Releasing the Power of God for Your Victorious Christian Life
Mark 9: 24 The father instantly cried out, "I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!" (NLT)
This short little story tucked away in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Mark contains so many important truths for us as believers. Once we walked in the darkness of this world. We were slaves to it. The things of God were foolishness to us and we served the ruler of this world, Satan. We did so willingly and blindly perhaps never truly understanding any of it. But God:
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1Peter 2: 9-10
No longer slaves to the darkness of this world we now bask in the glorious light of Jesus Christ, who saved us from eternal separation from God. This concept of "eternal life" is often misconstrued as something we have yet to receive but Jesus Himself taught that we get to live the eternal life now, with the promise and hope of heaven yet to come:
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10
In his letter to the Church at
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3: 16-19
