Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is,

Incremental Power.

We are discussing why it typically requires persevering prayer to receive breakthroughs.

Yesterday we looked at the fact that we are spiritual wombs for God's life, outlets of His power.

Spiritual power is released not only from heaven, but from the church through speaking God's

word, touching, the laying on of hands, worship, and spirit-led decrees.

At times, when we are waiting for God to answer a prayer, he's waiting on us to release his power. In that post, I shared an

example of this from when I needed healing from 45 warts on my hands. If you did not see the post,

I believe it would encourage you. Today, I want to address the fact that invisible spiritual forces are measurable,

and that certain amounts are required for different situations.

We do not typically think of invisible spiritual dynamics such as power, love, grace, etc., as measurable elements or forces, but just as invisible elements of our natural world are real, it can be measured, such as oxygen and other gases,

there are unseen spiritual forces as well,

which are no less real and exist in varying degrees,

or varying measures, excuse me.

For example, there are measurable levels of faith.

Romans 12.3 says, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

The Greek word for measure is metron, from which we get the word meter.

In other words, God has metered out to each a portion of faith. From there, it must grow. The scriptures do not say we only need faith the size of a mustard

seed to move mountains.

Some translations say this, but they are paraphrases and interpretations, not true translations.

The Bible actually says we need faith like a mustard seed, which begins small but grows into a tree.

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