Just as a city goes into a blackout from a storm and a building goes on its own backup power source, so too we have our own internal power source turned on when we recognize and detach from the weaknesses and frailties of the worlds systems.
Our power plant is called “the Dunamis of God”. A word that means “Dynamo”, and means a power house. This is the same Dynamo that raised Christ from the dead, through professing and pressing into the gospel of God’s only Son.
Paul opened up to those in Rome saying ” I am not ashamed of the gospel message of — Christ, for it is the power of God (meaning the delivery mechanism) unto salvation for all who believe.” Into the completion of your faith.
The word “power” in this text comes from the Greek word “dunamis”, which is where we also get the word “dynamite” and carries the connotation of consecutive controlled explosions, and an ongoing generating of power. Like a dynamo or a power plant to support a city. However in this case it’s Gods city of “The Kingdom of God at Hand” that first started with Jesus and continues in our day to all that will receive it. Amen.
That is what we have inside us if we are tuned into the gift we have “in Christ”. We call this the Holy Spirit, our eternal, internal resource center and power supply. However, we do not need for the power grid to go down for our internal generator to kick in, but we do need to do a reliance disconnect from the mechanisms of this visible age that vies. They compete for your dependency upon them, that compete with this Heavenly power we are talking about. We need to put them off and put on Christ as scripture mandates, one revelation at a time until we have been completely rewired by scripture.
This is how the power grid of God works unto (meaning the delivery mechanism to complete) salvation for all who believe.” In this way we have been empowered by the Almighty God to complete this task of obtaining godliness in the here and now as is affirmed in 2 Peter 1).
It’s activated by our faith, as all of our services given to us by God are. “If you had the faith of a mustard seed you could move mountains”? We have power to do many things in the spirit with the permission and power of our Heavenly Father. The first mountain we moved was Sinai because you have to get past that to be saved. Sinai represents the law and the prophets and (all the law and the prophets were till John the Baptist. Now the Kingdom is preached and all are entering”. At least those who take God at His word are.
Paul in Ephesians prayed for us to know “what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality[g] and [h]power and [i]might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.” (Meaning us) For Gods word and Spirit to do the same thing in us who tend to His Word.
The book of the Revelation says ” blessed are those who die in the Lord from here on out. That they may cease from their deeds (carnal dependancies and services) and their works do follow.” This Is what we are talking about. When the various powers and agencies fail in the world, you’ll see that we have a greater counterpart reserved for us in Heaven. But you don’t need to wait for that to happen lest you be found as a slothful steward of the gifts from God.
We are those you cannot easily see, whose works you can, so you can follow us as we have clamored up the things God has said, having taken Him at His word, and arriving where it takes us, seated far above all powers and principalities in this day and every age.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. Says God Almighty.
Which is? The perfecting of His Saints. His word came forth. We call Him the Son. He returned to the Father. Did you follow Him? Because He said “follow Me, that where I am you may be also, who also told us by what means we use to get there saying “I am the way and the truth”. Meaning, when you take the truth and follow it, it takes you to Him and leads you to the Father. And because Jesus returned to the a Father, if you put these truths on, you will arrive there too. Where? To the a Father where Jesus is.
We are in Christ, Christ is in us. He said “Father, I have finished the work you have given me to do. I have given your Word to those whom you have given Me and they have kept it”. Meaning us, who also said to us “if you keep my words and My words abide in you, Me and the Father will come to you and make our home in you. The work is complete, it has made a full circle. In this way we have completed our journey to the Father.
Isn’t this what Paul begged you to do? “I plead with you, by the tender Mercies of God, be ye reconciled to the Father. For He made him who knew no sin to become (our) sin for us to become the righteousness of God in Him”.
With these promises there are no excuses. “What if” is not part of our vocabulary. There is no room for fear because “those who fear have not been perfected in love because fear involves torment”. Torment only happens in the absence of the knowledge of God in your northern hemisphere we call your head. Because God does not leaves us, but we leave God through fear by looking down at the events on planet earth and run for covering. Those are the wrong service providers to protect you. They are eating you up one payment after another.
Fear is the opposite of faith and points us in the wrong direction. That is why repent simply means turn and God meets us there. Like He promises us in scripture ” I will never leave you or forsake you” or leave you forsaken for “lo I am with you even through out the ages”. Amen!
Fear is a work of the flesh of the mind that is not cognizant of the Heavenly Father we are to image, and what Adam did when the Father asked Him, where are you. Adam said “I heard your voice and became afraid” because the snake sowed doubt in his mind that prior to that had no gaps. No gaps of coverage. Doubt came when Adam turned to hear another voice that caused this doubt. So with this understanding you should know and understand whose voice you are attentive to. Gods, or “the god of this age (the products thereof) Satan”.
Doubt was not given to Adam by God but Satan. Adam, with his own volition put off faith in God and felt naked and alone first then fear. This was Satan’s plan to steer him and to cover him. The word doubt conotates a split in decisiveness. In this way doubt creates a duality, a double, a split in personality. For this reason James says “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways, let not that one think they should recieve anything from the Lord”. Doubt created the severance from God and created a gap to waver. This is a place made by man and not by God, however it is in Christ all the gaps were filled because “He who ascended first descended to the lower parts of creation to fill all in all”. So there are no gaps in coverage by His agencies, to the ones who return their focus on God, He’s got them covered under one policy called salvation. Not an end time saving, but the gift from the cross where the exchange takes place. For on Him was laid the inequity (sin doubts and fears) of us all and by him being stricken we are healed. The cross is the storehouse and the warehouse where all our products for being saved from every boogie man comes from. When fear is defused the enemy turns to mush. “On thy belly shalt thou go” God said to Satan. So quit empowering him.
That ones reliance is on another. Their power source is from without not within.. Those who hybernate in fear have no dunamis from God because fear is the by-product of the fall. That is why cowards are listed among those who are denied access to Heavenly Jerusalem, another phrase for the Kingdom of God. (Revelation 21.8)
James also referred to those who “store up for the last days” because that is the epitome of fear, the last days. That you would be where God can’t help you. This one is ignorant of Gods capabilities and relies on themselves. I don’t want to be found with such a frail reliance.
When the Jewish leaders sought to kill the Savior, He hid by walking through their midst, showing us how to do it. You do not give in to fear, you maintaine the course of faith.
And “the wind blows where it wishes, so are those born of the spirit”. So then those of us who have God’s Holy Writ and Holy Spirit, need no other agencies for our short comings and imperfections. We are full from within and why the gospel says that “we are complete in Him”, and “of His fullness we have received” as those whom the gospel has met it’s completion of reversing the fear passed on from our old nature. We have arrived in Christ a perfect person. That’s what the gospel provides Ephesians 4.13.
Please stay your course, press in and grab ahold of this. As always, The Kingdom of God is at Hand. Meaning, within your grasp but never carnally tangible. For now the Kingdom is preached and the violent take it by force. We take God at His word. Even as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak”.
Now you know what that means. The Kingdom of God is just an ear shot away. Amen!