Finished

" He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things"

This is truly an amazing statement as I look at it over and over again, God did not spare Jesus but cursed Him, His own Son, on the cross for us. Read it again, and again. Because of this He will give us all things. This is not for us to be selfish, its not all about us. Its actually about God. Its never about us but always about His glory, Jesus died for the glory of God, we are saved for the Glory of God, we are made righteous for the glory of God, the Holy Spirit lives in us for the glory of God and we will be glorified for the glory of God.

I have been learning more and more and will continue to learn so much more that when we stand before a circumstance that it is not by anything I can do that is going to change that situation, but it is Jesus who has already at the cross made provision for it to change. Let me use and example: A person we know is very ill, they have an illness that is terminal. We can gather people together to pray and to fast, but this will not change the situation. No amount of prayer or fasting is going to change that situation, not from God's side. Prayer and fasting is essential for us as believers, I am not the best prayer but I love to pray and communicate with God, we need to do these things but they are not essential, I believe, for God to activate. What is essential for God to activate is faith, faith in the finished work of the cross. Faith is what attracts the Holy Spirit who comes and transforms the circumstance or situation.
Our prayer and fasting is a sign of our faith and our love and commitment to the person who is ill, this also builds our faith. But we can have days of prayer and fasting, and if it is done out of a place of " God you see how much we do, how hard we are working for you to move your hand" then we are not acting in faith. (I am not saying we must not pray and fast, please hear me, I am saying the reason we pray and fast, in this particular instance, is the key, it is not to motivate God by our works, it should be out of faith that we activate God, our prayer and fasting is from faith not from works.)

You see God did not spare Jesus, thats the extent of His love. It must have been incredibly difficult for God to place the weight of sin and the curses and punishment of mankind onto His Son. Yet He did it. He is serious about us not trying to do anything in our own strength, because when we do things in our own strength it make light of what happened on the cross, it is a sign of unbelief.

We stand before every situation and believe that it has been atoned for at the cross, there is nothing we can add to the work of the cross and we should not try,we should not expect it of others. When people come to me for help, struggling with issues or sin I always take time to explain to them the finished work of the cross, Gods amazing grace. God will not leave us ' high and dry', He left Jesus ' High and bleeding to death' so He would not have to do that to us. This is the amazing gospel of Gods grace. We just have to believe, believe that we cannot do anything to add to the cross, believe that it has been completed, believe that when Jesus said " it is complete" He was not lying but was telling the truth.

If we live like this we will see more of the kingdom come and more of Gods glory

God Bless