What Are Your Packing

"What Are You Packing"

Scripture Reading:
Matthew 3:11 (HCSB)  “I baptize you with water for repentance, but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Devotional Reading:

Do you and I have enough power to live the Christian life? Consider this: we have the power of the Holy Spirit within us…the third person of the Trinity who raised Jesus from the dead. Don’t you think that’s enough power to keep our minds set on the Spirit, and to have life and peace? I think it’s more than enough power…if we use it. A cartoon  depicts a soldier with an M-16 rifle aimed at an oncoming enemy tank. The tank is poised to roll right over the comparatively tiny soldier with his rifle. In the next frame there is a picture of a soldier with an M-47 dragon launcher. The soldier in the cartoon is now giant-sized, and the tank relatively small. The idea is that a soldier with a rocket launcher is more than adequate to defeat a tank. That’s our situation. We live defeated lives when we say, “Dude, all I’ve got against Satan and the world is this little old M-16 rifle and my own determination. I’ve got to really bear down if I’m going to survive.” And all the time we possess the resurrected power that brought Christ out of the grave…we have the Holy Spirit inside us, with the power of an M-47 Dragon! All we need to do is appropriate it.

Keep the Son in your eyes,

Pastor Ben J Lahay

Galatians 2:20