“…If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you will and it will be done for you.” (John 15:7)
“…every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:6-7)
“…stir up the gift of God that is in thee…” (2 Timothy 1:6)
God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7) He gave us His spirit. We all have the same spirit of God within us. It is the gift of God – His grace. It is personal for each one of us. We just have to know God’s gift is there, accept that we have it, and know how to handle the power. Jesus Christ showed us how we can do this and how to have life abundantly. (John 10:7-10)
We each have this very personal gift from God within us in the secret place of the most high, in the kingdom of God within us. I don’t want your gift and you shouldn’t want mine. God’s gift of grace for you is just right for you as His gift of grace for me is just right for me. You will be able to use the gift of grace God gave you in very special ways. It is the highest, the deepest and the widest good you can imagine and it is perfect for you, as mine is perfect for me.
Jesus Christ came to show us our true identity, our oneness with the Father. Christ came to show us the way to the gift God has for each of us in the kingdom within. Jesus Christ also gives us the ability to receive complete instructions on how to handle the power that comes with this remarkable gift from God through the Holy Spirit. We work under grace and not under law in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “In myself I can do nothing, it is the Father within me who does the work.” We can do the things Jesus did and even greater things in the name and power of Jesus Christ. It will be the Father doing His powerful work through us, not us.
It is absurd to limit God. “They limited the Holy One of Israel.” (Psalm 78:41) How can finite minds comprehend a limitless Father? No matter how much science stretches the mind, a finite mind can never completely stretch to understand God’s infinite nature. It is by God’s spirit in us that we understand. “Not by power, not by might, but by my spirit says the Lord.” (Zechariah 4:6)
God cannot be limited because of carnal man’s finite view of him. The tiny picture carnal man’s senses know of the Infinite Creator is not who God is. Carnal mind tries to limit God with a finite ego and stuffs God into a little mental box and says, “God is this, or God is that.” God is infinite and limitless. Man cannot force human boundaries on God, who has no boundaries; although from age to age carnal man continues to try to do just that. Carnal man’s limited physical senses can neither fully experience God's infinite nature, nor expand man’s view of God’s limitlessness. But there is a way to understand God’s infinite, limitlessness and power within us.
The gift of God’s grace through Jesus Christ can get us to the spirit of power, love and self-discipline in the secret place of the most high. Under grace we can go directly to the Father in the kingdom of God within us. It is the Father within us who does the work in the name and by the power of Jesus Christ.
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