FILLED

GETTING FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD :

EPHESIANS 3:19 - … to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

We would all like to experience more health, abundance and success in our lives. God, being God, has all of these things, won’t you agree? So to be full of God is to be full of health, abundance and success. But how does one become full of God?

In the past, I was told that to be “filled with all the fullness of God”, I had to fast a certain number of days, pray a certain number of hours and speak in tongues incessantly! I am not belittling fasting, praying or speaking in tongues, but to be filled with all the fullness of God is not about what you do. It is not even about your love for Christ. It is actually about knowing the love of Christ! No one ever told me that if I knew how much God loves me and focused on His love for me, I would be full of Him.

When God made you, He designed you to run at optimal level when you are filled with His love, like a car that runs at its best when it is filled with the right kind of petrol or gasoline. When you realize how much God loves you and you feed on His love for you, you will be supernaturally filled with the fullness of God.

And to be full of God is to be full of everything God is to you and has for you. To be full of God is to come to a place of life, health, peace, abundance—total wellness.

Also, when you are conscious of how much God loves you and you become filled with the fullness of God, what follows is the next verse—God doing exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think, according to the power that works in you. (Ephesians 3:20) You will experience the tremendous blessings of God exploding in your life! You will become a blessing magnet!

So as God’s beloved, continue to be nourished by His love for you, and experience more health, abundance and success in your life!

FAITH OR LOGIC

The Word reveals that the natural man's walk in life is ordered by his senses. Romans 8:7 says that the mind of the flesh is enmity against (or hostile towards) God. This way of thinking draws information and forms conclusions from the information we acquire only through our senses.

Mankind was designed to live in a world where nothing is impossible. But without God's ability flowing in our lives, we have learned to see anything above man's ability as impossible. If mankind cannot come up with a solution or a cure in his own intelligence, we say that it's impossible!

Luke 18:27 says, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God!" God wants us to walk with Him, in the spirit realm, in the realm of faith. This is the realm where omnipotent power speaks words into being and substance. It is the realm of God who calls the things that are not as though they were. (Rom. 4:17.) Adam was an under-ruler for the One who had framed the worlds out of the things which are not, by faith in His own Word. (Heb. 11:3.)

Adam was the father of all men, and his sin caused a state of separation from God for the entire human race. Everybody who is not born again is under the curse of being separated from God. That's why Jesus said that to enter the kingdom of God we must first be born again. (John 3:3.) We have to learn once again to partake of God's nature. We have to live as God originally designed for us to live. We must live by faith!

Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." As Christians we must learn to live by the revelation of God in His Word and by His Holy Spirit. That's called walking by faith and not by sight. (2 Cor. 5:7.) When we walk by faith, all things are possible.

In Mark 9:23, Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." So we have a choice to make. Do we live in this world with our sense knowledge and be restricted by what we see, or do we live in the realm of revelation knowledge by faith with God where all things are possible? The choice is ours.

Hope Ignites Your Faith

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love" (1 Cor. 13:13).

Faith is extremely important in the life of a Christian. Without faith it is impossible to please God. (Heb. 11:6.) Without faith we cannot attain eternal life. (Eph. 2:8.) Without faith we are still in sin. (Rom. 14:23.) And according to Jesus, when He returns, He will be looking for faith. (Luke 18:8.)

So we can see that faith is critical in the life of a Christian. In fact, a person cannot even be a Christian without faith.

And speaking of faith and hope, did you know that God can:

1) Make the latter years better than the earlier years

2) Bless you greatly in your latter years as there is no retirement with God and He wants for you to occupy till He comes

3) Is able to do far more with your life and all that you put your hands to than you had realized.

4) Can heal your body and your land and deliver you out of all your problems and negative circumstances just like He did for Joseoh and Job

5) Can bless you and all that you put your hand to just like He did for Abraham and others!

6) Can fill you and keep you filled with the Holy Spirit, power and the gifts of the Spirit 

JESUS MEETS ALL OUR NEEDS

Matthew 14:16, "But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat."

The disciples were using natural reasoning and recognized that they didn't have the ability to minister to the multitude's need for food. Jesus did have the ability and the willingness to minister to their needs, so the multitude did not need to depart. All of their needs could be met through Jesus.

The same thing is true today. Some disciples today are sending the multitudes to the world to meet their physical needs (finances, health, counseling, etc.) and proclaiming that God only meets spiritual needs. But, "they need not depart." The Lord is willing and able to heal our bodies, prosper us financially, or counsel us from His Word in any area of our life where we might have need.

Before we can be a blessing, we have to be blessed (Gen. 12:2). One of the purposes of God's prosperity in our lives is so that we can be a blessing to others. The Scriptures instruct us to walk in God's love towards all men, believers and non-believers alike. Jesus told us to love our enemies (Mt. 5:44). In Galatians 6:10 Paul places a priority on helping fellow Christians. This does not diminish our responsibility to show God's love to non-believers. Instead, Paul is simply saying "charity must start at home." It would be hypocritical to step over hurting brothers and sisters in the Lord to find unbelievers to minister to.

God didn't just give us something that He had; He gave Himself. And what was God's motive for giving? It wasn't because of His need, but ours. He was motivated out of love for us (Jn. 3:16). In the same way, we should be encouraged to give unselfishly of ourselves. Pray for Divine appointments, to be used of God to touch someone's life today.

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