Intended to Manifest God's Power.

     What if God intended to manifest his power through ordinary people just like us?  What if God actually expects us to do the miracles that Jesus did?  Maybe Jesus did all those miracles because he was really God.  Wasn't it because he was special and very different from us, that he could do what he did?  However, it may be that Jesus did those miracles not because he was God, but because he was a perfectly submitted man and totally dependent upon Holy Spirit.  He did say that he did nothing except what he saw the Father doing.  The scripture says that even though Jesus was God (Fully God and fully human) he laid aside his privilege and became a man.  That means that he did everything that he did not as God but as man.  He lived as a man.  He died as a man.  He was raised from the dead as a man.

     If this is true then that changes everything!  If Jesus did his miracles not as God but as man, then he was illustrating what we could be like when perfectly submitted to God and totally dependent upon Holy Spirit living in and through us.
     What if God intended to manifest his power through ordinary people just like us?

• Are we willing to recognize that we are "holy and acceptable" through the blood sacrifice of Jesus?
• Are we willing to press into intimacy with the Father so we are aware of what He wants to do?
• Are we listening to the voice of Holy Spirit and willing to obey him in everything he says?
• Are we willing to walk in faith and take risks even when the natural mind says no way!
• Maybe then we might begin to see God manifesting his power through ordinary people like us.

Let's go for it.  Risk failure.  Risk foolishness.  Risk making a radical difference in a desperate world.