CHAPTER 3
Week 3
Extraordinary You…
♥ Today I would like to challenge you to sit down, stand in front of or crawl towards a mirror and be Empowered:
What do you think of when you hear the words “grace of God?” Does the image of someone or yourself at your lowest point come to mind? Do the thoughts of the times when you messed up, really failed at something play like an orchestra before you? When we look at the grace of God, our first thought is to be given a pass when we don’t deserve it, to be given a gift that we haven’t earned. However, how many of us also know that Grace means “Empowerment!”
Did you know that the grace of God was given to each person to empower them? Empower for what? How about to become empowered to do whatever it is, whatever task, mindset, heart posture, faith walk, love walk, fearless walk, job finding, provision supplying task that is set before you!!! Think about where you are at this moment and all the situations that have left you feeling less than in control, powerless, hopeless…those exact situations are what the Grace of God is for!! The grace of God is a free gift, it is also there to give us what we don’t deserve but only 2% of Christian knows that grace is for Empowerment. Where do I get this from…the Word. Let’s look at Heb 12:27-29:
Heb 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken(temporal things situations, circumstances, people), as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken(God’s promises and endowments He gave us) may remain.
Heb 12:28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom(our spiritual walk in Jesus) that cannot be shaken, let us have grace(Empowerment), whereby we may offer service(actions, lifestyles, heart postures) well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
Heb 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.(He consumes all fear, all doubt, all hopelessness).
The word grace in the Greek means Empowerment. God did not just plan on us to be worms always getting a hall pass in the trial of life…He intended for us to be bold, courageous and Powerful(2Tim.1:6-7)
2Ti 1:6 For this reason I say to you, Let that grace(Empowerment) of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.
2Ti 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
God did not just throw US His daughters out to the wolves of life and situations and say “oh well get out somehow” He empowered us. He empowered YOU! He gave you the power to walk without fear for the healing. He gave you the power to walk in authority over the situations that speak the opposite of victory in your marriage. He gave you power to keep your peace with co-workers that don’t deserve anything but foot to butt medication. He gave you power to get provision and to walk in that favor for a job.
Grace is God’s empowerment that gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability to accomplish whatever is set before us to DO!!!
That means that you CAN walk in love, patience, confidence with a spouse, a child, a family member, the neighbor, the co-worker that makes you want to run them over. That means you can believe against all hope for the breakthrough where finding a job that meets your needs is concerned. You can claim and walk in victory over a sickness and life threatening disease. You don’t have to always rely only on the walk of others; you can claim that victory with your faith. God does not look at you and say you can’t pray over Jan now because you didn’t fast today, or you missed church last week. That is how we fall from grace (fall from empowerment) because we took what is given from and through God and reduced it to our works. This will always come up short.
But if you step out knowing that your just a pitcher and the fluids that run into that empty vessel before you is God’s empowerment you can speak and declare anything and KNOW IT WILL HAPPEN. It doesn’t mean you are ignorant to the hurt of the situation, nor does it mean that you won’t have to work at the finish line for that prize. It means that no longer can we say I CAN’T!!! Because now you have been made aware that God purposely, and with great care gave you empowerment to do that very thing you want to quit on. Don’t quit on your vision, your desire…you are empowered to see it through.
Think about it, if God gave you the empowerment of Bill Gates, you would run out to become the biggest billionaire in the world of technology there was. If God gave you the empowerment of Oprah Winfrey, you would run out there and become one of the highest paid entrepreneurs out there living all your cares behind. If God empowered you to become the greatest female artist that ever sang, you would be cutting more albums then Taylor Swift and Beyonce combined. Yet God did not empower you with men’s empowerment, He gave you the SAME, EXACT POWER HE GAVE JESUS. JESUS!!! THINK ABOUT THAT!! THE BIBLE SAID THAT IF THE WORLD WHERE TO TRY TO WRITE DOWN ALL THE MIRACLES THAT JESUS DID IN 3 1/2 YEARS, THERE WOULDN’T BE ENOUGH BOOKS TO CONTAIN THEM!!! AND THAT EMPOWERMENT HE GAVE TO YOU AND I…and we are to do even MORE!!!
Jesus had more knowledge than those around him, and that knowledge he gave to you.
Jesus had more wisdom than the wisest around him and that wisdom he gave to you.
Jesus had more prosperity than those around him, think not...tell me when is the last time you went to the water and a fish was waiting with your exact tax money. He had a staff, what do you need a treasurer for if you don’t have money. Why have a staff, these men had businesses when Jesus met them, they left their businesses for a season to be with him…why because his 401k was more profitable. Why would a person run to a God that is unable to pay bills, unable to make ends meet…The son of God has no place to lay his head, did not mean he was homeless, it meant that he had no place in this world to call home because he was not of this world…it was temporary and if a person was to walk with him, they would have to know that their resources were not of this world but the grace(empowerment) from on high(God)...so to not look at your hands as the means, but take up your cross,(how you think, live, feel, choose) and follow Him (His way of doing, choosing, talking, feeling about life).
Now tell me how we can’t get the victory over our mouths, over our attitudes, over our patience… how can we ever hope to do more in the name of Jesus, if all it takes for the enemy to cause us to stumble is for our kids to spill something on the rug, our husband to yet again need your patience in an area you know you already made clear, the dishes to be in the sink; the threat of a bill collector to call. We are empowered for so much more than what we allow ourselves to work with. We allow the smallest hinge in a perfectly written schedule to make us come unglued, we lose our peace over the smallest kink in our daily routine…all those things have a proper place, and things should flow easily that is called order, but how we act and respond in the whirlwind is where we are called to greatness…because we have greatness living inside.
1John 4:13-21
1Jn 4:13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness( the one watching our lifestyle) that we are in him and he is in us.
1Jn 4:14 And we have seen(how we perceive our empowerment to walk in this word) and give(what we do with this empowerment) witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
1Jn 4:15 Everyone who says( in action, in deed, in mindset, heart posture and lifestyle) openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.
1Jn 4:16 And we have seen and had faith( believing what we don’t see) in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
1Jn 4:17 In this way love(getting and giving what is unconditional) is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.
1Jn 4:19 We have the power(grace) of loving, because he first had love for us.
1Jn 4:20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
1Jn 4:21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
This is the essential quality and character of Jesus and should be the same for us. This is where we draw the courage and strength to do those things that seem impossible. Now when you hear the word say I can do all things through Christ Jesus, you know why…its grace (empowerment). Now when you hear all things are possible to those who believe…you know it’s by grace (empowerment). Not your power, God’s power that He promised all that become His children. If you attempt to do things in your own strength and skills you will fail eventually, but if you do them knowing that you are limited, but in him there is no limits then it removes the fear. The anxiety can’t stay, because you are not doing it according to anything within you except the faith to say I trust what you see in me and I will step out according to what you show, knowing that as I do every step, word, actions, thought, plan I need to take is mapped out and able to be accomplished because you have empowered me with your fail proof wisdom, strength, knowledge, love…etc. All things are possible to him that will believe.
Be encouraged you are powerful, magnificent, unlimited, resourceful, wise, strong, prosperous and able
2Pe 1:2 May grace(empowerment) and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
2Pe 1:3 Because by his power(grace) he has given us everything(EVERYTHING…shelter, food, peace, money, a good relationship, healthy whole children) necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
2Pe 1:4 And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh(every thought, choice and feeling that is contrary to the word)
2Pe 1:5 So, for this very cause, take every(EVERY) care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
2Pe 1:6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
2Pe 1:7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
2Pe 1:8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so the way will be open(OPEN) to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 For this reason I will be ready( get your spiritual armour) at all times to keep your memory(when the bills start talking, when the hurt starts throbbing) of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.
As a believer you have been given more than a pass to do something, you have been given the strength and power to get what you need…and what you want. Let us no longer go through life like one that is helpless in a situation, hopeless with no way out, but let us take a deep breath, close our eyes and receive EMPOWERMENT. You can do anything you need to do; God is just waiting for you to let him show you what’s really been placed inside you to excel in that area. Understand this always, that all that we say we are in Christ is always known not by the verses you know, but the ones you live.
No longer is grace just to cover us when we mess up, but it’s to empower us to conquer, to succeed, to accomplish with flying colors…
When you become Christ centered, the divine influence upon the heart will become the reflection in one’s life…
What can you do now that you are empowered? What business can you open, what degree can you accomplish, what relationships can you change, what family member can you lead to Christ…what child can you pray over and see the change come in their attitudes, job can you influence…what can you become now that you are empowered with a super G…
1) Today my mouth, (what I say)
2) Today my will, (who I choose to serve self or God)
3) Today my heart, (how I think, feel and respond)
I yield to your word... I will not this week, purposely choose to be POWERLESS, a THORN before others, Lose my IDENTITY, Doubt God’s direction, correct MYSELF, my spouse (if you are married), my children, my friends, or relatives in a negative, hurtful, critical, way... Even if I am right, I will ASK YOU FIRST LORD, how to respond, what to say and when, then only ONLY SAY WHAT YOU SAY, THE WAY YOU WAY AND HOW YOU SAY... If I have to correct, it will be in love, it will be with strength, but it will be in YOUR WAY AND YOUR WAY ONLY...
Make sure you read your chapter, stay encouraged and pray for each other ♥
Extraordinary You…
♥ Today I would like to challenge you to sit down, stand in front of or crawl towards a mirror and be Empowered:
What do you think of when you hear the words “grace of God?” Does the image of someone or yourself at your lowest point come to mind? Do the thoughts of the times when you messed up, really failed at something play like an orchestra before you? When we look at the grace of God, our first thought is to be given a pass when we don’t deserve it, to be given a gift that we haven’t earned. However, how many of us also know that Grace means “Empowerment!”
Did you know that the grace of God was given to each person to empower them? Empower for what? How about to become empowered to do whatever it is, whatever task, mindset, heart posture, faith walk, love walk, fearless walk, job finding, provision supplying task that is set before you!!! Think about where you are at this moment and all the situations that have left you feeling less than in control, powerless, hopeless…those exact situations are what the Grace of God is for!! The grace of God is a free gift, it is also there to give us what we don’t deserve but only 2% of Christian knows that grace is for Empowerment. Where do I get this from…the Word. Let’s look at Heb 12:27-29:
Heb 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken(temporal things situations, circumstances, people), as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken(God’s promises and endowments He gave us) may remain.
Heb 12:28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom(our spiritual walk in Jesus) that cannot be shaken, let us have grace(Empowerment), whereby we may offer service(actions, lifestyles, heart postures) well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
Heb 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.(He consumes all fear, all doubt, all hopelessness).
The word grace in the Greek means Empowerment. God did not just plan on us to be worms always getting a hall pass in the trial of life…He intended for us to be bold, courageous and Powerful(2Tim.1:6-7)
2Ti 1:6 For this reason I say to you, Let that grace(Empowerment) of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.
2Ti 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
God did not just throw US His daughters out to the wolves of life and situations and say “oh well get out somehow” He empowered us. He empowered YOU! He gave you the power to walk without fear for the healing. He gave you the power to walk in authority over the situations that speak the opposite of victory in your marriage. He gave you power to keep your peace with co-workers that don’t deserve anything but foot to butt medication. He gave you power to get provision and to walk in that favor for a job.
Grace is God’s empowerment that gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability to accomplish whatever is set before us to DO!!!
That means that you CAN walk in love, patience, confidence with a spouse, a child, a family member, the neighbor, the co-worker that makes you want to run them over. That means you can believe against all hope for the breakthrough where finding a job that meets your needs is concerned. You can claim and walk in victory over a sickness and life threatening disease. You don’t have to always rely only on the walk of others; you can claim that victory with your faith. God does not look at you and say you can’t pray over Jan now because you didn’t fast today, or you missed church last week. That is how we fall from grace (fall from empowerment) because we took what is given from and through God and reduced it to our works. This will always come up short.
But if you step out knowing that your just a pitcher and the fluids that run into that empty vessel before you is God’s empowerment you can speak and declare anything and KNOW IT WILL HAPPEN. It doesn’t mean you are ignorant to the hurt of the situation, nor does it mean that you won’t have to work at the finish line for that prize. It means that no longer can we say I CAN’T!!! Because now you have been made aware that God purposely, and with great care gave you empowerment to do that very thing you want to quit on. Don’t quit on your vision, your desire…you are empowered to see it through.
Think about it, if God gave you the empowerment of Bill Gates, you would run out to become the biggest billionaire in the world of technology there was. If God gave you the empowerment of Oprah Winfrey, you would run out there and become one of the highest paid entrepreneurs out there living all your cares behind. If God empowered you to become the greatest female artist that ever sang, you would be cutting more albums then Taylor Swift and Beyonce combined. Yet God did not empower you with men’s empowerment, He gave you the SAME, EXACT POWER HE GAVE JESUS. JESUS!!! THINK ABOUT THAT!! THE BIBLE SAID THAT IF THE WORLD WHERE TO TRY TO WRITE DOWN ALL THE MIRACLES THAT JESUS DID IN 3 1/2 YEARS, THERE WOULDN’T BE ENOUGH BOOKS TO CONTAIN THEM!!! AND THAT EMPOWERMENT HE GAVE TO YOU AND I…and we are to do even MORE!!!
Jesus had more knowledge than those around him, and that knowledge he gave to you.
Jesus had more wisdom than the wisest around him and that wisdom he gave to you.
Jesus had more prosperity than those around him, think not...tell me when is the last time you went to the water and a fish was waiting with your exact tax money. He had a staff, what do you need a treasurer for if you don’t have money. Why have a staff, these men had businesses when Jesus met them, they left their businesses for a season to be with him…why because his 401k was more profitable. Why would a person run to a God that is unable to pay bills, unable to make ends meet…The son of God has no place to lay his head, did not mean he was homeless, it meant that he had no place in this world to call home because he was not of this world…it was temporary and if a person was to walk with him, they would have to know that their resources were not of this world but the grace(empowerment) from on high(God)...so to not look at your hands as the means, but take up your cross,(how you think, live, feel, choose) and follow Him (His way of doing, choosing, talking, feeling about life).
Now tell me how we can’t get the victory over our mouths, over our attitudes, over our patience… how can we ever hope to do more in the name of Jesus, if all it takes for the enemy to cause us to stumble is for our kids to spill something on the rug, our husband to yet again need your patience in an area you know you already made clear, the dishes to be in the sink; the threat of a bill collector to call. We are empowered for so much more than what we allow ourselves to work with. We allow the smallest hinge in a perfectly written schedule to make us come unglued, we lose our peace over the smallest kink in our daily routine…all those things have a proper place, and things should flow easily that is called order, but how we act and respond in the whirlwind is where we are called to greatness…because we have greatness living inside.
1John 4:13-21
1Jn 4:13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness( the one watching our lifestyle) that we are in him and he is in us.
1Jn 4:14 And we have seen(how we perceive our empowerment to walk in this word) and give(what we do with this empowerment) witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
1Jn 4:15 Everyone who says( in action, in deed, in mindset, heart posture and lifestyle) openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.
1Jn 4:16 And we have seen and had faith( believing what we don’t see) in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
1Jn 4:17 In this way love(getting and giving what is unconditional) is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.
1Jn 4:19 We have the power(grace) of loving, because he first had love for us.
1Jn 4:20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
1Jn 4:21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
This is the essential quality and character of Jesus and should be the same for us. This is where we draw the courage and strength to do those things that seem impossible. Now when you hear the word say I can do all things through Christ Jesus, you know why…its grace (empowerment). Now when you hear all things are possible to those who believe…you know it’s by grace (empowerment). Not your power, God’s power that He promised all that become His children. If you attempt to do things in your own strength and skills you will fail eventually, but if you do them knowing that you are limited, but in him there is no limits then it removes the fear. The anxiety can’t stay, because you are not doing it according to anything within you except the faith to say I trust what you see in me and I will step out according to what you show, knowing that as I do every step, word, actions, thought, plan I need to take is mapped out and able to be accomplished because you have empowered me with your fail proof wisdom, strength, knowledge, love…etc. All things are possible to him that will believe.
Be encouraged you are powerful, magnificent, unlimited, resourceful, wise, strong, prosperous and able
2Pe 1:2 May grace(empowerment) and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
2Pe 1:3 Because by his power(grace) he has given us everything(EVERYTHING…shelter, food, peace, money, a good relationship, healthy whole children) necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
2Pe 1:4 And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh(every thought, choice and feeling that is contrary to the word)
2Pe 1:5 So, for this very cause, take every(EVERY) care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
2Pe 1:6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
2Pe 1:7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
2Pe 1:8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so the way will be open(OPEN) to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 For this reason I will be ready( get your spiritual armour) at all times to keep your memory(when the bills start talking, when the hurt starts throbbing) of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.
As a believer you have been given more than a pass to do something, you have been given the strength and power to get what you need…and what you want. Let us no longer go through life like one that is helpless in a situation, hopeless with no way out, but let us take a deep breath, close our eyes and receive EMPOWERMENT. You can do anything you need to do; God is just waiting for you to let him show you what’s really been placed inside you to excel in that area. Understand this always, that all that we say we are in Christ is always known not by the verses you know, but the ones you live.
No longer is grace just to cover us when we mess up, but it’s to empower us to conquer, to succeed, to accomplish with flying colors…
When you become Christ centered, the divine influence upon the heart will become the reflection in one’s life…
What can you do now that you are empowered? What business can you open, what degree can you accomplish, what relationships can you change, what family member can you lead to Christ…what child can you pray over and see the change come in their attitudes, job can you influence…what can you become now that you are empowered with a super G…
1) Today my mouth, (what I say)
2) Today my will, (who I choose to serve self or God)
3) Today my heart, (how I think, feel and respond)
I yield to your word... I will not this week, purposely choose to be POWERLESS, a THORN before others, Lose my IDENTITY, Doubt God’s direction, correct MYSELF, my spouse (if you are married), my children, my friends, or relatives in a negative, hurtful, critical, way... Even if I am right, I will ASK YOU FIRST LORD, how to respond, what to say and when, then only ONLY SAY WHAT YOU SAY, THE WAY YOU WAY AND HOW YOU SAY... If I have to correct, it will be in love, it will be with strength, but it will be in YOUR WAY AND YOUR WAY ONLY...
Make sure you read your chapter, stay encouraged and pray for each other ♥
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