Exponential Power

Monday, November 15th, 2010

When the geniuses that changed arithmetic to math and numbers to letters made those changes, I was left in the dust!  But for some reason I grasped exponents and understood how a number could be multiplied by itself over and over again to a huge result…the concept of exponential power.  That is the same kind of power that was demonstrated through the life of Christ and the power that is groaning to be revealed in the redeemed of Christ.  Whether feeding thousands with a couple of sardine sandwiches or just a realization of a power drain (from the hem of His garment) His power is still working through His body….and we are His body….we are the body of Christ called to do these things and greater in scope. With that in mind read the following about faith and how faith can exponentially be increased in our lives!
Matthew 17:20- We are all aware that the mustard seed is an incredibly small seed but what we often overlook is the fact that every seed has in it the power it needs to fulfill it’s destiny and to become the great tree the Father destined it to become. We are like that mustard seed, within us is the power to become what the Father designed us to be. Hebrews 11 is known as the Faith chapter and in it we see three verses that can raise our faith to powerful faith to cause us to become the great men and women of God we are designed to be. My prayer for you is that you will receive what you are reading and it would become living and active in your life and you will see the Father manifest new and miraculous events in your life.
Faith- Hebrews 11: 1- Mr. Webster tells us that the definition of substance is the essential requisite. What is your hope? What are you believing the Father to do in your life? Allow me to amplify this verse, Faith is the substance (the essential requirement) of things hoped for. We can now begin to see the importance of us having faith. Let’s expand the word substance into substantial and ask the question, “How substantial is your faith?” Jesus is more concerned about the quality of our faith than the quantity. Our faith must have the seed- quality to produce the tree-quantity of abundant fruit. Let’s look at the evidence of things not seen. We live at the bottom of an ocean of air, I’ve never seen air but I see evidence of air as tree limbs move in the breeze or in the bubbles coming from a scuba diver’s air-tank. I see the evidence of the Father in sunrises and sunsets (Google ‘California sunsets’ to see evidence of the Father’s creativity). May your faith from this day grow to be an substantial and evident faith.
Faith Squared- Hebrews 11:6- We could shorten this and say that we must have faith as we believe God is who He says He is and that He will do what He says He will do as we spend time developing our prayer life and growing a faith-filled covenant relationship with with. King Uzziah had a faith-filled covenant-relationship with the Father and diligently sought Him and 2nd Chronicles 26:5 relates that God caused him to prosper. Faith springs up in the sick person when he declares that the Lord is his healer, it springs up in the impoverished who declares the Lord is his provider and Jesus is his source of abundant life and when the sinner declares that Jesus is his Yeshua (sotaria- our deliverer, our liberator and the one who prospers us). When we diligently seek the Father, we make ourselves attractive to Him. 2nd Chronicles 16:9 tells us that the Father’s eyes continually run to and fro throughout the whole earth seeking the people He can show Himself strong to. It is the attractiveness of our diligence that causes the Father to quit scanning and see us as faith-filled disciples.
Faith Cubed- Hebrews 11:13- So now the question is this, how can we get the unseen of the prayer request to the seen of the praise report? Ever notice how faith seems to mandate us to speak in the past-tense? Jesus said, “When you pray, if you believe as though you have received what you have asked for, you shall have it.” The Father spoke this way at the creation, “Let there be….” and it was. Now if I may carry it out further, and I know you caught the algebraic references of “squared” and “cubed” I will illustrate how the Father works. At the creation the Father in faith declared, “Let there be light.” Jesus the “Yes” and “Amen” of the creation agreed and squared His faith with the Father’s faith and the Holy Spirit, cubed His faith with the Father’s and the Son’s faith manifest what the Father declared and the Son affirmed. In verse 13 there are four words in the past tense that will help us as we develop our faith. In faith the promises of the Father are seen afar off, by reading His word we become assured that the promises are for us, we then can lay hold to and the promises will be embraced as we confessed that all of the Father’s promises will only return to Him completed and fulfilled. May your faith be powerfully raised today.