Will Power

The story is about as old as anything. Your regular, average, everyday Joe comes across an enviable amount of power, giving rise to the typical; swift justice to wrong doers, self-exultation in the face of those who once belittled him and a reckless attempt at controlling the love of the human heart.
Why is this the common way of things? Maybe there really is something so fundamental to the human experience that power tends to discover one particular course like a dry riverbed after heavy rains.
If this is true, I think it’s more likely that there’s a flaw in how we define the meaning in our lives.
We want more, we want to be noticed, loved and not as looked over or pushed around. But is this an accurate assessment of what life really is?

Do you know that today, whether you’re a believer or not, you did things that were written down in heaven?
It’s possible that your life is ‘mattering’ more than you know.

Do you know that every day you have the ability to lift someone’s spirit (or bring them crashing down) with your mere words?
It’s possible that you already have more power than you know what to do with.

Everybody gets done wrong. Every life deals with slights, being lied to, on as well as being taken advantage of. We have a God who sits high and looks low. Nothing about our being belittled makes us smaller in His eyes. We stay focused, praying for those who would take advantage of us, that they would see the light before it’s too late and receive the eternal advantage in Christ.
When aligned rightly, our prayers are so powerful that an Eternal, Sovereign God takes note of them.
It's a misguided application to want to see yourself as a lion if your only desire is to roar at people who make you feel small.
For us as believers, the Bible says that we're more than conquerors. However, this isn't to exert power and our will to punish those who make us feel inferior. It's a clear picture of our confidence in Christ to stand in Truth. To stand against the powers that would drag us back to an old defeatists mentality...to having done all, to stand. (Ephesians 6)

Here’s The Word:

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Maybe you wish you realized more in your life; more potential, more reverence, more effectivity… more stuff.
Are these desires rightly aligned with Life in The Spirit? I don’t think so. It looks more likely that this old story can do nothing but dull the reality of New Life.

So please, dear friend, be encouraged. Be encouraged to wake up tomorrow not only realizing the power already at work in you, but also the potential of it to affect things around you for God’s glory and your good...in that order.
And remember, if you make sense of God’s word as it applies to now and eternity, everyday you’re being tested: He’s seeing what you will do with the amount of power you’re given to show yourself worthy to receive much, much more in the life to come.

Here's The Word;

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:


In Him,
Cros