Where the Spirit is working, the effects are undeniable, unmistakable and powerful. Are you seeing the undeniable, unmistakable powerful work of the Holy Spirit in your life? In your family’s life?
In the pressure and demands and hurt of life, we must keep our heads up, surveying the needs around us. And it’s this intentional discipline that unlocks the new heart and new nature in us. It’s this desire to care for the hurts and pains of others that expands our hearts. It’s this intentional decision not to make ourselves the center of our universe that brings peace and contentment.
Today we are going to look at a message directed to those who had embraced the sin of self-sufficiency. It was a message that was written to a pastor and his people who were in the midst of one of the most seductive empires in the history of man.
Here’s what we have found in this community at Church of the Open Door. Not only is prayer the fundamental way that God enters into our weakness and demonstrates His power and strength, but He also wants to do a specific work that can only be accomplished as we pray together (2 Cor. 1, John 17). As we come to God in these prayers, He wants us to wait on Him. This process expands our hearts and enlarges our capacity to trust Him.
