Him-Dependent: Living a Life Dependent on JesusSample

How to Walk on Water

Genesis 32: 24-29

What happens when you come to the end of yourself? When you’re faced with an insurmountable challenge, what happens when you meet your limits? As we saw in Day One, this is the believer’s comfort zone.

Everything that we need as believers is wrapped in that same gift of salvation in Christ Jesus. That means we already have healing, victory, abundance, and breakthrough! For if God sacrificed His most precious son to prove His love for us, there is nothing good that He has withheld from us. All we need to ‘bring to the table’ is our belief in this finished work and our faith to receive. The same way we received Jesus—through faith, is the same way we receive His life and promises for victory. (Colossians 2:6).

The Believer’s growth is premised on how pressed in and dependent on Christ Jesus we are, not how independently “perfect” we are. God’s Grace supplies us with the ability to manifest God's life and to do His will. (Philippians 2: 13). We are called first to trust in His love for us and then to walk in that consciousness. (1 John 4:16).

Our opening text meets Jacob at the end of himself. A lifetime of trickery and deceit is about to come full circle as he prepares to face his brother Esau, whom he betrayed. He was right to be afraid of what Esau would do to him. Alone at night, he had a supernatural encounter and wrestled with God. The blessing which changed his name from Jacob to Israel came after he was weakened and his hip was out of joint. He might have limped away from the place called Peniel, but in his new identity, there was no accusation from Esau, only love.

As believers, our power is in our identification, which is in the finished work of Christ Jesus. We are free because He has called us free. We are blessed because He has called us blessed. 1 Corinthians 5:17 lets us know that we are completely new creatures in Christ. So, we must remain conscious of our new identity and remain dependent on Him as we live as spiritual beings here on earth.

Pray:

Abba, today I stop relying on my strength; I rest in your all-encompassing love for me. Teach me to depend on the finished work of Christ Jesus to see your victory, in Jesus’ name. Amen