Action Releases Power

“And you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit shall come upon you; ” Acts 1:8

This “power” is not, as many suppose, a force within you that makes you become a dynamo, a Super Christian.  If that is what you’ve been waiting for it isn’t going to happen.  Let’s take a look at an Atom Bomb.  There it is lying on the floor.  It is full of potential explosion, a devastating power and force, but you can stand next to it and be perfectly safe.  Take that same bomb, load it onto an airplane and drop it from way up high and, oh my!

Well wasn’t all that power in the bomb while it was lying next to you on the floor?  Potential power was there.  The explosion did not come until the action happened between it and the ground.  The power by the Holy Spirit within you is potential power.  It is activated by you, and only by action you take.

Power is an action word, without action there is no power. Strength comes from repeated action.  Boldness, courage and faith are action words.  There is no boldness or courage without action. Courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is the ability to take action in the face of fear.  You might have heard someone say, “Take courage.”  Can one take courage like one might pick up an orange?  Let’s instead use the word choose.  We can choose courage by choosing to do action in a courageous fashion.  If you are not putting corresponding action to work with faith the waiting power of God to perform is only potential power.

Without an activating action the dunimus power just lies inside you like it does in the bomb on the floor.  God has pored all His power inside of you through the Holy Spirit’s presence but if you don’t move, if you don’t do, you will never have that power activating in your life.  This awaiting power is real and it is powerful.  It does not look powerful but neither does the bomb on the floor.  We have questioned and disbelieved the power because of the way it looks, docile and perhaps non existent.  Do not discount the dormant power within.  Learn how to activate this potential awaiting in you and act on it.

Winona Cole

Winona Cole

If It’s Faith It’s A Done Deal

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“If ye abide in me, and my Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7.  That’s what Jesus said, but this is not some magic formula, and there’s some catches to it.

1. You have to be in a state of obedience to God’s ways at the time of asking.

2. You must do what it takes to usher in the “miracle”:  If you don’t go out after it you aren’t believing it’s a done deal, or you are deceived by thinking God will do the foot work for you.  He will not! God may provide the means to get food, but you must put it into your mouth with your own hand.  He won’t make you become anything, or do anything, and he won’t just drop his goodies on you like hail stones.  There is always a part you must play.

3. You must believe in your heart that if you ask you SHALL receive:  Now the word shall has nothing to do with the word “maybe”.  A lot of people, however, read it maybe.  But he said shall, and that is a definite “yes you can have it”, a done deal. If you feel it is not a done deal it is not faith.  Faith is not an if, it is positive victory.

When you go out after something you know is of God, it’s a done deal, you just have to walk it out in wisdom, but not in striving, in rest. Hebrews 4:9 & 10 says,  “There remaineth there a rest to the people of God.  For he that is entered into His rest he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.”  Striving is not rest, victory is rest, if you don’t feel a peace and expectancy that it is yours, it is not rest and it is not faith. If you must push, push, push or it won’t happen, getting into worry, fretting fear, etc., it is striving.  If it’s a done deal you simply do the motion it takes to bring you in line to receive what you asked for.

There can be no worry when you know that it is already done, already settled, no question about it, no “well what if?”.  It is believing it is ours no matter what it looks like.  We like to count on what we can see with our eyes and touch with our hands.  Remember this, every thing we see now, once did not exist, it could not be seen.  God made everything we now see and feel out of nothing but the spoken Word, which we also can not see.  We, as well, are told to speak that creative Word of faith with our mouths for what we want to appear that is yet unseen.  Faith, the attitude of  “IT’S A DONE DEAL”,  is the title deed to receiving the, as yet, unseen.

Winona Cole

Winona Cole

Was The Resurrection Only For Our Fire Insurance?

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QUESTIONS

Without Jesus’ resurrection  our faith would be for nothing, we would die in our sins.  We know the significance this event has on our eternal life and deliverance.  I think that is what we most often think about when we think of the resurrection, but this is not all He died to give us.  He bought us the restoration of the Breath of God that died, departed from man, at the garden of Eden, that the Holy Spirit of God would again dwell in man.

2 Tim. 3:4 says that there are those, “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof:”  The word deny here is Strong’s 720, meaning: contradict, reject, refuse, disregard.

“I speak in tongues,” we say, “some of us prophecy and pray for the sick, I believe in all of the Pentecostal stuff.  I would never deny the power!!”

Though we agree that it is real and valid, do we agree that the POWER is for us personally?  To what extent?  Are we seeking it for ourselves?  Are we actively seeking the Kingdom of God so that all these things can become a part of us, including the power?  If we deny “the power thereof” does that mean we are denying it all?  What if we deny some of it?  If we believe the power part is mostly for others, not for us, is it denying it in our own lives?  Some argue that God gives the gifts to people as and when He chooses.  What about the part that says to “earnestly desire the greater gift’s?” 1 Cor 12:31 NAS.   If we deny any part of the power, are we denying it or Him, the possessor of the power.  The Holy Spirit is in you and He has all power in Him.  Not for someone else’s use, yours.  He is in you.  If we neglect, or even reject, what God has given us – any part – what are the consequences in that non-action?  If God has given it to us, is He expecting us to use it?  And if we don’t, is it rebellion?

The Holy Spirit is in you to equip you.  Are you equipped or are you scraping along?  The bottom line is, are we taking advantage of what, with such a price, has been given to us?  Have we even taken the time to get to know this astonishing Gift we have freely been given?  To seek the potential the majesty, the awesome-ness, the depths?    We don’t have to – but what if we don’t?

Winona Cole

Winona Cole

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