FRESH START #2–LEARN HOW TO LIVE THE OVERFLOWING LIFE GOD OFFERS
To help us settle in on what the Lord desires for each of us, we have started this series to refresh our minds with God’s plan.
Our key passage for this series is 1st Timothy 4.7. Paul says we are to discipline ourselves towards godliness. What are the disciplines that encourage a godly life? I call them The Disciplines of a Godly Life. The 2nd discipline is the Discipline of Spirit-Filled Living.
Last week we examine the Discipline of Scripture. Time alone with God in His Word, the Scriptures, is a great necessity in our spiritual lives. We need to be alone with God daily! We need to find times to get away alone. Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
The Lord God of the Universe wants to Arrange your life, and Accompany your trip through life, and authorize everything needed from now on. Wow, that is the best life there is.
Today we examine the 2nd Discipline of a Godly Life: Spirit-Filled Living. Jesus explained the Holy Spirit in our lives by using the image of a strong river of water flowing out of us. Let us turn there to John 7.37-38. Rivers of water is the way Jesus describes the normal life of believers, His children.
Rivers of water would mean that when we were saved He flowed out of our lives making us joyous and thankful. He flowed out of our lives making us so excited about all our sins being gone. He flowed out of our lives so that when we read the Bible it seemed just like God was talking to us. He flowed out of our lives making prayer so natural and uncluttered. It felt like the stars overhead had parted and we were walking right into Heaven before God’s Throne. We just talked and walked with the Lord through. And each day it seemed like all of life was brand new.
And that is life as God made it to be with that mighty river of water flowing out of our lives. We were refreshed, we were victorious, we were rejoicing, we were serving joyfully. The Holy Spirit was flowing through our new lives like the rivers of water that flowed in that new house of ours. That is the life of a believer as God intended it to be.
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