The Kingdom of God Within You
Devotions:
“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" 1 John 5:4-5 NASB
The world moves in the natural and expects the natural. We are called to walk in the supernatural. We need help to overcome our natural tendencies and to walk in the supernatural realm with God. John says that it is our faith that overcomes the natural world and enables us to walk in the supernatural. He says that the supernatural is born into us. We are transformed by the new birth into the image and likeness of Jesus. When we believe in Jesus it is not only the historical Jesus but the Jesus within you. Jesus already demonstrated the supernatural and overcame the world in His death, burial and resurrection. That victory is already in us. His supernatural power is already in us.
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” John 14:11-12 NASB
Once again it is not asking for more power it is believing in the power already in you. If we believe we shall do the works of Jesus and greater works.
Fellowshipping with the Father is the mother of faith. So the more time we spend focusing on the Father the more our faith will grow. The more we walk in the truth, the word of God, the more our faith will grow. Our time in the word is to be a time of fellowship with the Father.