"...because you belong to Christ you are complete... "Colossians 2:9-10 (ERV)

Paul is making a statement here, that all of the nature of God resides in Christ fully.  

Everything that came before Jesus was incomplete and imperfect, namely due to the fact that it came through mere men who could not reflect the true nature of God. 

Jesus is the personification of God in human form.  Even though He was God, He lived as a man and chose to become a servant to demonstrate what God’s heart was for mankind.  Jesus never saw that the Godhead was something to be grasped or attained while he was walking on this earth, but took humbleness as His method for keeping everyone He encountered wondering "what sort of man is this?" 

Humbleness is a trait that has been lost in our culture, due to the fact it is perceived as weakness or mousiness.  We live in the culture of the Marlboro Man, the rugged individualist of the western world who helped influence a generation of men to become isolated and self-sufficient.  Yet, self-sufficiency is mostly good if one lives alone in the wilderness, but not so good when we reside in and near communities.  

Exercising humility is recognizing that we are not isolated, but are interconnected with others who become our social support network, this becomes evident than when we interact with God’s people who are called to be a family of believers 'the Ecclesia'.

As ‘the Ecclesia’ we belong to Christ, what that means is that when we gather with one another Christ is manifested among us, we have the completeness of Christ in our hands for whatever we need, be it healing, provision, or even miracles, Christ is the source of all power.

When we pray for our government and its officials so that God’s people will be protected and this nation would walk out its true heritage and destiny, we must realize that God is not in politics, politics is an invention of man, but God’s heart is in relationship, and establishing relationships.  It is from these relationships that God shows what His heart is for His people, all people.  

The lord is gracious and compassionate not willing that anyone would be left behind or forgotten.  God’s people (like Daniel) have a way to turn the hearts of their leaders to the Lord by earnestly and effectively praying that strongholds are to be broken and the Spirit of God be released relationally in the lives of leaders to be able to hear the voice of the Lord.  And from there wisdom may follow in the decisions that they make.

We have everything that we need, we have been equipped and outfitted with all the tools of the spirit which are necessary to effect change and bring a good outcome, our role is to stand (or rest) in the finished work of Jesus, and proclaim the victories which have already been won. 

Our enemy is tenacious, even though he has been defeated at the cross of Jesus he hasn’t totally relinquished power, we need to remind him of his defeat and put him in his proper place.  I see our role as kind of a “mop-up crew” from the original battle, cleaning out the left-overs of those demons who are still hanging on.  

Our humbleness in receiving the very nature of Jesus puts the enemy on notice that our fight is not with him, but the enemy's fight is with the humble King of glory who has won the victory over all principalities and powers and is seated in high heavenly places.

• There is strength in our praise and worship, more so when we worship together. 
• There is power in our proclamations stating the truth we know in Christ. 
• There is might where we stand united in Christ for the enemy doesn’t have a chance to come against the name of Jesus from a united front

Christ rules over every power and authority in heaven and on earth.
Praise the Lord!  He is our humble King.

Be Blessed;

Stephen Barnett