younger [son]. Romans 9:11-12

These ministering gifts were given to us by our Father for our perfection. The people who have been given these gifts have been anointed, before they were ever born, to serve and strengthen the Body of Christ. What I am getting at is that our Father has had His Hand in directing their life’s always. So our Father will have insured that they fit into His Word so that we may know that they truly have been called.

Let’s look in 1 Timothy 3 to see what our Father tells us about our pastors and elders. Our Father shows us that our pastors and elders will be the husbands of but one wife. So for a person to truly have the gift of being a leader of the church, they will have to be married and they cannot have been divorced. We are told that their children must be well thought of. So to be a leader of the church, a person must have children. These people must not be new to the faith. They must not be drinkers. They must not be combative and here is a great one, they must not love money. 

We have been given a litmus test by our Father to judge if our leaders truly have been given the gift of serving us. Look at Paul, he was never married, he did not have children, and he was not used by our Father to be a pastor or an elder of a church. It did not mean that he wasn’t used mightily by our Father, it just meant that he wasn’t used to be a day to day leader of a flock. We are all able body minister’s. But to be a pastor or elder, a person’s life must have certain aspects to it. 

Ephesians 4:10

He Who descended is the [very] same as He Who also has ascended high above all the heavens, that He [His presence] might fill all things (the whole universe, from the lowest to the highest). Ephesians 4:10

Jesus has filled all things. He has filled all things from the lowest to the highest. So the lowest one of us is still filled with Jesus. This means that Jesus is responsible for all of us, from the lowest to the highest. 

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). 2 Corinthians 3:17

So Jesus has filled all things and He is responsible for all of mankind. So all of us, from the lowest to he highest, have ben liberated and emancipated from bondage. 

So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. John 8:36

We have been shown that Jesus fills all thing and that He is in control of all things. We have been shown that where His Spirit is there is liberty and emancipation. So we are all truly and unquestionably free. Some of us have been empowered to know it now and some not yet, but the Truth remains that Jesus has freed us all.

Look at what Jesus told us to do. He told us to go into the world. He told us to freely give. He showed us to go to the market places and to go to where real people live and hang out. He showed us to go to where the sick were and to serve them. Church is great, but our true calling is to go to those who do not know the Truth and our Father will use us to help them. 

I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. John 17:23

Ephesians 4:8-9

Therefore it is said, When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive [He led a train of vanquished foes] and He bestowed gifts on men. [But He ascended?] Now what can this, He ascended, mean but that He had previously descended from [the heights of] heaven into [the depths], the lower parts of the earth? Ephesians 4:8-9

When Jesus ascended? Where did He ascend from? Hades.

For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit, In which He went and preached to the spirits in prison, [The souls of those] who long before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God’s patience waited during the building of the ark in which a few [people], actually eight in number, were saved through water. 1 Peter 18-20

Jesus went and preached to the souls who were in Hades then He ascended and as He did, He led a train of souls who He had won. They were guilty and still Jesus brought them to God. Our Father’s will of everyone being saved and coming to the knowledge of the Truth was being fulfilled. These souls included the worst of the worse too. Many of these souls had lived during Noah’s day, when our Father had to destroy most of the people of the world. These souls were unjust, but Jesus was victorious and He conquered their captivity. Jesus bestowed gifts to these men, even though these people were guilty. 

Now here is my question: if Jesus went to Hades and freed the souls who there after He was  crucified, will He free the souls that are there now? We know that there are still souls there because Revelation 20:13 tells us that on Judgment Day Hades will give up her dead. So did these people who Jesus led out of Hades enjoy some benefit over the souls who are there now?

And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons, Acts 10:34

If our Father had Jesus rescue those souls, He has to rescue the souls who are there now. If He doesn't, then wouldn’t He be respecting them over the ones who are there now?

When we die, we become free from sin, Romans 6:7 tells us that we all do. So the souls of those who are sent to Hades become free from sin. Our Father clearly tells us in Romans 6 that when a man dies he is freed from sin. This allows those who are in Hades to finally see the Truth. Just as Jesus showed us with the Rich Ruler who began to see the Truth in the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Ruler. The Ruler actually began to have compassion after he was sent to Hades, he did because the power of sin was removed from him and he could finally see the Truth.  

So think about the last day. Our Father will raise up all who are in Hades and when He does, what are we told that they will do? We are told in the Bible that they will all confess that Jesus is Lord. Every last one of their knees will bow and every one of their tongues will confess that Jesus is Lord. They will do all that is needed to be saved. And once again Jesus will led a train of vanquished foes and once again He will bestow gifts to completely undeserving men. He will do this so that our Father’s will can be satisfied of everyone being saved and everyone coming to the knowledge of the Truth.

Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men. Romans 5:18

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Jesus is far more successful than most of us give Him credit for. 

Ephesians 4:7

Yet grace (God’s unmerited favor) was given to each of us individually [not indiscriminately, but in different ways] in proportion to the measure of Christ’s [rich and bounteous] gift. Ephesians 4:7

Grace is our Father exerting his influence on our souls. 

It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues). 2 Corinthians 1:12

Our Father exerts His influence on each of us differently. Our Father keeps all of us differently. He strengthens us differently and He increases us all differently. We are not all bricks, formed to be the same. We are like stones, all different, yet we still all can be fit together to make the eternal Temple of God. 

Just because our Father may be using you more than me in no way means that He loves you more than me. It just means that we are all called and chosen to do different things. This Truth is so important because it eliminates all condemnation and doubt. Never allow anyone to judge you because they believe that you are not measuring up. If our Father needs more out of us, He will cause us to be more. He is our Head. He is our source for everything. 

Our Father is our Potter and He is a very skillful Potter too. So He knows exactly how He wants to use us and He is forming us in exactly the way that we have been chosen to be used. Our Father will not fail with us. He will accomplish all that He has designed for us to be. And in the end, we all will receive the same reward. 

We can therefore relax in the peace that passes all of our understanding and that peace is that our Father has us exactly where He wants us right now. He may very well be taking us somewhere else, but right now we are where we need to be. God s not angry at us. He is not disappointed with us and He is not upset with us. 

Far too often religion will try to bring guilt by telling us what we need to be, but Jesus has removed all guilt from us. We now have a spirit of faith, love, and a sound mind. We  are no longer under the bondage of human ability. We are now under the freedom of being one with the infinite power of the Living God. 

Ephesians 4:4-6

[There is] one body and one Spirit—just as there is also one hope [that belongs] to the calling you received— [There is] one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of [us] all, Who is above all [Sovereign over all], pervading all and [living] in [us] all. Ephesians 4:4-6

There is only one body, Jesus Body, and we are all part of it. There is not your body, my body, and Jesus’ body, we are all Jesus’ body. We have all been raised up together with Him. We all have shared in His death and now we all share in His resurrection.

We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God]. Romans 6:4-5

Think about Jesus’ Body. Can it sin? Can it be possessed? Can it be deceived? Can it backslide? No it cannot and we are now one with that Body. This all has all been freely given to us so that sin can never have any power over us. Our Father did what the Law could not do. 

We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. Romans 6:6

We have One Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and that Spirit will never let us fail or fall short. Our Father’s Spirit will always cause us to be victorious. Our Father is above us all and He is in us all. So if all of this is true, how can anyone ever believe that He will not get His way have all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth?

I heard a preacher say last week that our Father loves us so much that He gave us the freedom to do what we want. How? If He is Living in us and we can do nothing on our own as Jesus tells us in John 15, how? It is impossible for us to ever do anything on our own, just as it is impossible for our hands to ever do anything on their own, apart from  our bodies. We are never left alone and we are never forsaking by our Father. So we can have absolute peace. We are able to enjoy peace that passes all understanding, because we know the Truth and have been set free by it. 

Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11

So consider yourself dead to sin, because you are dead to sin. We have been set free by Grace and all of the burdens of the flesh have been removed from us. We are part of the victorious and eternal Body of Christ. 

Ephesians 4:1-3

I therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, appeal to and beg you to walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God’s service, Living as becomes you] with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another. Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3

Not only have we been called by God, we have been chosen by Him. Before there was anything, anywhere, we were chosen to be used to show the world, and even the Angels, the mystery of our Father. We are the very body of Jesus. We are new creatures in Him. We are raised up with Him and He is always being greater in us than anything that is in this world. I write these things because if your experiences are anything like mine, these verses in Ephesians 4 were used to make you feel like you could fail. But the glorious Truth is that we can’t fail. We have the Holy Spirit in us and He will not allow us to ever fail, so we cannot help but to be meek, gentle, kind, patient, and helpful. 

The Truth is what sets us free and the Truth is that all things now work out for our good. The Truth is that Jesus will present us glorious and faultless at His return. The Truth is that is if there is anything at all in our life’s that would cause us to be anything other than what we have been chosen to be, our Father will prune it out. Jesus will absolutely sanctify us and His glory will always shine through us.

When I was younger, I thought that I had to do it all. The churches that I went to told me that I had to as well. So I desperately tried and salvation wasn’t any fun. But then our Father allowed me to see the Truth and I was set free from the burden of taking thought for my own life. The amazing thing was that even though I was wrong when I was younger, I was still being blessed. My errors in no way limited our Father from glorying me. He allowed me to see the Truth and now I am able to enjoy all that Jesus has done for us. The fret and worry have been replaced with confidence and trust in our Father.

Our Father doesn’t respect one of us over another, so His blessings of knowing and enjoying His Truth is for everyone. As we have studied it is for the Jew and the Gentile. It is for those that know that it is and for those who do not know. Jesus‘ sacrifice was for the world and because we are one with Him the world will come to know the Truth and we all are going to be set free. 

So rejoice, because we cannot help but to be eager to be used to bring peace to the world. We cannot help but to think of other’s above ourselves. We can’t help but to bless those who curse us, to pray for those who despitefully use us, and to feed our enemies. We were chosen to be servants and our Father’s anointing for us will not fall void to the earth.      

Ephesians 3:20-21

Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]—To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it). Ephesians 3:20-21

Our Father is able to carry out His purposes through us, because He is greater in us than anything that is in this world. So let’s think about what our Father’s purposes are and then glory in the Truth that He will superabundantly carry them all out through us. The first thing is that all Father would that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth. So this purpose will be carried carried out through us, far above what we think that it will.

That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. John 17:21

Our Father would that we do the works that Jesus did and even greater works, John 14:12. So by the power of our Father that is within us, we will be used to raise the dead, heal the sick, cause the blind to see, cast out demons, and He will use us to do even greater things than these. We will be used by our Father to help people beyond anything that we can ever pray for.

Our Father wants us to know all things, John 14:26. So above any desire that we may have for knowledge, our Father will far exceed our desires. We can’t even begin to think about how much knowledge our Father will cause us to have and all because we have been filled with the fullness of God. We now have the mind of Christ. 

Our Father would that we go into all of the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He wants us to cast out demons, lay hands on the sick, and to freely give. So our peace is that He will cause us to do all of these things superabundantly.

Our Father would that we be charitable in every good work. So that means that He will provide everything that we will need, beyond anything that we can ever hope for. Money, miracles, love, healings, prophecies, compassion, forgiveness, or whatever is needed will be supplied through us by God being in us.

Our Father would that we be more than conquerors. He wants us to be victorious. He wants us to be sanctified, glorified, and perfect. He wants these things more for us than we do, and it is completely up to Him to make sure that these things are all provided in abundance to us. We wont even dare to ask for what our Father will do through us and that doesn’t for one second stop Him from carrying out His will through us. 

Ephesians 3:16-19

May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality]. May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Ephesians 3:16-19

First of all, and I know that I talk about this a lot, but it is absolutely theTruth, the secret of the Kingdom is to take no thought for your own life. However, we are to take a ton of thought for other people’s life’s. To be great, we must be servants. We should absolutely be praying this prayer for others and not just those who we like or fellowship with. We should be praying prayers like this for those who hate us, those who slander us, those who misuse us, and those who make fun of us. We reap what we sow and we should always be sowing prayers of blessings for others. We should always be in our most secret place praying for others and what our Father has us doing in secret will be rewarded in the open. Gun's, wars, and laws, will not change the world. However the weapon of our warfare, which is being used by God to intercede for others, will.  

Also take note of what our Father had Paul write: God wants us to have His mighty power working fully in us. He wants us to be full of love and full of knowledge. He wants us to know Him and understand Him. He wants us to experience His power and be filled with all of Him. Our Father wants us to be as He is, even when we are still in this world. 

So never question your worth to God, you are dearly loved and treasured. You are His child and He is not angry or disappointed with you. If there is anything that needs corrected with you, He will prune it out of you and cause you to have life and have it abundantly. He will present you glorious and spotless in His presence. You will never be left or forsaken by Him.   

Ephesians 3:13

So I ask you not to lose heart [not to faint or become despondent through fear] at what I am suffering in your behalf. [Rather glory in it] for it is an honor to you. Ephesians 3:13

How could Paul write this when He was falsely imprisoned and when He had been beaten and left for dead? 

Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

There is a Truth and it is that trials and tribulations bring out the best in us. Paul asked our Father to remove him from trials and God told him no.

Three times I called upon the Lord and besought [Him] about this and begged that it might depart from me; But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and [b]show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me! So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength). 2 Corinthians 12:8-10

If we want God’s perfect strength operating in our life’s, then it comes from trials. Notice that Paul was praying for the hardship to end and it didn’t. It’s not because Paul didn’t have faith, it was because it wasn’t our Father’s will. So do not ever condemn yourselves if a trial or sickness stays even though you are praying for it to go. Paul was sick, so sick that he had to stay in Philippi. We are also told that Timothy had stomach issues. There is now no condemnation for us whatsoever and our Father will bring us to actually begin to glory in trials and tribulations, because it will allow His perfect strength to be revealed to us and through us. 

Ephesians 3:11-12

This is in accordance with the terms of the eternal and timeless purpose which He has realized and carried into effect in [the person of] Christ Jesus our Lord, In Whom, because of our faith in Him, we dare to have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear). Ephesians 3:11-12

Here is where so many will try and put the pressure on us because our Father had it written, “because of our Faith.” However, we have the Truth and the Truth has set us free.

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

The mystery has been revealed to us and we know that we are now one with Jesus and that we have His complete and total faith operating in our life’s. We know that we will never be left alone to accomplish anything, because we can never be on our own. We will never be left or forsaken by God. The Holy Spirit will always cause us to abound in Hope and Faith is the evidence of things hoped for. So therefore we cannot help but to be bold when it comes to approaching and fully expecting our Father to make sure that all things now work out for our good. The pressure of success has been completely removed from us and it has been replaced with peace that passes all understanding.

For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father! Romans 8:15

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7

Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood: May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be realized in and through Christ, freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts]. 1 Peter 1:2

Our Father is not mad at us. He is not discouraged by us. He is not disappointed with us. We are all His favorites and we can all boldly approach Him with full confidence and assurance that we can and should have a wonderful and eternal relationship with Him. 

Ephesians 3:10

[The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere. Ephesians 3:10

Our Father’s will is to reveal His wisdom through us. We are the mouth pieces of God. The angels and demons, as well as the world, will hear our Father’s will and absolute Truth through us. We are the chosen vessels of God to reveal His many sided wisdom. We are shown that we will not just be used to declare a little of God’s wisdom, but all of it. Our Father will use us to openly declare all of His Truth and God’s Truth is what sets us free.  

Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known. Mark 4:22

In that same hour He rejoiced and gloried in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have concealed these things [relating to salvation] from the wise and understanding and learned, and revealed them to babes (the childish, unskilled, and untaught). Yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will and choice and good pleasure. Luke 10:21

So often we all look to a PHD of Theology or some well schooled person as our teachers, but that is not who we are suppose to look to. We should be looking at those of us who have never been to Bible College, those of us who are unskilled in the ways of organized religion. Look at who Jesus used to declare the Truth, tax collectors, laborers, and fishermen. And when our Father did use Paul, a person who was schooled in organized religion, He thrust him out of that religious organization. Our Father used David, a young shepherd, to be king. He used Daniel, a slave, to declare His Truth to a kingdom. 

Our Father takes the things that the world calls foolish and uses them greatly. The ones that our Father uses confounds the world, we don’t make any sense to them. We defy logic! Our Father can use us because He has given us His very Own Spirit to teach us all things. 

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. John 14:26

So never doubt or think that you cannot be used. We are never too old, too weak, too poor, or too uneducated to be used mightily by God. We can never be the wrong gender or race. Our Father is always greater in us than anything that is in this world. 

Ephesians 3:9

Also to enlighten all men and make plain to them what is the plan [regarding the Gentiles and providing for the salvation of all men] of the mystery kept hidden through the ages and concealed until now in [the mind of] God Who created all things by Christ Jesus. Ephesians 3:9

Paul was chosen by our Father to reveal the mystery which is that salvation has been provided to all men, not just some men, but all men. That was a mystery that was hidden before Jesus’ sacrifice, but now it is to be revealed. Our Father also wants all men, not just some men, to be enlightened with the Truth, because it is the Truth that sets us all free. So what super natural power has our Father given those of us who have been called to share the Truth?

That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. John 17:21-23

The power that we have been given so that we may be used to set all men free is that we are one with God, just as Jesus is One with God. We also have the exact same glory that Jesus has. There is nothing that Jesus possesses that we are not one with. As Jesus is, so are we in this world, 1 John 4:17. This is the Truth that sets us free to be used by our Father enlighten all men. There is no separation at all between us and God! 

If your experiences are anything like mine, religion has tried to tell you that our Father is so loving that He has given us free will to chose or not chose Him. Is that Love? Jesus tells us that the Kingdom is as little children and would it be love if I would allow my little children to decide what was best for them? If I did that and they were harmed I would be arrested and thrown in jail for child endangerment. The Truth is so much greater and it is that Jesus was so successful that all people are going to bow their knees and all people will confess that Jesus is Lord, and all of us are going to spend eternity with our Father, as is His will. 

I believe that the sign of the end times will be when our Father begins to truly give us the absolute knowledge that we are one with Him as Jesus is. I talk about it and share the scriptures that teach it a lot, but I would be lying if I said that I have absolute assurance with this Truth. When our Father does empower us though with the absolute assurance, the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached everywhere and the works that Jesus did, and even greater ones, will begin to be performed all around the world. 

All men will be enlightened because our Father is Love and Love covers a multitude of sins.