What Is Inside of Us: Fear and Anxiety or The Love of Christ?

Good Morning Precious One!

“I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through Faith.” Ephesians 3:16.

This verse here shows our great need and also shows where our problem lies.   We need power deep in inner being with Christ dwelling there by Faith with power in a manifest way.   Jesus dwells in every believer in the Spirit, but we walk and live and manifest His power when He is powerfully dwelling in our heart by Faith.    Many people have fear, doubt, insecurity, weakness, lack, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness… in their inner beings.  Though every born-again believer is a new creation and has been given a new heart, many people do not put on the new man to live by.    

“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:22-24.  

We can be made new in the spirit, yet still live as the old man on the earth.   The Holy Spirit is the one who strengthens our inner man so Christ lives in our new heart and not the old attitudes of the past.   Holy Spirit is the third person in the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  He is the one who transforms us in our inner being from living from the old man to living in the new man.   We can live where anxiety and fear of what is happening in the current events controls and dominates our thinking, or we can live with our hearts filled with the Love of Christ.

We are being taught to set our hearts and minds on things above, the heavenly realities, not on earthly things.  Today’s society lives in fear in epidemic proportions!!!!  Just look at the news or anywhere, fear is gripping the hearts of people everywhere.   Smith Wigglesworth, a very powerful man of faith, who  had a world-wide healing ministry, would not even allow a newspaper into his house because he did not want the corruption of the world to influence his heart.    He is a great example of a life who had his heart set on things above, not on earthly things!  His mind was continually set on the Scriptures.

  Somebody might say that he was very extremely radical,  and yes I would agree that he was extreme in his setting his heart and mind on things above and not on earthly things, but there is no limit put on us on how much of God we want in our heart.  Yes, God is in our hearts in the Spirit realm, but how much do you and I want to abide in the Spirit realm, where Jesus and the Father dwell , to impact the earth?

  We can abide in the Spirit realm as much as we want.  I think it really gets down to how much of the Spirit do we want flowing through us by Faith in a manifest way on the earth.  Some people call this works by encouraging people to actively set our hearts and minds on the Spirit.   I would agree, this is works, but it the works of Faith.   “Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest…” Hebrews 4:11.     

    Exercising our Faith requires effort, but we are not trying to earn our blessing or establish our own righteousness by our works, we are looking and setting our hearts on Jesus, and He is the author and perfecter of our Faith!  So, to have Jesus dwell in our hearts and minds, like He is in our spirits, we invite Holy Spirit to strengthen and empower us in our inner being.

  We put on the new man in the spirit by Faith, we turn our heart and mind to the Truth of who we are In Christ and we turn our hearts away from any remnants of the old man left in the attitudes of our minds.  We “count ourselves dead to sin, and alive to God, in Christ Jesus.”   We turn away from all the fear that exists in this world and we guard our hearts by setting them on things above, the heavenly realities. 

  The more we set our heart on Jesus and His glory and see ourselves in Him, the more that we are being transformed into the likeness of Christ with ever-increasing glory!!!!!    SHALOM

Jerry Brown       1-21-2014