TOPIC: FUNCTIONING WITH GOD’S SUPERIOR ABILITY
Bible Reading: Isaiah 24-26; Ephesians 4
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; – 2 Corinthians 3:5
As believers, we function with God’s ability! This means we have abilities but we refuse to ‘see’ ourselves in the light of our abilities because of how limited we can be in our own selves. The mindset of ‘self-sufficiency’ outside God is the reason many keep failing but like Apostle Paul reveals to us; our true competence or sufficiency flows from God’s EMPOWERING PRESENCE. When others have come to their wit’s end, we keep towering higher and higher because there is a superior ability that invigorates and strengthens us.
Know this superior ability is in you. It came to you at new birth when you received the very life and nature of God. What this means is that you have God’s ability and you can function with these divine abilities. When you are not aware of God’s ability in you there is a tendency to concede to failure and defeat but you need to know that as a child of God, there is nothing that is beyond you. You are born of God and as such you are up to any task.
It is with this mindset of ‘God’s superior ability’ that David confronted Goliath. He looked at that giant and said, “I am going to cut off your head from your shoulders and feed your remains to the birds of the air” (1 Samuel 17:46). David looked beyond himself and saw what God could do through him. He said to Goliath, “I come against you in the NAME OF THE LORD OF HOST, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied” (1 Samuel 17:45). David knew that though he was standing in front of Goliath it was actually God Who was standing against that giant. He was functioning with a superior ability.
Carry this same consciousness into your day and win because you can do all things through Christ Jesus!
Prayer: Father, thank you for your life and ability at work in me and through me.
Pastor Alfred Samuel