Whenever Jesus exposes your rebellion, repent of your sin and turn to God in faith, receiving grace form Jesus that overflows from His heart and it transforms lives.
And then spend your life performing deeds in keeping with your repentance, seeking in all that you do to honour your good and gracious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
The apostle Paul beloved that God raises the dead.
He believed that God made a promise of resurrection to His people.
And most importantly he believed that God was fulfilling this promise in Jesus Christ.
And those who stood apposed to this hope of resurrection, being fulfilled in Christ, stood opposed to Paul. So, he stands on trail and his faith being tested.
“Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?”
Acts 26:8
By definition anyone that is in Christ is in a lifelong battle.
In Ephesians 6 we have one of the Bible’s best illustrations in this regard. But sometimes the illustration is so good that it overpasses the message that it intend to convey. A lot of focus is on the armour, but the message it conveys is about: the truth, righteousness, the gospel, salvation, and the word of God, applied through prayer in the Spirit.
“Put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil”
Ephesians 6:11
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” Ephesians 2:10 ESV)
You are God’s workmanship, His masterpiece. Nobody in this world has your fingerprints. You are unique, original, God’s very own masterpiece!
The greatest need in the church is always a greater vision of God. But we live in this world with all its distractions where our vision get blurry, our focus gets fractured, and our devotions falter. But God speaks to us through His Word. He enlightens the eyes of our hearts and strengthen our faith. And that fills us with confident hope and great expectation as we draw near to Christ.
God speaks to us through His Word, enlightening the eyes of our hearts and strengthening our faith.
The power of God’s Word was Jeremiah’s confidence throughout his entire life and is our confidence too.
Every single one of God’s promises will come to pass. Therefore we can go into this world, believing and proclaiming all that He has said and do that with absolute confidence.
In Isaiah’s day God’s presence filled one building in one city among one people.
In our day God’s presence fills every believer in every church everywhere His people are found on the earth.
As we see with the eyes of our hearts that God is in control, that He is near, His presence then is a source of encouragement in difficult times.
We are living in times of crises with so much trouble that we have to go through. In all of these it is important for us to go to the Word of God and to hear what He says to each and every one of us, and not to rely in the wisdom and strength of man.
Isaiah 65 gives us a window into the heart of God as He identifies two groups of people.
In the first group God seeks out people who don’t know God. In the second group God sorts out people who claim to know Him.
“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me. I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call on My name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I!
Isaiah 65:1
Effective prayer arises from confidence in the goodness of God and confidence in the relationship that we have with God.
To pray effectively at any given time, we need to fill our minds with a fresh sense and knowledge of the abundant goodness of God that you find in His Word.
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