27/01/2019 - CHRIST DWELLING IN YOUR HEART

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that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  Ephesians 3:17

Salvation concluded, when we receive the fruit of repentance in order to be delivered from iniquity, we must seek Jesus to live in our heart through faith.  If the Lord does not live in us it will be impossible to do the same works that He did.  In His earthly mission, the Master was able to work marvels, prodigies and signs because the Father lived in Him.

When Jesus lives within us, we grow into a foundational love never before imaginable.  Then what seemed so difficult becomes easy, the ability to resist temptations grows in us and we become workers of divine righteousness.  This changes our lives and that of our family and friends.  This is how we become a blessing to humanity.

Our roots in Christ must be like that which happens to the cedars of Lebanon, where a tree can grow to 40 meters in height, but in spite of being so tall does not bent before any wind. The reason for this is that after being planted, it spends more than three years growing its roots until they find rocks to cling to. If you root yourself in the Rock of Israel you will never be uprooted by storm.

The divine plan is that you and all those that are saved comprehend perfectly the width, length, height and depth of the love of God (Ephesians 3:18). Then knowing this incomparable fruit, you will see that it is greater than all that we can imagine.  As a result, your life will receive the fullness of the Lord.  There will only be a weak Christian in the church if he does not understand his place in the Son of God. 

This is the reason why Paul would kneel before the Father: to see those he had gained for Christ abandon their carnality and the snare of the enemy and decide to take up their position in Jesus.  It should be our aim to feel full in the Lord. Then bravely we will enter the territories of the enemy to take the Word of Truth and deliver the oppressed.  This attitude pleases the Almighty!

If what we are seeing can be made real in us, we must strive for this to happen in our interior.  The world has to know those who will be said to have been with Jesus.  We are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13), but if we are insipid we will not make a difference in the world that is decaying.  When the saved protest against the government, against society, he shows that he is not a Christian. 

Allow Christ to live by faith in your heart.  Then you and many others will benefit from the goodness of the Lord.  The problems are solved as we comprehend that the change will come about first in us.  Only in this manner, as if in a chain reaction the people will also experiment the best of God.  After all, we were appointed by Jesus to be His witnesses.

In Christ, with Love,

R. R. Soares