The Power Of The Holy Spirit

By this time in less than two weeks, my mom and I will be in the air. On our first of three flights to Taiwan.

I’m so excited to be experiencing the Holy Spirit like I have never before experienced. God is so good; He led me to go through the study “Remembering The Forgotten God”, which I just finished today. He knew I needed to rely on the Spirit and not my own strength for this trip.

My prayer for this trip is that Christ will shine through my mom and me, that we will be transparent and He will be the one who is seen- not by our abilities but by Christ’s. I also pray this in our lives. It’s so hard to not rely on my own abilities and to trust God’s hand. As a Christian my life needs to be different, the Holy Spirit gives us supernatural abilities to work for him if we let it.

Here is an excerpt from the study book “Remembering The Forgotten God.”

“The Spirit wants to transform us, patiently but steadily, into people who transform our corners of the world……We won’t be transformed by simply trying harder. Grunting and saying through clenched teeth, ‘I will be patient!’ hasn’t worked yet, and that isn’t likely to change. But what does effect change is when we begin to ask God to make these fruit manifest in our lives by the power of His Spirit and when we spend time in communion with our God. Remember, its never been about you doing it on your own, It’s about the power of the Spirit in your life.”

That passage from the study guide really spoke to me. I have to be willing to let Christ do His work in me.  I am so excited for this trip because I know Christ is going to do amazing things, things that will only be understood through knowing it was Him who did them.

As this is my prayer for this trip and also my life I’d like to challenge you. Are you living your life through Christ and letting His spirit take over?

 We continue to ask for prayer for our journey, we are told by the orphanage contact that this will be the hardest thing we have ever done. What a great time to let the Holy Spirit take over.

1 Corinthians 2: 1-5

“And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about god. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  I came to you in weakness and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.”