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Being Strengthened with God's Might PDF Print E-mail
Written by Michael Bush   
Wednesday, 16 August 2006

What time is it?  Today's Nugget of Truth: Being Strengthened with God's Might

Ephesians 3:16

    That he (Jesus) would grant  you, according to the riches of his glory, to  be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the  inner man;

Praise the Lord, Beloved.  I'm here to tell you that Christ has a perfect plan for your life today and be assured of this fact, He will complete the work He has begun within each and everyone of you.

See Child of God, you must confess, based on the Word of God, "His truth is alive and prevailing in my life today."  Say this with me, "The Word of God is working mightily within me." Amen!!!  Also, say this, "The Word of God is working mightily for me.  I'm blessed and I know that I am blessed.  God is a good God.  God has been good and He is good to me.  All the time.  Yes, He is!  All the time."

 Repeat this, "The Word of God is working mightily within me.  The Word of God is working mightily for me.  I'm blessed and I know that I am blessed.

 Notice what the Apostle Paul declared to the Church at Ephesus, also to you and I about our inheritance in Christ Jesus.  There is an ability from God that is at work from within each and every believer.  Saint's of God, we must learn how to trust in this ability and tap it for its resourcefulness.  If you are born again, born afresh and born anew, God has made His deposit on the inside of you.  

So what came with this deposit?  I thought you might ask.  The Bible says, we have this treasure in earthen vessels

2 Corinthians 4:7
    But we have this treasure  in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of  God, and not of us.
Paul said, in this treasure contains the eternal power of God, in excellence.  Remember, God will complete His work that He has begun within you.  It also says in this verse, this excellent power is "not of us" but it is of God, which is its source.  Amen!!!

Now, there seems to be a power shortage if you will in many Saints.  For there is no such thing as the power of this present life being bigger or badder enough to control or overshadow the power of God that's within us.  There is no such thing, nor such dominion, no such power, nor glory in the earth realm.  There is no power or influence that's able to shut down or over through the power, the authority, the dominion of the Almighty God.  No such thing!  Amen!!!

So than Child of God, where is God's power?  Where is God's presence?  Where is God's glory?  Paul said, "right on the inside of you."  Jesus said, in Matthew.

Matthew 6:20
    But lay up for  yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor  rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  

Where moth and rust cannot corrupt and where thief's cannot break through and steal.  We have God's divine nature buried within.  So what do you have that's covering up the Christ in you?  What do you have that's causing Christ to appear to have disappeared from within us?  This is not about "Hudenny" Okay!!  Or some great cover up, Saints!  It's truly about the great awakening on the inside of you.

See what Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3:2-4
3:2  Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
We are those written epistle (letters/messages), the word made flesh.  This should be the goal of every believer.  To become the living word on display.  The Word of God, personified.  We are called of God to be on display for all heaven and earth to see God's glory. Amen!!!

Getting back to the great awakening.
This is about, the Holy Spirit, taking us back into Eden, where in Adam and Eve, male and female lived in the presence of God.  This is the place of pure worship.  This is the place of perfect obedience.  This is the  place of God's excellence.  Where His mighty Spirit has free course.  Where there are no limits.  Where the Holy Spirit flows unchecked (unimpeded, unrestrained, unhindered). Amen!  

What this is not about, is the great deception.  Saints we have been called out of darkness and placed into God's marvelous light.  Light represents illumination and eternal life (no darkness at all).  So Believer, what's in you that causing Christ in you to be hidden, concealed, unseen, unknown, secreted, veiled, from being heard and known by the world around you?  

Remember, God, is in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.  Therefore, God is within you and I reconciling the world unto Himself.

So Child of God, have you learn how to tap into this mighty power that's alive within you?  Have you learned how to yield the members of your body, your soul, your mind and your will over to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the Precious Holy Spirit?  

What say ye?
See Child of God, let me encourage you with these words.  Jesus Christ came to the earth to show us the way (we must go), the truth (all about God) and certainly the last but not the least, the life (abundant and eternal).  Jesus Christ is God manifested in the flesh, Emmanuel, God with us.  Christ is in you now as the hope of Glory! Amen!

See Saints, I love what Jesus prayed in the Gospel of St. John chapter 17.

John 17: 1 - 23
    Father, the hour is come;  glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou  hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give  eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the  only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.  

    4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I  have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.  5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own  self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.  

    6 I have manifested thy name (glory/nature) unto the men  which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them  me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all  things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have  given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them,  and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that  thou didst send me.

    9 I pray for them: I pray not for  the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.  10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am  glorified in them. 10 And all mine are thine, and  thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.  

    21 That they all may be one; as  thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also  may be one in us: that the world may (see and) believe  that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I  have given them; that they may be one, even as  we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me,  that they may be made perfect in one; and that  the world may know that thou hast sent  me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

My, my, my.  This passage is rich in "glory".  Amen!!!   Christ prayer in essence told us what He expected to see take place on the inside the life of every believer.  To be glorified by the presence and the power of God.  Let me say that again.  Christ wanted us all to hear and see God's purposes and His word at work on the inside of you, that we all might experience and fully express, the glory/nature of God in our lives.  Amen!!!

So Beloved, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;   God is trying to get our "Be" ing in its rightful place.  Being, is so important, its everything.  Its so much better in the Kingdom of God, "to be" than it is "to know" who you are in God.  

In Genesis, God said, "let there be light".  Or, Light be!  Light has never stopped being since.  We win with God, when we agree with Him.  According to God, His spirit within us is sufficient enough to place us in our rightful place as the Sons and Daughters of Almighty God.  

Romans 8:17-25
    17 And if  children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that  we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified  together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of  this present time are not worthy to be compared  with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of  God.

In conclusion, note this Child of God, the whole world is awaiting with high expectation for our display as the Sons and Daughters of God therefore stay connected to the source of God's mighty power.  Allow the mighty Holy Spirit of God to breath upon you, daily.

SHOUT GLORY!!!  Somebody!