Word to my spirit today

Word to my spirit today

I desire to do great and mighty works through you but they will be accomplished only if you are willing to deny yourself and your desires and let go of everything that would hinder and follow Me. What I ask of you is not an easy choice to make. There is joy unspeakable for those who lay down their own desires and dreams to live for Me. My disciples are measured not by how much they can pick up but rather by how much they can lay down.

MATTHEW 16:24
THEN JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, “WHOEVER WANTS TO BE MY DISCIPLE MUST DENY THEMSELVES AND TAKE UP THEIR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME.”

Pride

Within the Kingdom of God lies a concept that is easily overlooked yet is so profound. When this concept is the missing ingredient in the life of the believer then the shallow fruit produced will never remain. Even more importantly, a level of intimacy and trust with God will never be achieved. A characteristic we must strongly guard against allowing to enter our heart is “pride”.

James 4:6 (KJV)

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

God actually opposes us when we allow pride to enter our hearts. The only way to appropriate

the enabling Grace is to humble ourselves. May we allow the Lord to search our hearts and deal
with us by dividing our soul from our spirit that the meditations of our heart may be acceptable to Him.
May the light of His Glory shine into every area of our life that we might be made compatible with
His higher and eternal purpose for our lives.

Broken Together

Take the hand of those you love whom God has placed in your life and let the Lord do
that which is of eternal value in your hearts together, step by step. You were never
meant to be complete without Him. Allow the Lord to break you together. Life is not
falling apart but falling into place as He begins that heart change, that the glory and
the excellancy might be of Him and not of us. For this treasure has been placed in
earthen vessels.