Power of God

I am always hearing in certain circles of Christians talk about the power of God, getting the power of God in their lives, needing the power of God, or getting the power of God as well as people defining certain acts as the power of God. But yet everything I hear people attribute a lot of things as to being the power of God, like an act of nature such as an earthquake or hurricane. Or act’s on their behalf like healings or holding back the strongholds of the enemy, est, est. Although these things are limited expressions of God’s power in action no where in scriptures are any of these things call, labeled as God’s power, there are only two things are call the power of God, Jesus and the Gospel. How powerful, then, must the gospel be that it would warrant such a title! So if people really want the power of God in their lives, the true power of God, not power for selfish gain, notoriety or the power to control things for their own purposes, but for the sake of God’s glory and the advancement of the Kingdom of God, we simple need the Gospel in our lives for it is the power of God.

This is why all Christians need to be Gospel Centered in their lives, Gospel centered in how we live, in interrupting the scriptures, in our worldview and Gospel centered in who we are. This is why the New Testament teaches that Christians need to hear the gospel just as much as non-Christians do.

And to do so requires that we daily preach the Gospel to ourselves, continually remind ourselves of the Gospel, the is what Ehp 6:13 it telling us, we need the “put on” the Gospel daily to fight our daily battles both outside and inside of us. As I just covered it is one of the only two things called the “power of God” in the scriptures, and so if I want the power of God in my life all I need to do is be Gospel centered, preach the Gospel to myself every day. Incorporated it into who I am and how I see and live life and I have the power of God in full action and display in my life. Earthquakes, healings and other things can be explained away by the world with scientific theories, but the Gospel and its work in me and through me can only be explained, attributed to God, the real power of God at work, on display.