ANSWERS
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
More often than not there is something inside of most of us that clamors to get all of the answers we can to things so that we can be the one who is not fooled by the world. The problem is in the answers we accept as truth...thus leaving ourselves open to disappointment.
Early in Acts 1:7 Jesus made a statement about not knowing the times or the dates that the Father has set by His own authority. Jesus told us that it would be by the power of the Holy Spirit alone that we would be Christ's witnesses to this world; which leaves most everything in God's hands and not our own. In verse 4 of Acts 1 Jesus told the disciples to go stay right where they were and wait for the promised gift of the Holy Spirit in the form of a Spiritual Baptism. I have been made aware through the Holy Spirit within me that most people have only played around with receiving that baptism instead of actually seeking it in their life.
Believe me when I say that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is something that will change your life. I will not predict how it will come to you, and I don't think you are required to demonstrate that baptism in the ways many do with speaking in tongues, or other signs and wonders for the benefit of public display, but I do think it to be a real and vital contact made between you and God. The answers we seek are often because we want to have a sense of control, and the true motive is found within our hearts intent. I don't think God has to give us all of the details of what He is doing and when it will happen. I also believe to get so engrossed into the details tends to pull us away from the everyday task of living our lives out for Christ Jesus. It is very easy to see the signs as this world bucks and groans with trivially, but in the long run what we need more than anything else is faith in God's word.
Jesus made promises that we would receive power to give testimony and witness to what God has done. Jesus promised us we would receive the Holy Spirit, and yet it is we who activate that Spirit within us through our obedience. Jesus said we would receive power, and yet that power is not from us to this world, but it travels through us to the world around us. Jesus told us that this power was given for a specific purpose...which is to be witnesses with extraordinary results. When we try to witness on our own that power is never enough, and it shows our limitations as to what we can really do for God. Let God work through you to those around you. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
More often than not there is something inside of most of us that clamors to get all of the answers we can to things so that we can be the one who is not fooled by the world. The problem is in the answers we accept as truth...thus leaving ourselves open to disappointment.
Early in Acts 1:7 Jesus made a statement about not knowing the times or the dates that the Father has set by His own authority. Jesus told us that it would be by the power of the Holy Spirit alone that we would be Christ's witnesses to this world; which leaves most everything in God's hands and not our own. In verse 4 of Acts 1 Jesus told the disciples to go stay right where they were and wait for the promised gift of the Holy Spirit in the form of a Spiritual Baptism. I have been made aware through the Holy Spirit within me that most people have only played around with receiving that baptism instead of actually seeking it in their life.
Believe me when I say that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is something that will change your life. I will not predict how it will come to you, and I don't think you are required to demonstrate that baptism in the ways many do with speaking in tongues, or other signs and wonders for the benefit of public display, but I do think it to be a real and vital contact made between you and God. The answers we seek are often because we want to have a sense of control, and the true motive is found within our hearts intent. I don't think God has to give us all of the details of what He is doing and when it will happen. I also believe to get so engrossed into the details tends to pull us away from the everyday task of living our lives out for Christ Jesus. It is very easy to see the signs as this world bucks and groans with trivially, but in the long run what we need more than anything else is faith in God's word.
Jesus made promises that we would receive power to give testimony and witness to what God has done. Jesus promised us we would receive the Holy Spirit, and yet it is we who activate that Spirit within us through our obedience. Jesus said we would receive power, and yet that power is not from us to this world, but it travels through us to the world around us. Jesus told us that this power was given for a specific purpose...which is to be witnesses with extraordinary results. When we try to witness on our own that power is never enough, and it shows our limitations as to what we can really do for God. Let God work through you to those around you. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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