The More Excellent Way
Pursue love. 1 Corinthians 14:1 Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 13
When love is in perfect operation, all other things will work in harmony, for prophetic utterances are of no value unless they are perfectly covered with divine love. Our Lord Jesus would never have accomplished His great plan in this world except that He was so full of love for His Father, and love for us, that His love never failed to accomplish its purpose. Amen
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A Powerful Anointing
God anointed Jesus…with the Holy Spirit and with power. Acts 10:38 Scripture reading: Acts 10:24–48
All around me are people with needs.
God does not want me to cry. God does not want me to labor. God does not want me to anguish and to be filled with anxiety and a sorrowful spirit. What does He want me to do? Only believe. After you have received, only believe. Come to the authority of it; dare to believe.
the baptism of the Holy Spirit says to me, “You have an anointing” (1 John 2:20). The anointing has come; the anointing remains; the anointing is with us. But what if you have not lived in the place in which the unction, the anointing, can be increased? Then the Spirit is grieved; then you are not moved. You are like one who is dead.
The same anointing from God that anointed Jesus is with you, “and you do not need that anyone teach you.” The same anointing will teach you all things. Amen
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Overcoming Hindrances
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues. Acts 2:4
Scripture reading: Acts 2:1–41
When God begins dealing with you on the baptism, He begins on this line: He starts with the things that are the most difficult. He starts with your fear; He starts with your human nature. He puts the fear away; He gets the human nature out of the way. And just as you dissolve, just as the power of the Spirit brings a dissolving to your human nature, in the same act the Holy Spirit flows into the place where you are being dissolved, and you are quickened just where you come into death. Amen
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The Work of the Holy Spirit
He will take of Mine and declare it to you. John 16:15
Scripture reading: John 16:5–15
What will the Holy Spirit do? The Holy Spirit is prophetic.
The Holy Spirit is the spokesman in these days, and He speaks the Word. The Holy Spirit takes the words of Jesus, and He is so full of truth that He never adds anything to them. He gives you the unadulterated Word of Truth, the Word of Life. The Holy Spirit takes these words and gives them to you. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, is bringing forth the Word of Life. “I will give you rest.” Rest? Oh, there is no rest like it! It can come in your moment of greatest trial. Amen
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Greater Works
He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. John 14:12
Scripture reading: John 14:1–14
Jesus saw great potential in the disciples. He knew He had the material that would bring out what would prove to be a real satisfaction to the world.
What were the disciples? For one thing, they were unlearned.
Divine wisdom will never make you foolish. Divine wisdom will give you a sound mind; divine wisdom will give you a touch of divine nature. Divine life is full of divine appointment and equipping, and you cannot be filled with the power of God without a manifestation. Amen
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The Proper Use of Liberty
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:17
Scripture reading: Galatians 5:1–15
We must never abuse liberty; we must be in the place where liberty can use us. But if we are in the Spirit, the Lord of Life is the same Spirit.
In the Spirit, there is a divine plan.
Liberty has many aspects to it, but no liberty is going to help people as much as testimony.
Do not use your liberty except for the glory of God. Amen
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Beautiful Righteousness
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 2 Corinthians 3:9
Scripture reading: Psalm 11
All the excellent glory is in Him. All righteousness is in Him. Everything that pertains to holiness and godliness, everything that denounces and brings to death the carnal, everything that makes you know you have ceased to be forever, is found in the knowledge of the endless power in the risen Christ. Amen
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Living in the Spirit
The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 3:6
Scripture reading: John 6:53–71
We cannot define, separate, or deeply investigate and unfold this holy plan of God unless we have the life of God, the thought of God, the Spirit of God, and the revelation of God. If you try to discern it without the help of the Spirit, you will end up with a limited, human understanding.
We must know that the baptism of the Spirit immerses us into an intensity of zeal, into a likeness to Jesus; it makes us into pure, liquid metal so hot for God that it travels like oil from vessel to vessel. This divine life of the Spirit will let us see that we have ceased, yet we have begun. We are at the end for a beginning. Amen
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The Calling
You were called in one hope of your calling. Ephesians 4:4
Scripture reading: John 3:1–21
Many people who are called miss the call because they are dull of hearing. There is something in the call, beloved. “Many are called, but few are chosen” (Matt. 22:14).
The choice is always your choice first. You will find that gifts are your choice first. You will find that salvation is your choice. God has made it all, but you have to choose. God wants you to make an inward call, to be in a great intercessory condition of imploring the Holy One to prepare you for that wonderful spiritual body.
Let God comfort your heart. Let Him strengthen your weakness. Let Him cause you to come into the place of profit. Let Him help you into the place He has chosen for you, for “many are called, but few are chosen” (Matt. 22:14). But God has a big choice. Amen
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Being a Peacemaker
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:3
Scripture reading: Matthew 5:9, 17–24
Of all the things God intends for us to be, He intends for us to be peacemakers. There is no place better in Scripture to help me make this point any better than Matthew 5:23–24:
Most Christians are satisfied with the first meaning of this passage, but the second meaning is deeper. Most people believe it is perfectly right, if you have offended another, to go to that person and say, “Please forgive me,” and you win your brother when you take that part. But this is the deeper sense: “If you...remember that your brother has something against you,” go and forgive him his transgressions. It is so much deeper than getting your own side right to go and get his side right by forgiving him of all that he has done. Amen
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Filled with Life
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 Scripture reading: Psalm 148
The Holy Spirit fell upon a young man outside a church. He went into the church, where they were all very sedate. If anything were to move in that church out of the ordinary, it would have been extraordinary!
This young man, with his fullness of life and zeal for the Master, started shouting and praising the Lord, manifesting the joy of the Lord; he disturbed the old saints.
An old man was reading the Psalms quietly one day. It touched the young Spirit-filled man who was sitting behind him. And the young man shouted, “Glory!” Said the old man, “Do you call that religion?”
Deacons gathered around him and said, “You must talk to your boy and make him understand that he has to wait until he is established before he manifests those things.”
I pray that we will not get established in that way. God, loose us from these critical, long-faced, poisoned countenances, which haven’t seen daylight for many days. Deliver us from acting in such a terrible way. We must have the reality of supernatural quickening until we are sane and active and not in any way dormant, but filled with life, God working in us mightily by His Spirit. Amen
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Possess Your Soul in Peace
May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 Scripture reading: 2 Thessalonians 1:3–12
Possess patience to such an extent that you can suffer anything for the church, for your friends, for your neighbors, or for anyone. Remember this: we build character in others as our character is built. As we are pure in our thoughts, are tender and gracious to other people, and possess our souls in patience (Luke 21:19), then people have a great desire for our fellowship in the Holy Spirit.
Get ready for that. Claim your rights to God’s promises. Believe the Scriptures are for you. Believe that love covers you, that His life flows through you, that His life-giving Spirit lifts you. Let the peace that passes understanding (Phil. 4:7) be yours today. Amen
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A Life Ministry
Do not let your good be spoken of as evil. Romans 14:16
Scripture reading: Romans 14
We recognize the Holy Spirit, but we recognize first the Spirit giving us life, saving us from every form of evil power, transforming our human nature until it is in divine order. Then, in that divine order, we see that the Lord of Hosts can very beautifully arrange the life until we live in the Spirit and are not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh (Gal. 5:16). When the Holy Spirit is perfectly in charge, He lifts and lightens and unveils the truth in a new way until we grasp it. Amen
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