The Power Trinity
Luke 10:19 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.
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
I don't think I'm going to be able to finish this today, but this is what I am hearing the Holy Spirit saying to us.
F. A. A. - The Power Trinity
Faith, Anointing, Authority.
If I were to ask you today... how many want to have a more effective Christian Life?
If I were to ask how many want to have more power in your life as a Christian?
If I were to ask how many want to see more manifestation of the power of God in your life?
If I were to ask how many want to lay your hands on the sick see them recover?
If I were to ask how many want to know that when you tell the devil to get out he has to go?
If I were to ask these questions today, how many would say by an uplifted hand, you're talking to me?
Well I am asking you these questions today, and while I am asking these questions of you I am also asking them of myself.
I can't speak for everyone, but I can certainly speak for myself I want the full measure, full manifestation, of the power of God that is available to me.
In other words if God has revealed it in the Bible to be to me, then I want it.
Something that stirs me, and concerns me, and should concern all of us, is when we look in the Bible and we see such a great disparity, from what God describes as the normal Christian Life, in comparison and contrast to what we call the normal Christian Life.
When I look in the Bible, I see as the normal Christian Life... Healing The Sick, cleansing the lepers, and casting out devils.
In the Bible I see as the normal Christian Life, setting the captives free, opening blinded eyes, unstopping deaf ears, Yoke's being destroyed, bondages, habits and addictions, an evil desires being destroyed, and prisoners being set free.
Now I know this is a little scary, this is reaching out there a little bit, but I have to ask you isn't that what you see in the Bible when you read it?
Isn't that what it says? Am I being true to the scriptures when I say these things?
Just because the scriptures challenge us, and they show us where we are falling short, doesn't mean that we should ignore them, or that we should set them aside as unreachable, and unattainable.
On the contrary...
It should stir us up.
It should fire us up.
It should challenge us.
It should convict us.
It should make us want to reach, and stretch, and get a hold of what belongs to us.
What would make us settle for less than God's best?
Why would we settle for less Joy?
For less peace?
For less prosperity?
For less power?
Paul talked about a life that was ever reaching, ever stretching, ever pressing. Never satisfied
To many believers that is a strange concept, because so many have become comfortable, and adjusted, and very satisfied right where they are.
One of the greatest operations of the word of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit, is to stir up within the hearts of God's people, a passion, a hunger, a thirst, and the desire to go farther, to rise higher, to dive deeper, and to experience the power and the glory of God in ever-increasing fashion.
One of the saddest things that can ever happen to a saint, or body of believers, is to reach the level of comfort, and to become satisfied and adjusted.
Satisfied is a dangerous place, because it's right next door to petrified.
I never want to live the land of satisfied. Thankful, grateful, appreciative, yes, a thousand times yes. I can never fully express my thankfulness and my gratitude, and my appreciation for what God has done in my life. For where God has brought me from. And for where God has put me, I am so thankful.
But I am not satisfied. As a matter of fact I have within my heart, and within my soul a divine dissatisfaction, that has been planted there by the Holy Spirit.
If you allow the Holy Spirit to have his way in your life, he will always plant within your spirit, and within your soul, a divine dissatisfaction. A pressing, a hunger, a passion, and the desire to see more, and to be more.
Not a single one of us that have reached the full measure of our potential.
Not a single one of us have stepped into the fullness of our purpose.
Not a single one of us have plumbed the depths, of the glory and the power of the Holy Spirit.
As I have been in prayer meditation over these services, I've been feeling a stirring in my spirit concerning in particular three things that are critical in reaching the place of God's calling.
They are three separate things, but they are so interconnected and so interwoven, that they really don't work separately.
That's why I called it the power Trinity. I can talk to you about faith and the necessity importance of faith in your life. I can talk to you about how Faith Comes I hearing and hearing by the word of God. I can talk to you about how without faith it's impossible to please God. I can talk to you about how your faith is visible to God by your actions.
But we've got to Step Beyond this. Faith is definitely a most critical element in our spiritual walk. And without faith we're not going to go anywhere or do anything. Faith is like the fuse that connects between problem empower.
Through faith, your faith in my faith the power of God can flow to the problem, and move the problem, destroy the problem.
So let's start with faith. ...
*Faith is an igniter, and faith is a catalyst, and faith is a fuse.
*Nothing, absolutely nothing, is going to happen in your favor without faith.
*Without faith you are dead in the water.
*Without faith you are doomed to have to battle and struggle and fight through, or climb over every mountain in your life in your own human strength.
But with faith Jesus said you can say to the mountain be removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and it will be done.
And with faith Jesus said you can say to the sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the roots, and cast in to the sea, and it will have to obey you.
*Faith is the currency that is accepted in the kingdom of God.
*Faith is purchasing power.
Jesus said, according to your faith be it done unto you.
When the woman with the issue of blood reached out and touched the hem of Jesus garment, Jesus exclaimed that it was her faith, that had pulled the power of God from him, and healed her.
He said, somebody has touched me, and I felt virtue leave me. He wasn't talking about a physical, or natural touch, he meant the touch of faith.
Her touch of faith ignited the power of God, in Jesus and it flowed into her body.
Jesus said, Daughter, thy faith, hath made thee whole. That was an exchange of faith for power. Her faith was the fuse that connected her to the power, and she received in proportion to her faith.
Remember the man on the cott, with his four friends that carried him on top of the roof, and tore the roof off, in order to drop him down in front of Jesus? The Bible says... Jesus seeing their faith, healed the man.
Faith from all five of those men connected them to the power of God, and the lame man was healed.
Say this with me...
My faith is my power connection.
My faith is purchasing power.
My faith is real.
My faith is tangible.
My faith is visible.
Faith is not a miracle only obtainable or accessible to certain people.
Faith is supernatural. But faith is accessible and available to everyone, because it comes the same way to everyone.
So then, Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Ro 10:17
Faith cometh by hearing the Word of God.
Faith stayeth by hearing the Word of God.
But for faith to grow it has to work. Faith worketh by hearing, believing, and speaking. Faith without works is dead.
In order to do the works that Jesus did we not only have to have faith, we have to have power.
Don't miss this, it's not faith that heals the sick, or casts out devils, or delivers the bound and the oppressed. It is the power of God, or the anointinting that does the work... But faith is what connects us to the anointing.
Faith is the channel through which the anointing flows.
Look at this... It doesn't matter how much power is available to you, it doesn't accomplish anything if you don't know how to access it.
We access the benefits, the blessings, and the anointing through faith.
What healed the woman with the issue of blood? The answer is... it was the virtue, the power, the anointing that flowed from Jesus. But that anointing flowed from Jesus to her, through the channel or the touch of her faith. That's why Jesus said, daughter thy faith hath made thee whole.
Whatever you or I need today, the power of God will provide, but it will only be manifested in your life and mine, in proportion to your faith, and my faith.
Faith is the invisible hand, that reaches into the invisible realm of the kingdom of God, and takes ahold of the invisible power of God, and pulls back into the natural, your healing, your miracle, your break through.
So many times the power of God is present, hovering all around us, but the hand of faith is all shriveled up from inactivity, and lack of use.
I believe that Jesus is saying to us today the same thing he said to the man in the synagogue with the withered hand... stretch forth thine hand.
Activate your faith. Stir up your faith. Get your faith back online.
Sometimes I'll start to print something on my computer and I forgot to turn my printer on. And a message will come up on the screen... "Printer is off line". I know right then, nothing is going to happen till I get my printer back online.
And nothing is going to happen for you and me till we get our faith back online.
Say neighbor: I'm turning the switch of faith on.
Say neighbor: My faith is coming on line.
Say neighbor, I'm starting to feel my faith firing up right now.
