John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
When reading about the inheritance that's been granted to us through our union with Jesus, we understand that our relationship with the Father, has much more to do with our life here on earth, than we previously thought. The Spiritual Blessings, favors, Graces, Gifts and Truth listed above, are for our walk with the Lord, while we're here on earth. These abundant things are given from the Father's fullness, in order to enable us to do the job He commissioned us to do on earth.
The Father's heart has provided these things to those who are joint heirs with Christ, just like the Father provided for Jesus' earthly ministry. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and would have been just as ineffective as any other man, without the Holy Spirit. Jesus' earthly ministry began when He was filled with the Holy Spirit. This is so important for us to know today.
Jesus prayed in John 17:18 (Amplified), "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." Jesus was saying that by the Holy Spirit, Jesus would send us. Jesus said He would send us with the same Anointing, the same purpose and ability the Father equipped Him with. If it wasn't true, then we would still be mere men and women, who encounter a spiritual enemy by the means of the flesh. The Church can only prevail through the Holy Spirit and the Name of Jesus Christ.
Jesus told His followers in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life, He is the Life Giver, the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it); the Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." The words we speak can only bring Life to a dead world and people, through the Holy Spirit. When we minister from only a carnal realm, we can only speak to the carnal man. Only the Spirit can bring Life from our words.
In John 7:38-39 (Amplified) Jesus says, "He who believes in Me (who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me), as the Scripture ha said, From his innermost being shall flow continuously springs and rivers of living water. But He was speaking here of the Spirit, Whom those who believed, trusted, had faith in Him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet Glorified (raised to honor)."
When we believed in Jesus, we have only believed a small portion of what we are to believe. We've believed for salvation to a limited way, guaranteeing our entrance to Heaven, but we've failed to continue in our faith in Him, as joint heirs with Him and having His authority here on earth. Some have continued in their faith in Him, receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, but then still don't continue any further.
How far are we to believe in what Jesus has said and done for us, in His resurrection? Are we only endowed with His ability when we leave this planet or have we been endowed with His ability here on earth, in order to set mankind free? We've left the blind men blind, the lame man lame, the deaf man deaf and the oppressed are still oppressed. This isn't the fullness, that we've all received from Him.
Most of us have heard how "God tried His people in the Wilderness." We've built religious doctrines about how "God is testing us in our Wilderness experience" from those teachings. Psalm 78:56 (Amplified) tells us, "Yet they tempted (limited) and provoked and rebelled against the Most High God and kept not His testimonies." The people testing God in the wilderness. God didn't test the people. The people limited God, because they didn't believe Him to do what He said He would do. God wanted to do so much more for them, but they wouldn't believe Him to do it.
How much more does the Father want to do in our lives today, but we don't believe Him to do them for and through us? I hear too many Christians say, "I don't believe God does these things any longer." How can God doe these things in our lives, if we don't believe Him to do them? We are limiting the Holy One, when we don't believe He will do the Super-natural things in our lives today.
We have no chance of defeating a spiritual enemy on our own, as mere, natural men and women. We can build wonderful church buildings and feed the poor, but the world can do these things too. We were born of the Super-natural Spirit of the Living God. The Glory of the Last Adam, reversed all the things that came through the first Adam's fall. This is what our Redeemer has done. The Curse came through the spirit and the Blessing has come now, through the Holy Spirit. We've been redeemed into the former and even Greater Glory, than Adam had at the beginning. Jesus is the Last Adam and has made our place even greater than that of the first Adam. This is all part of believing in and on Christ Jesus.
Like those in the Wilderness, we've limited the Holy One, by not believing Him to do what He desires to do through us, in these Last Days. Some will say this is "radical" or "foolish," but to God, it's being obedient and willing to do as He desires, which is to show Himself strong in the eyes of the world. A common thread in the Body of Christ, is sadly, that we don't believe in His Presence in our lives. There are few miracles or manifestations of the Holy Spirit, occurring in most denominations today.
Most believe that God can do these things, but don't believe God will do them. This is what limited God in the wilderness. Those people witnessed the miracles of God, but every time a new problem presented itself, they refused to believe God would do what He said. They would ask, "Can the Lord provide water in the desert?" They asked, "Can God provide bread or meat for us to eat?" God had already provided these things from His Great Love for them, but they continually limited Him in His provision, by their unbelief.
Let's remove the limitations off from Him and believe Him to be God, in the midst of the earth, like He desires. Let's be obedient to the Holy Spirit, allowing Him to live through us, like He desires. I
Let's remember that, "It's not us, "It's the Father in us Who does the Works." Let's take the limits of unbelief off from Him and allow Him to work through us, like He did through Jesus and the early Church. You might say, "Not every one can do these things." I would say, "No one can do these things, but the Father in us can do all things, if we will only believe Him to be God, like He wants to be."
We must stop worrying about how we can do the Super-natural and simply trust in the Super-natural Spirit Who lives in us, to do the work. We need to listen more to the Holy Spirit and listen less to those around us. Jesus said that He "Only does what the Father says to do." Men will always say, "You can't." God says, "All things are possible to those who believe." We call ourselves believers, so let's believe, even when other say it won't work.
You already believed for the Super-natural, when you believed in the new birth. Let's believe in the new creatures Christ made us to be and allow our new nature to triumph in this world and age. Millions still don't know this Amazing Jesus, Who we serve. Jesus can only show Himself Strong, like in His earthly ministry, through those who will believe His Word. We are His hands, His feet, His Body and His Voice in the world. Let's show His Glory to them.
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