God Can Do Anything

Conceptualization of truth is an absolute essential if one is to walk the faith walk. The Word is more than rules and principles to memorized and obeyed. It is the living Word of the Living God. When one accepts it is being true and when he realizes the personal implications and applications of the Word in his own life, he begins to conceptualize the word with it coming alive in his spirit. Instead of it being a dead legalistic formatted way of living, it is a vital dynamic walk of obedience. When one spreads wings of faith, the winds of the Spirit lifts him, energizes him, and enables him to do the work of the Father.

Until the truth comes alive in a person with him seeing who God is in his life and what God can do through his life, the Christian life will be drudgery rather than a joy. There is a paradigm shift that must occur in the inner man of people who want to walk in the victory and power described in the scripture. One must come to the place that he believes that God can indeed do anything. To do that requires that he let go of old defeatist ideas and turn with a whole heart to all that Jesus is and can be in his life. It is a total change of one's point of view.

Attitude is of primary value in one's life. Regardless of what he knows, attitude determines what he will appropriate and apply in his life. One's attitude will overpower anything that impedes its expression whether it is good or bad. A good attitude will cause a person to rise up in the face of all opposition and march ahead with banners held high. He will be an inspiration and an influence on all that he encounters on his march to victory. One who has a sour or negative attitude will be a hindrance and a corrupter of all who will accept the attitudes he espouses with he, himself, ultimately realizing the defeat he espoused.

Most people who are defeated in life are more defeated by their negative attitudes than they are by the personalities and circumstances that oppose or impede them. We are taught that we should let the attitude of Jesus be ours. To let the attitude of Jesus be ours is to hold the values He held, to possess the determination that He held, to be controlled by the Father as He was, and to walk the walk of faith as He did.

Jesus never clung to His rights. In fact He denied Himself the right to live as God on the earth He had created and chose to live among men being made vulnerable to them. When one desires to have the attitude of Jesus, he must forsake his rights and, taking up his cross, follow Jesus.

The things that we conceive and the attitudes that we express will ultimately be demonstrated in the form of life expressions. What we do, where we go, what we say, and how we relate are determined by the concepts and attitudes that dominate our thinking and controls our way of life. "As a man thinks in his heart so is he. Guard you heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life" (Proverbs 23:7; 4:23).

God, indeed, can do anything. The major hindrance to the fullest expression of His working in our behalf is that which lies incubating in our hearts. "And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief" (Matthew 13:58) or "And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven" (Matthew 8:2).

Faith ultimately is the final determination that one makes in which he concludes in his own mind, attitude and actions that God is able. That He can, He will and He does work in lives that are open and obedient to Him.

Jeff