FAITH COMPLETES YOU – Acts 6:8
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
The word full means replete, covered over, and complete. Stephen was full of faith and power. This means that his faith and power completed him in Christ. Because he was complete in Christ, God performed many miracles through him. Stephen’s ministry expanded because he sought to be complete in Christ.
Stephen had a choice to make. He either was going to be full of God or full of himself. If he chose to be full of himself; he was the one responsible for his life and he was the one who deserved the praise and glory for the things he had done. However, Stephen did not seek his own, but instead, Stephen sought to be complete in God. Stephen understood that it was God who would receive the glory for the things that he did. Stephen was able to do many wonders and miracles because he was complete in God.
You too have a choice to make. Are you going to pursue God so as to be complete in HIM. This means that you are no longer your own. This means you are no longer free to do your own will but are now the servant of God and are constantly seeking to do the will of God. This means that you are living your life so that God receives the glory.
In order to be complete in God, you must first understand that you are not perfect and that you have deficiencies. God created man in HIS own image but sin caused man to fall short of the glory of God. Stephen by faith desired a closer walk with God and as such, he spent his time seeking God and learning HIS will for his life. It was Stephen’s faith that completed him in Christ.
Stephen did not do many mighty things for God because he was good looking. Stephen learned to do many miracles because he sought the power of God in his life. Stephen not only sought the power of God in his life, but he sought for opportunities to use the power of God to draw attention to God.
How would you like to have so much faith and power that God says of you that you are complete in your faith? Stephen’s testimony is not only reserved for Stephen but is something that you too can obtain. It is a choice that you must make. Everyone loves to take matters into their own hands. There is a worldly philosophy of being a self-made man; however, this not the way to be complete in God.
Stephen’s miracles were a result of his being full of faith; he was not full of faith because of the miracles that he performed. Stephen first desired a closer relationship with God and from this relationship God was able to use him to do many miracles.
God is looking for those who will draw close to HIM; those who are willing to lay aside their own personal agenda in order to be used of God. We all have the same amount of time each day. The difference is how you use that time. If you desire to be complete in God, then you must choose to draw closer to HIM and do what HE has said regardless of how impossible it seems. God is waiting to complete you. In order to be complete, you must first be willing to allow HIM to have every aspect of your life. If you desire to do great things for God, you must first allow God to complete you through faith and power.