“Ahhh! Help me Jesus! Praise the Lord!” I yelled as loudly as I could. My boys knew that their mom was angry, but I desperately needed help from God to control my temper. I was falling back into this sin because I wasn’t resting on God’s power.
If we have given our lives to Christ, we always have the Holy Spirit. His power is always available to us, but he can be grieved by our sin. We can block the fellowship by allowing sin to separate us from him. We need to confess and agree with God that our sin is wrong. We should ask for forgiveness and turn away from the sin. Then he can fill us to overflowing and give us all we need. We need to lean on the Spirit to help us not to live in that sin any longer.
To grow spiritually we need the Holy Spirit. We need to obey what Jesus commands us to do, which is to love God and others. When he went back to heaven, he didn’t leave us alone. He is in us by his Spirit. We have his comfort, his help, his strength, his counsel, and his intercession. He is the Spirit of truth who will remind us of all that Jesus has taught and counteract the lies of the enemy. He promised to remain with us continually. We don’t just have a little bit of God’s power available to us. We have all the resources of the God of heaven’s armies on our side. We just need to believe it and lean on him.
Dear Jesus, Set me free from the stranglehold of sin and help me to live in dependence on you instead. Thank you so much for not leaving us comfortless but giving us your loving powerful presence by your Holy Spirit.
Throughout this day: Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal sins of which you are not aware and confess them to him. Receive his forgiveness on the basis of 1 John 1:9 and walk in his power.
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