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