IVAN PATTISON
Ivan
Pattison,
THE
CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN
Living a Christian life is not just living a good
life, for even an unrighteous man can live a good life, but living as a
Christian is a life full of power, and dedication to God, and how many of us
really have this power, that is so available to us if only we would take it on
board.
We as Christians forget it is the Power that is within us that heals us, that we can do mighty things in the name of Jesus. This Power comes from the time we spend with God in prayer, and in His Word, and using His Word as a Sword to fight the enemy.
A woman last night on the phone said to me things
should just happen, but they don’t as all things are Spiritual, and the closer
we come to God the more attacks we will have from the enemy.
We have to fight for what we want, with the Word
of God, in prayer.
It has taken me four months to get my new
computer up and running and every time I take my computer back to the shop they
change things so it messes me up, so now for the last month I have been sorting
the problems out myself, and I will not be taking it back to the shop again, at
least not without a lot of prayer.
I am going to have to get serious about
Scriptural warfare here, even though I do pray the Scriptures it is not enough,
I am going to have to get more serious, and will be spending more time than I do
at the present time if I want a more efficient life style as I have had one
attack after another since just before Christmas last year.
Ephesians 3:19-20 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness
of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that worketh in
us.
It is the power that works within us, it is the
glory that is on us, it is no good going to church on Sunday and hoping, that
will not get things done it is the Power that is within us that works.
Holman Bible Dictionary says in part; POWER The
ability to act or produce an effect; the possession of authority over others.
These two aspects of power are often related in Scripture. Because God has
revealed His power in the act of creation, He has authority to assign dominion
to whom ever He wills
This week's promise: (this is another message I
receive from the Internet daily) "God
will make all things new", I want to start life anew, to be
forgiven and clean. Will God truly do that?
"Create in me a clean heart, O
God. Renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10
Although we won't be entirely pure in this life, like
David we can pursue purity as one of our primary goals.
I am not in total agreement with the above
statement, as I believe if we really put our minds to it, we could be so much
more perfect than we are at this present time.
Verlie Hobson from Sydney
Australia, I understand believes that we can be made perfect, and I have to
agree with her, and if we do have this idea in mind there is a chance that we
will make it perfectly. If we don’t think we can be made perfect, then there is
no hope for any one of us to be made perfect, as it is what we set our mind to
and in Jesus Christ it will happen.
Genesis
Is there anything too hard for God to do in our
lives, no I don’t think so, so if He can give Sarah a son surely He can make us
perfect.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and
I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his
name before my Father, and before his angels.
Matthew
I don’t think Jesus would have said this if He
could not work the perfect work in us.
My friends let us each day be overcomers,
and how do we do this, and that is the same way we would eat an elephant, one bite
at a time, or one wrong item in our lives, that we wish to overcome.
Ivan
