Perfecting Power, Surpassing Power, and Abundant Power
Hebrews 12 says that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. We’re entering a period of shaking in the United States that we have not seen before. According to the Word, only the things that are eternal will last. How do we hold on to the things of eternity? We must allow the power of God to work within us by aligning our actions with His Word.
Jesus addressed the Sadducee’s who created a scenario to trap Jesus in a legal question about marriage in heaven. Jesus said, “you are mistaken, for you do not understand the scriptures or the power of God.” We do not lack for scriptural knowledge. However, we are lacking in the power of God in our lives. According to 1 Corinthians 4:20, For the scripture does not consist in words alone, but in the power of God. Luke 4:36 says “And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
How well does the generator work if the power goes out? First you have to flip the switch to turn on the generator. Likewise Christianity does not work until you tap into the power of God. The solution to the problem of the sin that binds you is an encounter with the power of God. Deliverance from life’s problems is not going to meetings or attending church. It is not listening to sermons and thinking about the bible. The deliverance is in the power of God. According to Thessalonians, the gospel came not to you in word only but in power and in full conviction of the Holy Spirit.
To remember how to tap into the power of God, remember the acronym PSA: Perfecting power, Surpassing power, and Abundant power.
Perfected Power: power is perfected in weakness. The world says to get the weakness out. However the Word says that the strength of God is perfected in my weakness. God brings us to the place that we are weakest so that he can say, “my grace is perfected (nothing lacking and complete) in your weakness.” Paul said this by revelation in the midst of his persecution and humiliation.
Surpassing power: 2 Corinthians 4:7 says, “For we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency (surpassing greatness) of the power may be of God and not of us.” This is because Jesus said that whosoever loses his life for my sake shall find it. If any man comes to me he must take up his cross daily and follow me. The surpassing greatness of the power of God empowers us only when we die to self so that we can live for him. We receive the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead when we confess Jesus as lord of our lives. By confessing Jesus as lord and believing that God has raised him from the dead we are born again into the life of the spirit of God in Christ in us.
The superhighway to intimacy with God is humility and generosity. Don’t say no, say yes to his holy spirit to tap into the power of God.
Abundant power. A generator’s power has a limited capacity. However, according to Ephesians 3:20, God’s power is exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think. “Think” in this context means to ponder. His power is beyond what we can even ponder. This is the resurrection power of Jesus Christ to overcome anything that stands against us.
Paul said, “for this purpose I also labor striving (to contend in a contest to struggle strenuously) according to the power of God which mightily works within me. According to Philippians 2:13, For it is God who works in you to will and to do of his good pleasure. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
In Mark 4, Jesus said “if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” With God, all things are possible. There is nothing too difficult for God… difficulty is inversely proportional to the power used to overcome the difficulty. How big is your God? Remember PSA: God’s Perfected power, His Surpassing power, and His Abundant power. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us.
May God richly bless you,
Your brother in Christ,
Michael