Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Good morning.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Good morning.
[00:00:02] Speaker A: How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day?
[00:00:06] Speaker B: I hope you're having a great day today and I hope you are excited.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Today because today is a day that the Lord hath made. We will be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos, in this arrangement.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Be thankful, be happy, continually give God that sacrifice of praise. Praise him and thank him and be joyful.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: One of the things that I've been.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Really something I've struggled with for years.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: And years and years and years is the concept of Christ in you, the hope of glory. I never understood what that meant.
Christ in you. Like you. I know that we are born again. I know that we are spiritual. When you believe in the name of Jesus Christ, I know that all sins are forgiven. I know we're righteous. You are upright in God's eyes the minute you believe in the name of Jesus Christ. But what that Christ in you, I never understood. So yesterday I was talking to somebody who knows more than me, thank God in the Word. And we were talking about it and I talked to him about this. Christ in you is the power of Christ. That changes everything. In my. It's like. It like finally fits together. Something I've been working on that I couldn't figure out.
God, seed, the power of God was in Christ because he's the Son of God.
That same power is in you through the Holy Spirit. When you believe in the name of Jesus Christ. That's why Christ is the propitiation, the. The place of the offering, that we can have that relief from the law and not have that servitude to the bondage.
But you also have Christ in you. You have the power of God in you. Now.
That's why if you know what that. The Holy Spirit, if you know what that, that new mahogany, if you know what that spirit is, you, you have that and you have it overflowing. It's not just enough, it's overflowing.
You have God's spirit in you.
You are spiritually born again, a new in the new spiritual nature. That's why you know when you're doing right and wrong, you know it.
And if you're born again, if you believe in the name of Jesus Christ, it's just hard to explain because you have to, you know that you know that you know and you have to believe what God tells you about himself, what he tells you, what he tells you about you.
You have all things right now. If you believe, if you go to John, chapter 10, verse 10, it says, the thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy, this is the adversary. But I come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly in its life in abundance.
Christ came in order that you can have life in abundance. Are you living an abundant life?
Are you living that way when you are freed from fear?
Again, be anxious for not one thing. Be careful for not one thing, but in all things. Through prayers to God and prayers of specific need or supplications, let your specific requests be declared to God with thanksgiving. And the peace of God is going to keep you in a state that's undisturbed from the outside world.
You're in a state of peace when you believe in the name of Jesus Christ and you pray.
These things are. Now, if you're not having an abundant life now, it's. Something's off a little bit something's off. And there are times of struggle. Believe me, there are times of struggle. But if you can rely on God in those times of struggle, you'll know it's. It's being okay. Like, you know, gray hairs come from stress. Well, that's what I think at least.
So in my life, I was like, I'm not going to be stressed out because there's really nothing I can do about a lot of things. But I have a belief that God's going to take care of it, right? Like any way he wants to take care of it, go for it.
That's why I pray, to open the doors or to close the doors, because I don't. I want whatever God wants for me. That's where I want to walk. Where is your heart in this life?
Is it about you and your like? Is.
Is it. I don't want to say arrogant, but is it about you or is it about God? Do you put your trust in you, or do you put your trust in God? Do you believe you're going to get that promotion or do you believe you're going to get that money or whatever it is? Do you believe that's coming from you and your work, or do you believe that's coming ultimately from God and you're willing to wait because you know that when God provides it, there's no strings attached.
Where are you in your believing? Where are you? Do you read this stuff and believe it, or do you read it just. Or do you hear it just to, I don't know, make yourself feel good for a momentary temporal time he gave us promises. Now, right now, you have this stuff.
If you go to Philippians chapter four, I'm going to finish up with this. Try to do it quickly. If you go to Philippians chapter 4, verse 11, or verse 10. But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again, wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. Verse 11. Not that I speak in respect of want. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content.
Are you content in your life no matter where you are? In the state where you need something? In a state where you're abounding and overflowing? Do you know how to be content?
Because it is a godly principle to be content. Verse 12. I know both how to be abased or humbled, and I know how to abound everywhere and in all things. I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, but both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Do you have a fundamental and foundational belief that you can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth you? Do you think you can do the miracles Christ did in earth because you have that ability? That's what Christ died for. That's that Christ in you. The power of Christ. You have it now.
You got to start to wrap your mind around this stuff in order to live the abundant life because it's available to you, because you're a son of God. Believe me, it comes with power. It is not some weak and meager thing, meek thing, excuse me. It's a powerful thing that you've been given. We are not to live this life in fear. You are lived to live this life being thankful being because God will provide.
Pray the big prayers today. Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. Always when you pray, you pray to God, never to Jesus Christ. It's biblical. You pray to God, lifting it up in the name of Jesus Christ. Be thankful for the things God's given you. God bless you and your family today.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: And I'll talk to you tomorrow.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Just for everything you do for us. I'm. I'm so thankful for. For the position you put me in. I'm thankful to finally open the door to kind of move to the next level as far as reading and the Word and to get me out of kind of the rut I was in. I'm thankful for that.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: I thank you for just your believers.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: And how much of a blessing it is knowing that they're out there. And that you're taking care of them and that we're all here together in the body. And I thank you for your so Christ Jesus and what he did for us. And yeah, I'm just grateful for today. I pray that you just kind of number my steps, show me what to.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Do today and everybody we work with.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: And again, I just thank you for the opportunity to live this life with you, Father, and I lift up a great day to you in the name of my Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
