I Don't Need Help -- I Need Life!

Let's never stop meditating on the bold yet necessary promises of Christ Jesus, during His earthly ministry, not fulfilled in His heavenly ministry seated at the right hand of God the Father:

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

He did not come to make our life better, nor did He come to offer a long-term divine assist.

He came to give us life.

This is still such a rich and wonderful revelation for me.

No wonder Paul the Apostle prayed:

1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ,who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3: 1-4)

Let us set our affections, rest our minds on this truth -- that He is our life, and our life is hid with Christ in God.

Yet how come so many of us every day wake up thinking that we are some kind of wind-up toy, and we have to ask God to work harder and fill us up?

How come there are so many Christians out there praying things like: "Lord, help me to  .  ." or "Lord, give me the strength to. . "

He has already blessed us with all spiritual blessings in His Son Jesus (Ephesians 1: 3)

He is working within us both to will and to do for His good pleasure (Philippians 2: 12-13)

We can do all things through Christ, who gives us strength (Philippians 4: 13).

Let us stop praying prayers from the wrong perspective, let us stop praying for things which He has already given us.

Instead, let us start praying for the wisdom and insight to see all which He has already given us.

Wait. .. that's exactly what Paul prayed for the believers of his day as well as for us today:

"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3: 14-19)

and also

"That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus." (Philemon 6)

Paul's letter expressing God's redemption in a runaway slave, Onesimus, actually details one of the most powerful revelations we need in the Body of Christ today.

For years, I was always praying: "God, please help me!" or "Lord, please provide for me. .. "

Those were wrong prayers, striving from within myself as though there was anything good in my flesh, in myself to accomplish anything.

Jesus was very clear: "Apart from me, you can do nothing."

We do not need help. We need life. We do not need steps on how to live. We need life. We do not need living proof. We need life. We do not need a lively example on how to live. We need life.

That life is found in Christ Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life.