The Gospel of Christ is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. We learned that
last week. His amazing work on the cross and His resurrection
opened up the way for us to have access to God the Father and
because of that we have infinite power available. Ephesians 1:19,
20 confirm that we have the same power that raised Jesus from the
dead at our disposal. We are citizens of the Kingdom of God and the
fullness of all what that entails is ours for the taking. That is
why Romans 8:38, 39 tells us:
"For I am persuaded that
neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers,
nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor
any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love
of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
When we walk in His Kingdom, we are
surrounded by the love of God and if you have the love of God, you
have everything life has to offer. God is love and when you have
His love you have Him. All of Him. Isn't that amazing? And because
we have the fullness of Him, we can agree with Paul:
"And we know that all things
work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the
called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28
All things will work together for
our good when we love God and walk in His love for us. We can walk
with faith knowing that Jesus saved us and that death and sin has
no more dominion over us:
"Death no longer has dominion
over Jesus (and Jesus lives in us). For sin shall not have dominion
over you, for you are not under law but under grace." Romans 6:9,
14
The dominion of sin and death has
been broken over us by the death of Jesus. We can walk in freedom
from that and truly experience the life that Jesus came to give us.
He said that He came to give us life and life in abundance. He came
so that we can truly breathe for the first time. And day by day we
need to walk in that life. We need to walk with His life breathing
His oxygen into our veins. The physical oxygen in our atmosphere is
not all we need for true life, we need Him. He is the One giving us
true life with His love surrounding us, working all things for our
good. We need to have faith and believe what is true of us:
"So then those who are of faith
are blessed with believing Abraham." Galatians 3:9
Blessed are those that believe, not
because we are more special than others; no we are blessed because
when we believe, we move into the heavenly realm and receive all
that we need from there. We move into the very presence of God, we
breathe Him in and as we do, we walk as He walked, we do what He
did and we reach out as He did. That is being truly blessed
indeed.
When you start walking in unison
with God, believing what His Word says is true about you and living
within His love, everything will work out for your good. You will
be blessed indeed. Take a stand today and start believing what is
true about you and start living in His Kingdom. In His Kingdom is
where you truly belong. This world is no longer your home. Make
yourself comfortable in God's presence; you will be so glad you
did.
Thank you Father for Your wonderful
love that is all-consuming. Thank you for Your Divine Grace saving
us from this world. We want to abide in Your presence, because we
know that we are safe there and that there all of life's answers
lie. Thank you for the privilege that we have to be able to come
into Your presence. We love You. Amen