The Spirit speaking through Paul in Philippians 2:13 says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
We must become God-inside minded, to daily remind ourselves that we have Him in us, and that He is there to form Christ into us, to build the living Word into us.
Just as a mason builds a house brick by brick, so the Holy Spirit will take one truth after another and build it into us until we become Jesus-minded, love-controlled, Father-pleasers.
You remember in John 8:29, Jesus said, “For I do always those things that please him.”
This should be our slogan.
“I please the Lord
, “I please the Lord”.
You see, He has done a perfect work for us in his substitution. There is not a thing left undone.
If we accept that work and let God work in us, it makes us stand well pleasing before the Father.
We become beautiful to Him because His nature was not only given to us, but now He has built into us through the Spirit those new habits that belong to the family of God, the new language that belongs to the new creation.
We never talk doubt or fear or sickness or want.
We have almost forgotten that language when we speak the new.
We have the new language of the overcomer, the language of heaven, the new creation.
It is the language of the branch abiding in the vine.
That “vine life” has so developed in us that we become Jesus’ men and Jesus’ women.
We have Jesus’ men and women who are going out into the world, touching it, blessing it, illuminating it with the life of Christ within them.
This should spread over the land until there arises a new race of people know as the Jesus generation.
They will be love in action.
They will be living in the Word, and the Word will be living in them.
They will be doing the works of the Father.
As Jesus did physical healing and ministered largely in the physical sense realm, these Jesus people will minister very largely in the spiritual realm.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:8)
How slow we have been to realize that it was God’s ability that could make grace abound in and through us, and that we were being perfectly supplied by Him that we were having all sufficiency in everything.
He is our sufficiency; He is our ability; He is the strength of our lives.
We have ignored physical reasoning and cast it down and have given our spirits the right of way and the Word the first place in our live.
2 Corinthians 9:10 Now may He who supplies seed to the Sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
There has been little focus “on the fruit of righteousness.
You may ask, “What does it mean?”
It means that same kind of fruit that we saw in Jesus’s public ministry.
You see, righteousness means the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without the sense of guilt or condemnation or inferiority.
It means the ability to stand in the presence of Satan and his works without timidity or fear, without any sense of inferiority. Really, it means that you have become superior to Enemy and the works of his kingdom.
You have a superiority complex setting you free from that inferiority complex. You have come to rely on the ability of God inside of you.
You have at last arrived at the place where you magnify and glorify Him. You are working with him instead of for him.
Ephesians 1: 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power “motion into” us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
This Scripture needs to become so familiar to you that it will be a constant source of strength and comfort:
A more literal translation would be, “I want you to know what the exceeding greatness of the ability of God is on our behalf who believe. That ability is according to the strength of his might, which he performed “in the Christ when he raised him from the dead.”
You can’t overestimate this.
This is God working within you.
This is the one who raised Jesus from the dead.
This is the one who imparted his life you.
This is the Spirit who has all the ability of the God-head that is necessary for you to experience; so that you are not afraid of the enemy in any area.
You know He put all things in subjection under His feet, and He gave Him to be Head over all things for the benefit of the church.
Remember, this is the One who is at work within you.
Ephesians 3: 20” Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
When this Scripture is understood, and put into daily practice, you can know that you have arrived.
You become a worthy member of the vine. You are bearing fruit to His glory.
God and you are linked up together, laboring together with Him.
We are becoming one in our thoughts, feeling and actions.
We are laboring together to bring into manifestation the dream of our heavenly Father.
The God of all grace lives in me, “God, my Father, in the person of the Holy Spirit, through the Living Word, is living in me.”
Now I can do all things through Him, because He has become my strength and my ability.
1 John 4:4 is not only a Scripture, but it is a living reality: “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
The God of abundant life is in me.
He is no longer with me to convict me, but He is in me to guide me into all the realities of His mighty ministry.
Now I can understand what Paul meant when he said, in 1 Corinthians 3:9: “For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.”
I know what it means now to be a fellow-worker.
I know what it means to be God’s cultivated land.
My heart and my life are the soil where He sows the seeds of love, and they are growing now in me.
I am a part of God’s dream and plan.
I am coming to appreciate what it means to have real, intimate fellowship with Him.