We confess out loud, God is the source of my resources, because He is the strength of my life.
He is my ability. He is the author and substance of my faith. I am a partaker of His divine nature.
These things have I written unto you that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. His life is his nature; his nature is love.
If I have his nature, I have a measure of his ability.
I have a measure of his love. His wisdom is given to me in Christ without measure. So, I can safely say that he is my ability.
You remember that Jesus said to the disciples, wait in Jerusalem until you receive power from on high- Luke 24: 49.
The word power comes from the Greek word dynamis.
Young translates this ability.
They were to wait in Jerusalem. Until they received the ability of God.
We not only received the nature of God, but when the Spirit comes upon our life, we had in us the ability of God, the very resources of heaven.
No one yet knows the limit of that ability. It must be exhaustive.
Colossians 2: 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
Galatians 2: 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
He has come into me in all his fullness. He has come into me with all his completeness.
Now we can understand John 1: 16 of his fullness have we all received and Grace upon Grace.
The Limitless one has come into us to take over.
He gives us his ability, his completeness.
Now we can understand Colossians 1: 9 Here is Paul’s prayer.
I do not cease to pray and make request for you that ye may be filled with the exact knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
The Greek word translated knowledge is epignōsis, which means complete, perfect, or exact knowledge.
It means the very fullness of his ability.
1 Corinthians 1:30 says God has made Jesus to be wisdom unto us. Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to our advantage.
We have the knowledge of the complete and perfect substitutionary work of Jesus.
Now we have the ability to incorporate that knowledge into our daily life.
I have spiritual wisdom and understanding so that I may walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit unto every good work, and continually increasing in this exact, this perfect knowledge of God.
Colossians 1:11 I am made powerful with his ability, according to the might of his glory. I now have steadfastness and long-suffering because of who I am in Christ.
I do not blame or condemn myself anymore.
I open myself to this new life, this new unveiling of what I am in Christ.
I am long-suffering with those who can’t see this reality, who seem to be unable comprehend or experience it.
In the meantime, with great joy, I am giving thanks to the Father, who has given me this ability to enjoy my share of the inheritance of the saints in light.
For I have been delivered out of the authority of darkness and translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love in whom I have my redemption from Satan’s slavery.
This new light has given me a new responsibility in my prayer life.
I can understand now why he said, come boldly into the throne of grace, into the very throne room where Jesus and the Father are seated together.
I do not come as a servant or a slave, but come as a lover, a son.
But prayer is not going to be the same as what it was before I knew who I was and what my privileges were.
Now I am going to sit with him in the council room.
I am going to call his attention to the needs of the brethren who are sitting in the darkness of physical sense knowledge while they pray for faith and seek power.
I am going to find out how they can be helped to see the light of life.
For I remember the master said in John 8:12, I am the light of the world. He that follows me shall not walk in the darkness but shall have the light of life.
I have found that light of life. I am no longer walking in the darkness of physical sense knowledge.
I am no longer crippled by an inferiority complex or by a sense of unworthiness.
I know that I am a son beloved, that I have my place in the Father’s presence.
When we come to understand love’s intimacy, love’s privileges, love’s right to the Father’s ear, we may come boldly into his presence at any time without an apology and lay our needs before him, not only our personal needs but the needs of those about us.
We can enjoy the ability and wisdom of our Father and we will go out clothed with that sweet fragrance that is found only in the throne room, a fragrance that will radiate from us
Yes, our very words will have in them love’s own sweet fragrance.
Men and women will know that we have been with Jesus, have been in fellowship with Him.
We will be helping the Father train these young men and women how to act upon the Word, how to allow the Word to dwell in them, and gain the ascendancy over them.
We are co-labors with the Holy Spirit
I have given him my life, and he is giving me his wisdom, his grace and love, and we are laboring together to build up this body of believers.
We need to catch the vision. We are sharers with Jesus and the Father.
We are to be laborers together with him, we are God’s fellow workers.
We sow His seed; another waters it and The Father make’s it grow.
We open the Word to others, and He makes it fruitful in the lives who hear it.
We are bearing up under the load of the Master in the salvation of a lost world.
I wonder if it has ever occurred to you that you could become one of the Lord’s inner circle of helpers? One that could enter the throne room anytime and sit in council with him.
Many of us in our prayer life are simply praying at him, talking about him, talking about the word rather than thanking him for our legal rights.
The preacher really is like a mother who eats and then feeds the child at her breast.
We are to give sincere milk of the word. That milk can only come from the heart of a teacher who experiences walking in the word.
Until the preacher has assimilated, until it has become a part of his or her life, they cannot nourish the congregation.
We assimilate it only in the measure that it abides in us.
We feed upon it, we live in it, we live on it, it rules us. It is the voice of our Master.
Then, when we teach, we bring the sincere milk from the very heart of our Father to the hungry, needy ones that listen.