(Taken from Daily Healing bread from God’s Table by Nancy Dufresne)

 

“(We) are KEPT BY THE POWER of God through faith…”

                                                            I Peter 1:5

 

When Daniel was cast into the lion’s den, he experienced the power of God.  When the Israelites were wandering through the wilderness, they lived with God’s power.  When the three Hebrew men were thrown into the fiery furnace, this power changed the fire.  And for a moment Peter partook of this power when he walked with Jesus on the water.

    

What power am I referring to? It’s the “keeping power” of God!

    

No matter what comes my way, I rely on that power to “keep” me.  When others partake of the flu epidemic, I’m kept.   When others fall into financial ruin, I’m kept.   It has nothing to do with me – it’s God’s “keeping power”!

    

Believers know too little about this “keeping power” of God.

    

If we would learn to draw on His “keeping power,” we wouldn’t need to draw so often upon His “healing power” or His “miracle power.”  His “keeping power” is a higher way of living.

    

After I receive the power that heals me, I must depend on his “keeping power” to live healed.

    

This is why so many believers lose their healings.  They don’t realize that it takes power to live healed, just as it takes power to have healing manifested.

    

How do you obtain this “keeping power”? I Peter 1:5 tells us, “(We) are kept by the power of God THROUGH FAITH.” As with everything else in the kingdom of God faith is what activates God’s “keeping power.” Let your conversations be filled with how dependent you are upon God’s “keeping power” that is in you and around you.  Then you won’t live from crises to crisis; you will live from power to power.

 

Have a great week everyone, and remember that Jesus is coming soon!!!!