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In addition to laying aside His divine wisdom, Jesus also laid aside all His supernatural power when He came to earth. He had no more ability on His own to do the miraculous than we do. That’s why, even though He was the Son of God from the moment of His birth, He didn’t work even one miracle until He was 30 years old. What happened when He turned 30? He was baptized in and anointed with the power of the Holy Spirit to do God’s mighty works. If you’ve been baptized in the Holy Spirit, you’ve been endued with the same power. You didn’t receive a different Holy Spirit than Jesus did. You have the same Spirit for the same reason—so that you could do God’s mighty works (See Luke 4:18-19). “Brother Copeland, are you sure?” Yes. But don’t take it from me, take it from Jesus. He said in Acts 1:8, “Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me.” The Greek word translated power in that verse is dunamis. Used throughout the New Testament to refer to God’s supernatural strength and ability, it’s the word used in Mark 5 to describe the power that healed the woman with the issue of blood. When she reached out in faith and touched Jesus’ clothes, verse 30 says, “power” (dunamis) went out of Him, and “immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction” (verse 29, "NKJV"). The word dunamis can also be translated might. In Ephesians 3, for instance, in one of his divinely inspired apostolic prayers, the Apostle Paul prayed that God “would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith” (verses 16-17). What’s going to happen when you’re strengthened with God’s miracle-working power on the inside? It’s going to show up on the outside! What’s going to happen when Christ dwells, or makes Himself at “home,” as the "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition" says, in your heart by faith? The Christ inside is going to manifest on the outside. When translated into English, the Greek word Christ speaks of the Anointed One and His Anointing. The Anointed One, of course, is Jesus. The Anointing on Him is the power of the Holy Spirit. The more we develop our faith in and our awareness of the Anointed One and His Anointing inside us, the more at home in us He can be. When someone is at home someplace, they’re free to be themselves. They’re free to fully express who they really are. That’s what we want the Holy Spirit to be able to do in us. We want Him to be at home, to be free to express Himself in and through us in all His wisdom and mighty power! In the next few verses of Ephesians 3, Paul goes on to pray: "That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 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, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (verses 17-21). Talk about a thrillingly abundant life! Picture living every day filled with all the fullness of God. Picture having His dunamis-power within you always at the ready, always available to be manifested through you whenever it’s needed. That’s the kind of life Jesus said we would live. A life in which we do the works He did…and greater! Press into that life by faith. Purposely work to develop a God-inside consciousness by practicing being aware of His presence within you, feeding on The WORD, and walking in love. As you pray in the Holy Spirit, put your hand on your belly and remind yourself that He is in there. When you lay hands on the sick, remind yourself that His hands are in your hands. Dare to believe, “As He is, so am I in this world!” V POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1) Full-time preachers aren’t the only ones who can do the supernatural works of Jesus; every believer can do them. (John 14:12) 2) As believers, born again in the image of Jesus, we’re to operate here on earth just like He did. (1 Jn. 4:17) 3) Jesus was totally dependent on the power of God within Him to do His mighty works. (John 14:10) 4) The same Holy Spirit who empowered Jesus has now been sent to empower those of us who believe on Him. (Acts 1:8) 5) Purpose to become more God-inside minded and develop your consciousness of the Spirit of God on the inside of you. 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