The Spirit Without Measure

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. -John 3:34,35

We’ve been talking about learning the ways of God’s Spirit—how He works, how He moves. Of course, the best way to understand God’s ways is to look at Jesus. Jesus was God manifested in the flesh, but He laid aside His omniscience, His omnipresence, His omnipotence and glory to become a man.

Jesus had been with the Father from the beginning, but He put Himself in the little box called a human body, in which He could only know what God showed Him. He could only be in one place at a time, and He could only do what God did in Him and through Him. He paid a huge price just in leaving heaven and coming down to earth.

The more we know about the price Jesus paid for us, the more we will love and appreciate Him. He left the rightful dignity and privileges He had enjoyed with the Father and was born on the earth as a baby. He grew to be a man, never working a miracle until He was thirty years old, after the Holy Spirit had come upon Him.

The Bible says, “God does not give the Spirit by measure to Him.” In plain English, that means God gave Jesus the anointing without limitation. Jesus didn’t have one strong point, because He had all strong points. But when Jesus left this earth and went to the Father’s right hand, He distributed the anointing that was on His earthly body throughout His new body of believers.

Individually, no other person will ever walk in the anointing without measure. Human beings were not designed for that capacity. But the body of Christ as a whole has the anointing without measure. So whatever manifestations of God’s power we saw in Jesus’ ministry, we should see operating through the body of Christ today as believers learn more about the ways of God.

CONFESSION:

I’m a child of God, and I’m learning to follow the ways of my Father. He wants me to be healthy and whole. Healing is mine. It’s bought and paid for by the blood of His Son, and I receive it by faith.

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999