Oswald Chambers once quoted this phrase....." it is a crime to be weak in God's strength." At first when i read that, i didn't think twice about it, but eventually the meaning of that phrase began to sink in. It essentially means this.... when people claim to follow Christ, and you see no fruit of this i their life.
I say all of that to make this point.... most of us just go about life living untapped lives. Its like having all of the food in the world and refusing to let anyone eat it...... God has given us this strength to over come the world and what are we doing with it.
..."the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world...." -John
I have caught myself continously living a defeated life..... what does that mean? glad you asked.... i have previously lived life like there is nothing i can do about the way things are going in this world. I have essentially felt overcome but all that life has handed me.
i say all of this because:
-i think we fail to realize the power of prayer...
- we fail to realize the pwoer God has over the world and his creation.
- We are God's people, we belong to him...(i don't say this to be cheesy), which means that people who are also born of God listen to us...
- we must be each others strength, the more we grow together as believers, the more we look like God.
- I believe what Rob Bell quotes often....that if we allow ourselve to unleash our institutional lives, we can witness "bits of heaven crash into earth."
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