Has your own complete and continuous need for God’s grace ever overwhelmed your heart?
If so, you are not alone—me too!!
But you know what?
The need is the blessing.
The more we understand our complete need for God’s grace, the more we will see the perfect abundance of His Supply!
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout al ages, world without end. Amen.
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One of the biggest faith-builders in my life is seeing how the Holy Spirit can lead us through Scripture to the very words we need most each day.
God’s Word is alive and powerful, fresh and personal!!
Today, as my need for God’s grace drew me closer to Him, I read these words:
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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God reminds us that we are workers together with Him. In fact, He tells us that without Him we can do nothing.
Has God laid on your heart a vision for fulfilling His calling on your life this year? Are you overwhelmed by your own feelings of not enough-ness? Me too!
But guess what?
Our need truly is the blessing as we look to Him to take our not enough-ness and pour out His All-Sufficiency!
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
So how can we be made perfect in God’s strength? By being filled with His Spirit:
“ Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“Don’t be inspired with wine, the counterfeit of the Spirit, says Paul, but be filled with the Spirit. Enthusiasm is the idea—intoxicated with the life of God. Paul puts it as a command, ‘Be being filled.’
When our Lord talked to the woman of Samaria, He said, ‘the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’
Profoundly speaking, there is no refilling; ‘a well of water’ is there all the time.
The picture is not that of a channel, but of a fountain, a continual infilling and over flowing of the inspiration of God.
—Excerpt by Oswald Chambers
As we begin this new year, I encourage you to join me in rejoicing that our continuous complete need for God’s grace is the blessing that draws us closer to Him.
Let’s be being filled
with the Holy Spirit!
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.”
