Today I want to share one of my favorite testimonies from Kenneth Copeland from today's "From Faith To Faith" devotional:
CHRIST IN YOU
To whom God would make known what
is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27
Some years back, I was praying
and walking the floor of our little house in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was walking up
and down confessing 1 John 4:4, "Greater is He that is in me, than he that
is in the world." Greater is He.... Greater is He.... Suddenly, revelation
knowledge welled up in me and I knew, Oh! God is in me!
It hit me like
someone walked up and slapped me with a wet rag. It just shook me awake. I
started to stomp grandly around that old house. All of a sudden, I wasn't just
a poor preacher living in a shack anymore! I was the dwelling place of the Most
High God! That changed my thinking about so many things. I looked at my hands
and it hit me. His fingers are in my fingers! I looked at my
legs. His legs are in my legs. His feet are in my feet! If I walk into
danger, He walks into danger.
Now, when I hear people say,
"Brother Copeland, my prayers aren't getting any higher than the
ceiling," I want to say, "Higher than the ceiling? They don't need to
get any higher than your nose! He's inside you! The Author of your
prayers, the Author of your faith, Jesus of Nazareth has taken residency inside
you. Hallelujah!"
Some people think you don't get
filled with the Spirit until you receive the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. But
that's not so. The Holy Spirit came into you when you made Jesus Lord of your
life. He came into you when you were born again. Getting baptized in the Holy
Spirit is another thing. It's when the power of the Holy Ghost comes upon you
to empower you for service (Acts 1:8).
That means even if you've just
been born again two seconds, Jesus is in you! He's living there, and He will be
from now on. Can you fathom that? If you'll spend some time thinking about it
and meditating on it, you can receive revelation of it just like I did. It will
start growing in your spirit and eventually change your whole life.
"As God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people" (2 Corinthians 6:16). Jesus is in you. That's the most
glorious truth in the Word of God. Let that truth come alive in you today.
I hope that YOU will meditate on this TRUTH until it becomes so very real to YOU that it will change the way look at everything in your life! WE ARE living, breathing, walking and talking TEMPLES of the Living God! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Children Of The Light":
Shalom in Him!
