GOD'S PLAN

God’s plan

Ps. Ambrose Francis Xavier 

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysaia 

Sunday, March 17th 2013

God’s plan for all believers is to live in the fullness of all He has promised us in His word. To live in His grace, love, peace, joy, and so on. The Bible is full of His promises for us to receive, but many times we live life not fulfilling what God has purposed for our life. One of the reason is that we have not known what God has given us as His children, what is our inheritance and what is the hope of our calling. How can we walk in the fullness of God’s promises.

When we read  Genesis 1: 1-2. We see the God who is able to create, bring forth and establish things in the earth but the Bible said that the earth is empty and void. That means there is nothing was created in the earth up to verse 2. But God was there and the Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the deep.

 The word ( the Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the deep) is a picture of a hen (chicken ) brooding over her egg.  Why brooding over the egg because the hen knows there’s  going to be life coming forth from the egg.

The Holy Spirit was brooding over the face of the deep because He is brooding over the earth for something is about to be created by the Almighty God. So when God Almighty said let there be light, the Holy Spirit of God who was brooding over the face of the deep took the word and formed the sun that bring about light to the earth. As the Lord God Almighty spoke every time the Holy Spirit took what was spoken and bring about according to the Word of God.

In Matthew 3:16 is a story of how Jesus was baptised and be filled with the Holy Spirit. The same picture that was given in Genesis 1:1-2 is the same picture given here in the life of Jesus (chicken ) brooding over her egg.  We can see in the life of Jesus, that for 30 years of His life there was no record of miracles, signs and wonders in His ministry. Jesus was known for the wisdom and understanding that he had grown into but no signs and wonders. But the moment He was filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus began to walk in divine power with signs and wonders following His ministry. What happened? Now Jesus is filled with the promises of God and filled with the Holy Spirit of God that gave life and brought something that was not there to become. And the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk and the dead are raised. The word and the Spirit is joined together that produce the very power and life of God to flow.

In the book of Acts 2:3 talks about the baptism of the Holy Spirit that the disciples received in the upper room. The picture given here is the same picture that was in Genesis 1:1-2, Mathew 3:16 and here in Acts 2:3 they all give the same picture (chicken ) brooding over her egg. 

Look at the life of Peter who ran and denied Jesus 3 times, then preached after the experience of the Holy Spirit. What happened? The word of God was taught to the disciples by Jesus but there was no miracles, signs and wonders. When the Word and the Holy Spirit  mix together in the life of believers, the old Peter who ran away is now standing and preaching to 3000. The Bible records of people giving their life to Jesus and becoming believers.

We have to grow in God’s word and be filled in God’s Holy  Spirit then we can see and experience the wonderful life that Jesus prepared for us all.

Life without the word of God is a life without substance to create. Life without the Spirit of God is life without the power to create. But having the substance which is the word of God and having the power to create which is the Holy Spirit of God means a life full of power fulfilling all that God has purposed for us all.