SCRIPTURE: Acts 13:4-12
“Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said…” (Acts 13:9)
I have never experienced the Spirit’s leading like this.
As Jesus-followers, we all have the Spirit of Jesus. (Matthew 10:19-20).
The Spirit is not a power we control (making people blind, or healing people, at our disposal).
The Spirit is a power that we surrender control to, and that uses us as He determines.
Whatever the Spirit does is designed to help advance the message of Jesus, the word of God.
My job is not to seek the signs and wonders, but to speak the message of Jesus.
If He prompts me, I can also speak a word, and see dramatic results.
But I surrender to His leading, I await is direction.
I can trust that the Spirit will work, whether I am bold or weak, convincing or not persuasive.
“My message 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.” (1 Corinthians 2:4-5)
My prayer is NOT ‘perform great signs through me’ but ‘promote Jesus through me!’
However He decides to do this, I will be content.
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, I do wonder sometimes why I do not see more powerful impacts. Do I need to surrender or trust more? Or are You doing things through my weakness, things I can’t see? I am Your servant, use me as You wish.