GOD IS MORE

The power of one word from His mouth can create a galaxy, and the name of every one of His children is written on His hand.  His promises for the church (our church) are beyond all comprehension.  Too many saints consider them to be God’s promises for the millennium or heaven, claiming that to emphasize God’s plans for the here and now instead of eternity is to dishonor the fact that Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us.  Our predisposition toward a weak church has blinded our eyes to the truths of God’s word about us.  We make excuses for God rather than seeking His Kingdom with a whole hearted determination fueled with burning passion to know Him... really know Him. This problem is rooted in our unbelief... faith in the inferior, and our death grip desire for the pleasures and riches of earth-life. Too often Self rules, diluting our hunger for God’s Kingdom... strangling the Christ-Life within. Jesus taught us how to live by announcing “the Kingdom of God is at hand”!  It is a present reality, affecting the here and now, and it comes fully equipped with the awesome power of God Almighty. We are admonished by Jesus to pray God’s Kingdom come... His will be done, bringing Heaven’s reality into our earth bound circumstances.

We lack understanding of who we are because we have little revelation of who God is.  As individuals and as a church body we desperately need to upgrade our perception of our God.  He is Big!  He is more!  More loving... more gracious... more holy... more kind... more merciful... more just... more compassionate... more joyful... more peaceful... more glorious, more good... more powerful, with resurrection power, and more still, more than we can ever know or comprehend. We can only walk out our spiritual life to the extent of the bigness of our perception of God. He is before all, after all, in all and through all, holding the very fabric of the physical realm and life as we know it together by His will. He thinks and it is so... or does He even need to think at all? Superlatives run dry when applied to God... language becomes inadequate... finite minds fail... comprehension vaporizes... mere words ensnare us in ‘littleness”, when faced with the infinite, eternal God. It takes the Revelation of Jesus Christ... to comprehend Jesus Christ! We should be filled with awe and wonder at this God who for some unfathomable reason known only to Himself... loves us... heals us... wants us. And who is to say which is more incredible, a God who creates galaxies, a God who raises the dead or a God who weeps over the plight of humanity... collecting our tears in His bottles?  

Our perception of God grows through diligent study of God’s word, prayer, stillness before God... Face Time, and worship. Paul prayed that God would grant wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Himself, that the saints might understand their eternal hope in Him, the spiritual riches they have in Him, and the immeasurable, unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power working in, through and for them. We need to be praying this prayer! As our perception of God grows we will begin to experience insatiable hunger and thirsting for righteousness... forsaking all to draw ever nearer to the More God, and we will be filled... transformed... becoming people of One Thing... ever hungering... always satisfied.

DRAW NEAR TO ME 
AND I WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU