Summary:
As the Father brings forth Christ in each one of us, the un-folding revelation and experience begins to release the power and authority of God in us. We simply believe His Word and watch the Holy Spirit direct our paths and lead us into all that God has for us in this new day.
Show Notes:
It is Christ in us, this is where the power and authority resides.
Releasing the power and authority of Christ in us starts when we simply believe His Word.
The release of all that is within us comes not from trying harder, but because of the revelation of Christ to our hearts.
Christ is our example. We walk out the path that He walked in the earth.
The Father is the one that is bringing all this forth in and through us.
It's all about our relationship with Christ and the Father. Without it we have nothing.
We must get in motion and as we do the Lord will direct out paths.
It all starts with a focus on the Lord.
Quotes:
Christ in us, the hope of glory. It's Christ in us. He's not outside of us. He's in us. His power and His authority resides in us.
How do we release the power, the authority of Christ in us that we believe is in us?
I just accept what the Lord's saying. From that point of course, there's all kinds of testings and trials and everything you go through, but it's still holding to that position of belief. You believe.
When Christ comes within us, when we receive Him, we receive all of Christ. We don't just receive part of Him.
We're entering a new day, a day that we're going to see marvelous things happen. And it won't be by us trying any harder. It'll be because the revelation of Christ coming forth in our hearts.
Jesus Christ is an example of who we are to be in the Earth.
God gives us what we need and then He's the one that bring us forth, bring it forth in us.
Sometimes it's a little thing. But the example of the power of God coming out or the love of God. There has to be an example of what God has just done in your life.
The unfolding of everything that we've said is the unfolding of a relationship with Christ.
You cannot run a parked car. If you're focused on the Lord and you're moving, then He can give you a little nudge here and a little nudge there.
Our focus must be on Him first, and then all the other things will be added to us.
References:
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer. And a man who had been unable to walk from birth was being carried, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order for him to beg for charitable gifts from those entering the temple grounds. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple grounds, he began asking to receive a charitable gift. But Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, “Look at us!” And he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said, “I do not have silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!” And grasping him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened. And leaping up, he stood and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God; and they recognized him as being the very one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg for charitable gifts, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
...to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any of them.
The Damascus Road: Saul Converted.Takeaway:
In this new day of the unfolding manifestation of Christ in His believers, there is a release of His power and authority in had through them. Now is the time when Christ come to be admired in His saints. It's Christ in you the hope of Glory.
Ron
Christ in us, the hope of glory. It's Christ in us. He's not outside of us. He's in us. His power and His authority resides in us. This has a lot to do with how you pray and how you think about your walk with God. When you wait on the Lord, do you wait on the Lord outside of you or do you wait on the Lord inside of you? When you listen to His voice, are you listening outside of you, or you listening- listening inside of you?
Actually, to me, prayer is, the more you get into the revelation of Christ in you and the power of God in you, it's more declarations declaring things. It's not so much petition. The Lord's already done everything.
He's already provided-it's all done. It's just that we have to believe it and manifest it, speak it. How do we release what we believe in us. How do we release the power, the authority of Christ in us that we believe is in us? How do we release that and actually see the manifestation of things that: His kingdom, His miracle, signs, wonders, transformations, healing, everything that power of God represents?
If God's power is unlimited and His spirit is within us. All that resides within us. You have to start just going, I just accept what the Lord's saying. From that point of course, there's all kinds of testings and trials and everything you go through, but it's still holding to that position of belief. You believe.
Lois
When Christ comes within us, when we receive Him, we receive all of Christ. We don't just receive part of Him. Now, it may not all be working like the fullness of God.
When Peter healed, the man who was lame when they were going up to the temple, he didn't stop and say, now I wonder if I'm to do this or have, he just said what I have, I give you what I have. He didn't say it at all. He still was gonna wait on God and he was still gonna grow. But what I have.
Debbie
Because of his relationship with the Lord, because of what Christ had done for him and in him. He could say silver and gold, have I none, but such as I have give I thee in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
We can do the same thing. How? We have to believe the Lord. We have to believe the Word .
Ken
Peter and John is they we're going to the temple. There were times that the people were so aware of who Peter was. Peter had to walk with God. He had a relationship with the Lord. And when he walked through an area, people would lay their sick out in his path -they'd be healed.
We're entering a new day, a day that we're going to see marvelous things happen. And it won't be by us trying any harder. It'll be because the revelation of Christ coming forth in our hearts.
Debbie
Said even their shadow, when their shadow fell upon other people, they would be healed. I believe that we are coming to a time where our relationship with the Lord is so right before I Him, "okay, Lord, here I am. Here I'm a channel of you and I love you.
Ken
These were fishermen. These were tax collectors. These were people that had no education. They were not learned in the word at all. These are guys that walked with the Lord for three and a half years. It wasn't by books, it was by impartation because they saw the evidence of what God was doing through one man.
Jesus Christ is an example of who we are to be in the Earth. And I know that's a heavy duty statement because; right away you go he was a son of God.
Here's a man, Paul who was opposed to Jesus Christ and God spoke to his heart and knocked him off his donkey and got his attention. Talk about the grace of God.
There is the grace of God for one man's life. Paul was the greatest example of a man of God walking through the earth and establishing churches, seeing miracles. God gives us what we need and then He's the one that bring us forth, bring it forth in us.
Dale
As we bring out what is within us. It's very important that first thing that you do is you give an example of what's in you. Sometimes it's a little thing. But the example of the power of God coming out or the love of God. There has to be an example of what God has just done in your life.
Ron
All this that we've been talking about involves one major key, and that's a relationship with Christ. The unfolding of everything that we've said is the unfolding of the re of a relationship with Christ.
'Because as that unfolds, all this other stuff unfolds. And without it -without that relationship, it's dead works and religion. A man tries to do this, man tries to do that, and none of it ever succeeds without a relationship with Christ.
Debbie
It's not a difficult thing. Because once you open your heart to the Lord and open up to Him, working in you and developing a relationship with the Lord and getting to know who He is.
Then the Holy Spirit can reveal things to you, can show things to you and can use you. You'll be sensitive to what He's leading you to do.
Ken
This is something that's moving in our spirit, and honestly, when you're moving in the anointing, that's the greatest joy you ever have. You feel like you're home.
There's an anointing there. Without that anointing, without that inner connection with God in your walk, you know, and that anointing, it just doesn't work.
Along with this anointing, there comes a supernatural faith. It's really connected to your own will. You connect with the anointing and then by faith you say, yes, that will take place.
Ed
The whole thing starts with your focus. Your focus on the Lord, good or bad. You know, I mean, Paul is focused, but just a little off. When you're focused like that and you have that focus on the Lord, He'll correct it as long as you're moving. You cannot run a parked car. If you're focused on the Lord and you're moving, then He can give you a little nudge here and a little nudge there.
And when He does that, that's a touch. And where there's a touch, there's power and authority. Our focus must be on Him first, and then all the other things will be added to us.