The Greater the Sacrifice the Greater the Power that is Released
Scripture: Mark 10:35-38
In Mark 10:35-38 we find James and John, the sons of Zebedee coming to Jesus with a
demand. They said, “…we want to sit one on the right hand and one on the left in Your glory.”
Jesus spoke an eternal truth which most of us have missed – we ask for things that have a
price tag we are unprepared to pay! James and John did it, why shouldn’t we? Jesus told
them, “You do not know what you ask. Can you drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized
with the baptism that I am baptized with?” James and John answered, probably glibly, “Yes,
we can.” The response Jesus comes back with is pregnant with meaning in the light of
Abraham and Paul. He said to them, “You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the
baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized….” What can we say about the covenantal
principle of God? The magnitude we ask for God’s power to be revealed through our lives
is the magnitude and level at which we will be tested. We are the ones who set it. I have
learned a principle in my own life and like to share it: “the greater the sacrifice the greater the
power that is released.” The spirit realm is a principled realm. Be ready in this generation to
take on the giants that may arise. We were born for such a time as this.
Prayer.
God wants to come to you today to wipe off all the religious swampy grime that
has been an influencing residue on your life because you never really understood
the true message of the Kingdom and its place in your everyday life and
experience. It’s a lot harder for dust to stick to something when it’s constantly
moving; the Kingdom in us is destined to move in and through us every day.
When you feel dull in your spiritual life, it is usually first and foremost the
busyness of life that has replaced quality time and communication with the Lord.
Second, you may have dammed up the life inside by being a spiritual hoarder.
We are commissioned to freely give what God has given us (see Matt. 10:8).
Those rivers need to be moving. Dullness is exactly what a swamp feels
like—there is no movement.” Begin from your belly and let the river flow….
Hallelujah! It is the beginning of another new month and an opportunity to
praise the LORD at this new gate of times and seasons. Proclaim Psalm 118.