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, NKJV
This verse so excite’s me, there is an ability to tap INTO HIM who is ABLE to do all things. We begin to see here that the way God does the exceedingly, abundantly, ABOVE ALL we ask or think is through THE POWER, but not just the POWER, but the POWER that is WORKING IN US. I don’t know about you, but I want to locate this Power and learn how to get it working in me.
For much of my Christian life I believed, if I needed Gods Power or might in my life I needed to storm the gates of heaven with prayer. I prayed, I declared, I looked to our heavenly Father who art in heaven to rain down power from on high to change my circumstances. This is true and correct in some respect, but my understanding concerning the way God injects power and might into His God/Children was all wrong. I began to perceive a bit differently as I read Eph. 3 verse 20 in context with Eph 3:14-16.
Eph 3:14-16 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be STRENGTHENED with MIGHT THROUGH HIS SPIRIT in the INNER MAN, NKJV
The first thing I notice from the verse above is that Paul is talking to those in the Family of God, who are NAMED after our Father, wow, just like our children who have our last name, we have God’s last name, we are part of the “I Am” family. So what God is about to reveal next are the artibutes of being a member of His Family, it is the direct result of having God’s DNA flowing through our spiritual veins. We begin to see in verse 16 that He is granting to us, (His children who are named after Him), to be strengthen with MIGHT, through HIS SPIRIT in (Our ) Inner Man. What is God tring to say here? He is saying, the way God’s children receive His Might is THROUGH His Spirit that is in us. He (God’s Spirit) is transferring God’s might into OUR INNER MAN (our Spirit), it all happens inside of us, It goes from Gods Spirit to my spirit. Our next question might be, what happens next? Out of the abundance of my heart (the place God infused His might through His Spirit) MY MOUTH speaks and releases this might deposited in my spirit into the earth. See, we need to understand that our hearts are connected to the unseen realm of the Kingdom, and our mouths are connected to the seen realm of the earth, and the way we release that part of heaven God deposits in our spirits is by SPEAKING Heavens deposit out of our mouths. I always thought that as I pray, God releases His might into the earth, it manifests so I can see it and receive its benefit. But what really happens is this might is a deposit God makes into my Spirit, He actually deposits into me a part of the unseen kingdom that I can now released into the earth by speaking it, so that part of God’s kingdom comes (Manifests) so God’s will can be done on earth as it is in heaven.
In the next few blog entries we will together allow the Holy Spirit to continue to lead us and guide us to this truth.
