Power Of What's UP!

Key Scripture:  “Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you.  LOOK UP!”  Colossians 3:1,2, The Message

Power Point:

So what’s UP in your life today?  Are your thoughts UP? Is your faith UP? Is the anointing of Holy Spirit stirred UP in you? Is His power in you turned UP? How about your encounters with God?  Are they on the UPswing? Are you growing UP in grace, and love, and peace?  Are you taking your place in the kingdom of God? Are you moving UP?

Beloved, that’s the plan. It’s been the plan from the beginning. God has created a garden in us that needs to bear fruit and multiply. In the original Garden of Eden all those years ago, He created everything to be under our dominion. He created each day to be full of life. He planned to walk with us “in the cool of the day” and from that place, we could go and complete our assignments. We could go forth and be fruitful and multiply. Part of His blessing to us was to go and be filled. I love the definition of that word! It means “fill and fulfill”.  It’s the idea of filling something to the brim, causing it to be thoroughly saturated. It’s also the idea of fulfilling your word; to declare that you will do something and then to do it. God promises to fill all the earth with the awareness of His glory, and His glorious gift to us is to be filled (thoroughly saturated) with His Spirit.   In Ex. 31:3 He says about Bezalel, “I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and all understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of wisdom.” Bezalel had a part in God’s plan. He was already filled and prepared.  So are you.
In Romans Paul says, “Be FILLED (saturated and fulfilled) with the Spirit”. Why? So that the garden in your heart can keep growing UP; so that you can go forth, bear fruit, multiply and live in the blessing of God.

So what’s UP?

     On the other hand, what’s down?  The devil is lower than a snake. In Genesis 1:26 God says, “Let’s make man just like Us! And let’s put him in charge of EVERYTHING; over the fish, the birds, the cattle, over all the earth and over every creepy thing."  (Suzanne translation.) What are the creepy things that are slithering into your garden and stealing the blessings that Jesus died to give you? Is bitterness UP? Or unforgiveness? Or fear? How can you change that?

     You can choose to think UP! His promises could be UPpermost in your mind couldn’t they?  Thoughts about His faithfulness and His goodness could be UP couldn’t they?

     If you think about it, whenever God spoke, things jumped to attention and eagerly responded. Can you wrap your mind around the fact that because Jesus took dominion over every creepy thing, and restored the original plan? YOU have the same authority that Adam and Eve did. YOU can choose to be FILLED and FRUIT-Full every single day of your life.

     So? What’s UP?

     The lord gave me something the other day which I’d like to offer as good incentive to Think UP!

Every day you DON’T do something, it doesn’t get done.  Ah.

What you think on continuously in your heart comes out in your life.

What you do not receive from God, never gets to bear fruit.

    

     God said, “Let us make man in OUR image." He’s still doing that through the power of His Holy Spirit. He’s making us more lovable and more loving; more patient and kind. He’s restored our dominion authority. If we walk with Him in the cool of the day, if we speak what He tells us to speak, we are declaring that dominion, and we speak blessing and we live in the blessing of God.  And that’s how our garden grows UP.

His words never return void. Ours shouldn’t either if we’re hearing, thinking and speaking UP what He’s given us authority to say.

     So, what’s UP? He is and you are if you are in Him.

Power Thought:

YOU be fruitful and multiply. You be thoroughly saturated and take dominion over every creepy thing.