Power comes through having a proper understanding of who were are in Christ, a mind renewed with God's word and knowledge of everything that was purchased for us by Jesus.

 

 

Power for Life

 

Power comes through having a proper understanding of who were are in Christ, a mind renewed with God's word and knowledge of everything that was purchased for us by Jesus.

 

THE BLESSINGS of “EVERY" BELIEVER

 

If you are born again, having received Jesus, this is for you. Even though we may still have areas in our lives where there is some bondage “every” believer has the blessing of God and His authority. Romans 11:29:  "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance". God never leaves us no matter how much we may have alienated ourselves from Him. Through negative sowing we can harden our hearts towards him and create what seem like impossible obstacles to overcome, but God never takes away His blessings, although sin and a hardened heart can block us from receiving them or being able to understand that we are blessed.  

 

 Galatians 3:13 

“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree”

 

Through sin, doubt and unbelief (and also wrong teaching which brings those things) we can open up the door for Satan to do his worst and we also need to use our authority over him in order to prevent curses from being able to have place in our lives. But God never places a curse on anyone for violating the law as He did in Old Covenant, prior to the atonement of Jesus – “generational” or otherwise. The solution is in knowing the truth and taking our authority over the enemy.

 

The law of the Old Testament was not given because God took pleasure in people having hardships or pain, but it was given so that people would understand the futility of trying to be “good” or trusting in their own goodness and trust God instead. Even in the old covenant people had to "trust" in God in order to have God's kind of life, but now we have a much better covenant.

 

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by bearing our curse for us. Now, through Christ, God never places any curse on us although we all violate the law in some way.

 

Isaiah 53:5“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

 

The healing produced by Jesus bearing our stripes includes our physical healing.

 

Matthew 8:17 “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” 1 Peter 2:24:  “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

 

Jesus’ payment for our sins also includes healing.

 

You Do Not Need More Faith

 

Every Believer Has Been Given God’s Supernatural Faith

 

When you received Jesus and were born again, you did it with the supernatural faith which God gave you as a gift so that you could receive Jesus. That was not your own faith, but the faith God gave you.

 

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

 

Romans 12:3 

"For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."

 

We all have the same measure (“the measure”) of this supernatural faith.

 

GREAT FAITH Vs LITTLE FAITH

 

We can operate in great faith or little faith, but we all have been given the same amount of faith. Great faith speaks about faith that is not polluted with doubt or unbelief and little faith is about having faith that is easily diminished by what we see in the natural. Little faith is when we allow circumstances or what we see in the natural rob us of our faith. To a large extent operating in great faith is about making a choice to believe and not doubt. Big faith is when we are able to stay in faith and not be affected by circumstances. As we renew our minds with God’s word and those faith principles contained in His word we are better able to walk in faith and do that more and more consistently. 

 

When we are believing God’s word and His promises without doubt and unbelief we see miracles come to pass and God’s power is able to flow through us unobstructed.

 

Ephesians 3:20  “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”

 

A little faith unpolluted by doubt and unbelief is “great faith”.

 

Luke 17:6 (KJV) “And the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto this sycamore tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.”

 

In Mark 11:23 Jesus speaks about believing and not doubting in our heart. It also shows that you can have faith and unbelief at the same time. “For verily I say unto you, That whoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatever he says.”

 

If we are believing something firmly in our heart it’s possible to have doubts pass through our mind as long as we do not focus on those thoughts, but reject them – and still see the miracles or what we believing for come to pass. But if we are doubting in our heart that will cancel our faith. Mainly the power or the effectiveness of our faith has to do with what our focus is on and what we choose to believe in our heart and we release that faith by speaking in accordance with what God’s word says.