{"id":17428,"date":"2025-11-13T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:45:47","slug":"kingdom-exploits-the-gospel-the-enabling-power-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/kingdom-exploits-the-gospel-the-enabling-power-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"KINGDOM EXPLOITS – THE GOSPEL: The Enabling POWER Of God\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TO BEING EXALTED AND TO BEING HUMBLED – THERE’S GOD’S FACTOR CHECK AND BALANCE: AND IT’S BY THE SPIRIT OF CONTENTMENT!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI rejoiced\u00a0greatly in\u00a0the Lord, that now at last you have renewed your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned about me before, but you had no opportunity to show it. 11 Not that I speak from [any personal] need, for I have LEARNED to be CONTENT [and SELF-SUFFICIENT through Christ, satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or uneasy] REGARDLESS of my circumstances. 12 I know HOW TO GET ALONG and LIVE HUMBLY [in\u00a0difficult times], and I also know how to enjoy abundance and live in prosperity. In any and every circumstance I have LEARNED the secret [of facing life], whether WELL-FED or GOING HUNGRY, whether having an ABUNDANCE\u00a0or\u00a0being in NEED. 13 I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to\u00a0fulfill\u00a0His purpose\u2014I am SELF-SUFFICIENT in Christ\u2019s SUFFICIENCY; I am READY for anything and EQUAL to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.] . . . 19 And my God will liberally supply (fill until full) your every NEED according to His RICHES in glory in Christ Jesus\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Philippians 4:10-13, 19.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

May I begin by saying that\u00a0the Believer’s\u00a0act of having the spirit of CONTENTMENT\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0mean STAGNANCY. God wants us to prosper and do well in LIFE and GODLINESS, but not at the expense of our godly lives and purpose, and with His enabling power [endowment and enduement] in the grace. He endows us with His enabling grace to help us\u00a0fulfill\u00a0purpose. And for His awesome love towards us, when He finds us in any tendency to derail from faith in the grace, He pulls the plug, not necessarily to harming us but to put us back to order and decency, in a manner that we don\u2019t derail but in check, and we don\u2019t waste His given resources to accomplish His given assignment as we do life and live godly in the grace.\u00a0[2 Peter 1:1-4; 3 John 1:2; Ephesians 1:3; Romans 8:28; 1 Corinthians 2:9-10; Ephesians 1:11-12; Acts 4:30, 33].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can see parallel in our\u00a0Saviour\u00a0and Lord Jesus Christ while in humanity; and in living to fulfil purpose as being instructed by Father God in advancing the redemption cause of God\u2019s Kingdom and to keeping the devil and cohorts at bay, He was obedient and\u00a0humble\u00a0to ensure and assure the assigned purpose was accomplished accordingly\u00a0[1 John 3:8; John 18:37; Luke 1:1-11, 14, 16-20; Hebrews 5:7-10; Philippians 2:5-11].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To ABOUND and to be ABASED is the balancing equation in the grace, for an efficient and effective living, with THE SPIRIT OF CONTENTMENT,\u00a0to make a meaningful impact\u00a0in\u00a0the life of a Purposeful\u00a0Believer.\u00a0For our God is not in the business of exalting any who goes about to forget the entrusted mission and purpose on earth; for the believing one of God\u00a0is\u00a0empowered with purpose to fulfil on the behalf of the heavens as a representative, otherwise an ambassador in the grace\u00a0[2 Corinthians 5:17].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And in the same scenario as above, God is not out empowering us with purpose and to undermine us to degradation at the same time; He knows His worth in you, and not out to humiliate you, so as to make you hate and regret being His child. He is a good and faithful,\u00a0true\u00a0and sure God, whose earnest expectation is that none should perish; and ensuring and assuring us that our expectations of Him will come to fruition in every measure of doing life and living godly in the grace. So, in being ABASED, He’s humbling us to save us from\u00a0ourselves\u00a0and the enemy and cohorts that can work against your faith in\u00a0the grace. For certainly, He has\u00a0begun\u00a0a good work\u00a0of His grace in us, and He’s\u00a0determined\u00a0to bring it to reality and fulfilling. Hence, to ABOUND and to be ABASED, His love and cares\u00a0change\u00a0not.\u00a0He’s\u00a0working out for our good to balance life in\u00a0the grace\u00a0with the spirit of contentment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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\u201d<\/i>\u00a02 Peter 3:9.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord\u00a0all the day\u00a0long. 18 For\u00a0surely\u00a0there is an end; AND THINE EXPECTATION SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF. 19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Proverbs 23:17-19.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, AND THY EXPECTATION SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 24:13-14.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I am CONVINCED and CONFIDENT of this very thing, that He who has BEGUN A GOOD WORK in you will [continue to] PERFECT and COMPLETE it until the day of Christ Jesus [the time of His return]”<\/i>\u00a0Philippians 1:6\/Amplified.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God\u2019s exaltation of the Believers is of RIGHTEOUSNESS and for RIGHTEOUSNESS, meaning, having the right standing of God, in Christ JESUS in whatever betide us. And in His terms, He does EXALT; and when and while derailing from His terms, it results to SIN and sinful living, thereby creating rooms and avenues for one to become proud and arrogant in\u00a0behaviours, which reproaches before God \u2013 meaning, it humiliates,\u00a0thereafter brings one down and possibly destroys one, just\u00a0\u00a0as it did\u00a0to Satan,\u00a0once called Lucifer.\u00a0[Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah\u00a014].\u00a0<\/b>The Believers of God in Christ Jesus, is justified to abound in the grace increasingly, meaning\u00a0more and more, as one who has been declared righteous to access God in the grace and to have a stand of exaltation, accordingly as written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore\u00a0being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we\u00a0stand, and\u00a0rejoice in hope of the glory of God.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Romans 5:1-2.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work\u201d<\/i>\u00a02 Corinthians 9:8.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, as ye abound in\u00a0every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also\u201d\u00a0<\/i>2 Corinthians 8:7.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God\u2019s grace abounds to bring you through righteousness to a place of exaltation [being exalted] as in these but not limited scriptural writs:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n