You may have noticed, we’re making a few changes to the site. Where did Tea With Toni go? What is Truth Gives Hope?
I’ll go into a lot more detail on this in future posts (and maybe even videos?), but for now let’s just leave it with this – it’s been lacking focus for the last year or so, and I’m working on changing that. Less of me. More of Him.
And there’s this fact that has gotten me through so many dark seasons: Truth gives hope. As long as we have His promises, we have hope.
Enough about that for now. What do we need to get?
We need to get this:
God has spoken plainly,
and I have heard it many times:
Power, O God, belongs to you;
unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. (Psalm 62:11-12)
God is the source of our power. As Christians, we all know that. No new information here! But do we remember it? Do we walk in His power like we should?
Consider this a friendly reminder today. It’s something I think about every day. Multiple times a day.
The power of God lives in you. In me. There is potential for the power of God to flow through us to everyone we come in contact with today. Are we walking in that?
Then I read this quote and it reminded me again, so I’m passing it along to you. Your welcome!
“The power given is not a gift from the Holy Spirit. He Himself is the power. Today He is as truly available and as mighty in power as He was on the day of Pentecost. But since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that that power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources and too little to the source of power.” –J. Hudson Taylor
He. Himself. Is. The. Power.
We give too much credit to what we do and far too little credit to who He is inside of us!
Have you ever gotten up late and totally missed your Bible reading and prayer time and thought to yourself, “Well great! What kind of day am I going to have now? I didn’t get to read or pray so it can’t be good!”
Is our faith in the fact that we read and prayed or is it more about the One who is with us all day every day whether we read the Bible in the morning or at lunch or before we go to bed?
The truth is, He’s with us in power whether we sleep through the alarm or read the Bible for 3 hours in the morning.
We need to get this. Remember this. Meditate on this and soak in it.
The same power that raised up Jesus from the dead lives in us! No exceptions. On good days. On bad days. In sunshine and storms, the power of God lives in us!
And He is in us for a purpose. He wants to help us live as overcomers and He wants to flow through us to everyone we meet.
There’s a world that needs Him all around us. But they’ll never see Christ and His power in us until we see it in us. So let’s make it a point to get this.
Say this out loud:
Father, thank You that You live in me. In all Your glory and power and ability, You are in me and want to work through me. Help me to meditate on this throughout the day. Help me focus on it when I get up and remember it when I go to bed. Help me be aware of and take full advantage of what Jesus paid for on the cross, the very power and presence of God abiding in me.
Amen
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God), I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, 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 are to come. And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church], which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].
(Ephesians 1:15, 16, 19-23 ampc)