Being Plugged In

If you take any electric appliance that you own and try to use it while it's unplugged. You’ll find that it not only doesn't have the ability to do the job it was made to do, it in fact just takes up space on a countertop somewhere in your home and is rendered useless. The same holds true for the family of God. When we are not plugged in to a Church or reading the Bible on a regular basis, we are not operating as efficiently or as powerfully as you were designed to. What happens then is we become less powerful, we start listening to the world and all of the negativity in the world wears us down. We can and most likely will become more vulnerable to things going wrong in our own lives and the lives of our families. Remember, Satan is an opportunist. If you give him so much as an inch of space he'll take a mile.

If we are plugged in, we remain strong and steadfast in the things of God. When we are plugged in to our church and reading the Bible on a regular basis, our faith is strong and we are able to empower others with the word of God. Our faith and excitement in God has the ability to become contagious. What a wonderful thing that would be if we could be infectious for the LORD. So how do we walk in the power of God? First, we must pursue Him. The life of power is a life of abiding in Christ, (staying plugged into our power source). The hunger for the demonstration of power must not be separated from our passion for Him. But keep this in mind, our hunger for Him in part must be seen in our passionate pursuit of spiritual gifts.

I must passionately desire life-changing encounters with God, over and over again. I must cry out day and night for them and be specific. These magnificent life-changing encounters will often happen corporately in the Church, which causes many people that don't attend a Church to ask, “Why can’t God touch me where I am?” The answer to that is, He can. But He usually moves in ways that emphasize our need for others, rather than adding to our independence. Our heavenly Father wants us to be helping each other, praying for each other, interceding on one another’s behalf.

God does not want us praying for our own increases of blessings, favor and grace. If God would give us these things on our own aren’t we selfish enough that we’d take these things and not worry about what someone else has? This is why he wants us to come together at Church, at prayer meetings, and general times of fellowship. When we are in a corporate environment (a group of believers) we are less focused on ourselves and much more focused on the Lord. Furthermore, we stand in agreement with others in prayer and there’s a lot to be said for the power of corporate prayer.

When we pray with others even in a small group, the anointing on that prayer is much more powerful. The reason for this I believe is because the outpouring of love for one another is so pure and powerful. We are at our best in God’s eyes when we take our thoughts off of ourselves, our situations and circumstances and focus on others. Our hearts open up to give to another and at the same time because we are focusing on someone else in need, we become more open to receive the very things we need, as we pray for someone else.

1 Timothy 2:4-8 says that 4 He wants not only us but everyone saved. You know, everyone to get to know the truth we've learned: 5 that there's one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us, Jesus, 6 who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. 7 This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth. 8 Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray--not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. So let’s come together in prayer, let us stand in agreement for one another’s prayers and needs, and let’s put the focus on God and others instead of ourselves. Get plugged in and feel the Power!

Please pray this with me

Heavenly Father, you are awesome. Thank you Father for your grace and blessing’s that we are not worthy of receiving. Father through your word we see that you want us to tell everyone about you, to bring your message to the world. Lord God I ask you to fill our hearts with a desire to become infectious to others through the joy you give us. To give our testimonies of the wonderful works that you’ve done in our lives. Father I pray that you would put the ones that don’t know you in our paths, so that we would have an opportunity to speak into their lives the plain and simple truth about you Lord God, and so that we could introduce them to the family of God and bring them into communion with you Father. So that they would get plugged in to the greatest support system the world has ever known, the family of God.

In Jesus name I pray

Amen

God Bless You All








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