Daily Bread - 06/05/07
Acts 6:8 - And Stephen full of faith and power did great signs and wonders among the people.
Steven was full of faith and the Holy Spirit; he was also full of faith and power. Because Steven was full of faith and power he did great wonders and miracles. There are some Greek manuscripts which read "full of grace." However, faith is simply a part of the package that we receive through grace (Romans 12:6; Galatians 5:22). Although only Jesus was referred to as being full of grace in the New Testament, we know that all of us have received His fullness of grace upon grace (John 1:14, 16; John 17:22).
The manifestation of the Spirit is revealed in each person's life based upon the measure of faith that they have received. Whatever the proportion of faith is then that will be the limit set upon the manifestation of the Spirit of God through us (Romans 12:6). Each one of us is called to pursue faith and to excel in faith so that faith may grow (1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22; 2 Corinthians 8:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 10:15; Luke 17:5). The opportunity is set before us to come into all faith or the fullness of faith (John 1:16; 1 Corinthians 13:2). Jesus called all men to the fullness of faith when He commanded us to "have God's faith" or it may be translated "have the faith of God" (Gr- echete pistin Theou), Mark 11:22. There is no question that Jesus was speaking of the faith that accomplishes the miraculous and makes known the power of God by what He said in the next two verses, "For truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be thrown into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be to him, whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, All things, whatever you ask, praying, believe that you will receive, and it will be to you" (Mark 11:23-24; Matthew 21:21), Greens Literal Translation.
We are called to live by faith and in faith. It is essential that you give yourself to the life of faith. It must be more than just a set of beliefs but faith that works and moves. The faith that we are called to is a living faith that makes known the love and power of God to all mankind.
Blessings,
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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