I believe that this is where we are today. We are seeing an unprecedented outpouring of God’s Spirit. We are receiving the blessing. We are seeing a measure of His glory, so much so, that sometimes we are nearly overcome with it all.
But we haven’t seen anything yet!
Here are four practical steps to help you take the limit off God in your life during the coming year:
- Begin to see God as He really is: You will take the limits off God when you begin to see Him as He really is. Don’t settle for what you think He is or what someone told you He is. He is Almighty! Nothing is too big for God … not your sorrow, your sickness, your mate, your problems … Nothing! He is without limit. His power is without limit.
- Don’t settle for blessing: The Church was born in a great demonstration of apostolic power. It was not brought into being by great orators or because of great preaching; it was born by a demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul, one of the greatest preachers in all of history, was a brilliant man, and an educated man, yet this is what he had to say about the results he had for God:
…my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
I Corinthians 2:4
It wasn’t what he said as much as what he demonstrated.
The greatest lack in the Church today is power. God told us to have power. We have teaching, we have tongues, we have blessings, but we have not seen the power that God wants to unleash in and through our lives. Jesus said:
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark 16:17-18
Beloved … I’m telling you … we haven’t seen anything yet! God is
…able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
Ephesians 3:20
The Church has entered into a place of great blessing, but it has failed to press on into the place of power that God has for it. It has stopped far short of its potential!
I prophesize to you that Jesus Christ is coming soon. I also prophesize that the Church will be raptured in much greater demonstration of power than it was born in … and it was born in a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit accompanied by apostolic miracles that literally “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). Press on in! Go beyond blessing! Ask God to release His power in your life!
- Understand God’s will for you: One of the greatest limitations that we put on God is not knowing His will for us.
It is God’s will to bless you and meet every need that you have. It is His will that you live in a place of health and happiness and abundance. The Bible says:
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
III John 2
It is God’s will to save every person from his sins:
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
II Peter 3:9
It is God’s will to heal the sick and afflicted:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
I Peter 2:24
Knowing God’s will helps you remove limitations from Him, enables you to pray with faith, and frees His power to work in your life.
- Get your eyes off your circumstances: When God birthed in my heart the vision of the School of Ministry, it was overwhelming. In my hotel room in Washington, D.C., just prior to a seminar I was holding, God spoke these words to me:
“DO NOT LOOK TO THE BIGNESS OF YOUR NEED, LOOK TO THE BIGNESS OF YOUR GOD. Your circumstances are hindrances to seeing My abilities! If you keep your eyes on your circumstances, the devil will use your circumstances to defeat you and accuse the Word of God – the written and the living Word. Your VICTORY is in keeping your eyes on the BIGNESS of your GOD and His ABILITY. He has promised to take you STEP by STEP by STEP-not all at once, but step by step – AND EACH STEP WILL BE A MIRACLE!”
Some people are determined to look at their problems. There is no way that you can change the direction in which they are looking. Their problems look like huge mountains blocking their progress.
If you are to take the limits off God in the coming year, then you must look away from your circumstances and your own inability to His divine ability! You must prepare to do battle … and that is the subject of our next lesson.
Say this faith declaration out loud:
Knowing God’s will helps me remove limitations from Him, enables me to pray in faith, and frees His power to work in my life!