{"id":15300,"date":"2017-02-27T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:46:04","slug":"the-impoverished-ministry-of-jesus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15300","title":{"rendered":"The Impoverished Ministry of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wpLIMWj5vg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Where then do You get that living water? \u2014John 4:11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe well is deep\u201d \u2014 and even a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! (John 4:11). Think of the depths of human nature and human life; think of the depth of the \u201cwells\u201d in you. Have you been limiting, or impoverishing, the ministry of Jesus to the point that He is unable to work in your life? Suppose that you have a deep \u201cwell\u201d of hurt and trouble inside your heart, and Jesus comes and says to you, \u201cLet not your heart be troubled\u2026\u201d (John 14:1). Would your response be to shrug your shoulders and say, \u201cBut, Lord, the well is too deep, and even You can\u2019t draw up quietness and comfort out of it.\u201d Actually, that is correct. Jesus doesn\u2019t bring anything up from the wells of human nature\u2014 He brings them down from above. We limit the Holy One of Israel by remembering only what we have allowed Him to do for us in the past, and also by saying, \u201cOf course, I cannot expect God to do this particular thing.\u201d The thing that approaches the very limits of His power is the very thing we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish and weaken His ministry in us the moment we forget He is almighty. The impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus for Him to be our comforter or our sympathizer, but we refrain from approaching Him as our Almighty God.<\/p>\n<p>The reason some of us are such poor examples of Christianity is that we have failed to recognize that Christ is almighty. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment or surrender to Jesus Christ. When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying, \u201cOf course, He can\u2019t do anything about this.\u201d We struggle to reach the bottom of our own well, trying to get water for ourselves. Beware of sitting back, and saying, \u201cIt can\u2019t be done.\u201d You will know it can be done if you will look to Jesus. The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.<\/p>\n<p>Journal DJR<br \/>\n&#8220;I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you&#8217;ve received it, it will be yours.&#8221;<br \/>\nMark 11:24 -NLT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where then do You get that living water? \u2014John 4:11 \u201cThe well is deep\u201d \u2014 and even a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! (John 4:11). Think of the depths of human nature and human life; think of the depth of the \u201cwells\u201d in you. Have you been limiting, or impoverishing, the ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15304,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions\/15304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}