Power is an amazing thing. Without it we would not have much of the 
convenience that we take for granted. Things like lights and electricity, music playing from our stereo, the ability to blow dry our hair, the joy of waking up to fresh coffee, or the ability to wash our clothes and dishes. Without power we would miss out on many of the things that are the practical energy behind our every day routine. Just experience a power outage and you will quickly realize that without power we feel lost.
Power is invisible, so we forget about it. The funny thing about this is that when invisible power is providing ability throughout our lives, be it the lights in our house, or the strength to get by each day…we usually take that power for granted. This is especially true with the very basic Biblical fact that God’s power has been put within each of us. Do we operate in that power? Or are we self powered? Self power is inferior in comparison to God’s great power but many of us live in this inferior mode. Often we don’t tap into the power of God that is in us and available to each of us each day.
Often we mistakenly think that power is given to the people who are “really” used by God. You know, the ministers, pastors, worship leaders and such. We fail to realize that God’s power is given to all Christians, no matter what the calling in life is. God’s power is given to mothers, grandmothers and student. God’s power is given to missionaries, bible teachers and pastors. God’s power is given to young girls and old ladies. God’s power is given to us because of what Christ did on the cross…period.
Can you embrace what God says in His word about His Power Present Within You?
Today’s Truth: Ephesians 1: 18-19
“I pray also the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead …”
Paul was praying for the church in Ephesus to “get” the fact that God had called them and they had received a glorious inheritance. He also wanted them to “get” that they also received great power and that this power was a working of mighty strength. Why was this his prayer? We see this as we continue reading and move into chapter 2, where we see that he is telling them that they used to follow the ways of the world, but that now they are Alive in Christ, and concludes with a verse you may know,
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works…”
He just didn’t tell them, “Get to work!” He cast the vision of truth out to them, that they were different because of Christ, and that as those alive in Christ, they could walk in all the good things that God prepared for them to walk in.
This is living in God’s Design for our Individual Lives, and doing so with the assurance of His Power at work in us, rather than doing it in the flimsy notion that we can become strong enough for the task. Life gets exciting when we begin to realize that a resurrection took place within us when we became His and when we were filled with His Holy Spirit.
Today reflect several times on the Ephesians verse. Let the truth rise up within you. Pray it as a pray of agreement, “Father, I thank you that your power is alive within me today, use my life according to your power.” Think of what power is and what power does in the natural realm, and then realize that God’s power that resurrects the dead is bigger and grander than any power we as people can imagine. Just think…you are filled with that bigger and grander power because of your connection to Christ!
Today’s Prayer
Lord, I thank you that you did not leave us without YOU in this world. You gave us your Spirit and your placed your power within us. Please help us to remember that your power, mighty in strength, lives within us. Remind us to live in that power as overcomers in the hard places of life. Let the truth of your power enable us to take faith risks each day. Risking to love, to forgive, to do the right things. Risking to share the gospel, make a stand or change our world.
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