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Power of Attorney
Author: Pat AH Aman

I know God will use each of us as vessels if we let Him. He gave us His POA to carry on His ministry to others.

I saw this very Miracle this week with our daughter who had surgery. She is home, showering daily, walking around, eating, and daily getting her strength back. God has and continues to restore her daily. How many people do you know that have had their entire sigmoid colon removed and not have a colostomy bag? God worked a big miracle.

St. John 14:12 says, “verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father.”

Jesus came to earth and miracles were abound. Then when He knew He was going to died, he told His disciples, listen I am going to give you my Power of Attorney, though the Holy Spirit, that you shall do the same miracles that I have done.

Now right off the bat, do not tell me that was in the passed. Jesus told his disciples to go into all the world teaching and making disciples of all that came in contact with. That means you. If you are a born again, child of God, you are a disciple.

The verse above is clear. It refers to miracles, healings, signs, wonders and mighty acts of power.

Jesus’ works consisted of healing all manner of sickness and disease, casting out devils, raising the dead, cleansing lepers, and doing innumerable acts of deliverance from all the works of satan.

He controlled the elements, multiplied food, walked on water, restored a severed ear, turned water into wine, accomplishing anything He undertook to do in the material and spiritual realms.

The promise in the above verse is that each believer can be endued with Jesus’ Power of Attorney, and receive the Spirit without measure, so he can do all the works of Christ and even greater works than what Jesus did.

To make this promise of spiritual works only when He did material and spiritual works is a poor excuse for unbelief.

To make it refer to saving souls is to ignore facts, because He did this also.

To limit it to the works of the apostles will rob the other believers of the benefits of the promise.

The greater works are not those of reaching more people by means of radio, television, and the newspaper, for these are natural means and can be used by unsaved men and women who do not have the Holy Spirit’s power to do the works of Christ. No man can receive greater power than Christ, for He received the Spirit without measure.

Therefore, the greater works could not consist of doing greater things than Christ could have done had He had the occasion to do them. The thought is that each believer can have equal power with Christ to do what He did as well as greater things if and when the occasion requires it.

In John 15:5, Jesus says, “Apart from me you can do nothing.”

But, John 15:7: “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”

We pray! We ask God to do for us through Christ what we can’t do for ourselves and others, until we bear fruit through Jesus’ Name, so His Father in Heaven will be glorified.

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of © Thomas Nelson Publishing and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……….