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Emboldened for Kingdom Success
What do you want out of life? Do you
desire to be successful in all that you
do? Do you desire to do great exploits
for God? Do you sometimes wish there was
a magic formula that is easy to
incorporate into your life so that you
could be emboldened to accomplish great
things? Well, there is a formula but
it’s not magic. It’s called faith and
belief.
As born-again
Christians, we have been freely given
the anointing of the Holy Spirit to be
competent in all that we do and speak.
As Paul told Ephesians, this power is
available to all who believe according
to the working of God’s mighty power. Is
this something you desire? If so, it’s
yours.
Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you
shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth.
We have
been given the Holy Spirit to be
liberated to live successful and
fulfilling lives during our pilgrimage
here on earth as we go forth into the
harvest fields Lord has placed us in.
It is our Heavenly Father’s desire
and will that we be equipped by the Holy
Spirit in all that we do and say in this
life. With the birth and the baptism in
the Holy Spirit, God has equipped us to
be more than conquerors in this life.
When Paul wrote to the Ephesians church,
he prayed for them to receive the spirit
of wisdom and revelation of God so that
the eyes of their understanding would be
enlightened to the riches and the glory
of the inheritance that belongs to all
those who believe in Christ. He wanted
them to know the exceeding greatness of
the power that comes with this wonderful
gift we’ve been given. In other words,
He desires us us to be enabled in every
aspect of our lives, so that we are
properly equipped to sow and reap in His
harvest.
The key to receiving and
walking in this power is developing an
ongoing relationship with the Holy
Spirit through the Father’s only
begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The first step to being transformed
by the Holy Spirit within us is to
believe what the Scriptures reveal. When
the Scripture reveals we have access to
the exceeding greatness of His power to
us who believe, we must embrace this
truth wholeheartedly, believing and
confessing His word. Paul said, “Since
we have the same Spirit of faith,
according to what is written, ‘I
believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also
believe and therefore speak.”
Upon receiving the Holy Spirit at the
beginning of our salvation experience,
we must choose to believe all Scripture
is profitable for instruction in
righteousness. We must believe all that
God says about us in His word.
When the Word and the Holy Spirit
connect together through belief, there’s
an explosion that ignites us to be
invigorated in all that we do. This is
why Joshua was told to meditate in God’s
word day and night. It’s through
meditating and contemplating in His word
that it gets sown into the fibers of our
being and thus transformed into faith.
Through meditation, our belief system is
strengthened from faith to faith.
Secondly, it takes getting to know
God through relying on Christ’s
sufficiency and strength in us to do
great exploits and to be successful in
all that we do.
2
Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are
sufficient of ourselves to think of
anything as being from ourselves, but
our sufficiency is from God. 6 Who has
made us sufficient ministers of the new
covenant, not of the letter but of the
Spirit; for our sufficiency is from God.
Prior to coming to Christ, we
depended primarily on our own ways,
means and capabilities to get things
done through the kingdom of self. In
coming to Christ, we were transported
into the kingdom of God. Kingdom living
requires a good amount of trust to rely
on God’s sufficiency. In the book of
Proverbs, we are encouraged not to lean
on our own understanding. We must now
trust God to reveal His ways and means
to us if we desire to be emboldened for
successful living and great exploits.
Proverbs 3:5-7
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and
He shall direct your paths. 7 Do not be
wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and
depart from evil.
The way in
which the kingdom of self-produced in
our lives was very different than how
the work in God’s kingdom is produced in
us. We must now yield to God’s ways and
means, relying on His sufficiency
working in us to be successful and have
His power working in us to produce great
exploits. This is all part of getting to
know God and how He works in us.
Daniel 12:32b-33a
“The people who know their God shall be
strong, and carry out great exploits. 33
And those of the people who understand
shall instruct many;
May God
bless you as you press into being all
that He’s called you to do. With an
abundance of grace to do all things
through Christ, He strengthens daily.
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