God created us to manifest His kingdom on the earth. When we became born-again we were endued with power from on high by Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross. With all of this power why is it that manifestation seems inconsistent? What is the missing link between God speaking and me obtaining? If God has called me to great things why can't I see beyond the end of my natural eyesight? I believe we put too much confidence in our flesh and not enough in God's ability to do. It is time out for us to be assured with what our flesh can do but with what God can do.
Because we exist in the natural it is normally our first instinct to react to what we see there. But being spiritual we have to reprogram our thinking to only receive and react to the things that are going on spiritually. If we constantly look at what we can do naturally then we will never be able to fully understand and what into what we can or are supposed to do spiritually. Take Abraham for instance. In Romans 4:17-21 it says:
"(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed even God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
God called Abraham the father of many nations. Abraham didn't make it up or assume that it would be a good idea to father nations of people. God engrafted it with his name (Abraham=father of many nations) and he believed. There are many things that God tells us that we are; healed, prosperous, whole, set free, delivered and etc. A lot of times though our natural thinking takes over. Abraham had every opportunity to argue with the word of God for him to manifest a son. He was an hundred years old, his wife's womb was barren, and him having regular relations with his wife was something of a forgotten memory. He had tried to do something upon his own ability before and it resulted in Ishamael. Not what God wanted but what Abraham could do. But he finally did something courageous. "He considered not his own body now dead," "neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb," to be a determining factor in what he was able to receive. Abraham managed to discredit his ability or inability to do something in God's plan to manifest destiny.
How many times have we considered what we can or cannot do in order to qualify what God said? What can I contribute? What can't I contribute? In this mode of thinking we will miss every time. The only thing that we can offer is our obedience. Abraham was "fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able to perform." Not what Abraham could do or not do. Not what Abraham thought or didn't think but it was all determined by what God had said. It was in the word of God that Abraham saw the power for Him to manifest. He was reminded daily what he couldn't do and he didn't let it stop him from believing God. He had an encounter with God that called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees into his destiny. God wanted to do "exceeding abundantly above all that [he] could ask or think, according to the power that [worked] in [him]" (Ephesians 3:20). God put the power and ability there before the foundations of the world to work in our lives. He was calling out of Abraham what He had already put there. When Abraham moved himself out of the equation he allowed God to access what He had placed in him.
Today let us qualify the word that God has spoken simply because He said it. Let us move into a place of being "fully persuaded" and position ourselves to truly hear from God. When Abraham set aside what he thought he was able to truly receive the promise of God. When Abraham refused to look at himself, his situation, what he could or could not do, and eve his own body he allowed God to be God. Let us not get caught up in creating Ishmael's based on what we can do, but manifest the Isaac's that only God can do.
Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]
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