Vision and the Mutual Faith
“For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.”
Rom 1:11-12
“To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory…
Christ IN you…!”
Colossians 1:27
All the truths of the new covenant are relational. Our drawing closer to him, our intense desire for Him, is bound up in one another, a truth that few comprehend in this hour. “We, with ALL saints, may be able to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God” (Eph 3:18).
There is this vital connection between His moving in our midst
and our relationship with one another.
So, whenever we gather together, we need more than nice words; we need God’s impartation. We need to lift our vision and allow the Spirit of God to urge us on. Our ministrations are lacking because the true ministrations of the Spirit depend on His people’s mutual faith, where the faith of all touches each other’s faith, culminating in the Unity of the Faith. It is foolish to expect the power of the Spirit of God to move in the midst where faith is not the evident truth of each member.
“And He did not many mighty works there
because of their unbelief.”
Matthew 13:58
It requires a symbiotic joining of faith-to-faith, a faith that we share in common where the mutual faith within all of us produces the ministration of the Life of God within each to lift our vision and allow the Spirit of God to transform us. The mutual faith within each member of His body produces the environment for the impartation of the Life and the Spirit of God.
“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know him, for He dwells WITH you and will be IN you.”
John 14:16-17
The Spirit with them produced true disciples; the Spirit IN them produced Apostolic ministrations.
Related Post: The Body of Christ – Unity
Brian Troxel
United by faith as one “in” the body of Christ for His purpose and Kingdom “allows the Spirit of God to transform us.” Powerful! 🙌
Blessings BT…
Yes amen – the glorious truth that is not me believing “on” Him but it is the Christ living IN us wherein we hape a powerful living hope of His prayer being answered “that they may be one in US”. What a glorious hope.
Blessings to you in that hope.
BT
Amen 🙏🤗
Thank you again for stopping by and the words of encouragement! They go a long way.
Blessings
BT
Indeed a pleasure
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More than two-thirds of those who went to church for a lifetime, sang the hymns of Zion, heard the Scriptures read, listened to prayers and engaged in them and heard great preaching (for there were great preachers in those days). But when they came to die, they had not entered into rest. They could not go without fear.
I want God to lead me to a place where there is no fear in dying because I am resting in God, resting in what Jesus Christ has done for me. God did His work and entered into His rest. His Son Jesus Christ did another work, and we enter into that rest. Let us see that we do it.
When I rest wholly and completely in Jesus Christ and His finished work, faith leaps up and alleviates from me the frantic labor of trying to make it. I rest perfectly and securely in the labor of Jesus Christ
A. W. Tozer
Yes amen. The true rest (sabbath) of God is revealed in tremendous activity. It is an activity that is the result of His power and His Will working in us. The secret is we cease from our works that we may be caught up in the enormity of His. For of ourselves we can can do nothing but Him in us produces the works of God! We need to look no further than the Apostolic fathers of our faith who exhorted us to enter into His rest and the life they lived which exemplified that rest… a few examples:
“for which I also labor, striving according to His working that is working in me in power” Colossians 1:29
“Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” Acts 20:31
“and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that [is] toward me did not come in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God that [is] with me” 1 Corinthians 15:10
The Zeal that moved Him who is our sabbath will also move us in His zeal for Our Father’s house. Each of us is responsible for the moving of Him within our own lives. The more in tune with Him I become the greater is my participation in Him, the greater the enablement and the corresponding joy.
But to each of us is given a measure of grace and it is to that measure He holds us accountable. “but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God that [is] with me.”
Paul through the Holy Spirit exhorted the believers in the same chapter of 1 Corinthians 15:
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord”
1 Corinthians 15:58
To come to the place of such sensitivity that we are “always abounding in the work of the Lord” is the desire of my heart! Not my work but His.
Blessings to you and greatly appreciate the ministry God has given to you!
BT