YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM

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Child of God, know this – the moment you believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior  you were Born Again, your spirit was regenerated by the Holy Spirit and you have now been joined to the Lord and are one spirit with Him. In other words, God the Holy Spirit is in your recreated spirit. You have become His habitation, His dwelling place, His temple.

Now that you are a Child of God, you need to be endued with power to be effective in witnessing to others around you; you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). When you were Born Again it was the Holy Spirit who recreated your spirit and indwelt it. He baptized you into the Body of Christ, you became a member of the Body of Christ universal.

¹³ By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether we are Jewish or Greek, slave or free, God gave all of us one Spirit to drink. – 1 Corinthians 12:13 GW

Jesus Christ Our Lord is the One who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit for effective service in the Kingdom of God. John the Baptist boldly testified to this fact when His identity was questioned by the Jews:

¹⁶ John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. – Luke 3:16 NIV

After the baptism in the Holy Spirit, you lack nothing as far as the anointing for service in the Kingdom goes. You have the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead in you and on you. The Word of God declares this truth, believe it and act like it. You do not need any extra special anointing, what you need is an understanding of what you already have and the boldness to walk in it.

In Christ, you are not seeking any blessings from God, you have already been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places according to Ephesians 1:3. It’s a good thing that we are blessed with every spiritual blessings not natural ones, for the natural proceeds from the spiritual. The natural is temporal, the spiritual is eternal. The spiritual supersedes the natural. Why heavenly places you might be wondering...because that’s where your spirit is seated with Christ.

Nowhere in the New Testament are we instructed to go after double portions and triple portions and whatever portions of the anointing or blessings of God, we are rather encouraged to go on a journey of discovering what we already have in Christ and to walk in the fullness of it. The Apostle Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians comes to mind.

¹⁷ I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, ¹⁸ so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. – Ephesians 1:17-19 NRSV

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Inspired by the Holy Spirit the Apostle Paul prayed a similar prayer for the Colossians as well (Colossians 1:9-12)

You see beloved, in Christ you have everything you would ever need for life and godliness and the more we continue to learn and discover what the perfect sacrifice of Jesus has made available to us, the more our lives will reflect Him!

You are complete in Jesus, you lack nothing. Blessings