YOU HAVE THE POWER

YOU HAVE THE POWER

Yes, you have the power. The scripture says in John 1:12 that ‘as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name’. If you have received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, oh yes, if you are truly born-again, you have the power!!!

What kind of power am I talking about? All power!!! For Jesus said ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth…. and then turned unto you his beloved saying…’behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you’ (Mathew 28:18 , Luke 10:19). Listen friends, YOU HAVE THE POWER!!! Power is in degree/categories, that is why the scripture says ‘let every soul be subject to the higher powers’ (Romans 13:11)

Wait a minute as you rejoice in the truth. Please permit me to show you how you can activate the ultimate power. God became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ who came to this world that you and I can be reconciled to God. Jesus died for our sins. He died a very painful death. As he hung on the cross, during the most gruesome torture, ‘one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water’ (john 19:34). He shed his blood for you and me. Just like you and I, Jesus had options. He could have refused to be humiliated, he could have asked one of the angels to take out those that wanted to nail him to that cross…but ‘he endured the cross, despising the shame’ so that you and I can be saved from our sins.

How think ye? Jesus could have resisted and refused to die in the face of that agonizing torment, but he made a choice of RIGHTLY exercising the power that he had to freely give his life away that you and I may be saved. Read with me in the book of John chapter 10 verse 18…’ No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again’. Jesus had the power to release himself from the cross even when they had almost sniffed life out of him, he had the power!!! But, ‘he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross’ (Philippians 2:8). Jesus said, ‘I lay it down of myself’. He had power to lay his life down, and he laid it down of his own accord!

How is this relevant to you?

You have the power to give God the only thing he is requesting of you, and what is that request? So simple! … and you alone have the power to do it. The request is found in the book of Proverbs chapter 23 and verse 26. ‘My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways’. See, everything that you do or that happens to you on earth has to do with your heart, and whatever has control over your heart has the whole of you.

You want power for this, power for that. I tell you, the ultimate power that a believer can receive is called the power of his resurrection. Apostle Paul yearned for this power as he prayed that he may know the power of his resurrection (Philippians 3:10). Why? Until you activate the power of his resurrection, you do not manifest the ultimate power. You have a sim card in your phone, if it is not activated, you can not enjoy the benefit.

All the trinity of God is involved in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (Roman 8:11, I:4). If you will also freely give your heart to the Lord today, all the trinity will also be involved in your life and situation, and your situation will turn around for the best it could ever be.

Will you surrender your heart to Jesus today? You have the power to give it to him!!!

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Does God ever think evil?

God does not and will not think evil! I had to ask you this question to be sure you know who you are in Christ Jesus. Please come with me as we open the scriptures.

Proverbs 23:7 affirms that as a man ‘thinketh in his heart, so is he’. So is he! Not, so he will be! He that thinks evil is evil. ‘Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world’ (1 John 4:17). God expects you and I to be as he is while we are in this world, that is to be people who do not think evil in their hearts. Why?

You can hear God more clearly when he speaks to you if your mind is not polluted because one of the ways God speaks to his children is through their thoughts. Evil imagination is one of the two reasons why God destroyed humanity during the time of Noah. He ‘saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually’ (Genesis 6:5).

Unfortunately, there are many people that think evil in this present world, including born-again Christians. They can’t think straight for one hour!

Listen friends,’ deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil’ (Proverbs 12:20). Bro Yinka, what are you saying? You are a deceitful man if your thought process is continually evil. I was born in the part of the world where as a courtesy you invite visitors to eat with you when they visit at a time when you are eating. Many times, the invitation is deceitful. For if you happen to invite a man who is truly hungry, your heart begins to criticize him as soon as he heavily descends on your food, wondering if the man doesn’t have common sense to know his limit. You are grudging within you as your guest takes the fattest meat in your meal! As the Amplified Bible states in proverbs 23:7, Eat and drink you say to him, yet your heart is not with him (but you are grudging the cost). Many times, when people do what seems good to you, they do it with ulterior motives.

John the Baptist eats food, and we are told that he eats locust and wild honey (Mark 1:6), but I suppose John never eats in people’s houses when invited, so they labelled him as a man that hath a devil (Mathew 11:18). Jesus eats in their houses when invited, and as they watch him eat, the evil thoughts of their heart were… ‘Behold a man gluttonous, a winebibber” (Mathew 11:19). Aw! why would you invite him to dine with you if you really don’t want him to express himself? Oh, ‘the human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked’ (Jeremiah 17:9 NLT).

I know there are many born-again Christians whose hearts are predominantly filled with the strangest thoughts that are contrary to God.

Do you think evil? Are your thoughts continually evil? You can be set free today if you are already a born-again Christian! Ask your father to liberate your mind from the contaminations that are prevalent upon your heart. Then, going forward, take positive steps to renew your mind. Following the underlisted suggestions may be helpful:

1.       Always say what you mean regardless! (James 2:12)

2.       Renew your mind constantly. Take a cue from Philippians 4:8 about the kind of things you should think on.

The Lord bless you richly.