Dec 24, 2019 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

The Daily Reset—a Christmas Resolution

I get up before the sun rises each day, no matter if it is summer or winter. One has too if you have a ranch with animals. It is good for us to ‘beat the sun’ and to ‘let our own light shine’ before the sun shines on us.

Two days ago, just as I was rising from sleep, the Lord spoke to me and said these simple, yet important, words for my life, “Reset your life each day.” Once again, I knew exactly what the Lord wanted me to do, “Resetting one’s life” is reconnecting with God after all what went on the previous day.

Let me explain, many times we end our day in a flair of activity and sometimes without agreement with the Holy Spirit interacting in our decisions and actions, we just end our day because we are tired and weary of what we have been going through. Often, we have not had time to allow the Holy Spirit to reflect on what has taken place and His willingness to intervene for us in our activities. We end our day without God’s input.

God never and has not forgotten what went on yesterday, and His willingness to help us has not diminished. God is a ‘God Days’ and the Holy Spirit’s job is to interact in what we do and how we respond to what has taken place. The Holy Spirit is our helper!

Did you know that there are over 1000 verses in the Bible that describe the ‘job description of the Holy Spirit’? The Holy Spirit has an important job to do in the lives of Christians. We think, no, we believe that we alone can get the Lord’s work done and often do not allow the Holy Spirit to do His work in our lives. We think if we are doing ‘Christian work’ then the Holy Spirit is working in us and through us. But it’s not that easy nor is this spiritually correct.

What can you do without the Holy Spirit? Nothing! Yes, nothing that is important, and which builds God’s Kingdom. It is God, the Holy Spirit, that builds the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. You cannot repent, you cannot attain to righteousness, or produce the judgment of God on earth (destroying the works of the devil) without the Holy Spirit. These are the three critical duties of the Holy Spirit.

In Jesus’ day, the day ended at 6 pm and began at 6 am. Today it is 12 o’clock. It is no wonder that the Scriptures have Jesus going up into the mountains after 6 pm to pray. Jesus was taking an inventory of the day’s events and preparing Himself for tomorrow. Jesus wanted to know what God wanted Him to do tomorrow and pray with thankfulness for what God did through him during the previous day.

We must be grateful and learn to give God thanks for what He has done—each and every day. We also need to know what is on the horizon—God wants to show us His will for tomorrow. This is why we must “Reset” ourselves at the end & beginning of each day. To “reset oneself” should be our ‘Christmas Resolution’—our gift to God. Let’s begin to see Jesus before us each day and allowing the Holy Spirit to equip us each day. This is God’s will for us and the Church. It is in the resetting of the will of God in our lives that will unite us in Christ and empower us to accomplish His will. As Jesus lived His life on earth so must we—this is what Jesus would want me to do!

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What would Jesus want me to do?

Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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