~ JESUS IS YOUR…SUFFICIENCY @everyone
Beloved, understanding the sufficiency of Christ is a fundamental pillar for living the Christian life and for developing proper relationship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the Source of everything we need.
II Corinthians 3:5 tells us:
”Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God”
We must depend on Him with reckless abandon.
Either Christ has all power and strength, or He does not.
Either He is the One we need to depend on, or He is not.
Either He can enable us to walk by faith, or He cannot.
In John 15:5, Jesus says,
”I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
Christ gives us a picture of our oneness with Him. It is a picture in which;
He is the vine,
the source,
the strength,
and the anchor,
and we are the branches, fully dependent upon Him for life and for power and strength to do anything of spiritual value.
Thus, to be a co-laborer with Christ is to recognize and believe that we are fully dependent upon the grace and resources of Christ to do anything .
It is coming to understand and appreciate that we can’t do anything of spiritual value of ourselves.
To do things without yielding to Christ is to come up with dead works (Hebrews 9:14), spiritually speaking, rather than true fruit of the Spirit.(Galatians 5:22)
Sufficiency is an all-or-nothing concept, and we must decide whether we accept that Christ is indeed our all in all or if we are trying to take away some of His glory for ourselves.
Given that God is jealous for His glory, we had better live properly in light of His sufficiency so that He does indeed get all the glory.
To be sufficient is to be self-sustaining, self-adequate, and to have all power and strength.
We can safely say that God is all of these things because He needs no one.
He is fully able to carry out His will and desires as He wishes.
No one can thwart His plans, for He is God. There is none other.
The grace of God enters into the picture in that He so loves His children, we who have received Jesus as our Savior, that He desires to involve us in His plans in the world.
Christ’s sufficiency means, by implication, that we are insufficient of ourselves.
Indeed the Scripture says this outright in 2 Corinthians 3:5 which says:
“Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.”
There is a powerful, powerful truth here. Without Christ we are inadequate.
We lack wisdom.
Colossians 2:3 tells us,
”Christ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge [regarding the word and purposes of God].”
We have no strength of our own.
Philippians 4:13 tells us:
”I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency;
I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]”
We cannot serve God or accomplish anything in ministry on our own, just to name a few of our insufficiencies.
Zechariah 4:6 AMP tells us:
”Then he said to me, “This [continuous supply of oil] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel [prince of Judah], saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of whom the oil is a symbol],’ says the Lord of hosts.”
However, with Christ indwelling us and as we by faith surrender to Him in humility and obedience, trembling at His Word we become sufficient to serve Him and do eternally effective ministry.
In Isaiah 66:2 AMP declared:
”For all these things My hand has made, So all these things came into being [by and for Me],” declares the Lord. “But to this one I will look [graciously], To him who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who [reverently] trembles at My word and honors My commands.”
This is how believers in Christ go from an incompetent, defeated army which fools itself into thinking it is advancing the kingdom, and it becomes one that is truly spiritually powerful and fully able because of Christ in them.
The frightening thing is that we can be saved and have Christ in us and still not take advantage of His power if we trust in our own ability.
Do we merely need God to help us as if we are combining our strength with His? Is His power a mere supplement to our efforts rather than the entire package?
Proverbs 3:5-6 says we are to:
Trust in the Lord with all of our hearts, meaning that we are not to trust in ourselves at all.
It says not to lean on our own understanding, meaning that we are to fully rely upon the wisdom of God.
It says that we are to acknowledge God in all things, meaning that He gets the credit and not us.
Only when we fully believe that we are dependent beings for anything and everything can Jesus become our all in all, strengthening us despite our human weakness so that His power can be perfected in our weakness.
Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 AMP
”but He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation];
for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively] in [your] weakness.”
Therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ [may completely enfold me and] may dwell in me.
So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties, for the sake of Christ;
for when I am weak [in human strength], then I am strong [truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God’s strength].”
Instead of wandering about as fools in a flurry of vain self-effort, we should trust God to make our paths straight as we walk by faith in obedience and humility (Proverbs 3:6).
I submit to you that every believer in Jesus Christ is a minister in the kingdom of God.
But it all starts with a healthy, righteous, and humble belief in the insufficiency of man apart from Christ and a belief in the sufficiency of Christ which alone can make a believer do any good work, especially, effective for ministry.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 declares
“All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
2 Peter 1:3 AMP tells us;
”For His divine power has bestowed on us [absolutely] everything necessary for [a dynamic spiritual] life and godliness, through true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.”
JESUS CHRIST IS INDEED OUR SUFFICIENCY!
(Ref: Relevant Bible teaching)
NOW LET US PRAY
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, thank You Lord for being our source of everything and our sufficiency.
Help us to always abide in You as You abide in us.
Lord, we depend on You to supply all our needs according to Your purpose and riches.
Father, we need You to meet us at the point of our every needs.
In Jesus Christ’s most Holy name I pray. Amen 
Have a blessed day 
