Daily Bread - FEB/22/07
Romans 8:16 - "The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God."
God has given us a new spirit so that we can be yielded to the Holy Spirit and do what He does, "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26; 1 Corinthians 6:17). The witness, or evidence, of the Spirit in our lives is first and foremost love, joy, and peace (Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 5:9; Romans 14:17; Philippians 1:11; 4:7; Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 4:4). For these wonderful expressions of God's glory to be revealed in our lives it is essential that we learn to yield to the Holy Spirit (Jude 1:20-21; Colossians 3:15- 16; Ephesians 5:17-20; Romans 6:13).
Every child of God must learn to recognize that the Holy Spirit desires to continually express the love of God through us in every situation that we face. If we do not recognize this then we will find ourselves continually making choices not to be led by the Spirit in our responses, and we will not have His witness. If we allow His divine rivers of love to flow out of us then we will automatically find ourselves representing Him and being doers of His word.
God has made it very simple for us to recognize the Holy Spirit; for He comes to us as joy unspeakable, peace that passes understanding, and the divine love that conquers all. If this essential witness of the Spirit is not ruling your life then simply be willing to yield to the Spirit of Truth, and the witness of the Holy Spirit will overwhelm you and wash away all of the other feelings and attitudes. The Holy Spirit is here to mentor us and show us how to function in all of these glorious ways of God's love, joy, and peace. When we recognize that this witness of the Spirit is not in our attitudes and emotions then we need to stop and yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to overwhelm our souls with His presence. As you yield to and experience the intervention of the Holy Spirit in your life you will find that a water course of glory has been cut through your soul and that you have entered into the rest (Hebrews 4:10; Matthew 11:28).
Be blessed,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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