Are we willing to believe and act on a prayer by Paul The Apostle? The current system would fight us to the end on this prayer to bring forth the Kingdom. Why do we continue to focus on all else? The adversary and the current system wants us to focus on “B” and “C” priorities, not the “A” priority of Agape Love. If we will continue to focus on anything but the prize, we will never attain the prize. Jesus Christ directed our focus to Love in HIS Sermon on the Mount. HE stated the Law is summed up by Love. He stated that we must Love our enemies in addition to Loving Our Heavenly Father and our neighbor. In Matthew 22 HE told us “Many are called but few are chosen”. This would indicate there to be a condition that satisfies HIS selection of us. Some believe there is nothing for us to do in order that we be chosen. I disagree. We are called to do many things: we are to plant, we are called to pray, we are called to fast, etc. Paul prays that we be strengthened with might. This would indicate that we need strength for “something”. We are to occupy until HIS return, another action. We must accept the fact that we need power to accomplish what we have been called to do. We must accept the fact that the adversary will test our resolve to act. If we had no impact on the outcome, why would we need an adversary? Why would we need to be trained and tested? For those of us who believe that Our Heavenly Father will reveal the mystery that is tied to the the fullness of the Holy Spirit, we will actively pursue this fullness. What is the key to this pursuit? Paul says “to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge”. The key to the fullness is right there before our very eyes! Why is it that we continue to focus on anything else? Our fleshly man wants to stay in control… period! Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you really want “the fullness of God”. Do you want to be in that core group who brings forth the Stone Kingdom that grows and takes over the entire planet? The time is now to focus on the prize set before us. Quit assuming that the “fullness” is somewhere out in the future. It will remain there as long as the fleshly man has his way. The ego wants to control your path and focus and thus keep the manifestation of the Love of Christ out in the future, never to arrive on earth. If Paul didn’t think that the manifestation would come, he surely would not have written the following, directed by the Spirit of Our Heavenly Father:
Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—
19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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,
21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
At the beginning of the Pentecostal Age, there were a small group in one accord in the Upper Room. Will you be in that small group in accord for the initial manifestation of the Tabernacles Age? I believe this is who the Apostle Paul was praying for.
Our Sunday Afternoon Bible Study is intended to bring forth the manifestation of this prayer. See: http://www.servias.org/?p=1230