Daily Bread - MAR/27/07
Ephesians 3:7 - Of which I have become a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the working power of His power.
There are two Greek words used here for power, "energeia (working power, supernatural strength, divine activity) and "dunamis" (the power of Pentecost, God's power). The ability that Paul had to represent Jesus and live the Christian life was supplied directly to him through the Holy Spirit. This is not some esoteric activity of God that takes place absent of our will and consciousness. This is an activity of the Holy Spirit in our life not unlike any other relationship. We must recognize His presence and both obey and yield to His direction. The Holy Spirit desires to supply us with supernatural strength every day. It is through a continual and ongoing empowerment by the Holy Spirit that we are given the ability to live the life of Christ Jesus.
There is nothing that man can do for God in his own human ability and strength that will really accomplish anything from an eternal perspective. We must learn to depend upon the ability which God supplies to us through His active power (energia) that is at work in the life of every saint. Through interacting with the Holy Spirit in praise and worship, reading of the Word of God, and giving ourselves to prayer He trains us to yield to Him. The first time that you yielded to the Holy Spirit was when you responded to the call of salvation and allowed Him to transform you and make you into a new creation. As we learn to walk in the love, joy, and peace of the Holy Spirit we will find ourselves continually overwhelmed with His direction and ability. Jesus did nothing of Himself and it is certain that we can do nothing of ourselves. If we will simply take hold of the reality that without Jesus we can do nothing then we will begin to put our faith in the activity of God working through us. Right now the Holy Spirit has a supernatural supply of power for you and it is God's will that you be endued with His ability.
Be blessed,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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. (Hebrews 4:12).
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