Walking in FATHER’S resurrection power requires us to yield ourselves in all areas.
It is written by THE SPIRIT in Isaiah chapter 55:
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
The process of walking in FATHER’S resurrection power requires us to make the appropriate choices that allow Him to accomplish it in our lives. Often, however, it seems that He brings about His will in what appears to be a completely illogical way.
Paul accentuated this reality when he wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 1:
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to walk in FATHER’S resurrection power. As a matter of fact, the highly intelligent person may often have greater difficulty in yielding to The Holy Spirit. Little children have no problem in submitting to Jesus Christ! Paul came to this reality when Jesus spoke to him.
He wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 12:
7 The extraordinary level of the revelations I’ve received is no reason for anyone to exalt me. For this is why a thorn in my flesh was given to me, the Adversary’s messenger sent to harass me, keeping me from becoming arrogant.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to relieve me of this.
9 But He answered me, “My grace is always more than enough for you, and My power finds its full expression through your weakness.”
So I will celebrate my weaknesses, for when I’m weak I sense more deeply the mighty power of Christ living in me.
10 So I’m not defeated by my weakness, but delighted! For when I feel my weakness and endure mistreatment—when I’m surrounded with troubles on every side and face persecution because of My Love for Christ—I am made yet stronger. For my weakness becomes a portal to God’s power.
The world sees natural strength as a formidable asset and as a demonstration of a strong character. In the above passage, Jesus is saying just the opposite. Only when we are weak, can we be made strong. Only when we are yielded vessels can His dunamis, kratos, and ischus strength work in our lives.
Paul also writes in 1st Corinthians chapter 1:
28 He chose the lowly, the laughable in the world’s eyes—nobodies—so that He would shame the somebodies. For He chose what is regarded as insignificant in order to supersede what is regarded as prominent,
29 so that there would be no place for prideful boasting in God’s Presence.
30 For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. And now He is our God-given Wisdom, our virtue, our Holiness, and our redemption.
31 And this fulfills what is written: If anyone boasts, let him only boast in all that the Lord has done!
I can take no credit for any past successes and that is why I have removed those items that represented those achievements (sources of pride) from my home. We must yield and rely on FATHER’S Strength, not our own.
The angel was sent directly from The Throne of GOD in Zechariah chapter 4:
6 So he (the angel) answered and said to me: “This is the Word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the LORD of hosts.