Empowered For Faithing
Ephesians 2:4-6 [AMP]
4 But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ([a]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).
6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Footnotes:
a. Ephesians 2:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
b. Ephesians 2:6 H.A.W. Meyer, Commentary on the New Testament.
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
James 4.6a [AMP]
6 But He gives us more and more grace ([a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency <of the old-man nature to be unfaithful [v.4] to God>and all others <other tendencies to Sin/ iniquity, bent to Sin>fully).
Footnotes:
a. James 4:6 Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with A Commentary.
Notes inserted in <> are mine. Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
God empowers us for continual faithing, and as we allow Him to do His work in us—quickening us. His Grace empowers/ enables us to grow into His stature, His image, and the likeness of His nature—to actively faith (one of the fruit that the Spirit produces in us is faithFULLness). This divinely-naturally increases our faithing from one degree of glory until, ultimately, we are glorified. “God provides us with what to believe, and then gives us the power to believe. God empowers our faith through the Spirit” [Smith Wigglesworth On Faith, Larry Keefauver, 9. See Ephesians 2.5, 8; 3.7, 16, 18; 4.13, 16, 22-24 (AMP); 2 Corinthians 5.7 (AMP); Colossians 2.12-15 (AMP)].
Note: Definition from Strong’s and Zodhiates’ Keyword Dictionary of the New Testament for “charis”=GRACE
1. “Acceptance (pleasing God) and favor His kindness granted for [our] benefit without the expectation of return, changing the individual to a new creature without destroying his individuality” (1st ¶).
2. “[When Grace is received], renewal is stimulated and impelled [driven forward] by God’s illuminating and strengthening of the soul and will continue and increase so long as the soul perseveres Grace enables one more and more to die daily unto sin and live unto righteousness”
3. “Effective favor” in other words, grace has power (affects) to enable
Ephesians 2:4-6 [AMP]
4 But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ([a]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).
6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Footnotes:
a. Ephesians 2:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
b. Ephesians 2:6 H.A.W. Meyer, Commentary on the New Testament.
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
James 4.6a [AMP]
6 But He gives us more and more grace ([a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency <of the old-man nature to be unfaithful [v.4] to God>and all others <other tendencies to Sin/ iniquity, bent to Sin>fully).
Footnotes:
a. James 4:6 Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with A Commentary.
Notes inserted in <> are mine. Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
God empowers us for continual faithing, and as we allow Him to do His work in us—quickening us. His Grace empowers/ enables us to grow into His stature, His image, and the likeness of His nature—to actively faith (one of the fruit that the Spirit produces in us is faithFULLness). This divinely-naturally increases our faithing from one degree of glory until, ultimately, we are glorified. “God provides us with what to believe, and then gives us the power to believe. God empowers our faith through the Spirit” [Smith Wigglesworth On Faith, Larry Keefauver, 9. See Ephesians 2.5, 8; 3.7, 16, 18; 4.13, 16, 22-24 (AMP); 2 Corinthians 5.7 (AMP); Colossians 2.12-15 (AMP)].
Note: Definition from Strong’s and Zodhiates’ Keyword Dictionary of the New Testament for “charis”=GRACE
1. “Acceptance (pleasing God) and favor His kindness granted for [our] benefit without the expectation of return, changing the individual to a new creature without destroying his individuality” (1st ¶).
2. “[When Grace is received], renewal is stimulated and impelled [driven forward] by God’s illuminating and strengthening of the soul and will continue and increase so long as the soul perseveres Grace enables one more and more to die daily unto sin and live unto righteousness”
3. “Effective favor” in other words, grace has power (affects) to enable