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Take Hold Of Your Spiritual Blessings
Contributed by Allan Kircher on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: God has provided everything we need to live a success and glorious Christian life as we allow the Holy Spirit to work in and out of us.
Low self-esteem out of your presence
The seal of the spiritual blessings is so strong that the prophet Isaiah said in 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.
The anointing will have you:
• Kill Goliaths in your life
• Run through your enemy as if he wasn’t there.
• Leap over walls that seemed unreachable for you to climb
Because we are sealed by the Holy Spirit. We are under God’s direction and guidance. We are sealed with the Spiritual blessings of God.
He Chose Us in Christ v 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love.
How many remember those brutal playground games where you two captains got to pick sides.
What was the biggest fear? That you would be picked last! Listen. Christ has chosen you.
He has chosen each one hear this morning. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” This is where we all begin.
We are all chosen in Christ to bear his name if we so choose.
“When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that He is enough”
Humble yourselves before the Living God and let go and let God.
Now, if you do not know this truth, you will never appreciate it. In Christ we have sufficiency, because we have every spiritual blessing in Christ.
And so we must learn to rely on our resources in Christ. In Christ, we are rich. The riches of Christ have already been deposited into your account. We must now begin to draw upon those riches.
Unfortunately our minds cannot comprehend the things of divine nature.
I can’t even understand the tax code, or electricity, or how that little picture go through the air from far away and ends up on my TV screen, how you can make a wireless phone call.
How am I to understand the things of God?
What we can understand is to know God simply loves us. God chose us before our lives were ever lived
Just as He chose us in Him before the foundations of the world.
I was chosen before I ever lived one day, before Adam and Eve ever lived one day. BEFORE I EVER COMMITTED ONE SIN.
Now God didn’t look down on me and say, ‘What a great person’ and then choose me. I had not even lived yet.
God made a choice before the world began which was inclusive of me and of others.
You see God’s foreknowledge understood that man would use free choice and fall into sin and that Jesus Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world was God’s choice to reconcile sinful man to a holy God.
God’s plan allows us to stand before Him in spite of the sins our life consisted of and be HOLY AND BLAMELESS as RECIPIENTS OF HIS LOVE.
Not standing guilty and under His wrath
Some day I will stand in His presence and be positioned in the righteousness of Jesus Christ in Whom there is no condemnation and will not sense His anger for my sins but will enjoy the full force of His love because of His Wonderful Plan and the seal of the Holy Spirit.
Spirit filled believers need to see themselves as empowered equipped and enabled by the power of their resident Holy Spirit.