HOW TO ABIDE IN THE POWER OF GOD
Brother James, OIC
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Joh 15:7-8 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.
There is Power in the Words we speak. Words will either produce Life or they will produce death. Words of Life can only come forth from God through your understanding His Living Word. Words of darkness on the other hand are all around us and come forth from the father of lies, his demons that control this lost and dying world and the false solutions it offers. But because of Jesus Christ who overcame the world and its god Satan we can now be empowered with His Power (which is the Power of Christ-Gods Anointing) to Overcome.
Rev 12:10-12 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
From day one after God had called you to Christ it has been His desire to see you enter into and abide in this Power.
Joh 3:5-6 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
It is this Kingdom wherein the Power resides:
1Co 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
And this Kingdom must reside within you:
Luk 17:20-21 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
This Kingdom Power can only be built within through you receiving in understanding the Rightly Divided Truth of Gods Word and this in no way has to do with intellect but a reborn spirit.
Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God......Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
There is a process to Gods Work within. First His Word gets in and excavates the junk from your pasts. Your hurts, pain, abuses and perversions of sin. It dredges up and removes those layers of calloused over tribulations of your past. It does this by birthing an Anointing within you and it is the Anointing that destroys the yokes Satan uses to take one captive.
Isa 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
2Ti 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Christ or Christos in Greek means Anointing. So it was Jesus the Anointed One Who showed us the Way. Christ is the Power of God within. It is the Anointing that flows out of those Chosen like Rivers of Living Water and it is the Power of Light to pierce the darkness of those still dying in the sicknesses of this worlds False Solutions.
1Co 1:20-29 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.
In these perilous times where people are flocking to dead churches to get their ears tickled God gives them over to a strong delusion to believe the lies of this world and its god Satan. Yet God has left a remnant His elect that abides in His Power and Anointing to teach His Words of Life. They may not make the best dressed list nor Pastor large mausoleums in this day popularly called Churches but they are there full of life, light, love and power ready to help you reside in the Gods Kingdom and His Power reside in you. And as Paul was in his day to the Galatians they await to Birth the Spirit of Christ within you.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
And it all begins with the Seed (Greek: Spermos) of Gods Word received by you in Spiritual Understanding.
