{"id":2762,"date":"2013-04-19T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2013-03-31T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:53:15","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-04-19-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/19\/pearls-of-wisdom-04-19-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 04-19-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>God\u2019s Spirit of Power and Love and a Sound Mind, Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God has not given us a spirit of fear, of craven and cringing and fawning fear, but He has given us a Spirit of Power and of Love and of a Sound Mind (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV and Amplified Bible).<\/p>\n<p>No, God has not given us as His children a spirit of fear.\u00a0 That spirit of fear is from satan.\u00a0 It is his method of operation.\u00a0 Fear is more than being afraid.\u00a0 It is having faith in satan\u2019s ability to harm you and take away from you.\u00a0 We are instructed here with a very specific instruction.\u00a0 God has not given us a spirit of fear.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what God has given us.\u00a0 He has given us His Holy Spirit of Power.\u00a0 He has given us His Holy Spirit of Love.\u00a0 He has given us His Holy Spirit of a Sound Mind.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at these three forces we have been given:\u00a0 power, love, a sound mind.<\/p>\n<p>God has given us His Spirit of Power.\u00a0 The Greek word for power here is dunamis.\u00a0 It is the same word as Paul used in Ephesians 1:19 to describe the working of God when He raised Jesus from the dead.\u00a0 It is resurrection power.\u00a0 It is the pure power of God.\u00a0 There is no power greater than His power.\u00a0 It is the mighty power of God that is inherent in Christ, the power that is fixed in the Anointed One and exists in His anointing.\u00a0 It is the same power that has been given to us, that resides in us.<\/p>\n<p>In Romans 8:11 we are told that the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in us.\u00a0 He is in us.\u00a0 He lives in us as Christians.\u00a0 Christ is in us, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27).\u00a0 God\u2019s power is in us.\u00a0 So what is the problem?\u00a0 Why aren\u2019t we seeing more of the demonstration of God\u2019s power in us on this earth like His power was demonstrated in Jesus?\u00a0 As with everything with God, it takes faith; we must believe His power is available and operating in us; we must have confidence His power is working in us.\u00a0 Nothing will happen until we choose to believe that God\u2019s power is personally working in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s Spirit of Power and Love and a Sound Mind, Part 1 God has not given us a spirit of fear, of craven and cringing and fawning fear, but He has given us a Spirit of Power and of Love and of a Sound Mind (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV and Amplified Bible). No, God has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}