Access To Power

02/11/2006

"My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness."
2 Corinthians 12:9 (NLT)

We are weak, but You are so very strong Lord! Your Holy Spirit is our Helper!! We are to follow Him, be controlled by Him, please Him, let our mind be filled with Him, acknowledge that He is living in us, allow His power to work through us, be led by Him, be embraced in the Family of God by Him, hear Him speak to us, get a foretaste of future glory from Him, derive strength from Him in our weakness and distress, let Him pray for us and plead for us to our Father God... (Romans 8)

Is there anything the Holy Spirit can't do in our lives? It seems not, but then again, we are talking about the Spirit of God here, so why should we be surprised. The Holy Spirit, growing deep inside each believer, is a miracle to behold. When we believe, He comes to live in us for the rest of our days on this earth. How do we grab hold of that?

How do we understand that? How do we not miss all that God is forming in utter seclusion in the lives of believers? The Holy Spirit is a gift, a life-giving Spirit that has freed us through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death. (Romans 8:2 NLT) The Spirit of Life is the love of God that is deep inside every believer and He is our access to all the power we will need to live each day as we should.

The question becomes, do we live our lives the way they have been designed, letting these feeble, sickly, fleshly bodies we live in be renewed inwardly day by day, or do we allow the evil forces of this world to kill, steal and destroy all that God has provided? It is a choice we will all have to make once we have heard the call of God on our lives and said, "Yes" to the gift of His Son. Do we allow the Life of God that now lives within us to grow, or do we keep it covered up, so much so that those around us say, "Well, they don't look like they have the Spirit of God living in them."  Without abandoning ourselves completely to the Spirit of Truth within, we will be easy prey to the enemy, and the importance of the Holy Spirit will be deflated in our lives. We must continue to draw near to the fire of God within and warm ourselves there, especially when the harsh winds blow. As we tend to our relationship with our Lord, He will start to burn away the lies, the hurts of the past, the feelings of failure, etc...and the ashes that are left will become a thing of beauty called the glory of God.

When we make choices that lead us into the presence of God daily, we will begin to experience a new strength and a new power from within that we never thought possible. We will learn to "go there" when we need help, and we will find it. We will start to long for more and more intimacy with our Lord, and we will want to please Him. It will become our greatest desire to follow His leading, to be controlled by Him, to let our mind be filled with His thoughts instead of our own, and to drink in His Word as often as possible. We will feel His presence within to such a depth, that we cannot help but share Him with those who long to know Him too, and sometimes, perhaps most times, that sharing will be without words...the invisible God will be visible in the lives of those who know Him intimately!