But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…(Acts 1:8). Power is derived from the Greek word – Dunamis, which means “The dynamic ability to effect a change.” When you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, you received the dynamic ability to cause changes in life.
Don’t live your life complaining, be influential, be effective, you know Jesus said “Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me (Acts 1:8).” Jesus gave us power, it time to activate that power within you through speaking in tongues. Things can be going wrong, if you cannot change it for everyone else at least change it for yourself in such a way you live above it. The Bible says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out them all (Psalm 34:19)”. You can be an oasis of love in a troubled world, be the light in the dark place. God has distinguished you, he has separated you, you are different; if they tell you everything is going this way, you say count me out, I don’t belong there, say I’m above it, I live above it! Because Christ has raised you, you are seated together with him in the heavenly realms, where you have authority to effect changes in your world.
As Christians, we’re not ordinary people; we’re never to be victims in life. If you’ve found yourself in a predicament, a precarious or desperate situation, be comforted; you have what it takes to win, irrespective of the adversity. There’s something in you: the life and dynamic power of the Spirit to effect changes.
That word “power” is actually “dunamis” (Greek), and it means dynamic power or ability to cause or effect a change. It refers to miracle-working ability; power and ability that’s beyond yourself! It’s a “doing power,” and it’s sometimes translated “might.” It also means the power of excellence; the extraordinary ability to be efficient and effective in all that you do. This is the life we have in Christ—a life of super-productivity and ever-increasing glory by the Holy Ghost! No wonder He says in 2 Corinthians 3:5, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.” Your ability to do anything; the reason you can be successful at anything; your power for excellence and innovativeness is the Holy Ghost in you. 2 Corinthians 4:7 says, “…we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” Therefore, if you’re struggling in your life; if it seems you’re putting in so much effort and recording incommensurate success, the chances are that you’re neither conscious nor taking advantage of the power of the Spirit within you. Paul said, “I can do all things through the ability of Christ in me”; the prophet Micah affirmed, “…truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord…” (Micah 3:8). Become conscious, and take advantage of the power of the Spirit within you. Through that power, you can do the unthinkable, the unimaginable, and the impossible: “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (Ephesians 3:20). This is Christianity; it’s a life of dominion. You don’t need to go from place to place looking for help and seeking power; all the power you need is in you through the Holy Ghost. Put it to work. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27). Acts Chapter 3 chronicles the inspiring miracle of the lame man at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful. Peter and John had gone to the temple at the hour of prayer and met the man who begged them for alms. Turning to him, Peter said, “…Look on us…silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee” (Acts 3:4-6). Remarkable! He said, “such as I have, give I thee.” Peter wasn’t going to be praying to God on behalf of the lame man; he knew he had something to give him. Oh! How I’ve meditated on this portion of Scripture through the years! It’s too big for the ordinary mind. How could a man talk this way? Peter, the fisherman, who, once out of timidity, denied Jesus, stands before another man and says: “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee, in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk,” and then yanked the man up. The Bible says instantly, the man’s ankle bones received strength, and he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God (Acts 3:7-8). What made the difference for Peter? What resulted in his sudden audacity of faith? He had received the Holy Spirit and had been turned into another man! He had come to understand the revelation of the divine life in him. No wonder he said in his epistle: “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:3-4). The man had come to understand that he was no ordinary being; he knew he had received “Zoe”, the very life and essence of divinity, and this made him more than human. Have you come to this understanding? Do you know you’re not ordinary? Sickness, disease, poverty, and failure should have no place in you because you’re God’s headquarters in the earth. He wants to bless the world through you; so like Peter, be bold to declare who you are and what you have, and you’ll always find yourself walking in the realm of the miraculous!
Power In Your Words Genesis 1:1 Says; “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God, all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made” Look at this: Jesus talked to deaf ears, He spoke words to deaf ears, He told the deaf ears open up, they opened, He didn’t have to touch them, He didn’t have to fix anything, He didn’t have to give them something to drink so it’ll happen, He didn’t have to give them something to swallow so that a miracle will happen, no, He spoke words, amazing. He spoke to the maimed; those who had their limbs amputated, and the bible says the maimed were restored. Jesus talked to the crippled and their limbs were healed, Jesus talked to the dead, they came back to life. He used words, then he talked to the winds and the waves, and it calmed. He was a master of words. He showed us exactly what the Father did, the Father created the world with words. Look at this, He went to Simon Peter’s house, and the Bible tells us that Simon Peter’s mother-in-law was sick: she had a fever, and the Bible says Jesus stood over her and rebuked the fever, he talked to the fever to leave the woman and right away she was healed. He spoke words because the most powerful force in the world is the force of words. Words are potent, words are powerful, the whole world came out of words. God brought us salvation with words, and then he showed us in the scriptures how to receive salvation, He said use words. He said, “For by your words you shall be justified and by your words you shall be condemned” (Matthew 12:37). A man would go to heaven or hell according to the words that he spoke. If he spoke the words that God said to speak for salvation, he will have salvation, but if he didn’t, he will go to hell, not because of what he did wrong but because of what he didn’t say. Jesus told us to live the life that he gave us, and for you to do that you’ve got to use words to live the authentic Christian Life. Otherwise you’ll be living mere religion, but if you use the words that he has given us, then you’ll actually enjoy the true Christian life.
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