In One Accord With God's Power — Sandeep Poonen

According to God's Power and One Accord

Praise God for what we've heard. I Want to speak from Colossians chapter 1. One little phrase According to God's power and according to his might according it says in verse 11 strengthened with all power according to his glorious might.

Then in verse 29 again, he says According to his power. I strive. I labor which mightily works within me. That's this little phrase according is what I want to Share how the Lord has opened my eyes a little bit to it that word according.

Kind of blew open a little bit when I understood according to be related with the word accord to be of one accord. To be united with to be one with and it says in Colossians chapter 3. Sorry, Colossians at 1 verse 13.

Rescued From Darkness Into Christ's Kingdom

He rescued us from the domain of darkness. There was a time it says in Ephesians I'm just gonna share a few verses as I kind of go through this when we began the Christian life. We were according to a different spirit according to a different power.

Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2 it says that we were walking According to the Prince of the power of this earth. We were with one accord with the devil all of us if we're not Given our hearts and lives to Christ.

Walking in one accord with the devil. We may not feel that way. We may have a lot of good works. The devil has a lot of Bible knowledge. The devil has more Bible knowledge than all of us. But He's not in God's presence at all.

He's suffering the consequences of separation from God for all eternity. Even though I might do a lot of things that may be good. I may appear as an angel of light. I am according to the Prince of this earth.

I was in a kingdom of darkness and God rescues me to be according to The kingdom of his son to be in one accord to be completely one with. United with and I Wanted to share with you from where I saw that word According to to share with you just a few simple ways in which we have to strive to be in one accord with.

Rooted and Grounded in God's Love

To be fully united with God According to his power in Ephesians chapter 3. This is a passage we memorized. It says for this reason I bow my knees. So that he would grant you According to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power.

So there's an according to the power. So to be one accord with the power of God, we're all looking for the Holy Spirit. We are looking for the power of God to come upon us. If you want to be in one accord with the power of God What it should produce in you.

Ephesians chapter 3 that passage that we memorized Lord I want it to be filled with your Holy Spirit so that I can be in one accord with your power. So that In verse 17 Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and you may be rooted and grounded in love.

That is the proof of Being filled with the Holy Spirit that is the first proof That we are in one accord with God's power. Don't think about God's power being required to heal the sick or to raise the dead or said you can walk on water Over life situations in a very simple way.

It starts with being immersed in the love of God that is According to the power. Are you in one accord with the power of God? That means you should be in one accord with the great love of God that he has for you.

Are you constantly drained as we heard you need to rest? You need to be rooted and grounded. Don't move. Don't do stuff. Root and grounded in the love of God. I Was blessed when I heard what we heard from when high that God has written it in his book.

How marvelous he thinks of us that we're in his inheritance and even the demons can read it. The demons read all of God's Word and they tremble but they don't believe. They don't believe it. Demons know it have been reading it have been knowing this for 6 ,000 years at least.

But don't believe it. We do have heard it and heard it and heard it. We see pictures that try to tell us we're deeply loved. But to believe it is to live according to it to change our lives according to it to become one with it.

Do you want to be in one accord with God's power? Change your point of view what do you think God's power looks like? God's power first is trying to tell you you're deeply loved and God wants you to be rooted in it.

According to his power the riches of his glory so that you be strengthened with all power. We need to be in one accord with that. It is out of that Deep unity with the love of God that we can do other things then turn with me to 2nd Timothy chapter 1.

Suffering for the Gospel

It says that We may know verse 7. Kindle verse 6 it says kindle afresh the love of the gift of God. Verse 6. 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 6. It says kindle afresh the gift of God because God has not given you a spirit of timidity.

Again, it's the Holy Spirit. We're talking about dynamic Dynamite power. We're talking about explosive power the Spirit of God coming upon us. Therefore do not be ashamed of our Lord. But join me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God again here to be United with the power of God for suffering for the gospel.

Have a mind that is to suffer. Colossians chapter 1 we memorize this passage where it says filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions and that is any if you see that in the context in which he's talking about he's talking about in the afflictions and of the church.

We can never make up any afflictions to make us worthy to enter God's kingdom for ourselves. That is all on Christ's righteousness. But where God does ask us. Do you want to partner with me is in Being a minister as it comes to the church suffer.

Suffer for the gospel prior. Prioritize. Those tasks so to speak as we heard. Make priority to those tasks to say Lord. We're not what can activity do I need? Keep do I need keep needing to do not do I need to do this?

Do I need to do that Lord? No, not. How can I suffer to build up the body? How can I suffer to spend a little time in prayer, how can I suffer to send a little email? How can I suffer to not think about my own interests but to think about other people and what their needs may be spiritually?

According to the power. To be one accord with the power of God first. It is for the love of God to be one with it to be rooted and grounded. But then to say Lord, I want to take up a heart that wants to suffer to build up other people.

Laboring to Present Others Complete

And we come into the church and we said Lord, I don't need other people to Comfort feed me. I'm gonna help feed others you feed me. I'll feed others. Again, Colossians chapter 1 verse 29. It says for this purpose.

I labor. It's not a life of ease. If we want to live the Christian life we must fall into the ground and die. I Labor and I strive again. That's similar to start suffering which mightily works within it.

And as we heard in verse 28 From George we Proclaim him. Verse 29 Paul says I strive and I labor. But when when I talk I'm talking to all of you and I say we that includes all of us. It's a group effort.

So Paul is saying I'll do my part to strive but the point is that we must proclaim him. So you too must strive. I can't speak to you if you're laboring and striving but the goal is that we can all proclaim him we all have a opportunity or we all have that need to proclaim him because we May present every man complete.

Can we have this picture? That the brother and the sister who's sitting next to you or in front of you. You can see the back of the head maybe or if it's your wife. Can you have this picture of the judgment seat of Christ and you presenting this brother?

Complete. Whose job is that the elders? Jesus Christ. Read verse 28 Colossians chapter 1 verse 28. We proclaim him Admonishing teaching so that we. Why does it not include you? Why can it not include you?

Does this make you some great teacher and some great expert? No. We know how Jesus presents us complete. He takes out a bucket of water. And a towel and he washes our feet. He washes us in his blood in his suffering.

He washes us. That's how he Presented us complete. That's how we will help present other people complete by laboring and striving to get under people and lift them up and get in between the toes and root out all the dirt gently.

Because it's sensitive. People are sensitive. But we proclaim him because we want to present every man complete. So we labor and strive finally a word of hope as We close on 2016 some of you may not Have had the experience that we heard about.

Hope for Exponential Growth Through God's Power

Where you grew? Sevenfold but I Genuinely believe that God wants that to be true in 2017. It's not excluded from anybody and it's not about as we heard it's not about the exact number. It's seven or ten or two.

It doesn't really matter but God wants Explosive growth. God wants Supernatural one with the Holy Spirit power. According to the power of God. He wants to strengthen you to be rooted and grounded in love according to the power of God.

He wants you to become somebody who builds up the body of Christ and can suffer for the gospel according in one accord with God's Supernatural explosive power. He wants you to labor to make others complete.

He wants to do that. He wants to give you that supernatural dynamic dynamo dynamite power. He wants you to be one with that Colossians 1 9 as we are JV Phillips. I hope that you will see things from God's point of view.

God's Infinite Power at Work Within Believers

Step out of all your mess step out of all your track record step out of all the troubles. And you've had several of all the limitations and the handicaps you've got that feel that you do it. Elevate yourself so to speak from God's point of view and see it.

See the inheritance and the Saints. And God has for you he sees you as precious. It is the father's good pleasure. It is not the father's pleasure. It's the father's good pleasure. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20.

I'll end with that now to him. Who is able? To do far more abundantly. 7x 10x 100x think of a number. Far more abundantly beyond all that we ask and think. According to the power that works within you there's nothing my God cannot do nothing.

But he's waiting. For me and for you he's waiting. His power is infinite. He's waiting. To say will you be different than the demons? Who hear all these truths, but don't believe. But will there be it'd be true that we're very different.

Now we grab a hold of it and say God far more abundantly than what you've ever. What I could ever dream or think about you will do it in 2017. That's my hope. I've got a far way long to go. I've got. I need a lot more time before the Lord comes if I'm gonna be able to myself be complete in him.

And I want to spend more of my time more of my energy. Seeking to labor and strive to proclaim Christ and to make others complete Christ it's everything for me. At least I can do is to do something for the rest of his children.

He can do it brothers and sisters. He will do it according to his power that works within us. So may we have hearts full of faith as we look to the new year may God help us.