Acts 4:31 (ESV)
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were
gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Bloomberg reported that according to a recent study,
Americans can add as many as two years to the nation's life expectancy if they
stand up more often and watch fewer hours of television. What a concept -- move
around and you'll live longer!
A story I read helps illustrate this. A family threw a party
for their daughter. Her little one-year-old brother was playing with a left
over balloon which suddenly popped in his face. He was startled, and about to
burst into tears. Thinking fast, his dad grabbed an uninflated balloon from the
table, blew it up real big and then let it go. Boy did he love that! He laughed
hysterically as he watched this balloon zipping around the room until it ran
out of air and plopped down on the floor. He was fine, and as they played the new
balloon game. .
We need to be like these balloons, filled to the max with
God's breath, and then..... let go, to experience the ride of our lives!
And...equally important, we need to recognize when we're running out of air --
when we're deflated and depleted of His power and anointing. Then we need to
run back to Him for more, because receiving the infilling of the Spirit is not
a single event, but a lifetime of repeated refilling, so that we aren't living
or serving in our own strength.
The Lord hasn't entrusted us with His power to sit around
and watch TV -- but to activate us for the work of the Gospel, and the blessing
of the saints; to do great things for Him in the power of His Spirit wherever
He may take us. Let's be filled again today!
Dear Lord, we want to be filled with Your Spirit so that
we may do the work of the Gospel. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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