As I look across the community of professing believers, there is no lack of faith in God, devotion to God or belief in God’s word.
What I find lacking is professing believers’ lack of faith in themselves in Christ.
This poor self-perspective has led to a community of professing believers holding to a form of godliness but lacking godly power over the satanic realm and their human nature.
How do we overcome this negative self-perspective?
We overcome this negative self-perspective by executing the principle of our completeness and adequacy in Christ. 2 Cor. 3:4-6, Phil 4: 13
“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. This principle is put in perspective by 2 Cor. 3:4-6, which states “Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.
Nothing will be impossible for you.
Just like in the physical realm the rising and setting of the sun, gravity, the earth rotating on its axis, the laws that make the world work and the different seasons are constant and consistent they do not change.
In the same way, the spiritual realm has laws that are constant and consistent they do not change. These laws or rules you can bank on because that is how the spiritual realm works.
Matt. 12:27: “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.
Satan here is the strong man and his house is the world. 1 John 5:19” “We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one”
Matt. 18:18: “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
Binding and loosing is a Jewish legal phrase giving authority to someone to determine whether something is allowed or forbidden. 1 Cor. 5: 9-13, 1 John 3: 4-10
Jesus uses the phrase in Matthew 16:19 when talking to Peter, but within hearing of the other apostles. “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
John 14:12-15: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to the Father.
“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
1 John 5:14, 15: This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
Prov. 18: 20, 21: With the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied; He will be satisfied with the product of his lips.
Jesus told the clueless disciples to feed the 5, 000, Mark 6: 36-38,41. His comment to them was, “They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat!”
And He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food
God asked Moses” What is that in your hand Exodus 4: 1-5
The greatest gifts that God has given the born-again believer is faith and the Holy Spirit!
God says in His word, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. Matt. 17:20.
The Holy Spirit is the power agent of God assigned to the born-again believer to bring the word of God they put faith to fruition.
Zech. 1:12: Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it.”
Zech. 4: 6: Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.
Faith is so powerful; in it you can do what is naturally impossible. In it you can speak the promises of God into your circumstances overriding, facts, and natural reality. Luke 9:16
God wants to take you to a place of empowerment in Him you have never been before.
Matthew 21:21 “Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.”
This starts with building your faith in yourself in Christ. I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me.
If you want to operate at full potential, you need to be more intentional about applying your faith in your abilities in Christ.
