Access is a powerful privilege. It is not automatic. Someone needs to pay for it, or someone needs to have a great relationship in order to get access. We have to pay for our tickets before getting access to a ballgame. We have to pay in order to see a movie. I always have permission to enter my mother’s house because of my unique relationship with her. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, access is: permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, or pass to and from a place or to approach or communicate with a person or thing, freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something. Ephesians 2: 18 says: “For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.” This is a privilege! The Lord Jesus paid the price for access to the Father. The original Greek word for access means: “To lead or bring into the Presence. By God’s favor, we have the privilege of acceptance in Christ, and by this we have access to His Presence. We have freedom to enter THROUGH His assistance. We could not do this on our own.” This means that not only do we have access to the Father in Christ by faith, but it also means that He helps us to enter in. He gives us assistance. He wants for us to be close to Him, and He wants to be close to us, so He gave us access! Jesus already paid the price, so cease from any struggle that you may be going through and enter in. This is part of our inheritance as sons and daughters!
He gave us powerful weapons!
My dear fellow believer, God has given us the greatest weapons of warfare. Our weapons are not like what you see in the military. Those are powerful physical weapons that help to keep our borders safe today. Our weapons are divinely powerful. They help us to destroy arguments and philosophies that have set themselves against the knowledge of God. Our weapons can destroy mindsets of destruction in families and communities. They can help people come out of darkness to the saving knowledge of Christ. We have His Spirit. We have the mind of Christ. We have the gifts of His Spirit. We have the fruits of the Spirit. We have revelation knowledge by His Spirit. We have His grace and favor every day. We need to begin to engage our weapons of warfare instead of depending on worldly wisdom. Worldly wisdom will only lead you to pride and arrogance, and will separate you from God’s wisdom and love. Understand this, no wisdom of the world can compare to God’s wisdom. God created the Heavens and the Earth. The worldly wisdom will only try to imitate God. Satan doesn’t create anything. He only copies and deceives. Which wisdom will you embrace?
2 Corinthians 10: 4,5 (AMP) “The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ,”
