Sept 13, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Are you giving the Holy Spirit a chance?

Are you giving the Holy Spirit a chance to work in your life and bring you the promises of Jesus Christ? Too often we get in a hurry when it comes to the fulfilment of what we read in the Bible and/or what God has spoken personally to us. We want God to hurry up and do what He said to us without allowing the Holy Spirit to do what the Bible says He will do, as well as, what Jesus said through the Gospels about how the Holy Spirit works. We are impatient and think we know how God works thereby refusing and even denying the activity of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

God has rules (rules for Himself) and that is not more evident than in the operation of the Holy Spirit. The Bible gives us ‘the rules’ of the Holy Spirit—how the Holy Spirit works; it is these rules (or His attributes) that we find a relationship with the Holy Spirit (every verse in the Book of Proverbs). Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will not talk about Himself but will bring the Father and the Son to us (Gospel of John 16:13).

We think after-a-while that God has made us smart because we know so many verses in the Bible; thereby, we now know what God wants or how He does things. Oh, we are so foolish and are smart only in our own eyes. Jesus deferred His decisions to the Holy Spirit—Jesus only did what the Father told Him to do (Gospel of John 5:19), so where does that leave you?

We take too much on ourselves by assuming we know what God wants. We operate out of pride or self-confidence instead of being led by the Holy Spirit. Here is a history lesson for the ‘hard of hearing’; take for instance every past revival that God initiated; most churches and many Christians were against the Holy Spirit Movements in their lifetime. What a sad commentary of the Church, thinking they knew what God wanted or how He works.

Well, we are in such a time—at the very crossroad again. What has been done in the past is not how God will be doing things in the future. The only thing that has not changed is the command of Christ and His calling to His Body and the world. Remember and take notice that if you are not doing Isaiah 61, you are out of the will of God. This is God’s will for His believers and what the Holy Spirit wants to do: Isaiah 61:1-3. You cannot do this without the Holy Spirit!

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”

Where are you, Judges of Righteousness?

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What would Jesus want me to do?

Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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