God's hand so clearly evident upon your life and leadership that a quiet holy power and authority seem to rest upon you! (Google image, Praising God).
A repeated anointing of the Holy Spirit upon you in your daily responsibilities and leadership activities!
Whether you are a minister or a lay person, God wants you as a leader to be truly ablaze with His Holy Spirit. Have you been hungering for more of the touch of the Holy Spirit upon you?
Have you longed for God to put His hand more powerfully upon you, His seal upon your leadership and your whole life? Have you felt that God must have more of the anointing of the Spirit available for you than you have normally experienced?
When you read the accounts of how mightily God used men like Wesley, Whitefield, Finney, and Moody, have you wished such divine workings were more common among Christian leaders today?
Have you longed to have the fire of the Spirit more evident in you—to touch your lips as you speak, your heart as you pray, and to add the "extra" of God's blessing on your leadership? Rejoice! God gave you that desire.
He has a new dimension of divine enabling available for every Christian leader, including you. God is longing to prove to you that He is nearer to you than you realize. He has chosen you and led you for His own purpose. God wants to do new things through you and your ministry.
In a sense of which you undoubtedly feel totally unworthy, you are a person that God wants to use more and more for His glory. In yourself you know that you are not all that special.
You would hardly consider yourself a "man of God" or a "woman of God." But God wants to use you in a special way. You are important to Him; He needs you. He wants to prove what He can do through your life and leadership. God wants you to be ablaze with His love, His Spirit, and His power. You can be ablaze for God!
In the service of God we need more than ability and skill. We need the manifest presence of God, the consciousness and evidence of God's special touch upon us. We rely, not on our knowledge, training, and experience, but on God's transforming addition to our highest and best.
Spurgeon insisted, "It is extraordinary spiritual unction, not extraordinary intellectual power that we need."
It is beautiful and challenging to see a life ablaze for God and an inspiration to others. It gives them faith to believe for God's work in the lives of those they love and the situations about which they are concerned.
It gives them confidence that God will answer prayer, and makes others want to draw near to God and obey God. A life ablaze is always a much greater blessing than the same life without the flame of the Spirit.
Jesus wanted all His disciples to be baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matt. 3:11; Luke 3:16). He desires each of us to be so Spirit-filled that our innermost nature is cleansed a by fire and our life made radiant, filled with Spirit-given power and zeal, and aflame with the Shekinah glory of God.
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Used by permission of the author and Duewel Literature Trust, Inc., Greenwood, Indiana. Creative reading style by Jean.
Ablaze for God
#2 You Can Be Ablaze!
by Dr. Wesley L. Duewel
(pp. 15-19) ZondervanPublishingHouse
Our prayer today-
Our prayer today-
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| Parent powerfully praying |
May there be a holy power and authority resting upon us, with a repeated anointing of Your Holy Spirit for our daily living, as well
as for our various responsibilities.
We see that we are needed to prove that You can do amazing things through our dedicated lives, and that we can be set ablaze for You!
It really is a beautiful and challenging witness to see a life ablaze for you, as it is an inspiration to others, to give them faith to believe You can work in their lives; in the lives of those they love, and in the situations about which they are concerned.
We humbly ask for Your Spirit to help us to allow You to renew Your power within us, and to cause us to become a living blaze for Jesus. It's in His name we pray. Amen.
Today's Bible verses-
"The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do
this day: the father to the children shall make
known thy truth" (Is. 38:19 KJV).
". . came the spirit of the LORD in the midst of
the congregation" (2 Chron. 20:14 c, KJV).
"And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,
which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding"
(Jer. 3:15 KJV).
~ PO. Hallesby- "We will begin to see that it is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most. And He will send it to us in that way which will give us the best and most abiding results."(Taken from pp. 53, 54 in his book, PRAYER, A World Famous Classic to Deepen and Enrich Your Prayer Life).
~ Jennifer Benson Schuldt- "When our relationship with God seems distant and disconnected, this may be because the Spirit's conviction has been repeatedly brushed aside. The longer this goes on, the harder it is to see the root of the problem. Thankfully, we can pray and ask God to show us our sin. If we turn away from sin and recommit ourselves to Him, God will forgive us and revive the power and influence of His Spirit within us." (Taken from Our Daily Bread®, © 10/17/2017 by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. www.odb.org
Today's question-
Do you have an impossible situation?
Step into it with God, and watch what He'll accomplish when you release it into His care and plan. Obedience to Him brings changes that honor Him. We are placed strategically to do His will, for He brings His people together to do what He's planning all along for our good and His glory.
Upcoming posts-
Camping Psalms
21st- Saturday's post by Alyson Kieda
#3 The Holy Spirit will Set You Ablaze
24th- Tuesday's post by Dr. Wesley L. Duewel
#4 He Sets You Aflame
26th- Thursday's post by Dr. Wesley L. Duewel
Why Pray
28th- Saturday's post by Lee Forbes
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