LTW: “True Power, Part 2″ ***** not archived
- To receive the power of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis, we must have the following mindset:
- Admit your Achilles’s heel
- Avoid your enemy’s ambush
- Devil will say: “By faith you are saved, but be realistic, you have to use the mind God gave you. You can’t run your life by faith – be practical.”
- Seeking the power of the Holy Spirit to avoid unpleasantness in life
- Bible teaches continuance pouring of the Holy Spirit to overcome life’s unpleasantness, ie we will face adversity even though we are believers
- Beating yourself up
- Feeling of inadequacy when things don’t go your way is not a time to beat yourself up, it is a time to beat your knees on the ground.
- Whenever you focus on your inadequacy, other than confessing it and moving on, you are putting yourself before God
- you are taking the spotlight off God and putting it on your inadequacy
- 2 Cor 12:9
- “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
- Stop talking about our strengths and start talking about our weaknesses because it is not our strength but God’s strength in us
- When we are weak, we are strong, because Christ’s strength is perfected in our weakness
- Why does God then give us natural strengths?
- the natural gift needs God’s power, ie plant analogy: gift is the plant, but needs water (God).
- Only God’s power can help us overcome sin
- The Devil will reinforce our own independence to overcome sin
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