Desperate for help, I was praying about the situation one morning and I began to repeat what I’d heard someone else say one time. I began to cry out over and over, “Oh God, send the power just now! Oh God, send the power just now! Oh God…!”
At the time I thought it was a perfectly good prayer. But as soon as I quieted down a little bit, The LORD interrupted me: 'Kenneth!' He said, 'Where am I going to get it?'
“What do You mean, LORD?” I asked.
'Well, you’ve been crying to Me all morning about sending you power. Where do you think I’m going to get it? I’ve already filled you with My own Spirit. I can’t turn to someone else now and say, “Kenneth needs more power.”'
After giving me a moment to think about that, He then went on to say something else that shook me to my core. He said, 'Son, I could have filled you with an angel. I have some very sharp, very powerful angels. I could have created some being that never existed before to come and empower you. But I didn’t trust you to an angel, or any other created being. I don’t trust you to anyone but Me—and I’m going to tell you something: I’m all you need. Now just go do what I taught you to do.'
Talk about an awakening! When God said that to me, He changed my whole direction of thought for the rest of my life. He redirected my attention so I was no longer looking for power to come to me from out yonder somewhere. I was looking for power to come from the One who is in me.
That’s what God wants all of us believers to do! He wants us to become increasingly God-inside minded. He wants us to be thinking all the time, every day—God is in me, and greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world!
Why does He want us to think that way? Because that’s how Jesus thought when He was on the earth. He never prayed, “God, send down the power!” when something supernatural needed to be done. He simply put His faith in the power of the Father who dwelt within Him. He did whatever the Father told Him to do, and the Father did the works (John 14:10).
You can see a good example of this in Luke 5, where Jesus ministered to the man who was sick with the palsy. You’ve probably read about that incident. The man’s four friends carried him to one of Jesus’ meetings believing he would be healed, and when they couldn’t get through the crowd they tore off part of the roof of the house where the meeting was taking place. Then they lowered their palsied friend “down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus” (verse 19).
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