Alan's Weekly Blog - God is my Source

…through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:2

What is the glory of God? The glory is the manifest presence of God. It occurs when God does something that only he can do and no one present can deny that it was God who did it. One demonstration of the glory of God took place when Jesus and his disciples attended a wedding in Cana that was record in John 2. There Jesus turned water into wine. How did this come about? Mary, the mother of Jesus, simply told the attendants at the wedding to do what every Jesus tells them to do. John states in John 2:11 that this was first event that reveal Jesus’ glory and as a result his disciples put their faith in him.

God the Father had placed his anointing on Jesus, who is the Christ or the Messiah which means God’s Anointed One. What is an anointing? It is an empowerment from God. The Apostle Peter explains in Acts 10:38 that Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power that enable him to accomplish all that he did. But now, while Jesus is away from the earth, we who make up the body of Christ, or the body of the Anointed One, have access to the same anointing that Jesus has. It is by grace that the Father has made it available to us and we utilize by faith. When others see the glory of God in action, they are persuaded to put their faith in Jesus. God is our source of the anointing. Its purpose is to lift burdens and break yokes of bondage. Thus, we should be rejoicing for what the anointing of God can do through us; it transforms the ordinary and common things that we have to work with into the extraordinary!

How do we make use of the anointing? Abide with the Lord Jesus Christ and do what he tells us to do. Therefore do not think of your self as weak and ineffective any longer. The anointing we have from Christ can change situations for ourselves and others. And as we obey the voice of the Lord we too we see the glory of God manifest in our lives. So rejoice!