{"id":156,"date":"2009-11-27T06:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-11-29T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T18:02:49","slug":"the-consecration-of-spiritual-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"The Consecration of Spiritual Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
November 27, 2009<\/div>\n
The Consecration of Spiritual Power<\/div>\n
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Consecration<\/strong> is the <\/em>solemn<\/em><\/a> dedication to a special purpose or service, . The word “consecration” literally means “to associate with the <\/em>sacred<\/em><\/a>“. <\/em>A synonym for consecration is to sanctify..Wekipedia<\/em><\/div>\n

Today’s music and video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oMtz1fJv340&NR=1<\/a><\/div>\n
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. . . by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world \u2014Galatians 6:14<\/div>\n
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If I dwell on the Cross of Christ, I do not simply become inwardly devout and solely interested in my own holiness\u2014 I become strongly focused on Jesus Christ\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n

This transformation occurs inside of believers becasue of the work of Jesus on the cross, and has nothing to do with our work or accomplishments. We become transformed by the power of the Spirit of God simply by focusing on the cross and staying connected to the person of Jesus.<\/span><\/em> jdv<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:19-20).
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Our Lord was not a recluse nor a fanatical holy man practicing self-denial. He did not physically cut Himself off from society, but He was inwardly disconnected all the time.<\/span> He was not aloof, but He lived in another world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Was this because Jesus was the ultimate practitioner of the “Balcony View” or Objective View? \u00a0Perhaps what He cut Himself off from was the subjective, view with its visceral tension and reactions. \u00a0 \u00a0Perhaps the other world he lived in was simply on the balcony with his Father. \u00a0 ….I only do what I see the Father doing…jn 5:19 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What a great aspiration for us as well!!! \u00a0djr<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, He was so much in the common everyday world that the religious people of His day accused Him of being a glutton and a drunkard. Yet our Lord never allowed anything to interfere with His consecration of spiritual power.<\/p>\n

It is not genuine consecration to think that we can refuse to be used of God now in order to store up our spiritual power for later use. That is a hopeless mistake. The Spirit of God has set a great many people free from their sin, yet they are experiencing no fullness in their lives\u2014 no true sense of freedom. The kind of religious life we see around the world today is entirely different from the vigorous holiness of the life of Jesus Christ. “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one” (\u00a0John 17:15<\/a> ). We are to be <\/em><\/strong>in<\/em><\/strong> the world but not <\/em><\/strong>of<\/em><\/strong> it\u2014 to be separated internally, not externally <\/em><\/strong>(seeJohn 17:16<\/a> ).<\/p>\n

We must never allow anything to interfere with the consecration of our spiritual power. Consecration (being dedicated to God\u2019s service) is our part; sanctification (being set apart from sin and being made holy) is God\u2019s part. We must make a deliberate determination to be interested only in what God is interested.<\/span><\/strong> The way to make that determination, when faced with a perplexing problem, is to ask yourself, “Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested, or is it something in which the spirit that is diametrically opposed to Jesus is interested?”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 27, 2009 The Consecration of Spiritual Power Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service, . The word “consecration” literally means “to associate with the sacred“. A synonym for consecration is to sanctify..Wekipedia Today’s music and video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oMtz1fJv340&NR=1 . . . by whom the world has been crucified to me, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}