Sharon Jaynes shares with us, "Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom spent the last years of her life speaking to men and women all around the world about the God who sustained her during her imprisonment and who delivered her from the Nazi prison camps.
During one of her presentations, she held up a lady’s white glove.
During one of her presentations, she held up a lady’s white glove.
'What can this white glove do?' she asked. Then she went on to explain…
'The glove can do nothing. Oh, but if my hand is in the glove, it can do many things…cook, play the piano, write. Well, you say that is not the glove but the hand in the glove that does it.
Yes, that is so. I tell you that we are nothing but gloves. The hand in the glove is the Holy Spirit of God. Can the glove do something if it is very near the hand? No!
The glove must be filled with the hand to do the work. That is exactly the same for us: We must be filled with the Holy Spirit to do the work God has for us to do.'
Yes, that is so. I tell you that we are nothing but gloves. The hand in the glove is the Holy Spirit of God. Can the glove do something if it is very near the hand? No!
The glove must be filled with the hand to do the work. That is exactly the same for us: We must be filled with the Holy Spirit to do the work God has for us to do.'
It is time to see yourself as God sees you. No more living in a house of mirrors looking at a distorted image of who you are. This is how God sees you:
- You are a child of God. John 1:12
- You are justified- completely forgiven. Romans 5:1
- You are free from condemnation. Romans 8:1
- You have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16
- You have been made righteous. 2 Corinthians 5:21
- You have been blessed with every spiritual blessing. Ephesians 1:3
- You are righteous and holy. Ephesians 4:24
- You have been redeemed and forgiven of all your sins. Colossians 1:14
- You are a dwelling place for Christ. He lives in you. Colossians 1:27
- You are complete in Christ. Colossians 2:10
- You are chosen of God, holy and dearly loved. Colossians 3:12
- You have been given a spirit of power, love and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7
- You have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by
which you are a partaker God’s divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4
And that, my friend is only the beginning! Say these verses out loud. Speak to your soul. Believe the truth about who you are. You are more than good enough because of who lives in you and works through you.
Let’s Pray
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for sending the Holy Spirit to live in me, to work through me, and give power to me. I pray that I will plug into the power source every day.
Forgive me when I act like a powerless spiritual invalid rather than a spirit-empowered soldier. Regardless of what my feelings tell me today, I choose to believe that I am a dearly loved, chosen, holy child of God who is enveloped by Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Forgive me when I act like a powerless spiritual invalid rather than a spirit-empowered soldier. Regardless of what my feelings tell me today, I choose to believe that I am a dearly loved, chosen, holy child of God who is enveloped by Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen”
Jesus said, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you” Acts 1:8 (NIV).
Jesus said, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you” Acts 1:8 (NIV).
Sharon Jaynes gives us some good guidelines. info@girlfriendsingod.com www.girlfriendsingod.com
Today’s devotion was taken from Sharon’s book, I’m Not Good Enough…and Other Lies Women Tell Themselves.
The following is from Devotions for MORNING and EVENING with OSWALD CHAMBERS:
"The personal Holy Spirit builds us up into the body of Christ. All that Jesus Christ came to do is made ours experimentally by the Holy Spirit, and all His gifts are for the good of the whole body, not for individual exaltation.
Individuality must go in order that the personal life may be brought out into fellowship with God. By the baptism of the Holy Ghost we are delivered from the husk of independent individuality, our personality is awakened and brought into communion with God.
We too often divorce what the New Testament never divorces.
The baptism of the Holy Ghost is not an experience apart from Christ: it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.
It is not the baptism of the Holy Ghost that changes men, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into men's lives by the Holy Ghost that changes them. "Ye shall be witnesses unto me."
This great Pentecostal phrase puts the truth for us in unforgettable words, witnesses not so much of what Jesus Christ can do, but witnesses unto me, a delight to the heart of Jesus, a satisfaction to Him wherever He places us." (pg.325 June 5th Evening)
"Till we all attain...unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Eph. 4:13
"The personal Holy Spirit builds us up into the body of Christ. All that Jesus Christ came to do is made ours experimentally by the Holy Spirit, and all His gifts are for the good of the whole body, not for individual exaltation.
Individuality must go in order that the personal life may be brought out into fellowship with God. By the baptism of the Holy Ghost we are delivered from the husk of independent individuality, our personality is awakened and brought into communion with God.
We too often divorce what the New Testament never divorces.
The baptism of the Holy Ghost is not an experience apart from Christ: it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.
It is not the baptism of the Holy Ghost that changes men, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into men's lives by the Holy Ghost that changes them. "Ye shall be witnesses unto me."
This great Pentecostal phrase puts the truth for us in unforgettable words, witnesses not so much of what Jesus Christ can do, but witnesses unto me, a delight to the heart of Jesus, a satisfaction to Him wherever He places us." (pg.325 June 5th Evening)
"Till we all attain...unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Eph. 4:13
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