John 1:17-18 (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."
The above scripture tells us that, "We have all received these things,from out of God's fullness and abundance." God didn't say that we had to do anything, in order to get this fullness. We don't have to pray for, fast for or perform certain rituals, but we have all received. When we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we received everything we would ever need, because He is everything in Himself. All the Grace, favor, Spiritual Blessing, Gifts and Truths are already within our new creation man.
We've been given His ability, to do the job we were sent on earth to do. We've been delegated authority, ability and anointing, to fulfill our destiny here on earth. This isn't saying that trouble won't come or that the enemy won't test our faith, but that if we hold fast to the who the Father created us to be, then we will prevail in our fullness in Him. Like in everything else in life, we must grow from faith to faith in God's Truth. We were never intended to do what the Lord directs us to do, in our natural man, but by the new creation man or woman within us.
This can only be done by the Super-natural Presence of the Holy Spirit, Who abides within our newborn spirit. We've been trying to overcome the world, using only the weapons of our natural resources. Paul writes in Ephesians 6:10,12 (Amplified), "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents), but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly super-natural sphere." Paul goes on in Verse 12 saying, "In conclusion, be strong in the Lord (be empowered through your union with Him, draw your strength from Him), that strength which His boundless Might provides."
This "strength" comes from the fullness that we've already been provided with and have received through Jesus Christ. It's always been there, but we've never seen, heard, or acknowledged it. We've focused more on the old man we used to be, instead of on the new creation man and woman, we've now become. James 1:22-24 (Amplified) tells us, "But be doers of the Word (obey the Message), and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in a mirror. For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the faultless Law, the Law of Liberty, and is faithful to it, and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets, but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in his doing, his life of obedience."
We're still reasoning about whether "God is the One testing us or satan is the one testing us." We ask whether or not God makes people sick and whether or not we should stand against the trials and stand firm in God's Word. So long as we remain double-minded in our faith, we are in jeopardy of being destroyed. God has taken full responsibility for the creation of satan and He can handle satan. Satan used to run roughshod over mankind and there was little that man could do to stop him. When man functioned in the Law, then he could obtain some of God's Blessings in the earth. Now, those in the new creation family have been delivered from satan's authority and ability, in Christ Jesus. Jesus brought satan to nothing, in the new creation family, according to Colossi ans 2:15 (Amplified) which says, "God disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us, and made a bold display and public example of them, triumphing over them in Him (Jesus) and in it, the cross."
God made satan and disarmed him. We're no longer under satan, because we've been raised together in Christ Jesus and we've been seated together with Christ Jesus. Ephesians 1:20-21 (Amplified) says, "Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His Own right hand in the Heavenly Places. Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, above every title that can be conferred, not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which is to come."
Satan usurped Adam's authority, at Adam's transgression and used it to control mankind. But, this authority has been done away with and given back to man, through our union with Christ Jesus. God made satan and God has taken care of him. We're no longer under the rule and dominion of the devil. We've received the ability to rule and have been given dominion over satan and darkness, through Jesus. Jesus gave us the Power of Attorney, to use His Name.
This Truth has been lost to today's Church, which has left God's people to experience things in our lives, that God never willed for us. What some would consider extreme, is the simple Truth of the new creation family of God. The Father says in Isaiah 54:16-17 (Amplified), "Behold, I created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose, and I have created the devastator to destroy. But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong; This peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition is the heritage of the servants of the Lord is reproduced, this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me, this is that which I impart to them as their justification, says the Lord."
Satan has no more authority in the believer's life, because God has justified us and declared us "righteous." God created satan, but Jesus did everything to destroy the rule and authority satan once held. The only thing satan can do against the Church, is deceive us into giving him dominion in our lives, just like he did in the Garden. We have a choice to make. Will we buy satan's lie and give him place in our lives or will we stand on God's Word and resist satan? Will we receive what the Father has freely given us in His Grace?
James 4:17-18 (Amplified) says, "So be subject to God, Resist the devil (stand firm against him), and he will flee from you. Come close to God, and He will come close to you. Recognize that you are sinners (not believing God's Word), get your soiled hands clean, realize that you have been disloyal, wavering individuals with divided interests and purify your hearts of your spiritual adultery."
God considers our being double-minded about His Truth in Jesus, as being spiritual adultery. We must learn to believe His Word, instead of the traditional teachings we've received throughout the years. We need to operate in that which God has given us, through Jesus. It seems easier to listen to satan's lies, than to stand on God's Promises and resist the devil. We've accepted satan's lies that, "God is the One Who is trying our faith," instead of accepting the Truth that satan is trying to destroy our faith. Being so double-minded, will never allow us to accept our full deliverance from satan.
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