THE BELIEVER’S UNUSED ABILITIES!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY DECEMBER 11, 2022.

SUBJECT:  THE BELIEVER’S UNUSED ABILITIES!

Memory verse:  "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." (First Peter 2 vs 9.) 

READ:  Second Peter 1 vs 3 - 4:

1:3: As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 

1:4: by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

INTIMATION:

Many Christians still have not understood fully the finished work of Christ for them, haven made available to them the power of God as “partakers of His divine nature.” The finished work is like undeveloped resources in the African Continent. The finished work still remains the only source of our ability to live for God, have a relationship with Him, and obtain and harness all the promises of God to believers, live a prosperous life and have good success. 

 

Notice carefully, in the passage we read today, that He has given to believers all things that pertain to life and godliness and that they have become the partakers of His very nature—divine nature, that was lacking in creation. This nature is called “Eternal life,” the power of God to live forever. That life is the substance and being of God. He allows the believers to be "partakers of the divine nature" in order to keep them from sin and help them live for Him. When you are born again, you are born of the Spirit, therefore, you are spirit. God is Spirit, and by His Spirit, empowers you with His own moral goodness.  

Who has imagined or knows what it might mean, or what it means if that nature of God is fully harnessed, and  utilized by every human who has received it. This nature of God comes with the operation of the Spirit of God in us. The Bible in Romans 8 vs 11 says, "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you."

The Spirit grants believers the creative ability manifested in creation. The miracle-working power that was manifested in Jesus is imparted to the believers. In fact, all the nine gifts of the Spirit are made available to believers. It is for this reason that Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and they may have it more abundantly." (John 10 vs 10.) In new creation, you are born of the Spirit, and you are spirit (John 3 vs 6). You have been born of incorruptible seed through the Word of God which lives and abides forever—Eternal. (First Peter 1 vs 23.)

Not many Christians have realized that they have in them divine ability. You then ask, "How can this be utilized?" It is acting upon His Word, living the Word life, knowing that all His promises are real and for you to receive if you believe. Knowing that you have your inheritance in Him as is expressed in Colossians 1 vs 12, "Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." Believers take Him, by grace, to lead them into all the fullness of their inheritance.

Believers will know that Philippians 2 vs 13 is real and at work in them, "For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." God is at work in the believer, thinking through their minds, operating through their recreated spirits. He has actually taken them over. Let Him Rule! While He is at work in the believer, they, as theatre of His marvelous works, should show the excellencies of Him. The Scriptures in our memory verse, made that clear, "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him, Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." (First Peter 2 vs 9 Amplified Version.)

Here is the gold mine. The believers are an elect people. They are God's own possessions. He set them apart that they may unveil the hidden treasures of grace of God at work in them. He is illuminating them, leading them into all the truth and reality. 

In Colossians 2 vs 3, the Scriptures says; "In Whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden." And He has given the believers light and ability to know what these treasures are: The knowledge of what He has done; knowledge of what He is to do in them; knowledge of what they are; knowledge of what they may do with His ability. And He has also made available the wisdom to utilize all these varied knowledge.

It is therefore, a sin for believers to be commonplace. It is wrong for them to be weak. It is a lack of wisdom for them to depend any longer upon simple sense knowledge when they have the ability of God to put them over. They only perish when they lack this knowledge (Hosea 4 vs 6). 

Now, imagine what will happen if all these divine abilities available to the believer are fully harnessed by the believer, displaying the virtues and perfections in Him. Such life will be exceedingly glorious. It’s for the believers to live, but it has been substantially underutilized.

Prayer: Abba Father, in all the earth there is none like You. You have graciously imparted in us Your divine nature.Give me the grace to live in Your fullness, manifesting Your divine abilities, utilizing fully the huge treasures of wisdom and knowledge revealed to us in redemption, and in the adoption of us as Your children, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!