2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
There has never existed a people on this planet before, like the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. This Body of Christ (the Anointed One, and His Anointing) is the most powerful force, that the world has ever seen. The Body of Christ is exactly that---His Body. We are His hands, His feet, His Voice, His nature and the manifestation of His Love and character. The only hands Jesus has to lay hands on the sick today, are in His Body. Jesus doesn't come back into this earth and lay His hands on everyone who is sick. He expects you and I to do that in His Name.
Jesus meant it when He said that, "It is the Father in Me, Who does the work." Now, by and through the Holy Spirit, we have the Father living in us too. Jesus still does only what the Father tells Him to do, but now we are to be taking instructions from Him in doing it. We've become so self-conscience over our own weaknesses (what if I lay hands on that person, and it doesn't work?), that we've forgotten to be God-conscious and remembering it's His power.
Many believe this is being prideful and puffed up and begin persecuting you, like they did in Jesus' day. This is part of suffering for His Name, as He suffered. Religion and deception have relinquished to being "as mere men," in satan's sight. God is now raising up this Joshua generation, in order to take the land and enter into "the rest." After God rescued the Israelites out of Egypt, the spies saw the giants in the Promised Land and reported, "We looked like mere ants in their sight" and didn't believe it was possible to enter the Land God promised them.
Hebrews 4:9-11 (Amplified) says, "So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the (true) people of God. For he who has once entered (God's) rest also has ceased from (the weariness and pain) of human labors, Just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His Own. Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest (of God) (to know and experience it for ourselves) that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience (into which those in the wilderness fell)."
The Israelites couldn't enter this "rest," because they couldn't see themselves supplying for their needs and because they forgot that it was God with them, doing the work. They couldn't rest in faith at God's provision for them (even after He delivered them from Pharaoh, parted the Red Sea & on & on). We've fallen into this same trap, when it comes to the Super-natural things of God. We know that we can't do these things of ourselves and have fallen into the same pattern of the Israelites.
God never intended for the people in the wilderness to take care of themselves, but to trust Him to meet their needs. They were more aware of their own weaknesses, than they were of His ability. They could only see self and it angered God, because they wouldn't trust Him to be God, in their midst. We have nearly forgotten that, "It's not [us], but the Father in us, Who does the works." It is the Father in us, Who still provides all that we need, through Christ Jesus.
We've read Philippians 4:19 (Amplified) as only being about our needs. We have even limited this scripture to our finances and wealth. Paul didn't even say it was about finances. He said that because of the people's love and giving to Paul's ministry, God would supply all their needs. Thus, Paul says, "And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus." Are we not "in Christ Jesus" and He is us?
Your every need is to be met, by the same power that met the needs of those in the wilderness. Now though, we are in Christ Jesus, we have His Name, we are His Body, we share His anointing, and we have the Father promise that He will meet our every need. You may have "need" of His ability to heal someone. You have have "need" to cast a demon out of someone. You may have "need" to raise someone from the dead. Paul said, "My God will meet your every need." We are to rest in this promise and not think that we have to do this alone or on our own.
2Corinthians 4:7 (Amplified) says, "However, we possess this precious treasure (the divine Light of the Gospel) in (frail human) vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves." We must remember that the Father in us will do the work and "enter into the rest." God never intended for you to do these things on your own, but to rest in Him, to do the work. We take our eyes off of Him and then the only thing we can see, is ourselves. Without Him, we can do nothing. Even Jesus made this statement about "the work" in John 5:30 (Amplified) saying, "I am able to do nothing from Myself (independently, of My Own accord-but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders)."
Jesus was always conscious of the Father in Him, to do the work. He walked in the rest of God in Him, at all times. The same Father Who did the work through Jesus, is the same Father Who wants to work through us. We are more conscious of our frail, human body of earth, that we won't rest and allow God's glory to be seen through us. Don't be deceived. Anyone who ever knew you, knows that you cannot do miracles then or now. They don't expect you too. When they see miracles and healings done through you, they know it is God the Father in you, Who does the work.
They Body of Christ is called to "enter into this rest,"trust that we have in Him living in us and that He will do the work. God did the work through the flesh and blood body of Christ Jesus, when He was on earth as a Man and He still does the same thing through the flesh and blood Body of Christ here and now. We are not to fall short by unbelief, like those in the wilderness. We are to enter into the rest in Him, to do the work.
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