I can't change anyone, including myself. That actually does mean that I'm powerless in and of myself. I can be an instrument of change only because Jesus has made His home within me. Nothing is impossible with Him. We all want someone to fix our crap...as long as we don't have to change. We want to remain victims; we hate being responsible...evidence that the Garden of Eden wasn't a myth after all. But there is hope to be freed from our well-crafted self-centered prisons. Through His sacrifice and resurrection, Jesus Christ offers us true humanity, restored identity, worth, purpose and meaning that have no reference to the evaluative tools of culture. The Holy Spirit comes to permanently live in all who will believe this Good News and He works the change and enables you to cooperate in His work of healing and restoring the broken Image of God in you to wholeness again.
HIS POWER...HIS PROMISE Helping people walk in the Spirit the devotional below is seminal! The devotion below is today from Oswald Chambers. I makes me think of some I have known that have assumed that the Lord doesn’t want them empowered by the Holy Spirit or that He won’t manifest Himself in them because they have reasoned otherwise. Given ministry opportunities to have the Holy Spirit confirm the Word of God with demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power, they rely on how they feel, their experience thus far and not on the reality that the will of God in mission and ministry is either done in the Holy Spirit’s Power or not at all. Our capacity to do what Jesus does has nothing to do with our imagined capacity, but upon the indwelling power of God through is. Now to Him who is able to do far above and beyond what we could ever imagine or think, by His power at work in us now, to Him be glory… Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus told the parable of the bags of gold as a warning ...

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