Statistics
say that two billion of the earth’s
six billion population are Christian.
What a vast pool of resource and gifting
lie dormant among us.
These are the last days - the day the
Holy Spirit is awakening this
““Sleeping Giant”” to
reach the last harvest.There
are some who do not believe in a last
great harvest. They just believe in the
end time falling away. We believe in
both.
The awakening of the “Sleeping
Giant” involves many factors. Chief
among these is the awakening of all
believers to
• their identity as sons of God;
• their dominion over sin the flesh
and the devil and
•their empowerment to minister
God’s salvation, truth and healing
to the earth
God’s life in His people is hindered
by
•the ignorance that hides our
identity and calling from us;
•the sin that holds us back.
These two major themes dominate the
teaching of the apostles.
•Removing sin from the lives of
believers who are already legally free
from sin
•Revealing the hope of their calling
Knowing Who We Are
The first area where the
“Sleeping Giant” is arising is
in the area of knowing the hope of our
calling. We are not just saved sinners
waiting to escape this fallen planet,
through death or rapture. God sends us
back into the world (everyone of us) to
be agents of His love, mercy, salvation,
forgiveness, healing and truth. We are a
new man being sent into the world as the
Father sent Jesus and
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empowered
by the Baptism in the Holy Spirit to do
the works that Jesus did. We are not just
plumbers, businessmen, computer operators
or housewives etc. but sons and daughters
of the living God sent into this world to
be His ambassadors. As born again
believers we are eternal beings made in
the image and likeness of God,
emancipated from the dominion of darkness
and restored to relationship with God our
Father and to His destiny for our lives.
Recovering Our Dominion
Many believers are so focused on the
assurance of salvation, through faith in
the atoning sacrifice of Jesus, that they
fail to recognize their responsibility to
resist and take dominion over sin.
It is possible to have saving faith
without having entered the kingdom. In
Galatians Paul clearly says that if we
practise the works of the flesh we will
not enter the kingdom. (Galatians 5:21)
The kingdom is the land of promise - the
dimension where the blessings of God
flow. God’s blessings are withheld
from saved believers who yield to sin
until they recover themselves by repenting
and removing the sin from
their lives.
God’s saved saints remain bound by
the power of sin and darkness because
they do not know how to take dominion
over sin. For sin will have no
dominion over you, since you are not
under law but under grace. (Rom 6:14)
Let not sin therefore reign in your
mortal bodies, to make you obey their
passions. (Rom 6:12)
Let all bitterness and wrath and
anger and clamor and slander and all
malice be put away from you. (Ep
4:31)
Therefore put away all filthiness
and rank growth of wickedness and receive
with meekness the implanted word, which
is able to save your souls. (Jas
1:21)
So put away all malice and all
guile and insincerity and envy and all
slander. (1Pe 2:1)
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