What’s on the inside matters…religion has no real substance; much of its substance is man-made. Leaders have a great ability to imitate a sense of security and well being which falls terribly short when real life confronts us. That general feel good feeling after many religious meetings is nothing more than an emotional prop.
No, ignorance is not bliss…ignorance is to live your life without ever receiving what is rightfully yours. What you understand about you changes everything, knowledge of who you are, of whose you are and your position in life must be fully known by you. Knowing who you are changes the rules of the game. Don’t waste your life on “ignorance” and its twin brother “fear”. When you begin to understand who you are, whose image you are made in you begin to live in that fashion. Strong and mighty!
We need to know we have an indwelling force on the inside… We go to Christ for refuge in our weakness, to find Christ has become our indwelling strength. “Indwelling” is to be an interactive force within. A strong encouragement on the inside to expect the hope appointed and set before us. This is not a vague man made promise, but an oath of God.
Say… “my hope is appointed for me and is set before me right now”
Hebrews 6:18 This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].
We need to know this indwelling force on the inside is Christ…inside of us is a person, that person has authority over everything we may face in life. When we listen to a song we like we get that song inside of us. The song literally becomes a part of us. When we have the knowing of Who is on the inside of us He just is there no matter what we do He is a part of you. A force in you to protect you, to release wisdom over earthly matters, to heal the heart and body, to give hope and direction. He is the factor of life, the source of life dwelling on the inside of us.
Say… He is on the inside of me, He is my controlling factor of my life.
1 Corinthians 15:28 However, when everything is subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also subject Himself to [the Father] Who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [be everything to everyone, supreme, the indwelling and controlling factor of life
We need to know we have the mind of this “indweller” inside us.
His very thoughts and intentions for us are inside of us. Our faith brings us into this place where we hear the thoughts, the feelings, the purposes of His heart. We understand the thoughts of those close to us from time spent listening to them. Time spent listening to the thoughts of Christ brings us into knowing the person “the indweller”.
1 Corinthians 2:16 Amplified Bible (AMP)
16For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.
We need to know the big plan or the priority of heaven is and has always been Christ in you.
Christ the anointed one and His anointing in you. The person and the essence of the person inside you. What is on the inside of us matters, but knowing Who is on the inside is crucial. Yes it is a mystery how a person can dwell on the inside of the same body, but it is still a fact.
Say… I break the barrier of doubt and fear and enter into a time of knowing the “One” intimately who is on the inside, I have just got to Know Him, I have just got to know who I am in relation to Him and what He says about me.
Colossians 1:27 Amplified Bible (AMP)
27To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory.
Now we know, now we have come into alignment by our faith with the One who lives in us. He is greater than all the forces in his earth political, social, economical and spiritual. He is greater than the invisible forces in this world…
Say… I’m greater than anything I face today, nothing will overtake me today, I will enter my day with my head up, confidence on my face for nothing is impossible for me because of who I am and because of who dwells in me. My enemy is defeated!
1 John 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)4Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.
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