Power Of A Footstool

Key Scripture:  "Sit at My right hand, and share My throne till I make Your enemies a footstool for your feet."  Psalms 110:1

Power Point:

    It's always nice to come away from a busy time and sit down in your favorite chair, prop up your feet and relax isn't it?  Did you know that Your Heavenly Father wants you to do exactly that?  He has a place prepared right next to Him. When He talks about "My right hand", He's talking about the place of His great power.  And that's where He wants you to curl up and relax and rest in Him. 

    In Colossians 3:1 He says, "IF you've been raised with Jesus (to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection) aim at and seek the (rich, eternal treasures) that are above, where Christ IS, seated at the right hand of God.  And set your minds, and keep them set on what is above, ( the HIGHER things-not on the things on the earth."  That's where you rest in HIS rest.  That's where what Jesus has done for you is seen in all its glory;  SEATED at the right hand of Your Heavenly Father;  Blanketed with the Truth  that sets you free.

     In those early times of hand to hand, face to face conflict, the final demonstration of victory was to place your foot on your enemy's neck so that he could not rise up to fight you again.

When you are seated in heavenly places, Beloved, God has made your 
enemy's neck a nice place to prop your feet.  The very picture of that is one of rest isn't it? 

     Satan likes to keep us stirred up.  He likes to make us think that he is

bigger and more powerful than our Father.  Beloved, YOU have been given a whole book filled with promises of hope for your future; of a victorious and abundant life.  In Hebrews 4, Holy Spirit tells us why the children of Israel had to march in the wilderness for forty years and were not able to enter the Land filled with promises for them.  It says, "The message that they HEARD did not benefit them because it was not mixed with faith (that leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence inn His power, wisdom and goodness).

     I don't know what issues you are facing in your life right now but I do know this.  You have an all powerful, loving, Heavenly Father, who has given you His own Spirit to flow all of that "wonderful" into your life.  Jesus has put His foot on the neck of your enemy, whatever it is or whoever it is and has made him a place to prop your feet. 

     What is your enemy today?  Is it fear of the future?  Jesus has secured a wonderful future for you. His promises to you are the weapons of your rest. You might want to recite those promises as you prop up your feet.  Is your enemy a bad report from the doctor?  Jesus has placed His foot on the neck of that enemy too. He "took it upon Himself" so that you wouldn't have to.  Hearing that and mixing it with faith, enables you to prop up your feet. 

     So, dear one, today is a good day to come in from the cold, from the battles of your day, and remind yourself that you have the great privilege and opportunity to rest in the character, the promises and the victories of Jesus for you. Sit yourself down at your Father's right hand, right in the middle of His promises of power, and prop up your feet. I don't know about you but my very favorite place is right in the middle of the presence of My Father.  In that place, I am surrounded with fullness of joy because at His right hand, there is more power to help than I can dream of.

It's a good place to sit and prop up your feet isn't it?

Power Thought:

He has put all things under His feet. (Ephesians 2:22)

Is it time to put YOUR foot down?