SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/7/2018
4:48 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Understanding the Greatness of
God’s Power”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph. 1:19-20
Message of the verses: “19 and what is the
surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance
with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in
Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in
the heavenly places,”
I want to begin with some more
things that we do not need to pray for as promised in our last SD. We do not need to pray for power to do God’s
will, “for it is God who is at work in you,
both to will and to work
for His good pleasure.” We
will see how Paul accomplished his word for the Lord as we look at Colossians
1:29 “For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which
mightily works within me.” Jesus
promised this as seen in Acts 1:8 “but you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and
in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.’” Now we will look at one of my favorite verses
that is found in Ephesians 3:20 “Now to Him who is able to do far more
abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works
within us,” MacArthur concludes “To ask God for mower power is an affront to
His gracious love which already has provided us everything.”
This
supernatural power that God has given to every believer is the same power that
He used to bring up the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead as seen in verse
20. “Later in the letter Paul deals with
the matter of using God’s power in His service (3:20), but his prayer here is
that we understand the power of His keeping, His securing us and His fulfilling
the marvelous hope which is ours in Christ.
The resurrection and ascension power—the divine energy that lifted
Christ from the grave to the earth, and from the earth to heaven—is the power
that will lift us to glory.”
There
are times when we as believers may begin to doubt that God can and will use us
for His glory, and I suppose that this has to do with our humanness, but since
we have become believers in Jesus Christ we must remember that we have what
Christ has for after all we are in Christ.
As we look at the first part of verse 19 we read He does this through “the
surpassing greatness of His power toward us.”
In light of such assurance, how can we as believers feel insecure,
forsaken, or powerless? Good Question!
One
day when the last person in the church age has become a believer then all who
have been believers in this age of grace will be raptured into the clouds to be
with the Lord forever, and then we will receive the inheritance that is really
impossible for us to understand while we are in this body. That is surely a day that I look forward to.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Gideon” (Judges 6:37).
Today’s Bible question: “What was the part of Egypt called where
Jacob settled?”
Answer in our next SD.
12/7/2018 5:11 PM
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