Acts 6:4 “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.”
DAILY READING Philippians 4; Ezekiel 24; Isaiah 52
It takes power to go up. As we all know from experience, gravity is a constant force that never shuts off. It is constantly exerting a “downward” force on every object within its range. And so in order to move any object upward, you need to apply an upward force that’s greater than the downward force of gravity. In other words, you need to be accelerating the object up harder than gravity is pulling it down.
A rockets need so much fuel in order to overcome Earth’s gravity. And to meet this need for enough power to go up, fuel-based rocket, have to carry much fuel, so much so that 90% of the weight of a typical rocket is fuel. And in order for all that fuel to lift itself up off the ground the rocket needs to generate an enormous amount of acceleration. Most rockets are made up of two or three stages. When a stage has used up all of its fuel, it is separated to get rid of the dead weight. It then falls back , usually into the ocean and far from populated areas, or burns up in the atmosphere.
Rockets have to travel about 25,000 miles per hour to get into space… that’s at least seven miles per second. A rocket will keep speeding up as long as the force pushing it upwards is greater than the forces pulling it downwards. But once in orbit, with no more gravity to overcome, the spacecraft can then “coast” along without expending any more energy .
Indeed it takes power to go up. A spacecraft uses most of its energy getting up into space. And it must keep pushing up, because as soon as it stops pushing upward, gravity will begin to slow down it’s upward acceleration, and eventually reverse its upward progress and make it start accelerating back to earth.
This is a great spiritual truth, which explains why we constantly need to be empowered, through maintaining a prayerful lifestyle. To go up in life, we need great power. It is only by the exercise of great power that we can overcome the forces of the enemy. Psalm 66:3 says “Through the greatness of thy power shall thy enemy submit themselves unto thee.”
Indeed life is a warfare. And it is our power level that determines our level of dominion. The greater your power, the more you can dominate. And Supernatural empowerment answers to an effectual prayer life.
In Acts 6:4 the disciples declared “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.” And the effect of this was that power kept on erupting, resulting in miracles, signs and wonders!
We are in the last days which are the days of God’s power. As such, every child of God is empowered to operate in the realms of supernatural exploits.
John 1:12 says ‘for as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become sons of God.’
With salvation comes a level of power, but we need to keep increasing that power, because the battles of life are getting hotter everyday. In the school of power, power is in degrees. Though, Jesus was anointed without measure, yet He kept going to the mountain of prayer to increase His power. We increase our power through a strong prayer life and study of The Word of God.
It is our depth in the Word that determines our level of dominion. You can’t dominate the world until you are dominated by God through His Word. To fly high, we must therefore determine to pay the required price of spending time in The Word of God and maintaining a fervent prayer life.
PRAYER: Lord, Please grant me a renewed desire for Your Word and prayer, so that I can be empowered to fly to the great heights You have ordained for me this year in Jesus Name.
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Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222.