Christianity is incomplete 2 ...

continued from: Christianity is incomplete 1

Build a life of prayer, to get the power.

ð  God give me the power of prayers, so that I can manifest your power.

Until Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit, His ministry could not start. Likewise, we should return in the power of God’s spirit to enable us manifest.

When you are with Jesus (focused on Jesus).

ð  Power rubs off on you.

ð  When power comes, your fame will announce you.

ð  People will begin to ask who you are. (Acts 3: 12 – 15)

ð  You cannot be with Jesus and be shamed.

ð  By the power of Jesus that operates in your life, the enemy will never shame you. (Acts 4: 8 – 12)

ð  When the Holy Ghost power comes upon you, confidence, boldness will come upon you.

You can have strength but not have Power, but you cannot have Power and have no strength.

ð  If you want to prevail over that Power that has been holding you down, you need the power of God.

ð  If you live in the consciousness of the power of God in your life, the enemy will be far from you.

Since the fall of Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden, Normal Situations ceased to exist. You can only use the power of the Holy Spirit to bring Normal Situations (normalcy) out of abnormality.

The devil does not want normal situations to exist, but with the Power of God, we will overcome him. (Psalms 66: 9).

Every believer stands on two (2) pillars.

(a.) The Word of God.

(b.) The Power of God.

We must ask God for spiritual breakthrough (Eph. 1:3), and always go for the word of God, for His Word will push up your breakthrough.

It’s important that we note that Heaven’s treasure is not for FREE, there is always a price tag. (Isaiah 55 vs. 1 – 10). The question now is:

What is the price Tag?

ð Purity is essential. Your life must be pure.

ð  You must have a life of Prayer. Prayer is the only way we can access God’s presence.

ð  You must live your life with a consciousness of your spiritual status.

ð  A life of peace. God can only operate in a peaceful life.

ð  You must be meek.

ð  You must be Holy.

This list is not exhaustive, but we need to examine our lives each day, and live our lives with the consciousness that Jesus Christ might come any day.

The problem is that we always want God to do everything for us, but we have forgotten that God has given us all powers. We only just need to SPEAK, and He honours it.

Finally, we should not allow the death of Christ on the cross of Calvary to be in vain. May we find grace in God to exercise Hs power in us, for Christianity is incomplete without God, and we MUST tap into the Power of God.

Christianity is incomplete…

Now you must be wondering why this kind of heading, well let me tell you now that: Christianity is incomplete without God (Luke 4: 1 – 15)

After Jesus finished His fasting, the devil tempted Him, but for the wisdom of God in Jesus (who is God’s Wisdom personified), never allowed Him to be distracted and this is why the devil could not get Him.

ð  So if we want to operate in the same reign / power that Jesus operated, we need to know how to counter the devil, when he comes with his temptations.

For us as Christians to have access to operate in this same power that Jesus has, and exercise it in our lives, we need to return in the power of His (God) glory. Because, it is only when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you have no power to operate.

Power of Operation

Even the closest people that were with Jesus on Earth – His disciples, could not operate or exercise their powers until Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to empower them. Acts 2: 1-4.

STRENGTH and POWER

We must differentiate between STRENGTH and POWER

Until Power came upon the Apostles, they couldn’t do much. Peter went back a-fishing after the death of Jesus, until Jesus rose from the death, and empowered him, he could not do anything.

Peter had boldness, power to heal, even so that his shadow healed many. Acts 3 vs. 4 – 7. These were all made possible after the Holy Spirit had empowered him.

 

ð No matter what may be going on in your life today, Jesus is telling you today to arise in the power of the Holy Ghost and WALK.

As Christians, we need the Power of God to function. Peter received Power to heal, but the cripple received Strength. As you read this today, I pray that Strength would return to your life.

People in the old testament operated based on Strength (Samson, etc Judges 16:28 - ), but Jesus came to give us Power. Samson had always relied on his strength to kill the lion etc, but towards the end of his life, he remembered to pray to God.

 

ð  As Christians, we should not fail to pray. “….for by strength shall no man prevail”.

God wants us to operate in the realm of Power (Spiritual Power) for when you operate on Strength, it’s all physical.

The truth of the matter is that you can not operate in Spiritual Power and suffer shame, hardship, struggles, lack and wants.

 

ð  Sometimes we don’t know what we posses, until an event occur n your life, to test you on whether you are operating in STRENGTH or POWER.

 .... To be continued..... Christianity is incomplete without God