The believer doesn’t lack power. No person that confesses Jesus as their Lord and Saviour lacks power. If you don’t have power, you’re not a believer.
Acts 1:8, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…”
The presence of the Holy Spirit inside of you is the presence of power inside of you.
It is this same power that materialized the world around us, and that’s why everything on earth responds to power.
If you have this power inside of you, this power that created all that we know and can’t imagine life without it (I personally can’t imagine a world where they’d be no stars or moon or sun), how can you access it and put it to work?
Yes, you’d shout at the top of lungs by now, “It’s prayer. We get it!!” And you’ll be right. Prayer is what makes the power of the Holy Spirit available to work for us.
However, to wrap up this series, there’s one more evidence to the powerful workings of prayer I’d like to show you.
And by God, you’d never doubt the need to pray about anything and everything ever again.
Genesis 1:1-3, God created the heaven and the earth but the earth in question was this dark, unstructured and empty thing, pretty much like the other planets in our galaxy today. And, of course, that wasn’t God’s plan.
But what did we see happen after that? Verse 3 says, “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
In Sunday School, that year when I was a child, I was taught that if God wants to do anything, He’d send His Spirit to cause all that He wants to happen. That the Holy Spirit is the Creative Power of God.
So, God is handicapped without His Holy Spirit. It is God the Holy Spirit that causes things to come to pass, to materialize. Nothing would be in existence without the Holy Spirit.
And proof of this statement is in these verses. Because, before God said anything that came into existence, the Spirit had to move first.
God had to engage His Spirit to activate His power that’ll cause His words to materialize.
If God, our God almighty, had to work with His Spirit to cause His words to have the power that created the world we know today, is it us that will not also work with the Spirit to do the same?
When we pray, it is the Holy Spirit in us that we’re activating to do what we’re praying for. The power at rest in us is revved up like a car engine so that it can be activated and ready for use.
Jesus said in John 8:28-29, “…I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things…for I do always those things that please him.”
It’s been established that Jesus prayed like no man ever prayed, even in the scriptures. So who did He learn it from? Definitely not from His parents or the Jewish leaders of the Synagogue (even they were marveled at His intelligence at age 12).
And why was Jesus always praying? Wasn’t it to generate power that’ll cause the world around Him to conform to God’s word?
Isn’t this what we see God doing in Genesis 1? Causing the Holy Spirit to brood upon the earth for only-God-knows-how-long until enough power was generated for God to speak and see His words come to pass?
So when God became man, God-as-man showed us how God-the-Father does what He does. Jesus saw the Father work with the Spirit before He could do anything.
A for A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G. Sho get me?
John 14:10, “…but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
You might be thinking, “If she’s saying what I think she’s saying, then who was God praying to?”
God is God and doesn’t pray to anyone. He is THE power source so He generates power by His Holy Spirit by engaging with His Spirit;
By meditating, uttering and roaring about what He wanted to create. Las las, talking was involved.
How do we, as believers, cause power to be available for our own use? By praying to God, saying what we see happening by the Spirit and shouting when the realization dawns on us that we’ve received what we’ve asked for.
Praying is our own way of engaging the Spirit.
This is the same principle God gave to Joshua in the infamous Joshua 1:8, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; [meaning that Joshua always had to be confessing God’s words] but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
Prayer isn’t always asking God for things. It’s also meditating on God’s words: uttering it, pondering on it and roaring it.
And meditating on God’s word is founded on a solid relationship with God. You always have to be in continuous fellowship with God, talking to God about anything and everything. Then, God will tell you what to make power available for.
That’s exactly what happened with Joshua. Joshua’s praying to God led to God telling him what exactly to make power available for, which in Joshua’s case was to “…be bold and courageous…”
It’s in those moments that He’ll direct you on what to meditate on [ to ponder, to mutter and to roar] when you’re praying AKA making power available.
If nothing has convinced you so far about praying, knowing that God gave us the very thing He used to be successful, should convince you.
You have the Holy Spirit in you, the power source of all power sources, the originator of all things. Pray! Make power available and see your life follow after God’s desire for you.
Because God’s way is the ONLY way. God’s will is the best place you could ever be.
This is why the gift of speaking in tongues is so amazing because the Holy Spirit helps us pray correctly, and not outside of the will of God. (Romans 8:26)
So, stay praying brothers and sisters. Let’s see those raw miracles we heard and saw growing up. Let our generation see the goodness of God. Only praying and acting on God’s instructions will make it so.
All my love to you and have a lovely day xx
Inspired by the message, “The Praying Power,” by Reverend Kelvin Ibie, now up on our Telegram channel “God’s Logos House.” Check it out to get an in-depth study of the power inside of you.
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