So when the spirit of God is in us,this being God, for God is spirit ( John 4:24) his spirit or God in us performs miracles in order to help people in distress.
This isn't limited to certain people. God wants to use us all to help the helpless, God has all the power to help people who are in trouble or pain and wants to use us to help them out of their distress.
So how do we allow God to use us to help others? God is able to use us to help others when he is living in us.How does God live in us? Well firstly when we accept Jesus as our savior Jesus comes and makes his home in our hearts.
1 John 4:15
"All who confess that Jesus is the son of God have God living in them, and they live in God"
The bible also says the following about God's spirit living in us.
1 John 4:12
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"12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
When we Love another, we're actually living more and more in God,It becomes God's spirit in us living. why?
Cause:
1 John 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God is love, so when we live in love, we're living in God, and as we live in God, we can then be used by God to help others, just as Jesus helped people who were sick,poor etc.
When we live in love, it becomes God living and not our limited human nature.
Jesus asked, how would people know that we are Jesus's discples?
13:34-35NewInternational Version (NIV)34 "A new command I give you: Love one another.As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will knowthat you are my disciples, if you love oneanother."
The above verse tells us that you know that someone is a follower of Jesus when they love other followers of christ.
Why is love such a good characteristic to discover if someone is a follower of Christ. Cause the devils children can also prophesy, than can heal, they can quote the bible, but one thing that they have no understanding of is love. Why? Cause love is Jesus.
Now what is love? How do we love each other? Love is not a feeling, its actions
In John 14, Jesus constantly talked about people would show that they loved him by obeying his commandments v21 & v 24. So love is not a feeling, it's doing something, actions show love.
Jesus said that we show that we love him by DOING what he says.
We show that we love him him when we obey him, and when we obey him he makes a home
in our hearts.
So love is doing and we show Jesus we love him by obeying him, so how do we show love to our fellow christian brothers and sisters?
1 Corinthians 13:4-13
New International Version (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it k
eeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a r
eflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is loveSo let's go back to love, to Jesus and show who we belong to.
When we are patient, Kind, aren't jealous of another, we don't boast to others about our achievements, when we are honorable, selfless, not angered, forgiving, truthful to them, protect them, trust them, hope and persevere.
The bible says that's how we can show each other love and when we love, we are living in God, Then God Living in us is able to help those unable to help themselves.
