FAITH BEYOND MEASURE – Ron McGatlin
Our world without God is a world without love. Without love, the world is fragmented and non-functional. The love of God in Christ in His people on earth is increasing in number and in potency. The potential for the world is greatly increasing as God’s love invades the hearts of His people. Supernatural faith is flowing from heaven, pouring into God’s people of love.
Each believer is given a measure of faith by grace, according to our God-given job or calling. A somewhat different amount and type of faith is needed to accomplish each calling or work that is to be done in the kingdom of God’s rule on earth.
God does not give each person the same measure or the same type of faith. He gives us the measure of faith we need to accomplish our assignment at the time. We do not need the same faith in every situation or season.
We can cause ourselves difficulties and frustration in trying to have faith like someone else that has a different calling or work. We may think more highly than we ought to think and desperately try to have faith like someone else.
Romans 12:3-8, “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.”
THE FAITH OF CHRIST JESUS ON EARTH
The people of God on earth are collectively the Body of Christ on Earth.
Through personal love relationship with God in Christ our faith is received from heaven. By love with one another our given calling and parts fit together to bring forth the whole calling and faith of the life of Christ Jesus on earth now.
Alone, we are incomplete. Our faith and calling alone can never fulfill or complete the kingdom of God on earth. Together we are the living Body of Christ on earth. Alone we are a member that must fit together with the other parts to complete the Body of Christ.
“For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.” 1 Corinthians 12:12-14.
This is a Spirit function of love that is Spirit God in His people on earth, working with us establishing the kingdom of God on earth. Thus, bringing the way of love and truth in this world. All facets of life on earth will again prosper and regain their proper place and part of all created life.
THE LIVING BODY OF CHRIST
The body of Christ on earth is a living, growing, and changing Spirit-Body.