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Jesus praises her for her revolutionary faith, for holding nothing back.
with no other means of income or support.
It’s not out of His character to ask for everything.
I struggle to always and actually keep in step with the Spirit moment by moment.
Aka askesis
I struggle to always and actually keep in step with the Spirit moment by moment.
Children 18:3
shamed by his undignified
I want to forget about what others think and worship my King with all of me.”
As we read in Galatians about the Spirit and the flesh, walking with the Spirit implies an ongoing relationship.
throughout Scripture we read of a relationship that calls us into an active pursuit of the Spirit.
Christians can’t ever lose the Spirit, but His filling is something we should constantly pursue.
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But in my experience, He typically asks us to play an active role in the journey toward wholeness. He doesn’t need our help but invites us to participate.
Rom. 12:11 and 1 Thess. 5:19.)
walking in the Spirit requires action on your part.
the fact is that if you were in step with the Holy Spirit, listening to and obeying Him, you wouldn’t sin (Gal. 5:16). In any given moment, it is impossible to live in the power of the Spirit and sin at the same time.
when you are sinning, you are not simultaneously submitted to the authority and presence of the Holy Spirit in your life.
Though at times we sin, we are not ruled and enslaved by sin as we once were. We have cut off the headship of sin in our lives.
The Holy Spirit will not—cannot—lead you into sin. If the Holy Spirit is in you, as a believer, then when you sin you are not listening to the Spirit’s leading.
I challenge you to examine yourself. Look at the “fruit” of your own life and let it be a gauge for you of your own connectedness with the Spirit.
Do you submit to the Holy Spirit as you spend time with your family? Often it is family members who are most difficult to love, and we need the Spirit’s help to love them well.
It is not by your own strength.
If we never responded to God, if we never acted based on what He has done for us, there wouldn’t be much of a relationship there.
both God’s action and our response-action are necessary in this relationship with God.
started Children’s Hunger Fund out of their garage.
As Dave hung up the phone, before he even let go of the receiver, the phone rang again. It was a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey asking Dave if he would have any use for 48,000 vials of that exact drug!
Forbes.com consistently rates CHF at the top of their list of America’s most cost-effective charities.
I don’t know that I’ve ever spent time with him without spending time in prayer.
What the soul is in our body, the Holy Spirit is in the body of Christ, which is the church. -Augustine-
My point is that a growing and energetic gathering is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit’s work.
I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know that I couldn’t be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn’t come through, I am screwed.
I don’t believe God wants me (or any of His children) to live in a way that makes sense from the world’s perspective, a way I know I can “manage.” I believe He is calling me—and all of us—to depend on Him for living in a way that cannot be mimicked or forged. He wants us to walk in step with His Spirit rather than depend solely on the raw talent and knowledge He’s given us.
