Psalm 91 Study, Part 3
Yesterday, we discussed verse 1 of Psalm 91. Today we are going to talk about the power that we have when we are dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God. You see, part of dwelling in the secret place is dwelling in the Word of God, His Word given to us personally, by which we live. In addition to 1 John 4:8 where we read that God is Love, Jesus is called the Word of God in John 1:1.
People are seeking the power of God when all they have to do is to make that quality decision to walk in the fullness of Agape love, Love Himself, God Himself, Who is Love. When we walk in Agape Love, we are walking in God, we are walking in His power, which is Agape Love in operation. The power of God, which is Agape Love in operation, is the outflow, the result of His whole nature, which is Love. He is nothing else. He has nothing else but Love. And His Love is His power. He is all powerful. He is the origin of power. He is the source of power. That atomic bomb has no power compared to God’s power in operation.
As we will see in the three definitions of power below, the visibility of God’s power in operation, which is called dunamis power, is light. The scientists are learning much about light. What they need to realize is that God is Light; He is the One from whom the light flows. He is the Source of light. When He created the earth, the first thing He said was: Light, be. He was saying: I am reproducing My Being right now to start this earth. This earth is run by light. Without light, all plant and animal life would die. So we see from this that Love Himself is the Light producer, which brings forth Life Himself, Who is God, Who produces life in us and all around us. Oh, what we all have to realize is that God is at the center of everything and not us. He is the all-sufficient One, the Creator, the Sustainer of all life. It is He Who is our everything.
You must feed on and live on the Word of God, in addition to sitting quietly in His presence. It is the dynamic combination of the reality of the Holy Spirit’s presence in our lives and the personal instruction from His Word that keeps us. The Word of God is His keeping power made real to us by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We could say that the secret place is the Word of God, because He is the Word. It is that abiding place in His presence, with His word as our guide that makes us overcomers and more than conquerors in this world.
Experiences and encounters with God are wonderful and bring the reality of God’s power into focus in our lives. It is the Word of God that makes those encounters real to us, that solidifies what we have experienced. It is the rhema word (God’s Word revealed to you personally) that is life to you (John 6:63). Jesus said that we live by every Word of God (Luke 4:4 and Deut. 8:3).
I take His Word and put it into my Word bank, put it in, put it in, put it in, make deposits by studying, reading, confessing His Word and listening to ministers preaching and teaching the Truth of His word until it becomes my personal understanding, my revelation of His Word. Then when I need His Word, the Holy Spirit has a reservoir to draw on and to bring up in me, speak to me, and I speak it out of my mouth to the situation or circumstance and the situation or circumstance MUST bow its knee to the revealed Word of God coming out of me.
The following explanation of God’s power is what He gave to me a number of years ago when I was studying the book of Ephesians. I am not a Greek scholar. I am simply giving you what I believe the Holy Spirit gave me during that time of study. All three words refer to God, to His power. What He has done in His infinite wisdom is to break down the composition of His power so that we can understand more clearly what He does through us. It is like the three-in-one in the Godhead; The Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all God, but for our minds to understand, God has shown us three parts of Himself. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding of what I am about to discuss with you. You will have to meditate and ponder until it becomes real to you.
POWER AND MIGHT: His Word for me is the hiding place of His power (His fire). The Holy Spirit is the igniter.
The next three words together are God’s resurrection power, the power that resides in God, capable of bringing complete life where there is an impossibly dead situation.
KRATOS: Inherent power of God which is fixed, exists in, resides in God and also in me as His child.
ISCHUS: That power of God which is the force, the forcefulness, the ability, the strength that propels the kratos out to do the work He intends to do (through us, as He has chosen to do).
DUNAMIS: The explosive power of God, seen as Light in the spirit realm and too powerful for the human eye to behold, which is a result of kratos (resident power) to which is applied ischus (the force that releases His power). This is miraculous power, possibility power (Nothing is impossible with God; all things are possible with Him.)
As we dwell in the secret place of the Most High God, under the shadow of the Almighty, this is what is happening to us. We are dwelling in the Presence of the Holy Spirit. We are dwelling in the Presence of the Word. We are dwelling in the Presence of Love Himself. We are dwelling in God. And when we are dwelling in God, we are dwelling in His power. We are dwelling in Love Himself, which is the pure power that runs this universe, that created it and you and me in the first place, and now keeps it going with His life force called zoe.
The Love of God is the power of God because God is love. In Him, Love, is His power, His entire being, His whole nature. This power of God, this love of God, comes to dwell in us and is resident in us when we are born again. Romans 5:5 tells us that the love of God is shed abroad, poured forth in our hearts. This power of God resides in us, exists in us, is fixed in us once we are born again. And it will lie there in our spirit man, not producing what God intended, until we start dwelling in His Presence and in His Word.
His Word, by the unction of His Spirit Who dwells in us when we are born again, will show us His power, which is the kratos power. The Holy Spirit will take the Word and make it personally real to us, called rhema, and bring forth the resident power of God (kratos), by the force or power of His Spirit (ischus) into this earthly realm in which we live. That is called the dunamis power of God, when we see it demonstrated as miracles, signs and wonders to the world. It is the dunamis power of God which is the applied power of God for the world to see. It is the demonstrated power of God that is the result of the power of God resident in us, Love Himself resident in us. We come to an understanding of this power as we dwell in His Word and in His Presence. This knowledge is not to be taken lightly. It is God Himself at work through us.
People are seeking the power of God when all they have to do is to make that quality decision to walk in the fullness of Agape love, Love Himself, God Himself, Who is Love. When we walk in Agape Love, we are walking in God, we are walking in His power, which is Agape Love in operation. The power of God, which is Agape Love in operation, is the outflow, the result of His whole nature, which is Love. He is nothing else. He has nothing else but Love. And His Love is His power. He is all powerful. He is the origin of power. He is the source of power. That atomic bomb has no power compared to God’s power in operation.
As we will see in the three definitions of power below, the visibility of God’s power in operation, which is called dunamis power, is light. The scientists are learning much about light. What they need to realize is that God is Light; He is the One from whom the light flows. He is the Source of light. When He created the earth, the first thing He said was: Light, be. He was saying: I am reproducing My Being right now to start this earth. This earth is run by light. Without light, all plant and animal life would die. So we see from this that Love Himself is the Light producer, which brings forth Life Himself, Who is God, Who produces life in us and all around us. Oh, what we all have to realize is that God is at the center of everything and not us. He is the all-sufficient One, the Creator, the Sustainer of all life. It is He Who is our everything.
You must feed on and live on the Word of God, in addition to sitting quietly in His presence. It is the dynamic combination of the reality of the Holy Spirit’s presence in our lives and the personal instruction from His Word that keeps us. The Word of God is His keeping power made real to us by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We could say that the secret place is the Word of God, because He is the Word. It is that abiding place in His presence, with His word as our guide that makes us overcomers and more than conquerors in this world.
Experiences and encounters with God are wonderful and bring the reality of God’s power into focus in our lives. It is the Word of God that makes those encounters real to us, that solidifies what we have experienced. It is the rhema word (God’s Word revealed to you personally) that is life to you (John 6:63). Jesus said that we live by every Word of God (Luke 4:4 and Deut. 8:3).
I take His Word and put it into my Word bank, put it in, put it in, put it in, make deposits by studying, reading, confessing His Word and listening to ministers preaching and teaching the Truth of His word until it becomes my personal understanding, my revelation of His Word. Then when I need His Word, the Holy Spirit has a reservoir to draw on and to bring up in me, speak to me, and I speak it out of my mouth to the situation or circumstance and the situation or circumstance MUST bow its knee to the revealed Word of God coming out of me.
The following explanation of God’s power is what He gave to me a number of years ago when I was studying the book of Ephesians. I am not a Greek scholar. I am simply giving you what I believe the Holy Spirit gave me during that time of study. All three words refer to God, to His power. What He has done in His infinite wisdom is to break down the composition of His power so that we can understand more clearly what He does through us. It is like the three-in-one in the Godhead; The Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all God, but for our minds to understand, God has shown us three parts of Himself. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding of what I am about to discuss with you. You will have to meditate and ponder until it becomes real to you.
POWER AND MIGHT: His Word for me is the hiding place of His power (His fire). The Holy Spirit is the igniter.
The next three words together are God’s resurrection power, the power that resides in God, capable of bringing complete life where there is an impossibly dead situation.
KRATOS: Inherent power of God which is fixed, exists in, resides in God and also in me as His child.
ISCHUS: That power of God which is the force, the forcefulness, the ability, the strength that propels the kratos out to do the work He intends to do (through us, as He has chosen to do).
DUNAMIS: The explosive power of God, seen as Light in the spirit realm and too powerful for the human eye to behold, which is a result of kratos (resident power) to which is applied ischus (the force that releases His power). This is miraculous power, possibility power (Nothing is impossible with God; all things are possible with Him.)
As we dwell in the secret place of the Most High God, under the shadow of the Almighty, this is what is happening to us. We are dwelling in the Presence of the Holy Spirit. We are dwelling in the Presence of the Word. We are dwelling in the Presence of Love Himself. We are dwelling in God. And when we are dwelling in God, we are dwelling in His power. We are dwelling in Love Himself, which is the pure power that runs this universe, that created it and you and me in the first place, and now keeps it going with His life force called zoe.
The Love of God is the power of God because God is love. In Him, Love, is His power, His entire being, His whole nature. This power of God, this love of God, comes to dwell in us and is resident in us when we are born again. Romans 5:5 tells us that the love of God is shed abroad, poured forth in our hearts. This power of God resides in us, exists in us, is fixed in us once we are born again. And it will lie there in our spirit man, not producing what God intended, until we start dwelling in His Presence and in His Word.
His Word, by the unction of His Spirit Who dwells in us when we are born again, will show us His power, which is the kratos power. The Holy Spirit will take the Word and make it personally real to us, called rhema, and bring forth the resident power of God (kratos), by the force or power of His Spirit (ischus) into this earthly realm in which we live. That is called the dunamis power of God, when we see it demonstrated as miracles, signs and wonders to the world. It is the dunamis power of God which is the applied power of God for the world to see. It is the demonstrated power of God that is the result of the power of God resident in us, Love Himself resident in us. We come to an understanding of this power as we dwell in His Word and in His Presence. This knowledge is not to be taken lightly. It is God Himself at work through us.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 7:56 PM
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