BEYOND CONFESSION - I AM A MILLION TIMES BIGGER ON THE INSIDE! (DAILY DIET E-BOOK SERIES 02 DAY 22)

Greater Is He That Is in You 

First John 4:4 says, "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD." Who is the "he" that is in the world? That is Satan, the god of this world. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:4 4 In whom THE GOD OF THIS WORLD hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

 But He who is in you - the Holy Ghost —- is greater! The Greater One is in you if you are born again. God Himself in the Person of the Holy Spirit lives in the born-again believer. All that God could possibly be to you and do for you, the Holy Ghost through His indwelling Presence is to you and for you and in you. If we were really conscious of the Greater One in us, then we would have no fear of the devil. We would have no fear of "he that is in the world" because "He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world." John said, ". . . greater is he that is IN YOU . . ." (1 John 4:4). 

Going back to John 14:16, we hear Jesus say, "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever." Then in the last part of verse 17, Jesus said, ". . . he . . . shall be IN YOU." That is exactly what John was saying in First John 4:4 too: ". . . greater is he that is IN YOU, than he that is in the world." Some people say, "I have a poor memory and just can't remember things well. I can't remember scriptures." I tell them, "Why don't you quit trying to remember scriptures, and look to the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, and expect Him to bring whatever you need to your remembrance."

 You see, it's one thing to try to do something mentally yourself; it's another thing to trust Him — the Greater One — who is in you. He is everything in us that the Scriptures say He is. He'll do everything in us the Word says He will do. And He will be everything in us the Word says He will be. 

A Thousand Times Bigger on the Inside! 

Smith Wigglesworth, a man of God who was used mightily of the Lord to preach faith and perform miracles of healings, said in his book, Ever Increasing Faith, "I am a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside." I hadn't been in Pentecost very long when I read this, and this statement was hard for me to understand because my mind wasn't renewed sufficiently with the Word. I knew there was an outward man and an inward man, of course. 

The inward man is our spirit — the man that is on the inside. After I read that statement by Wigglesworth, I laid the book down and wondered how in the world a man could be a thousand times bigger on the inside than he is on the outside. I thought, for example, How could you put a big pot in a little pot? For example, if your foot were ten times bigger than your shoe, how could you put your foot in your shoe? If a man were a thousand times bigger on the inside than on the outside, the outside would just burst wide open. In the nighttime this statement Wigglesworth had made would come to me, rolling over and over in my mind. The Holy Ghost was bringing it to my remembrance. 

So I determined to read that chapter in Wiggglesworth's book again, asking the Holy Spirit to give me insight into what Wigglesworth was saying. In the book, I came upon the scripture, ". . . greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). I began to see it then. With this enlightened understanding I felt Wigglesworth should have said, "I am a million times bigger on the inside." That still wouldn't have done it justice because God is infinitely bigger than we can think or imagine. 

Someone asked Wigglesworth, "What is your secret to the great place of spirituality you have attained?" His answer was, "All I ever did was to remember that greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world."

Dare to act on that scripture! 

This doesn't belong only to preachers. It is not just preachers who are a thousand times bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. It is not just preachers who have the Holy Ghost in them. John was writing to lay members when he said, "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because GREATER is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). You are not left helpless in this life. The Greater One is in you. 

FFT: Greater is He that is in you!

ACTION POINT: Live daily with the consciousness of the power of the greater one living in you. 

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