God Has Supplied All Your Needs

Text: Ephesians 1: 1- 3

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.”

God has supplied all your needs. The letter to the Ephesians was written from the perspective of what has already taken place. I want to answer some questions in order for you to understand the subject.

What do we mean by the phrase, “all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ?”

Some people just to say this means spiritual things, not in a practical way.

This is an old way of expressing the truth that God has already blessed us with everything  and  it is in the spirit realm. God has done everything for you and deposited it in your born again spirit.

He is a Spirit and He communicates with us on a Spirit to spirit basis. So to experience what He has deposited in you, you must draw it out of the spirit into the physical realm.

Example:

If someone were to deposit money into your bank account, you would not be able to enjoy  the benefits of that money until you went to the bank and withdrew the money. In order to benefit, you must follow all the necessary steps to get the money. The same applies to the things of God.

Your assignment to experiencing the things of God

In order o experience the things of God, your assignment is to learn to receive.

Example:

Someone is making a prayer, "Please God heal my body." If this person  does not hear or feel anything, he just wonders, 'Lord, what is going on?"

God also asks a question, "What does 1 Peter 2:24 say?" The Bible tells us in this portion of scripture that by His stripes, we were healed. Note that this is past tense, so it was done. What you need to do is to claim it as yours because it is.

Ephesians 1: 19- 21 indicates that the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is working in us. If you don't draw from that power, you are like someone who is dying of thirst having a well of water next to him.

There are other foolish prayers we make before God like, "God, we ask you to come and be with us in our service today. O Lord meet with us." But this is a wrong approach. God explains it clearly that He will neither leave us nor forsake us according to Hebrews 13:5. In Mathew 18:20, He promises that where two or three are gathered in His name, He shall be there in the midst.

So doing things outside the Word of God is allowing our senses to dominate us. The best approach is to begin to receive what God has already done for us. We should confess right in order to get what we want.