BE ENCOURAGED
En-courage-ment - The Power to be Courageous
Fred Schwenk

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer (be encouraged*); I have overcome the world.

* These words added by author

Ephesians 1:19 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, 

19 and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

It is not an overly spiritual deal!  To what am I referring?  Well, JESUS giving us understanding, enlightenment and our eyes being open.

I mean, it sounds like something that we need to fast and pray over.  And, not discounting fasting and praying, I think we need to see something here if we desire to be filled with HIS form of courage.

It is not an overly spiritual deal!  We don't have to join a monastery of convent.  We don't have to take a vow of poverty.  We don't have to inflict wounds upon ourselves or hang from a cross.  

We need to understand that the LORD wants us to be enlightened.  And by enlightened HE means that we are to understand the exceedingly great power HE works through us and that HE wants us to walk in that power.

Half, or more than half the battle we fight in this life is against the enemy's attempt to dumb us down in regards to the LORD'S power in us.  I will give you an example:

Here are the words of the LORD JESUS in Matthew 17 - If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Now, here HE says, "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed."  How much faith do you have?  If you can stand and say that GOD ALMIGHTY came to us in the form of a human being, lived a perfect life, died on the cross for us, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, I would say that constitutes at least a mustard seed sized faith!

So why aren't we "moving mountains?"  Or more specifically, why are we not en-couraged?  More next Lesson..

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