Kept By The Power Of God

Eph. 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…

It is still a difficult thing for us to grasp the fact that God helps the Christian from within more than from without.  We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yet, we tend to cry out to  God at a distance.  Even our worship at times seems to be directed “out there”.  For that reason we all too often feel as though we are alone and sense a need to get closer to God.  I’m not above these feelings. We all seem to slip back into this Old Covenant pattern from time to time. Our song- writers often write from the same perspective.  The verse above makes it clear that when God works in our lives He does so “according to the power that works in us.” It is not enough that we believe in God, we must believe in the God that is resident within us!  It will change our faith focus and the outcome of our faith as well. The concept of faith is a trusting that we receive by faith in the spirit now, that which will come later in the natural.  We probably have never received much by faith that we didn’t embrace by faith first.  It is all based upon believing in and standing upon the Word of God. (Rom. 10:17) The more faith in the Word is weakened, the more receptivity is undermined. 

I Thess. 2:13 For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. Now we see clearly from this verse that there is a direct connection with receiving in the heart the message preached as “the Word of God”, and that Word actually “working” in the life of the one believing.  More than just getting the things we ask for in prayer, the greatest fruit of this faith in the God in me is the assurance of our salvation. 

I Peter 1: 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.