Don't do today alone

Good morning forever and ever family,

Let's acknowledge the realness of being people with limits in need of a limitless power.

My prayer for you and for me is that we seek to be filled with such power from the Holy Spirit through our asking God for it.  Because without it we have our limits.

“For, in fact,
in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,
assembled together against Your holy Servant
Jesus,
whom You anointed,
to do whatever Your hand
and Your plan
had predestined to take place.
And now, Lord, consider their threats,
and grant that Your slaves
may speak Your message
with complete boldness,

When they had prayed,
the place where they were assembled
was shaken,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak God’s message
with boldness.”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭4:27-29, 31‬ ‭

I love re-reading about God's control and genius throughout it all when they point out that even the rejection, insults, and wounds experienced by Jesus had "to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place."

The apostles needed to remember this because they were experiencing similar situations, but instead of needing the threats to stop, they knew they just needed to remember WHO they worked for so they could have even MORE boldness in representing!

We might interpret our bad, boring or painful circumstances as God being against us or as God being cruel or not fun because Satan is ready to use your feelings and your pride to tempt you to choose to believe a lie.  He uses people, feelings, unexpected situations and failures to make us believe a lie about God.  Because it is our beliefs and attitudes, that come from our thoughts, that will lead us either to follow God or to follow Satan.  We are constantly in a war and there is no middle ground.

Be aware of your circumstances and trust that this is God in action FOR YOU, then pray for the Holy Spirit to make every thought captive to what Jesus revealed about God..."destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Are you battling the devil by yourself?  You will always always always lose.  Because Satan is stronger, smarter and more tactful than you.  This is about the power of the Holy Spirit.  It's the battle inside, where the Holy Spirit of God dwells in us, that we battle the father of lies.
That's why we pray to filled like the apostles did.

It is a hugely humble reminder that without the Spirit's power you will be defeated.  Pray until your heart has acknowledged that truth, that you cannot do today on your own.

Here's a link about how to make every thought captive to Christ:   http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-do-i-take-my-thoughts-captive
Love you guys,
Jmegrey