Quote from Forum Archives on July 16, 2013, 6:50 am

Posted by: 1motherbear <1motherbear@...>

Thanks for this. I've been up since 3am "asking and asking". Love,
Karen

On 7/16/13, Amazing Graze Farm <amazinggrazefarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> WOW! Do you have the power?
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> For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
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> 1 Corinthians 4:20 NIV
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> God is using it to remind me that this thing isn’t about incessant chatter
> and nonstop Twitter noise and learning to speak fluent Christianese. It’s
> not tantamount to Bible banter and doctrinal debates and holy
> hair-splitting. It’s not about getting together at church and threatening
> week after week to live changed lives and think renewed thoughts. It’s not
> about getting all lathered up and sweaty-headed at events over theories of
> effective, influential, and abundant lives. This Christ thing to which we’ve
> been called is about actually doing it and through an unction not remotely
> our own.
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> When the Holy Spirit comes, He comes with power.
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> Where the Holy Spirit goes, He goes with power.
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> Whom the Holy Spirit infiltrates, He infuses with power.
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> Our lives were meant to be powerful. Less talk. More demonstration. Through
> things like a love that we know good and well is utterly beyond us and a
> faith that emerges in fact from a minefield soaked in blood and strewn with
> flesh. We were meant to be able to do what we can’t, like who we don’t,
> bless who we’d curse. We were promised strength in weakness and extravagant
> grace in our deprivation.
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> We were meant to wonder what has derailed or gone awry when a season of our
> lives persists in powerlessness for weeks on end. We were promised more than
> this. We’re not meant to write our own personalized chapters in a revised
> standard version of The Emperor’s New Clothes so the world could have a
> harder laugh at us. We who have placed our trust in Christ Jesus, the
> living, breathing-on-us Son of God, have been clothed with power from on
> high. (Luke 24:49) And it’s supposed to show.
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> Every limb of our lives where we welcome the Holy Spirit can be infused with
> strength not of this world and, yes, even in continued weakness or
> infirmity, should that be the case of our present calling. The coexistence
> of the two is the mystery of it. We’re not superwomen. We’re a long shot
> from perfect. But we were meant to be vividly powerful through the One who
> saved us and made Himself at home in us. Let’s not forget that today. Let’s
> not be satisfied just to talk about it. Let’s not just clap and cheer during
> that part of a service when a pastor or teacher tells us we’re called more
> than conquerors. The New Testament is not the theory of Christianity.
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> You may feel powerless right now, Sister, but, if you are in Christ, make no
> mistake: you are not. Get some backbone back in your prayer life if your
> spiritual spine has deteriorated. With reverence for His holiness and with
> the boldness He said we could bring to the Throne of Grace, read to God from
> His Word where He promised His people victory as they looked to Him alone…
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> …and where He promised to clothe us in power
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> …and where He said He’d make Himself conspicuous through our spiritual gifts
> and through supernatural works in His Name.
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> If you don’t know where those places are, go hunt them down. (But you could
> start in Romans 8, Luke 24, Acts 1, Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 12 and Hebrews
> 4.)
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> Tell Him you’re going to ask for it and ask for it and ask for it in His
> great Name and for His glory until He gives it to you and frees you from
> whatever this present powerlessness is. And then DO IT. Ask and ask and ask
> and tell Him you will do whatever it takes to cooperate and mean it! Throw
> your hands out to receive. And, then, when He gives it – and He will – don’t
> take credit for it. Appreciate it. Thank Him and thank Him for it. Know that
> it’s grace. Use it audaciously to bring Him attention.
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> Sister, you cannot fulfill your foreordained purpose without power. Go back
> after it but, whatever you do, don’t try to get it without Jesus coming with
> it. Power for power’s sake will blow you up. God-given unction isn’t meant
> to just come and go with periodic personal revival. We were meant to live
> powerful lives. Let’s get to them. If you’ve got an area of carnality that
> is quenching it, I promise you it’s not worth it. Believe me, I’ve been
> there. Repent, turn from it and get on with it. You’ve got a calling. And it
> takes divine power.
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