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Increase and decrease

 Increase and decrease

 

John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

 

This morning the Lord gave me a greater understanding of this verse.  As He increases in our life so all the negative things in our lives that do us no good decrease and even go.  Think about it.

As He increases in our life:

Anxiety decreases

Fear decreases

Sin decreases

Doubt decreases

Hate decreases

Anger decrease

….

Actually, if we allow Him to increase not only will those negative things decrease but they will be driven out completely from our lives.  They become crucified and it becomes no longer we with all our junk that lives but He with all of His victory, healing and freedom that lives in us.

 

That is the other beautiful thing about being in Jesus and Him increasing.  When we die to ourselves and it becomes Him living in us and giving us life we get to increase as well in all the good stuff.  We get to increase in faith, hope and love and all that sprout out of these three because it is no longer our faith, our hope and our love that is all based upon our strength or simple emotion but it is now His faith, His hope and His love working in and through us.  

 

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

John 15:5  “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

 

 

 

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