Receiving Is An Action Word...
The Bible is filled to the absolute brim with thousands of promises that God meant for us to take as our own. I’ve heard it said that there are 7,147 promises from God to man in the Bible. That means that you could read a new promise from God to you daily for the next 19.5 years before you’d start reading them for a second time!
Let me say that again. For the next nearly 20 years of your life…every single day…you could read a new promise from God to you! 😲😲😲
I don’t know about you but when someone promises me something good if I will just take it from them...something that I KNOW I'm going to love...something that will improve my life and make it better…I’m going to make sure I get it from them…even if I have to race against others to get there first!
I’m so glad that with God’s promises there's always enough supply to go around! We don’t have to fight others to receive our share. God has enough power in each one of His promises for every living soul to receive a blessing through them!
Here’s one of His promises that I bet you’ve read many times…but never really stopped to meditate on it or pay close attention to the words…
So many times we just spiritualize the promise right out of God’s Promises!
Romans 8:11...
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
According to Strong's Concordance Give life—means to cause to live, make alive, by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate, to restore to life, to give increase of life...physical life; endued with new and greater powers of life.
Mortal—liable to death, our human body Body—the body both of men or animals, the physical body
When we have the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead living in us...that Spirit will endue our physical, and very mortal, body with new and greater powers of life.
Don't those 2 words: New and Greater just catch at your heart? They are bigger than our minds are thinking about when we read this verse.
New = not existing before, discovered recently or now for the first time Greater = an adjective that describes the noun “power”; ability, quality, or eminence; amount or intensity considerably above the normal or average.
God never does anything in a minimum or skimpy fashion! Just a take a look at the beauty and variety of nature, the vastness of the universe, the intricacies of the human body!
God is not human and flawed like we are! Everything He does is “abundant, super abundant, full and overflowing, over and above, exceedingly abundantly”!
Even in this...quickening and giving life to our mortal bodies—we are not only given life—we are given an amount or intensity of life that is considerably above the “normal” or “average” quality of life!
Think of it “if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,” that same Spirit “who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
We are promised that God WILL...not might, not maybe...but WILL give us new and greater powers of life than we’ve ever had before! Wow!😲
Look at what Jesus also said about greater power in John 14:12...
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”
Notice, that again here, God says we WILL do...not might...not maybe...but WILL! We’ll be given an abundantly alive body that is able to do “greater works” than Jesus did... because He went to the Father and sent back His Holy Spirit to live in us!
Reading these verses made me realize that we have such limited and small minds. We think small—even when we think we’re thinking big—we’re still thinking small compared to God!
When we think of something being renewed—we think of it being brought back to “like new” condition. But our God is not the God of halfway, just enough, or “like new”! He's the God of "more than enough" “exceedingly great” “super abundant” “exceedingly abundantly” and “immeasurably more”!
He freely gives us W-A-Y B-E-T-T-E-R than new!
Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Exceedingly—over, beyond, more than, very highly, extremely Abundantly—plentifully, very highly, in large quantities Above—over, beyond, more than, very highly
The Holy Spirit wasn’t content to just say it once...He said the same thing three different ways...and when He does that it means we are supposed to take note and KNOW that He means what He’s saying! He’s emphasizing it just in case we missed it the first time or two.
The Holy Spirit is repeating Himself so that we don’t overlook this very important and life-giving FACT!
God, through His Holy Spirit has said that He WILL give us new and greater powers of life than we’ve ever had before! It’s a done deal. It’s already been done and completed in God’s eyes.
All that needs to be done now...is for us to receive these new and greater powers of life, to believe God’s promise, receive it as our own, and walk in it!
If God says we have it—then we have it! If God said it—then it is!
Selah—pause and think about that for a bit! Seriously! Stop right now and think about this... ponder it, roll it over and over in your mind till you get a revelation of what this means for you!
If meditating on the incredible, exceedingly great, superabundant, and immeasurably more... life that God has ready and waiting for you to receive it...doesn’t bring joy and excitement to your heart... then I would strongly suggest you check your pulse and call 9-1-1! 😉
Be a good Berean (Acts 17:11) and search the scriptures for yourself...with your concordance...to see if this is True or not!
What have you got to lose...and just think...how much could you gain?
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