I couldn’t agree more!

I know admonitions to the body of Christ, to rise to her calling to “work the works of God,” in our day, can tend to create depression, guilt, and confusion, as to why we so often fail to do this, but while Jesus didn’t rub the disciples’ noses in their failure to do so, nor have you, yet He did challenge them to a walk of faith that manifested the substance of the Kingdom.

These things are for His bride to walk in. The fact that we often do not, is not evidence that we can’t, or that He has pulled back this calling, but simply that we don’t.

Too often we are found looking for excuses for our not manifesting the power of God more, but better that we return to the early disciples cry of “Why Lord…why aren’t we doing it like You?

As it was in them, so surely it is in us…there are internal things that are in the way. They are things that can and must be removed by His Spirit, and then only will the power of His Kingdom become evident in our lives. If we are willing to come to Him and seek His answers for our lack of power then we can expect Him to lead us back to the same cross He led them to.

We’d all too often rather run off to some healing campaign, and watch some mighty preacher do the stuff, than ourselves be willing to be crucified to those things within us that hinder His flow of life.

Away with the formulas, away with pumped up emotions, away with systems approaches, and back to hiddenness in Christ, buried in the depth of His work within us, until the root goes down and shoot springs up. Then, and only then will it be all about Jesus, and not “my ministry, my power, and my kingdom.”

Thanks for the admonition…received without condemnation!