The Fullness of Him | Russell Kalenberg
Recap
We were joined this past weekend with guest minister, Russell Kalenberg, who reminded us of who we are in Christ! Jesus wants you to have a revelation of all He has given you. He wants to pull back the curtains and provide you with a new focus on what He has called you to become. Too often, we focus on who the world says we are instead of remembering the gift of grace and authority God has given us.
If you were out of town and missed this message, go ahead and listen to it today… and if you were there, take time to listen to it again! It will fire you up and remind you that you have been called to so much more than you have dreamed. God has a good plan for you and wants to reveal it to you!
Dive Deeper
God has a purpose for your life, and part of that purpose is understanding that you are His representative on this earth. You are a part of the body of Christ. He has made you to model Him to this world, and with that representation comes a place of authority. Imagine what that looks like: you have been gifted with the authority of Jesus Christ.
When we operate from the place of our God-given authority, we can speak down to the enemy. We can remember that we have been positioned to achieve amazing things in Jesus, but only because of God’s grace. In fact, we are His workmanship and meant to display God’s grace to a lost and dying world. We were oppressed and under, but now we are victorious and healed!
So say what God says about you! Acknowledge the work of God’s grace in your life. Don’t hinder your own progress by doubting that God could use you. Jesus didn’t demote His position on this earth. He humbly stated what He knew to be true: if you have seen Him, you have seen the Father.
You have a measure of the grace of God that has been given to you, and it wasn’t given to you to be wasted. It’s time to step up into a new level of grace to fulfill all God has for us in these last days!
Read About It
1 Corinthians 15:9–10 KJV
“For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”
1 Peter 4:10 KJV
“As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”
Ephesians 1:15–23 KJV
“Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”
Ephesians 2:1–10 KJV
“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
John 14:12 KJV
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
John 20:21 KJV
“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”
Discussion Questions
Where do you most notice God’s grace at work in your life?
What can you do today to acknowledge that you are a representative of God on this earth?
How can we use God’s gift of grace to its fullest extent today?