Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 251
Michael’s book is
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Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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I
never realized at the moment (that moment back on May 20, 1980, in Pastor John Morgan’s
office when Barbara and I were Born Again) what a dramatic impact our New Birth would give
us in so many spiritual ways. 2nd
Corinthians 5:17, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation,” is the very
first verse Pastor Morgan showed us in Scripture of what had just taken
place. And Michael addresses one of
those ways with some beautiful illustrations of just how powerful God’s
Presence can be.
And
Michael states the foundational bedrock of Christianity…believe God, believe
all He has said (His Word). How can so
many “go on asking and attempting to understand more” when they aren’t willing
to BELIEVE that which God has already brought to their attention??? Michael gave them a name…Unbelieving
Believers.
DAY 166
Is He Always With Me?
And lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age. --Matthew 28:20
I often say that I am
preaching my own funeral, and this article will be one such time! I am always
confronted with my own unbelief and inability to get the first things right. There are so many passages that
need believing before we go on asking for more and attempting to understand
more. We obsess over our past. We remember the hurts. We are “dealing”
with them. We are struggling. We wish for a different past. Millions are spent
on various coping mechanisms for the aforementioned, but in all of it we are avoiding a fact of faith:
“If any man be in Christ, he
is a new creation.” We
do not believe we are new creations. We want the feeling of it, the
absence of memory, and something special. We want the fact of it without faith!
Again, all that a believer
wants, he has already been given, for the Lord has given us EVERYTHING pertaining to life
and godliness. However,
if we work for what we have by faith, we lose it. God is with us always, and
yet often a busy mother, missing her quiet time, believes He is not with her.
Many have not read their Bibles, attended church lately, or perhaps have fallen
into the bad deeds of the flesh--or worse yet, the good deeds--and these all
believe that He has left them. Is He with us always? Where do we stand in these
things? So many spectacular
meetings take place to convince us in the flesh of what only faith can assure
us, that He is always with us!
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
“He is always with us” is not just a simple statement that has little
relevancy…it is an astounding truth of great impact!!! Think about this: IF your earthly father
could have completely lived inside you, gone with you everywhere you went, you
possessed his soul (mind, will, emotions), and he had the power to impact every
decision and action you ever had or took...
Would life been different? Do you
think he would have impacted your life? IF
you as an earthly parent… Do you follow
my thinking here???
Isn’t it amazing…God indwells every Believer. His Life is “there” wherever we are. And to live His Life through us is what God
wants to do through our life. And there
is no way He is not “there” wherever the “there” is.
But, how about being given “everything pertaining to life and godliness”!?! I have seen many who don’t believe this…don’t
believe this? God has said it is
SO. Christ’s indwelling has given us ALL
this. It comes with possessing Him!
We need to quit working “for what we have by faith” (or, have been
GIVEN!).
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