HOW TO WORK FROM THE INVISIBLE

We tend to be Missourians at heart when it comes to doing God's work; show me first and then I'll believe it. Each of us has a passion, at least for awhile, to see the grand and glorious take place.

However, for many such concepts fade as we resolve to believing only a few--the Jeff Wallings and the Rick Atchleys--are capable of experiencing the God-life to the fullest.

To attribute the good stuff of church potential only to a handful of faithful servants is a major and mistaken surrender of common electrifying faith.

While I am admiring both Jeff, Rick, and several others, faith is for all.  Our fall is due to our innate nature of operating according to the wisdom of the world rather than the system of God.

God-style faith believes things that aren't yet as well as carries confidence that dead issues can live...Romans 4:17.

Believers--real, authentic believers--see into the invisible.  Give II Kings 6:15ff a good look.  A servant to Elisha stepped out on the front porch to retrieve the morning paper.  When he looked up he was face to face with the Aramean army.  The servant panicked and retreated to report the surprise threat.

Elisha's words were from the terrain of faith, Do not fear for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.  Elisha then prayed God would open the servants eyes.  God did.  The servant gasped in wonder of the presence of the invisible army poised for God's use.

A problem which thwarts the church of God is we are too easily faked out by the visible.  We tend to possess a very anemic faith that gains confidence only if we can calculate by the natural mind how A + B = C.  Our movements are more from human effort than by God provision.

Thus, many Christians live a rather subdued life given predominantly to church attendance and wishful thinking.

To work from the invisible carries a few dynamics which will bear power and awe:

1. We are to spend time with God through prayer.  Prayer isn't a church exercise.  It is a God/us relationship.  
2. We are to spend time with God through praise.  Accolades and adoration are to pour from our hearts with deep thanksgiving for every moment...even when the visibles do not give normalcy a reason to gloat over God.
3. We are to spend time with God through awe.  When we believe Jesus remains resurrected and we thrive from resurrection power, the entire scheme of kingdom life COMES ALIVE!  What else would one anticipate from a resurrected Savior?

We are called to link with the invisible world of God's activity.  He is living; not dead. He is for relationship; not rule.  Know Him.  Love Him.  Look to Him.

Watch for new life to pop right where you live!!!