But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you – Acts 1:8
Happy New Year. Our planet’s new rotation around the sun has started. This time of year is commonly a time many of us use to reflect on our past living patterns. And if we are honest with ourselves, we who do examine ourselves know that change is called for in sundry aspects of our individual lives. We each (arguably) know (again, if we are honest with ourselves) what those changes should be, whether they are evident to others or not. And since we are motivated out of devotion to God to be better Christians, we say to ourselves and sometimes to the world that we are “GOING to DO IT”! We are REALLY going to change!
We may be pumped up, but all of our right intentions will fail unless we employ the only source of power for real change that God has provided, that is His Holy Spirit. It is Christ in you that will fuel the blessings of authentic change.
I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. – Romans 15:18-19
God has given no provision for his people to live out life in human will power and human strength alone. It is by the power of God’s Spirit that enables all the blessings of God for change in us, and blessings for us, to occur. God’s glorious riches are discovered through Christ living in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27). This is biblically called sanctification, or being more Christ like, and that is the end game of our walk with Christ. Christlikeness is accomplished only through the power of the Holy Spirit filling the believer.
Got the Holy Spirit? Got power! If you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then you are filled with the power to truly change to be more like Christ.
our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. – 1 Thessalonians 1:5
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being – Ephesians 3:16
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit – Romans 15:13
Happy New Year. Our planet’s new rotation around the sun has started. This time of year is commonly a time many of us use to reflect on our past living patterns. And if we are honest with ourselves, we who do examine ourselves know that change is called for in sundry aspects of our individual lives. We each (arguably) know (again, if we are honest with ourselves) what those changes should be, whether they are evident to others or not. And since we are motivated out of devotion to God to be better Christians, we say to ourselves and sometimes to the world that we are “GOING to DO IT”! We are REALLY going to change!
We may be pumped up, but all of our right intentions will fail unless we employ the only source of power for real change that God has provided, that is His Holy Spirit. It is Christ in you that will fuel the blessings of authentic change.
I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. – Romans 15:18-19
God has given no provision for his people to live out life in human will power and human strength alone. It is by the power of God’s Spirit that enables all the blessings of God for change in us, and blessings for us, to occur. God’s glorious riches are discovered through Christ living in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27). This is biblically called sanctification, or being more Christ like, and that is the end game of our walk with Christ. Christlikeness is accomplished only through the power of the Holy Spirit filling the believer.
Got the Holy Spirit? Got power! If you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then you are filled with the power to truly change to be more like Christ.
our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. – 1 Thessalonians 1:5
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being – Ephesians 3:16
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit – Romans 15:13
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