THE NEED FOR POWER

We Christians want to accomplish so many things in our world. Judged by our own numerical and material strength, the goals that we cherish in our hearts are unattainable. We don’t have the numbers to do it. We don’t have the material wealth and strength that it takes to do it. Judged by that standard, the goals that we have elected to achieve are impossible of achievement. But there is a little verse in 1 John 4 that turns those impossibilities completely around. That verse says, “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).

Because this is true, God and His people together make the majority. We have access to the spiritual weapons, the spiritual strategies, and the spiritual power that the world in its numbers, strength, and clout cannot begin to defeat. That is the reason we have these great victory passages in the New Testament: “But thanks be unto God who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:14); “But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57); “In spite of all [the power and strength of the world], overwhelming victory is ours through him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).

You need to pray: “Lord, open my eyes that I may see the power that is available to me. The need in your life and mine is the need for power, isn’t it? We need power to cope with life and its crises, power to overcome and resist Satan, power to overcome the world and achieve that final victory of the crown of life in heaven. God is a God of victory and power. He can give you that power in a very practical and wonderful way if you will give yourself wholeheartedly and unreservedly to Him. In that power is your only hope of making it successfully through this life and your only hope of eternity with God in heaven.

Word Affirmation: “That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man." - Ephesians 3:16. (Don't just say it, mean it!)

“The need in your life and mine is the need for power."

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