The only way to have the power of God’s Spirit in our life
is to spend time with God all throughout the day. Seek Him first before you
make any decision and He will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5-6). Serving God from our own
self-effort is useless. God already planned works for us to do before we were
ever born, and He wants us to function in them (Ephesians 2:10).
Sin breaks our fellowship with God. We do not have the
spiritual support or power of the Trinity when we sin. If we attempt to use our
flesh to perfect our flesh, we will certainly spin our wheels and end up
frustrated. Every sin is from the flesh and widens the gap between God and us,
because it grieves His Spirit.
God’s Spirit is in the transforming business. The church
at Pentecost started by the unction of the Holy Spirit and that is the only way
we can function today too. We must be Spirit-led. The Spirit deals with one
area of our life at a time. Negative emotions are a red flag to alert us to
something wrong in our life. Take that negative emotion to God and ask Him to
show you the real underlying cause of it.
We may have a need that we can meet for our self. There is
nothing wrong with this. Maybe we need to repent of sin, or ask for God’s
healing if we are sick in body or soul, or change our focus about the issue or
to realize that we are clinging to the flesh or serving an idol in our life. As
we humble our self before the mighty hand of God, He will exalt us in His due
time (James 4:10).
Prayer:
Father God, our human nature takes the path of least resistance. We do not want
to do hard things. We want life handed to us and for everything to work out
perfectly without any effort on our part. Life never works out perfectly. Our
only hope of success is to draw near to You and submit to the working of Your
Spirit within us. You give us both the desire and the power to serve You (Philippians 2:12-12).
Thought for the Day:
If we wait upon the Holy Spirit to come with His omnipotent will and
anointed power, we will see great things happen by His hand in our own lives
and in the life of our churches.
