Where is Jesus Power at Work: Mighty God, Part 2

It’s easy to read the Bible and find examples of God’s power in Scripture. However, most of us haven’t seen that same level of power demonstrated in our lives. We may ask ourselves—“Where is Jesus’ power?”

·      Jesus’ power is at work in you.

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him. — Philippians 2:13

His power is working in us to cause us to do what pleases Him. His power is transforming our lusts into His desires. As a result of His power at work in us, we no longer long to do what pleases our flesh, but rather we yearn to do what pleases Him.

Right now, at this very moment, God’s power is at work in you to transform you. God’s power is not working in you so that you can be happy and successful. God’s power isn’t working in you so that He can, by divine revelation, reveal this week’s lotto numbers to you. His power isn’t at work in you to make life easier for you, but it’s at work in you to change you. His power isn’t at work in you for you, but rather it is working in you for Him. His power is working in each of us to transform us from being a selfish and self-centered individual into a Christ-like believer who is fully filled with the fruit of the spirit (love, joy, peace, gentleness, self control, etc. — Galatians 5:22-23).

Where have you not allowed God’s power to work in You to transform your desires into His?

·      Jesus’ power is at work for you.

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. — Isaiah 40:29

Paul realized that he alone was weak. He understood that in his own weakness, God in turn made Him strong (2 Corinthians 12:9-10). In our human minds, this makes absolutely no sense. If someone were come to you and ask the question, “How do I get strong?” the last response that would come to our natural minds would be, “You must become weak.” But that’s exactly the scenario to have strength worked out in us. Our weakness becomes His strength, or stated conversely His power is worked out through my weakness.

Where do you still need to become weak so that His power can work through you?

·      Jesus’ power is at work through you.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. — Acts 1:8

When the Holy Spirit comes upon us, one of the first evidences is that we see the operation of God’s power working in our lives. If you look at what happened as a result of the Holy Spirit’s outpouring in the book of Acts, the entire world was completely transformed by the Holy Spirit’s power being worked out through a small number of now Spirit-baptized believers. Peter, who only a few weeks earlier was denying his connection to Jesus Christ, was now preaching with power and seeing thousands saved in just one day. Jesus took 12 ordinary men and through them transformed the entire world. Through ordinary men, God did extraordinary things.

Our message should be as Paul’s was to the Corinthians. He said that his message was not comprised of wise and persuasive words. Rather, it was filled with the Holy Spirit’s power (2 Corinthians 2:4-5)

Are you allowing the Holy Spirit’s power to work through you as evidenced by the fact that we are witnesses by winning the lost and making disciples in our everyday lives.