The Greater One In Us July 28th Devotional

Read:

4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

It's great to know that we have a God that is not far away, but is living and abiding within us as believers. God breathed His life within us and we can walk in the spirit because of the blood of Jesus. The Greek word here for greater is megas, and one of the definitions is "powerfully affecting the senses." As we walk with the Lord day by day, His word begins to affect our emotions, mind, and even our health. A minister friend of mine whom I talk by phone and email said that there was a time in his life that he had lost his first love with God. He went to a meeting and everyone there seemed so joyous and full of life. He was doing all of the right things, but there was something missing in the season of his life. He went back to his hotel room and tears streamed down his face as Christ within him began affecting his every fiber. He went back home from the meeting, and he went to the doctor about some medicine that he had been taking. The medicine was making him sick. He came to find that the physical condition totally went away when he returned to his first love. Why? Because God's spirit is powerful within us and upon us. We have something on the inside of us that is more powerful than the thoughts the enemy throws our way, more powerful than the lies the world throws at us, and more powerful than the satanic force that tries to paralyze us from being effective as believers in Christ. Many , bless there heart, think they have to say a bunch of prayer formula's before the Lord, do a millions things to be accepted by the Lord, and they are just going through the motions without having that loving relationship with the Father. I want to encourage us today to realize that the very Christ within you as a believer is bigger and greater than the very problem you are facing. We need to find that place in the holy of holies from a revelation of who is really inside of our hearts.

Prayer:

Lord we ask you today to open our spiritual eyes to see who is really within us. We ask Lord that we try and not take advantage of the great power that is in us, and keep our gifts and talents that you have given us pure before you. Help us to return to our first love with you by expressing our love for you by that which is within us, and help us to really see who we are in you, and who you are within us.

by Keith Edwards