When we try to live apart from the Holy Spirit and just do the best “we” can, we are trying to improve our dead Flesh, that old MMI person we used to be. Then we may feel like this Christian Life doesn’t work, because it was never meant to work that way. When we place our faith on what “we” alone can do, we get more of the unfulfilling life we used to have. When we try to be better people, instead of leaning on the Holy Spirit to become more holy children, we go from being miserable sinners to being miserable saints…and the watching world has reason to call us hypocrites and liars. Here is my new mission and I pray it will be yours as well: 1- stop trying and start trusting more. 2- Freely and willingly choose to surrender, submit and obey more. And 3- acknowledge my need for the Holy Spirit and apply the Truth to my life more. These are the topics I have been discussing these last couple of weeks and they can lead to more Freedom from that old Flesh, or Jezebel as I call my old sinful person, then without that old person, we can enjoy and share the Abundant Life more and more.
Next week, we will wrap up this wonderful book, so that our lives may be more Spirit filled! (pun very intended) But I do hope you will make the investment in reading this book and applying it, so that everyone around you, including you, may get a deeper taste of the victory of Jesus for the glory of God!
2023’s Got A Minute? Book Club
January: The First & Best Book Ever: The Bible
February: Love Is In the Air: “The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts” by Gary Chapman
March: Spring Growth: “Secrets of the Vine” by Bruce Wilkinson
April: Living the Resurrected Life: “The Wonderful Spirit Filled Life” by Dr Charles Stanley
<>< Peace, Diane
