Good Morning Spirit-Filled and Led Worshipers! Plead Lord! Thanks! Fill us! Lead us! Revive us and our area. May all we do be a Spirit-led act of worship that honors and glorifies you and blesses many! May we see you at work and join you. May we hear your still small voice and follow the Holy Spirit nudges. Thanks! Come! Fill us! And send us equipped, empowered and ready to be Your vessels of love, healing and hope, Holy Spirit, come, teach us,. move us, revive us! Amen!
's devotionals are all about allowing the Holy Spirit to do His thing in, trough and around us as we seek God to help us follow Jesus and be doers of the Word just as we are created to do. We are the clay and He the Potter that molds, shapes and prepares us to be His vessels that live and love more and more like Jesus. What a cool thread through our devos as God speaks to our hearts, informs our prayers and leads us by His Spirit. Amen! Come! Fill and lead us to worship and Spirit and Truth . Holy Spirit speak and lead. Father, Your Kingdom come and will be done and use us well! Thanks! Amen! I'm praying for you and us to encounter God's Spirit and to allow Him to have His way with us! Amen! Shalom shalom!
ODB:
The Answers God Provides
The Holy Spirit . . . will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26
“What’s my birth mother’s name?” My seven-year-old daughter’s sincere question pierced my heart. Ours had been a private adoption where we were provided only the most basic of information about her parents: height, weight, age, color of hair and eyes. How was I to respond? The question felt impossible! I drew in a breath and prayed, “God, what do I say?” A sentence tumbled out of my mouth: “What would you like her name to be?” She beamed at me and proclaimed, “Madeline!” “Then, Madeline it is!” I declared. I believe God had provided an answer when I didn’t have one.
In the years after His death, Jesus’ followers would encounter great challenges where they needed God’s answers in seemingly impossible situations. In John 14, Jesus promised He would not leave them alone but would come to them with help (v. 18). Further, God would provide an ongoing flow of help: “The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you” (v. 26).
Sometimes the questions we face seem impossible to answer. We need God’s help and answers with our children, our work, our neighbors, and our world. When we don’t have the answers, He can provide them.
By Elisa Morgan
REFLECT & PRAY
In what area of your life do you need God’s help ? What questions do you have that you can bring to Him for the answers only He can provide?
Thank You, dear Father, for the gift of Your Holy Spirit to guide me in each moment.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
With His work on the cross soon to be accomplished, Jesus assured His disciples that He wouldn’t abandon them as “orphans” but would return to them soon (John 14:18, 28). Christ was referring to His own resurrection and to the Holy Spirit, who’d live with them and be with them (v. 17). God gave us His Spirit to assure us that we’re His children, enabling us to call Him “Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15). As “the Spirit of truth” (John 14:17), He’ll teach, counsel, and empower us to live as obedient children of God (vv. 23-26). , when we’re looking for answers, we can ask the Holy Spirit to guide us.
K.T. Sim
UR: Hearing God
Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and it will be added to you. - Mark 4:24 (NRSVUE)
I used to wonder what it was like to hear God’s voice. I had heard so many people talk about how God spoke to them; I was curious. Did God have a masculine voice? Did God thunder loudly among lightning flashes or speak quietly? When God finally talked to me, would people nearby hear God’s voice too? Eventually, I got frustrated when I still had not heard God’s voice, and I wondered if others were doing something that I wasn’t.
After a while, I began to seek God genuinely — not to satisfy my curiosity but because I was tired of hearing about God from others. I wanted to know God for myself. And when I began to study God’s word in earnest, I began to hear God’s voice.
It didn’t come as I expected, and it came along different channels. First, it was in the pages of scripture. The words seemed like they were written just for me. Then as I began to draw closer and spend more time in God’s presence, God began speaking to my heart too. That voice is like a gentle rush of water and always brings a sense of peace. This experience has strengthened my faith and my walk with God.
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's Prayer
Open our hearts, Lord, that we may hear you speak to us. Amen.
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