Hello everyone,
One thing I have come to understand is that once you don’t relate to Christ the way Jesus related with His Father (God), then you would just be struggling in your Spiritual growth in Christ Jesus. What I mean by this is simple, Jesus had a complete trust in His Father, and it was as a result of these that He was able to operate excellently here on earth. Well, this write-up is still related to the point I’ve been hammering on from the beginning of the year, which is thanksgiving.
Let’s take a look at some miracles of Jesus when He was here physically on earth. The feeding of the 5,000, recorded in all the gospels, [ref.: Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14] before Jesus distributed the bread and fish to His disciples for further distribution, He gave thanks to God. Now, giving thanks to God by Jesus wasn’t to fulfill all righteousness, rather, it was an act of faith, in other words, Jesus was thanking God that He (God) had used the five loaves to feed the five thousand, this was clearly an act of faith. It is only when you have complete trust in a person that you trust the person when the situation appears completely hopeless.
Again, in the raising of Lazarus, Jesus’ friend, according to the Jews, a person is confirmed dead after three days, but Jesus visited on the fourth day, which again was a helpless situation because it was day four. The people around crying over the death of Lazarus was enough reason to kill the faith of Jesus, but it didn’t because Jesus had complete trust in His Father. Jesus in the gospel of John 11:41b-42 spoke to His Father saying, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Jesus hadn’t performed the miracle but He was already thanking His Father, it is only one who has complete and absolute trust in a person that would take such a risk. And of course, we know the end of the story, Lazarus was brought back to life!
The summary of all these is that Jesus on His own never performed any miracles, but allowed His Father to perform miracles through Him. Jesus said it that He has no authority of His own, that He does what He sees His Father do, [ref. John 5:19; 8:38; 14:10]. But was is because Jesus came from heaven that made Him have access to such great power? That is not the key reason, the main reason was and is that the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. Now, it’s not just that the Father loves the Son, but that Jesus knows how much the Father loves the Him, and the love is so strong that Jesus could trust Him to the end over anything that His Father tells Him.
Let us, first of all, remember that God the Father and Jesus His Son are not liars, we as Sons and Daughters of God are connected to Jesus who is the firstborn. We are to know how much Jesus loves us, it is when we know the depth of His love for us that we make our faith grow deeply. But as we search the scriptures, we are to meditate on how much God loves us through Jesus Christ and the grace He has bestowed upon us. It is as we grow in the knowledge of His love for us that our faith is strengthened and we live the supernatural life here on earth by allowing Christ flow through us.
In my last write-up, I said we need to yield ourselves to Christ more and more in order to have a life of thanksgiving and gratitude. But the deeper truth is that we cannot live the supernatural unless we allow Christ to flow through us and that can only be by knowing and understanding how much Christ loves us. His love for us is so deep that we cannot get to its depth, but as we go deeper, we unleash the powers and authority of the resurrected Jesus in our daily living, and giving thanks becomes our lifestyle. It’s all about His love for us.
May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.
Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!
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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)
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