Morning by Morning, March 11 - “I Am He!”
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Rule and reign in my heart and every moment of my day, my King -- for You are “the King of kings and Lord of lords” (Revelation 19:16) and Your name is “the name that is above every name” (Philippians 2:9). ...
As I watch and wait, listening for the leading of Your Holy Spirit to speak to my heart this morning, I hear in my heart Your words:
“I am He.”
And what immediately comes to mind is the scene from the Garden of Gethsemane when the soldiers came to arrest You:
“After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with His disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to Him, came forward and asked them, ‘Whom are you looking for?’ They answered, ‘Jesus of Nazareth.’ Jesus replied, ‘I am He.’ Judas, who betrayed Him, was standing with them. When Jesus said to them, ‘I am He,’ they stepped back and fell to the ground” (John 18:1-6).
When You spoke the words, “I am He,” those who came to arrest You couldn’t stand in Your presence. Something in You and in the power of Your words pushed them “back” until they “fell to the ground.”
There’s power in Your name. There’s power in Your identity. There’s power in Your words and Your voice and Your confidence to stand Your ground in truth and love.
Even though You already knew “all that was to happen to (You),” You’re weren’t afraid and You weren’t about to run and hide. They came at You with their “lanterns and torches and weapons,” but You stood Your ground with courage, faith, obedience and love -- love that that moved You to set aside the glory of heaven to come to this earth in the likeness of human flesh and blood to lay down Your life for us so that we could live forever with You (Philippians 2:5-8).
You said: “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father” (John 10:17-18).
And Your Word tells us to “let the same mind be in (us) that was in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). We can have that “same mind” because when we are in Christ and Christ is in us, we have that same Spirit -- the Spirit who spoke through You in power, the Spirit who gave You courage to overcome and fulfill Your calling, secure in Your identity according the will of the Father, the Spirit who raised You from the dead after You laid down Your life:
“But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit (who) dwells in you” (Romans 8:9-11).
Dwell in me, Holy Spirit of the Living God, “the Spirit of Christ” in me. Speak Your words of power and truth and love in me and through me according to the will of my Father for my life. Push back the darkness and let everything fall to the ground that would try to insist on its own way apart from Your way. And keep me secure in the identity I have in You as a beloved child of God entrusting my life to the will of God:
“When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ--if, in fact, we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him” (Romans 8:15-17).
There’s power in Your words. And because You abide in us and we abide in You as children of God and disciples of Christ, there’s power in our words (Mark 11:22-25).
You are “I AM” (John 8:58, fulfilling Exodus 3:14). And now You are in me and I am in You (John 14:20). “Christ in (me), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you filled with the Spirit, secure in you identity as a child of God and disciples of Christ, speaking the words He give you to speak in the authority of His name, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
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