2Corinthians 5:17 (Amp) 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 away. Behold, all things have become new and all things are of God."
Many have said to me, "You're taking this God thing overboard." I ask, "How can you have too much God in your life?" If God is really God, and we know that He is, then how can anyone go overboard in Him?" Is Jesus the fanatical and crazy Man others say He is? Or did Jesus actually have a much better understanding about God, than we have today? Many believe that taking our walk with God outside the denominational theater, makes us "fanatics and crazy."
How far is too far? Were the three young Hebrew men fanatics, when they were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow before the statue? Or were they walking in a faith, that the other Hebrews were afraid to walk in? It's time that believers accept our Heavenly Father for Who He is and learn to walk in the new creation identity we've been given in Christ Jesus. When we eliminate God from the Super-natural ability that God Alone posses, then we've reduced Him to the natural realm and made Him just a man. Is God greater than the Covid-19 plague? Was He greater than the plagues of the Old Testament? Then, He still is today. We keep the Power of God from doing what His Word has said He will do, by our unbelief and denial. Those in the Wilderness limited God by their unbelief and we're doing this today too. The only limits God have, are placed upon Him by unbelief.
Joshua and Caleb refused to limit God and were the only two from their generation, who entered the Promise Land and inherited the Promise. The others remained in the desert until they died. They were still His people, but they never entered the Promise, because of their unbelief. Jesus has Promised His people, a Rest , but have we been held back in the natural man, because of our unbelief and the limits we've placed on Him. Hebrews 4:8-9,11-12 (Amp) says, "This mention of a Rest was not a reference to their entering Canaan, For if Joshua had given them rest, He (God), would not speak afterward about another day. So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-Rest reserved for the true people of God."
Verse 11 goes onto say, "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." God says that, "His Word is still alive and active today," in Verse 12.
Can or do we trust God, like Joshua and Caleb did? Or, do the giants look bigger than Our God and Father? It's time we look to our faith in Him. Do I want to believe what those who saw themselves as being "grasshoppers," in the eyes of the giants and limit God? Or do I want to see the giants as being grasshoppers, in the eyes of my God? God didn't mention the giants, because He was going to go with them into Canaan, so they need not fear the giants. God lives inside of us and tells us that, "He will never leave or forsake us." God intends to accompany us, in everything He has told us to do. Jesus gives us the majority wherever we go, because He goes with us.
The men and women of old, only had God's Word and His Promise of a Rest, but we have His Word and His Spirit living within us, to bring us into the Rest. All of God's Promises are "Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus." We cannot fail, because Jesus is the "Author and Finisher of our faith" and He will complete whatsoever He starts, including this Last Day Awakening. Good fathers protect and care for their children, so when God is our Daddy, we're in good hands and "no evil shall befall you and no plague come nigh your dwelling." Do you truly believe this, or do you limit God by seeing Covid-19 giants? Is this over the top and too much God or is this what He expects His family to walk in?
God's Word says that we are new creations and joint heirs with Jesus. We have the same kind of faith that Jesus has, but we've never been taught to use like He did. We have the Holy Spirit of God living in us, so we can do the works Jesus did. Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amp), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than those, because I go to My Father."
We could dismiss the above scripture, if we didn't have the Same Holy Spirit, the Same Father and the same faith that Jesus had, but we're faced with this Truth, because Jesus said it. Getting others saved and leading them to be born-again in the Spirit of God, are "the greater things." The other works are meeting the needs of mankind by the Power of God, through the Same Holy Spirit Jesus had. There has never been a people on this planet like us, except Jesus Himself. We're born of the Same Seed, the Word of God and we know that "Every seed bears fruit after it's kind." Genesis 1:11 (Amp) tells us, "And God said, Let the earth put forth tender vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to it's kind upon the earth. And it was so." And so it is upon the earth today, according to God's Word.
Jesus said in John 12:24 (Amp), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just one grain; it never becomes more but lives by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a great harvest." Jesus Himself is the One Grain or Seed. When His Seed fell into the earth and died, it produced the harvest of new creation children of God. We've become the Seed of Abraham in Christ Jesus, as He is the Promised Seed, according to Galatians 3:28-29 (Amp), which says, "There is now no distinction, neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and Spiritual heirs according to Promise."
You have the Same Seed living in you, which will produce after kind through your words and spirit. You are the new creation child of God, born of the Same Word of God. 1Peter 1:23 (Amp) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." The Same Seed, Jesus has become flesh and dwells among us.
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