As Christians we have to learn the Rules of Engagement in spiritual warfare and how to write the checks, here on Earth, in order to access the authority and power granted to us in heaven, through Christ Jesus our Lord.
And we do this in the knowledge that our Faith in Christ always causes us to triumph in times of trouble.
Romans 5:1-21
How do we access this Authority and Power in Christ?
To start with, we do this in the knowledge that our Faith in Christ always causes us to triumph in times of trouble.
Our justification before God comes ONLY through faith, and in Romans 5, Paul now reveals the result of justification: peace with God.
What the first Adam lost in the Garden of Eden, the second Adam has restored.
Now any who seek peace with God may have it.
We are now at peace with God, which may differ from peaceful feelings such as calmness and tranquility.
Having peace with God means that we have been reconciled with Him.
No more hostility stands between us, no sin blocks our relationship with Him.
Peace with God is possible only because Jesus paid the price for our sins through his death on the cross.
Even in great tragedies, we can have God’s peace because of our confident hope in His promises (Philippians 4:7).
As Paul states clearly in 1 Corinthians 13:13, faith, hope, and love are at the heart of the Christian life.
Your relationship with God begins with faith, which helps you realize that you are delivered from your past by Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Hope grows as you learn all that God has in mind for you; it gives you the promise of the future.
God’s love fills your life and gives you the ability to reach out and love others.
Paul states that, as believers, we now stand in a place of undeserved privilege.
Not only has God declared us not guilty, but He has also drawn us close to Himself.
Instead of being His enemies, we have become His friends—in fact, His own children (John 15:15; Galatians 4:5).
SELAH (let us pause and calmly think about these things)
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Tuesday, June 18
cFaith Ministries
WE ACCESS POWER BY FAITH
by Larry Ollison
We must access the power of the blood of Jesus by faith.
The Word of God tells us how we can access grace by faith.
Romans 5:1-2 says:
“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace [shalom] with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand” (Rom. 5:1-2).
We have access to this power of God called grace by faith.
Grace is God’s willingness to let us use His ability to do what we can’t do on our own.
If you have something that plagues you, God will step in and do what needs to be done through you.
If you could do it on your own, you wouldn’t need God. But God is willing to allow you access to His power for everything you need to do.
The greatest scripture on grace is, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13).
To paraphrase that scripture, it would be like saying, “I can do all things that God wants me to do through Christ who strengthens me to be able to do the things that I couldn’t do on my own.”
If I could do it on my own, I wouldn’t need grace.
Do you see the power in this statement?
We access this power called grace by faith.
That means you not only know the power of grace exists, but you access it by applying faith to it.
You must believe that God can do things through you that you formerly didn’t believe could be done.
You must believe grace is for you.
You start by believing God will do what He said He would do.
As you believe it, soon everything you say and do will be based on that belief.
That’s how you access grace.
Another power in the spirit realm we must understand and access is the covenant blood of Jesus.
As you learn about the blood and begin to act on all you know, then you must trust God enough to act on what you don’t completely understand.
For example, I know all I need to know about electricity.
I know that when I turn on the switch in a room, the light goes on or the light goes off, depending on which way I turn the switch.
However, I don’t have a clue about what makes the electricity run through the wires in the wall.
I know how it works, but I don’t understand why it works.
Just because I don’t understand it doesn’t mean I don’t use it.
When I walk into a room – it’s dark.
It would be foolish for me to get into an extended discussion or argument about the attributes of electricity.
I just need light in the room. So, even though I don’t fully understand everything there is to know about electricity, I flip the switch anyway, by faith, and then I walk in the light.
If it’s in the Word, believe it by faith.
Once you can do that, you will find that the blood will start doing things in your life just like it did in the lives of the people in the Bible.
When you start seeing what the blood did for the people in the Bible, it will bless your socks off.
And the first time you see it work for you, it will change your thinking.
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