Beloved,
I want to tell you that you’re as good as you’ll ever be.
You’re as good as you’ve ever been, and you won’t ever be any better than you are.”
Now I know to some of you this is discouraging words.
And I’m sure there are many of you asking:
What are you talking about Bishop Houston?
“WELL I’M GLAD YOU ASKED!!!
Beloved,
many have grown up believing a falsehood,
a falsehood that says that Christians are to pour their effort
into turning their flesh around and doing right all the time.
But that isn’t true.
Beloved, God never intended for you to get better, because you can’t improve flesh. But the Holy Spirit, who is living inside you, will enable and live through you.”
You see, our flesh hasn’t changed one bit. But the Holy Spirit releases His supernatural power in our life, and we find ourselves going beyond what’s characteristic to the nature of man.
So that’s why He indwells every follower of God.
Now, although the works of the Holy Spirit are many, there’re four basic elements to the life of faith:
(1) The Spirit illumines the mind, enabling Christians to understand the things of God.
(2) He energizes physical bodies to serve the Lord.
(3) He enables the will to follow through on doing what is right.
(4) He quickens emotions to feel and express the fruit of the Spirit.
(Fruits of the spirit-Gal. 5:22-23)
Beloved, the flesh is insufficient.
Only the Holy Spirit living inside us has the strength and wisdom
to live out the Christian life victoriously.
That’s why God gave Him to us.
“To God Be The Glory”
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