Life as a born-again child of God is the most marvelous adventure you could ever imagine. You wouldn't know it by looking at most Christians, but it is.
If we truly knew all that Jesus has done for us and all He has provided through His death and resurrection, we would wake up every morning full of joy and raring to go!
We'd bound out of bed saying, "There's somebody out there who needs healing today and I can bring it to them. There's somebody whose life will be changed by my testimony. There's somebody who needs the joy and the love of the Lord and they're going to receive it through me!"
If we had a revelation of our inheritance in Jesus, we'd greet every day with a gleam in our eye and charge out the front door with confidence knowing there is treasure out there waiting for us.
There's a wealth of souls waiting to be won. There are endless opportunities to bless people and minister to them by the power of God that resides within us. There are God-ordained financial fortunes ready and waiting for us so we'll have all the money we need to do what God puts in our hearts to do.
The scriptural truth is, as blood-washed, Holy Ghost-filled saints of the living God, you and I are a victory going someplace to happen. We are divinely designed to demonstrate the triumphant life of Jesus everywhere we go.
We don't even have to worry about overcoming the devil and all his junk. Jesus already did it. He already defeated him. As long as we walk in faith our victory is inevitable.
Second Corinthians 2:14 says it this way, "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place" (NKJV).
Why, then, don't more believers live that way?
I can answer that question with one word.
Fear.
Fear has contaminated the faith of far too many of God's people. Fear has robbed them of their victory and deceived them into accepting defeat at the hands of a conquered foe.
Fear has deprived countless believers of the great adventure of the Christian life.
It has reduced them to living from paycheck to paycheck because they're afraid if they tried something new they'd fail and lose what little they have. They're afraid to go out and lay hands on the sick. (After all, what if nothing happens? says the voice of fear. What if the person doesn't get healed?)
They're afraid of launching out into the deep waters of life and becoming fishers of men, so they settle for going to work, coming home, watching television and going to bed. It's the same thing every day...nobody ever gets saved; nobody ever gets filled with the Holy Ghost. They just barely get their bills paid. They fix one thing and something else breaks.
As born-again children of God, we don't have any business living like that! We should be the most outrageously daring people the earth has ever seen. We ought to be doing the impossible by faith every day.
We should be turning the world upside down for Jesus and having the time of our lives!
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Eagle Mountain International Church, Inc.
aka: Kenneth Copeland Ministries