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Power In The Inner Man

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Power In The Inner Man

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Power In The Inner Man

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, Ephesians 3:16

Most people are confused about the Holy Spirit, the power of God, faith and the Word of God. Some people automatically assume that they are all the same or some of them are the same.

Power, mercy and life are the end result of union with the word of God, faith and walking and being led by the Holy Spirit. Jesus asked the Apostles to wait for power from on high.

To seek the face of God is to seek His power and to wait upon God is to wait upon the Lord for manifestation of His power. You seek and wait with faith, being led by the Holy Spirit and by union with the word of God. You also pray as the Holy Spirit leads you to pray.

Some people will tell you that it is your faith that heals you but in reality, it is the power of God that heals you. Your faith in the power of God will heal you. Your faith must rest on something but your faith should not rest on your own faith.

We must seek after God’s kingdom and His righteousness not a faith that does not encourage you to live in complete union with the will of God, rather that false faith leads you to seek mammon like pagans.

Somehow, people began to make faith into an idol or even the word of God into some form of idol that substitutes the power of God. Then people started chasing after faith or “the word” which they interpreted as a set of magical formulas that active power, wealth and money. Power without purity and prayer? – certainly not the true faith and the true word of God.

Note that those who practice those faith doctrines, do not emphasize complete obedience to the will of God, setting out time to pray, and being led by the voice and direction of the Holy Spirit. They also do not talk about the armor of God and crucifying the flesh by the Holy Spirit.

They preach another gospel, not the gospel that Jesus and Paul preached. In order to be a victorious Christian, you must test the false Apostle, false teachers, false prophets, false believers and false doctrines and find them to be false. You must test the spirits like the Berean believers.

That you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. Revelation 2:2

Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17:11

Jesus and Paul practiced total commitment, dedication, consecration and surrender to the word and will of God by complete obedience and a life of praying without ceasing to constantly experience the power of God.

Faith is very good and very vital but it can never take the place of God or the power of God. The more you rely on, and depend on God, the more faith you have and the more you rely on and depend on your own faith, the less faith you have because you have ignored God and His power. You started depending of your self and that is self worship.

Jesus and Paul never taught that, and they never lived like that. They were able to differentiate between all those concepts – faith, Holy Spirit, the power of God and the word of God.

And they recognized and gave each one its proper place.

The Word Of God

You believe in the word of God and walk in the word of God to maintain a healthy active relationship with God. You walk in the word of God – both His written word and the voice of the Holy Spirit to be obedient, know God and pray effectively. Understanding of the word of God builds faith.

You eat and drink the word of God with your mind so as to grow to maturity and know how to pray for the power of God to manifest the way Jesus did.

Faith

Faith in the good news, law of Christ and the power of Christ makes you obey God, trust Him for His power to deliver and also makes you have confidence in your assurance of salvation.

Faith is one of the armor of God that you need to put it on in your spiritual battle, so as the defeat the enemy and experience the power of God. You wear faith like a shield to go into spiritual battle and prayer. You don’t wear faith to be idle and not pray. You also wear faith to obey God.

While praying, your faith makes you persist and persevere with patience. Faith makes you hold on, press in and never give up. But you are pressing on, for something – power. Faith is not the end, manifestation of God’s power, glory, and presence is the end.

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is our helper, comforter, guide, teacher and Lord. He is inside us and constantly helps us in our battle, prayer and worship of God. He gives us the word of God as a shield and speaks to us constantly. Listening to Him, and obeying Him will make us pray effectively, obey God and experience the power and glory of God. He is a person and power is what comes out of Him from the throne of God.

Power

The power of God is the raw manifest presence of God and the glory of God. That is what Jesus wore around Him like a garment and by the power of the Holy Spirit He raised the dead and healed the sick. Power is what gives us ability as Christians and we need the power of God everyday. Man’s power can never enable man to live like Jesus and do the works of Jesus

Jesus knew the word of God, the Holy Spirit, faith and the power of God. He never confused or substituted one concept for the other. A is not B, and B is not A. A is A and B is B. That is just how it is spiritually.

This is just a summary, and of course, it does not contain everything that I need to explain but it is enough to elucidate the points I have mentioned above.

God’s power is the only thing that can strengthen the inner man. God strengthens the inner man with power through the Holy Spirit that lives in us. Power or the glory of God increases in our inner man but the Holy Spirit is a person and He lives in us as a complete person, not as a person that increases or decreases.

May great grace be upon us in Jesus name.

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All Things

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All Things

God’s Power 7

For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

Everything was created through Christ and for Christ. This means that there is no need for us to fear powers that are against us. Every power is inferior and subject to Christ.

All things are inferior and subject to Christ and all things were created through Christ and for Christ

Instead of fear, we should always think of response and change. God can change and defeat every power for us. Response is about right focus and how we change because God cannot change. This means that we are the ones to change.

Maybe God wants us to pray more and persevere in prayer to defeat our enemies. It is also possible that we need to repent of something in our lives that are against God’s will and His plan for our lives.

God is in control of all things and not even a strand of hair can fall from our head without God’s permission. He is in perfect control but sin has shielded His glory and power from the eyes of man.

God’s sovereignty rules over all, but unfortunately, most people don’t believe that. They think that there are many gods and that somehow, God lost control.

Do not focus on negative circumstances, do not focus on idol worshippers and the wicked that are extremely prosperous. If you do that you will be frustrated, become discouraged and loose faith.

Focus on why God has permitted certain undesirable things in your life and how He wants you to respond in other to change those undesirable things. Focus on being led by the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to lead you out of every valley and wilderness of life.

That is why God gave Him to us as a precious gift. He is the comforter, guide and helper not the tormentor. The Holy Spirt is available to help us out of sin, temptation and judgement because God does not delight in judgement but will decree justice and judgement as the just God that He is.

Every power is under God including the powers of lying deceptive idols. Focus on goodness, solution and change and walking with the Holy Spirit to escape judgement and experience constant mercy.

Mercy triumphs over judgement but judgement will be given to us if we don’t cooperate with God. I have experienced judgement and I know what it feels like. God does not enjoy it but will permit it.

God is the only lawgiver and judge. He alone can save and destroy. There is only one God not many gods. All other so called gods are delusions and deceptions of the devil to destroy man. Everything was created through Christ and for Christ. He alone is worthy of admiration, praise and worship.

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Patience and Great Endurance

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Patience and Great Endurance

God’s Power 7

Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience. Colossians 1:11

Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy (Colossians 1:11 NKJV)

Colossians 1:11-12 GNT
May you be made strong with all the strength which comes from his glorious power, so that you may be able to endure everything with patience. And with joy give thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to have your share of what God has reserved for his people in the kingdom of light.

The power of God strengthens us with power for us to have great endurance and patience. Strength comes from the glorious power of the Lord and when His power is released into our inner man, struggles and frustrations cease. Ability meets us and helps us.

We are able to endure and persevere with joy and long suffering by the power of the Lord.

Glory to God for such wonderful and glorious grace. May God fill us with grace to be patient and endure in Jesus name.

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Gospel By Power

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Gospel By Power

God’s Power 6

Because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. 1 Thessalonians 1:5

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him– the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD–
Isaiah 11:2 NIV

The Spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. Isaiah 11:2 ISV

Isaiah 11:2 clearly separates power from understanding and wisdom. Jesus himself separated knowing the Scriptures from knowing the power of God.

Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. Matthew 22:29

Power is the manifest presence of God that causes a change. When the power of God is present, lives are transformed. It was power that left Jesus and healed the woman with the issue of blood. Also there was a time that the Bible said that the power of God was present for Jesus to heal the sick.

Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Luke 5:17

Jesus preached with power and Paul preached with power not just words. We should not be discouraged if we are not yet preaching with power but we should desire and pray for it. We should not make excuses and tell people to rely on their own faith.

Besides, people should rely on the power of God not on their own faith. The Bible said that the sick should go to the elders of the Church for prayer to be healed and Jesus told the apostles that they could not cast out a stubborn demon because of their lack of faith that was caused by not enough fasting and waiting upon the Lord.

He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Mathew 17:21

“But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” Mathew 17:21

Remember that Jesus Himself, constantly went to lonely places to pray, and spent whole nights in prayer, to have the power of God upon Him for ministry,

Ultimately, it is good for everybody to get to Christian maturity, and manifest great faith but those who are coming to Christianity for the first time, need help and healing.

Jesus and the Apostles were both winning souls and healing them at the same time. A new believer can never have that giant faith that will manifest the power of God. We need to be very practical and stop deceiving ourselves.

As ministers, we should seek more and not be complacent. The gospel should be preached not just with words but also with power.

May great grace be upon us in Jesus name.

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Goodness By His Power

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Goodness By His Power

God’s Power 5

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 2 Thessalonians 1:11

It is by God’s power and grace that we can be good. Sometimes, we find that we are doing the wrongs things that we hate. We gossip, backbite, insult and use our tongues loosely. Some of us even detest those things yet do them. This shows that knowing is not enough.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:24-25

We should know that those things are bad. Desire change and pray for power, grace and help from God. It is only God that can tame and crucify the flesh by His Holy Spirit. Man’s power is of no use at all.

Goodness comes through God’s power so we should recognize that, and cooperate with God, to manifest goodness, righteousness and holiness in and through us.

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Power By The Spirit

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Power By The Spirit

God’s Power 4

Power By The Spirit

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7 ESV)

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV)

The Bible clearly tells us, that the Spirit that God gave us, gave us power, love, self – discipline, self control and sound mind.

This means that any spirit that makes us powerless, weak, fearful, lawless and thoughtless is not the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit gives power not sickness, infirmity or bondage. We should realize that anything that is bad is not from God even though God permit’s it. Every good and perfect present comes from God.

God does not give evil that is why Jesus told us to pray to God for Him to deliver us from all or every evil not just some evil. Jesus also told us that God will not give us snake when we ask for fish and that the Father will give good things to those who ask.

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Luke 11:11

However, do we ask? When we ask, are we persistent? Do we persevere in prayer or do we give up and say the evil we want relief from is from God?

God does not enjoy evil so it is surprising that some Christians have bought the idea of “carry your cross” or God using evil for His own purpose. That error originated from some orthodox Churches but it is the same as attributing evil to God.

Evil comes from our human nature and it’s limitations and weakness not from the all powerful and mighty God. God will never gain anything from you experiencing evil.

It is good never to give up your faith and to keep praying for what you desire including freedom from loneliness. Some Christians are even preaching that God gives people gift of singleness – error. God wants you to desire and pray for company and support but if you stubbornly say it is God’s will for you to be single or remain single how then will you fiercely pray against what the devil is doing in your life? God does not like loneliness and He is not lonely!

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18

This word is superior to any contrary arguments you might gave – even children know this Scripture!

Complacency is laziness. Keep praying and never give up – hold your faith. It does not matter at what age, God gives you a partner and helper but never give up or say you have the gift of singleness.

However, enjoy your single state while it lasts, never be worried or depressed and keep thanking God in every circumstance. Be positive and happy always – single or married. Be content but pray for more. Contentment does not mean complacency.

When Paul found himself in prison with Silas, He was not worried or depressed. Paul Himself who said that He knows the secret of how to be content in every situation was content but He prayed for deliverance with joy, praise and thanksgiving!

God permit’s what man wants even the bad things that man craves with the judgement that follows but that is not God’s perfect will for man. His perfect will is power, love and fruitfulness. That is why the Holy Spirit was given to us.

The Holy Spirit was not given to us for us to ignore Him but for us to recognize His place and tap into the power, deliverance, righteousness, holiness and healing that He gives.

The Spirit is the Lord and the Lord is all powerful and gives power.

Thank God for His glorious grace that gives us power, love and sound mind. Glory to God!

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His Divine Power

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His Divine Power

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His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2 Peter 1:3

It is by God’s power that we have everything that we need so that we are enabled to live a godly life.

God’s power is manifested through God’s nature of love and mercy. It comes through His glorious grace.

It is by God’s power that we are enabled to understand and retain the word of God. It is God’s grace that strengthens the inner man and gives Him the ability to obey the word of God.

Without God’s grace and power we are simply powerless and ineffective in living the Christian life.

His grace is all we need and His power is all we need. Without Him we can do nothing!

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From His Power

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From His Power

God’s Power 1

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. Revelation 15:8

Never forget that power

Belongs to God

And only His power

Can create a change

Never forget

When you have tried all else and every formula made by man, and it has failed you like it will. Don’t give up. Cry out to God for the manifestation of His power and glory. He is power and full of power. He is waiting for us to cling to Him, depend on Him and to ask for His help.

The Lord is our helper. The Holy Ghost is our helper so we should always remember our great helper.

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Buy Gold

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Buy Gold

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich (Revelation 3:18 NKJV)

Gold signifies power, glory and wealth especially spiritual wealth. The Lord is telling us in this Scripture to climb higher into Him, and His presence to experience His beauty and glory. He is encouraging us not to be content with mediocrity and the ordinary life. We were born to manifest as the sons of God. We were born to be purified in our faith and walk with God and be mature.

It will cost us and we need to pay the price. That price is what the Scripture refers to as buy. We need to buy gold from Christ and to buy this gold means that we need to set aside time daily to wait upon the Lord and seek His face for glory and glory upon glory. We need to keep climbing deeper into Him. He is the one that we must seek as a precious Jewel. Jesus is the glory of God and we need to seek Him as the ultimate price.

The blood of Jesus has been shed for our redemption and Christian maturity. Living a life, below the standard required by our great God means that we are despising the blood of Jesus and His sacrifice on the Cross to an extent and degree. We are wasting the grace that God has given us and is willing to saturate us with.

The Lord is calling us to buy gold from Him and I pray that we hear and obey that call. May grace, mercy and peace be ours in full measure. May great grace be upon us in Jesus name.

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Answered Prayers

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Visions, Revelations and Messages

In this vision, the Lord spoke to me and said, “I will use your worship, praise and thanksgivings offering to answer your prayer.”

This vision was given to me just a few days ago. The Lord had been ministering to me about increasing my worship and the time spent with Him in seeking His face. So I obeyed and I spent the whole night in praise, worship and thanksgiving to the Lord. I especially thanked, praised and worshipped Him for His great salvation and the blood of Jesus that saved me and redeemed me. I did this throughout the night but I slept a bit in between my worship and prayer. I also presented my petition to Him but most of the time was spend in worship, praise and thanksgiving as He had commanded me to do.

Towards the early hours of the morning, the Lord spoke to me and told me some things that He would do for me. He also warned me not to abuse any of the blessings that He was about to manifest in my life. I promised Him that I would not and also told Him what to do to me if I abused His grace or blessing. Then later, He showed me a vision of something like smoke or incense rising from my throat as I was thanking, praising and worshipping Him. That was when He told me that He would use my praise, worship and thanksgiving offerings to answer my prayers.

Praise, Worship and Thanksgiving

In my walk with God, He has been very consistent about letting me know that praise, worship and thanksgiving are offerings or sacrifices that I must give to Him. Sometimes He refers to them as His food. He would say to me, “give me my food.” Anytime He says that, I will just go into praise, worship and thanksgiving in obedience to His voice and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Can you now see why it is good to be constantly led by the Holy Spirit? The Bible tells us that those who are led by the Holy Spirit are the sons of God. It is simply very difficult to experience the reality of sonship and growing to the full stature of Christ without the constant leading and direction of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus was on earth as the word of God, He did not have any vacuum in His knowledge of the Scriptures because He was filled with wisdom. Yet, Jesus did not walk by the Scripture alone. He also walked in and by the Holy Spirit who authored the Scriptures. Jesus knew the word and the giver, author and father of the word.

Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to be tempted by the devil and returned in the power of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus heard that His friend Lazarus had died, He remained where He was for three days before going to raise Lazarus from the dead. He did that by the leading of the Holy Spirit. Jesus also knew the timing of His ministry by the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

Without the Holy Spirit, Jesus would not have manifested the great victory that He did and He understood that so well. What baffles me most is why a lot of believers ignore the Holy Spirt and are trying to do what Jesus did not do. They are trying to have victory by the written word of God alone. It is not possible. If Jesus did not attain His great victory by the written word alone, then it is foolish for us to think that we can. Are we greater than Jesus? A spiritual student can never be grater that his teacher.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. Acts 18:24

Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17:11

Jesus was filled with the written word and had a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. Apollos of Alexandria had a thorough knowledge of Scriptures. The Berean Christians were filled with the knowledge of Scriptures. So, it is possible to have a thorough knowledge of Scriptures. We need to know the Scriptures and the power of God. The Holy Spirit manifests the power of God. It is a big mistake or error not to know the Holy Spirit and rely on the word alone. You need the word and you need the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. Matthew 22:29

Beware of anyone who claims to know the Holy Spirit, yet has limited, little or no knowledge of Scriptures or entertains false doctrines. The person claiming to know the Holy Spirit must have a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures because the Holy Spirit is the giver, author and father of the word of God. Jesus had to first all thoroughly teach the Apostkes and fill them with the Scritures. That was the first cleansing. The word sanctifies and the Holy Spirit sanctifies. The blood of Jesus also sanctifies.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. John 15:3

The word of God and truth cleansed the Apostles. Jesus cleansed them with the word then later filled them with the Holy Spirit and power. It is purity before power and sanctification before manifestation. As we walk by the leading of the Holy Spirit daily, He will wash us thoroughly with His truth and ways and enable us to fulfil our callings and destinies.

We need to know both the word of God and the Spirit of God. We cannot sacrifice one for the other. Any of the two extremes will lead to frustration and failure. Beware of any church that ignores the Holy Spirit. There was a Church I was attending when I lived in London and that Church is a Bible Church. A Church which is well known for righteousness and holiness.

That Church was all about Bible but they would conveniently ignore anything that had to do with the Holy Spirit, His gifts and His manifestations. It was not my ideal Church but it was convenient for me because they would pick me up and drop me at home. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “beware of Churches that ignore the Holy Spirit.” Immediately the Holy Spirit said that to me, I stopped attending that Church. At that point in time, I had grown so much in my walk with God and the leading of the Holy Spirit that I knew that failure to obey the voice of the Holy Spirit leads to bad consequences. I obeyed Him.

If you want answered prayers and constant victory in Christ, live by the Spirit and the word and avoid imbalance and a tendency towards single vision and focus. Learn to have multiple visions and focus about the things of God. Learn to open your heart to God for His teaching and leading and learn to obey Him when He gives you an instruction. I am still learning and I will keep learning until the day I get to Heaven. I depend on His grace to help me, keep me and sustain me.

May we learn to walk with and in the Holy Spirit. May we always be led by the Holy Spirit, May we have thorough knowledge of the Scriptures and may we examine the Scriptures like the Barean Christians to know if what our local Church is teaching us is true and in line with the Scriptures. May great grace be upon us in Jesus name and may grace, mercy and peace be ours in full measure.

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