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Our Quote for Today:"Exercising His faith rather than mine own places Christ into my hearts meditations.  And it is my meditations ON Him that maintains my position IN him when the world, the flesh and the devil are in severe attack mode!"
  
Seventy five times the Apostle Paul told us to situate ourselves IN Christ.  Jesus taught us to 'abide IN me" over 25 times.  Where we are standing is not a superstition.  It's a position.  When we position ourselves IN Christ and remain there during intense temptations and trials our abiding relationship with Him (the vine) gives us (the branch) the ability to be anything and do everything He would require of us. 
 
But so often we find ourselves out of position, spiritually speaking.  We look to the Lord (from whence cometh our help) but not until we are in a jam.  Our walk with God is intended to be a momentum building experience that lasts throughout the day.  It's not only motivational, directional and integral.  It is supernatural!  If we snooze we will always lose.   I don't know about you but that uninterrupted 45 minutes to an hour with the Lord is the most attacked portion of my day.  Nothing is harder for my stubborn flesh than early morning walks with the Lord.  But absent of my walk, I am weak and can do nothing! (John 15 various verses)
 
In Ephesians 3 Paul prayed that God would grant the believers a most specific need in all Christendom.  "That he would grant you . . . to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man."  This verse clearly teaches that the strength we need is not physical or soulical for the sake of our natural man, but rather spiritual for the sake of our inner man.  My spirit and His Spirit dwell together in my inner man and when that relationship is strengthened then something supernatural takes place in my heart (that is to say my meditatonal thoughts).  What is that supernatural phenomenon? 
 
It is the thoughts of Christ's mind dwelling in my meditations.  Paul puts it this way in the very next verse "That Christ may dwell in your hearts. . ."  But how does that happen?  How else would it happen but (the next two words of the verse say) "by faith. . ."?  When we by faith recognize His presence within us we can ascertain His persuasion for us and find the strength in our inner man to respond purely to our adversary the devil. 
 
The end result of His persuasive presence in my hearts meditations is not only the strength of my inner man but he concludes that I will be "rooted and grounded in love."  When my whole being is properly rooted in His love, yielding to His faith, I will find the things of this world growing strangely dim and the presence of His persuasion to be the normality of illumination. 
 Be Blessed IN the Lord!Steven Curington