Biblical Success - Running With Rhema PowerSample

The Bible doesn’t define or explain rhema. It illustrates it through and throughout the Logos. There is a level of communication that we experience but can’t really explain well. It is the spiritual union that I Corinthians 6:17 explains as, “He who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.” Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would be one with Him and the Father. He used the term “AS” meaning in the same way. Jesus prayed, “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.”John 17:20-21. I Thessalonians 5:23,24 tells us that we are three part beings—body, soul, and spirit. I think you get the idea. Part of our faith walk is to learn the ways of the third person of the trinity, The Holy Spirit. We shrink our soul to ignore or diminish Him. He is a Person not an “It.” Fully One with the Father and Son. Present and active throughout the entire Logos from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22.

Obedience in these moments when He whispers are real. We must move forward by faith when we hear them, when it sometimes seems to make no sense. Our submission to the Logos and obedience to the whispers of our “Helper” are a key that unlocks the power of God and the power of God performs the will of God. When this happens in our lives, our personal rhema is experienced, not ever likely to be forgotten.

A life situation that we didn’t anticipate or plan for jumps up in front of us. It could be anything that happens that tempts us to react in a way that God would not approve or that He commands or forbids. The still small voice that I heard that night speaks in His whisper. Will we hear Him? What will we do? What will He do? We won’t know because if we did know we wouldn’t need faith. It is an expression of Logos in Colossians 1:27, “To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Jesus lives in us, through us to others. He has lived through believers from Jerusalem to Judea and to the uttermost parts of the world and He longs to live through us as we journey right now.

Most people will read this and never try it. Most people are by definition “average” Christians, neither hot nor cold. What do you aspire to be? Our life-race has an end. We all know that but only a few ever really live like it and prepare for it. There will be no “do overs.” We have only one chance to get it right, one race to run. At the end, Jesus will give us a performance review of how we used what He died to give us. Running the race of life “set before us”and excluding the rhema is like running in a gunny sack. We can do it but never be all that we could be. God still speaks. Are we tuned in?

If we will continue to lean in to know God in Christ, intimately through His Spirit in His Word opportunities for gentle challenges increase. And as we respond in faith and as we know him better and better and learn to trust Him and obey His whispers more often our storehouses of “rhema moments” grows we become stronger and braver and……. A successful and fruitful Christian life is lived and a race is run into the arms of a loving Savior’s embrace as He cries “WELL DONE MY LOVE! Welcome home!” May it be so for you and I.

Jog on to the Bema!

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