Bible Study: "Spiritual Fulness and Fulfillment"

“Blessed
are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be
filled.” He wants us to be so filled with
righteousness that we not only live in it
but also influence others around us with the righteousness of God.
Christ-like righteousness is the gateway to full redemption and spiritual
fulness in our lives. All we need is to be in Christ and for Him to be in us.
Only then can we thirst and hunger for this fulness which will lead to a full
and fulfilled life (Colossians 1:9; Ephesians 4:13; 3:19,20).

All
who sincerely desire and earnestly seek God always find Him. Earnestness in seeking
God, fervency in praying to Him for the bestowal of the promised fulness will
always be rewarded. To find, we need to seek. To have the promised fulness
demands a resolve to pray without ceasing, waiting on the Lord until it
actually happens. The passion must be there at all times. “… give
him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the
earth.” Lack and limitations in our Christian lives should make
us to seek the Lord without interruption. Though he was the last to be converted
of the apostles, Paul the Apostle did more than the rest of the apostles
because of his waiting on the Lord at the commencement of his Christian faith
with prayer and fasting. Likewise, if we want the fulness of God, we must wait
on the Lord and pray importunately. If we have not been receiving, it shows we
have not been asking with passion: “For every one that
asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
shall be opened.”

None can force
cool, refreshing water upon the non-thirsty; you must indicate your thirst by
responding to the Lord. “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and
drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive…”. The fulness of God is
available for anybody who will ask the Lord for His filling and fulfillment.”

Satiation
with the spiritual fulness promised by the Lord can only come as we take away
all hindrances. Like Jacob, Isaac, Elisha, Elijah, David, Samuel had, we need
favour and fulness from God. When we put ourselves in a place where the fulness
of God can pass through and fill us, God will pour Himself into us “like
rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.” – From outline

The Right Man/Woman has/is:

R-obe of righteousness – Isaiah 61:10

I-nstruments of righteousness – Romans 6:13

G-ift of righteousness – Romans 5:17

H-abitation of righteousness – Job 8:6

T-ree of righteousness – Isaiah 61:3

E-nduring righteousness – Psalm 112:3-6

O-bedience unto righteousness – Romans 6:16

U-understanding of righteousness – Proverbs 2:9

S-ervant of righteousness – Romans 6:18; Amos 5:24; Hosea 10:12; Malachi 4:2

Being on the fenced is not an option. Either you are filled with the righteousness that comes directly from God or filled with the unrighteousness of the world (Romans 1:29-32). Self righteousness and superficial Christianity will not take anyone to heaven. HOLINESS without which NO MAN shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14). How thirsty and hungry are you after the righteousness of God? Will God find you on your knees desperately pleading for His righteousness?

May God help us that the cares of this world will not choke away His word resulting in its unfruitfulness in our lives in Jesus’ name – amen.

God bless,

-Charity