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YOU ARE COMPLETE IN CHRIST.
You are complete in Christ, rooted in His love, drawing nourishment, inspiration and life from His body, to grow your essence and sinew. You are thoroughly complete in Christ.
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:6-10 (NKJV)
• What every believer needs is a daily dose of Jesus. More and more of Jesus everyday! Being in Christ adequately equips the believer for the task of manifestation!
Indeed, Jesus works wonders in every yielded life.
Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature. So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. But when they saw it, they complained, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anybody by false accusation, I restore fourfold.” Luke 19:1-8 (NKJV)
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When Jesus got to the tree, He looked up and said, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry down. Today is my day to be a guest in your home.’
Commenting on the above passage, Selwyn Hughes wrote, “….
”The story of Zacchaeus encounter with Jesus…. Shows the impact an encounter with Jesus can have on our personality. Zacchaeus changed in moments from being a mean, tight-fisted individual to a person who was generous and large-hearted.”
The pages of the Bible are sprinkled with the accounts of men and women that, after a touch by the Lord, set marks with their lives. We could reel off examples such as Nehemiah, Jabez, Matthew, Deborah, Isaiah, Rahab, Jeremiah, Hosea, Esther and so many others. The Lord delights in crafting genuine spiritual makeovers. He makes a specialty of converting inconsequential fellows to people of renown.
Or how else can anyone explain the turn around in circumstance of Gideon the Abiezrite? The angel of the Lord appeared and said to Gideon, “The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour….” (Jud 6:12). In the prevailing circumstance at this time, Gideon did not appear by the wildest stretch of imagination anything close. But the Lord knew him so to be. The pronouncement by a herald of heaven was all that was required to effect the astonishing transformation!
• The Lord delights in crafting genuine spiritual makeovers. He makes a specialty of converting inconsequential fellows to people of renown.