What does the power of the Risen Lord mean to you?
What impact does the Risen Lord have in your life?
How are you empowered by the fact that the Lord has risen?
I thought that a very important question to answer because I am a bit jaded by how many people I know are experiencing the Christian life, not that they are experiencing Christianity wrongly or anything like that. But I know for a sure fact that God desires for us to live empowered lives, lives that would demonstrate His glory on earth! Through us!
A christian life is not about going to church weekly or more than a few times a week
A christian life is not about reading the bible or christian materials every day for all days of the year
A christian life is not about going for bible studies to improve our knowledge of God
A christian life is not about being committed in attending cell group weekly or more than a few times a week
A christian life is not about putting self down for service to the different ministries in church
A christian life is not about giving 10% of our finances, time, or gifts to God
A christian life is not about reaching out to the community or to the people in need
All of the above are good things to do. And good things that good christians too. But a christian life is so much more than the above.
Being a christian means knowing that we are the beloved children of God, deserving of all the love that God has given us and is continually giving us
Being a christian is contemplating and meditating on the words we read from the bible, letting the Holy Spirit shed light into our hearts
Being a christian is knowing that God is present and that we are able to remain in God's presence every single minute of our lives
Being a christian is being sensitive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit who leads us to do and say the right things at the right time
Being a christian is being empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit translating into the energy and passion-filled life
Being a christian is being deeply indebted to how much God loves us and how much God has given to us for us to experience wholeness and healing
Being a christian is giving the Holy Spirit the space to work, to lead, to reach out to the people God puts in our mind, to pray for the person whom God places in mind, to look at a person and looking at them in the way Jesus would
Being a christian means letting the power of the Holy Spirit transform our souls so that our hearts, our minds, and our bodies align with the transformed soul and we experience true, sustained peace
That's what the power of the risen Lord means to me.
Heaven is a place on Earth
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