Rooted, Grounded, Established, Abounding
There is a rooting and grounding God wants to do with all of His children, so that we are established in His love and faith and walk in the abundance of His Kingdom.
In Colossians 2:7, in the Amplified Bible, we read: Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
We are to be rooted firmly in Christ Jesus. We have been planted in Him. We are steadfastly fixed in Him. We are built upon Him. What does all this mean? We as His children have His abilities, His character, and His anointing. He is in us and we are in Him. We are to become more and more established in His faith; in fact, we are to abound and overflow in His faith with thanksgiving. Thanksgiving----what a beautiful word and what an infrequent action. If we only realized the magnitude of what a heart of thanksgiving opens for us. We see right here that it opens abundance to us.
Also, let’s look at Ephesians 3:17, 18 and 19. We read that we are to be rooted deeply in God’s Love. We are to be founded securely on His Love. What is the reason for this being rooted deeply in His Love? Why must we be found standing on His Love? We are to be planted, rooted, grounded, fixed, and established on God’s Love so that we as God’s children may have His power operating in us and through us, so that we may be strong to grasp the understanding of the wholeness of God’s Love----the breadth, length, height and depth of it, and so that we may come to experience His Love for ourselves. We must experience and know in reality the fullness of His Love. We must understand that we are filled with the fullness of God, the full measure of His Love, which is the essence of His divine Presence. We are filled with God. Thus, we are filled with Love.
As we are established in the faith of God and are rooted and grounded in His Love, we become people who delight in Him and His Word. Actually, it all goes together. We read and study and meditate the Word of God, and we understand His Love more and more. His Word helps build His faith in us. And His Word causes us to develop delight in Him and His Word.
Read what Psalm 112 says about the person who delights in God’s Word and worships and respects the Lord. That person’s heart is firmly fixed, established and steady. He trusts in the Lord. He is not afraid. He is not moved by negative circumstances.
In the time in which we find ourselves living, we need a steadfast heart, firm faith and the power of God that operates through us as a result of being rooted deeply in Him (Who is Love) and His Word. Take these three scriptures (Colossians 2:7, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 112:6-8) and speak them over yourself frequently. You will find yourself becoming a person of stability, regardless of the instability that may be whirling around you. You can be fixed and immovable in Him, abounding with thanksgiving.
In Colossians 2:7, in the Amplified Bible, we read: Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
We are to be rooted firmly in Christ Jesus. We have been planted in Him. We are steadfastly fixed in Him. We are built upon Him. What does all this mean? We as His children have His abilities, His character, and His anointing. He is in us and we are in Him. We are to become more and more established in His faith; in fact, we are to abound and overflow in His faith with thanksgiving. Thanksgiving----what a beautiful word and what an infrequent action. If we only realized the magnitude of what a heart of thanksgiving opens for us. We see right here that it opens abundance to us.
Also, let’s look at Ephesians 3:17, 18 and 19. We read that we are to be rooted deeply in God’s Love. We are to be founded securely on His Love. What is the reason for this being rooted deeply in His Love? Why must we be found standing on His Love? We are to be planted, rooted, grounded, fixed, and established on God’s Love so that we as God’s children may have His power operating in us and through us, so that we may be strong to grasp the understanding of the wholeness of God’s Love----the breadth, length, height and depth of it, and so that we may come to experience His Love for ourselves. We must experience and know in reality the fullness of His Love. We must understand that we are filled with the fullness of God, the full measure of His Love, which is the essence of His divine Presence. We are filled with God. Thus, we are filled with Love.
As we are established in the faith of God and are rooted and grounded in His Love, we become people who delight in Him and His Word. Actually, it all goes together. We read and study and meditate the Word of God, and we understand His Love more and more. His Word helps build His faith in us. And His Word causes us to develop delight in Him and His Word.
Read what Psalm 112 says about the person who delights in God’s Word and worships and respects the Lord. That person’s heart is firmly fixed, established and steady. He trusts in the Lord. He is not afraid. He is not moved by negative circumstances.
In the time in which we find ourselves living, we need a steadfast heart, firm faith and the power of God that operates through us as a result of being rooted deeply in Him (Who is Love) and His Word. Take these three scriptures (Colossians 2:7, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 112:6-8) and speak them over yourself frequently. You will find yourself becoming a person of stability, regardless of the instability that may be whirling around you. You can be fixed and immovable in Him, abounding with thanksgiving.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 11:38 AM
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