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A few years ago, I watched a very heartwarming story entitled, "A Note". It was about a plan crash, and a woman finding a note in a plastic sandwich bag that had been washed up on some rocks near where the plan went down. She is a column writer and begins to write about her adventure of trying to find the person the note was written for.
We have to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Pull down every stronghold and every thought that is against what we know about God. We have read His Word, we know what it says; we have even seen God work in the past in our lives and in the lives of others. We have to continuously feed on the Word of God and act on His Word in order to block the devil's access to our minds.
God has provided an inheritance for all of us, but we haven't experienced it because of our lack of understanding about meekness. When we think of meekness we think, humble, lowliness, gentle. We might even think being meek is being weak. Actually, meekness is "controlled power".
I think we underestimate the power of prayer. Jesus did a lot of praying as He walked this earth and His disciples realized the power He walked in because they often saw and heard Him pray. That is why they asked Him to teach them how to pray.
When we pray in the power of the Holy Ghost, which is that dynamite explosive power; everything is affected around us. First of all it blows away things on the inside of us and then it explodes out of us and touches everything around us. The Holy Ghost is the One Who enables us to pray in the will of the Father.
When we bless the Lord with everything that is within us, this positions us to do the greater works that Jesus said we would do; because God empowers us with Himself; He manifests Himself as Emmanuel, "God with us". He moves in close and goes before us and becomes our rearguard. He's with us on every side. He becomes the Strength of our life.
When we praise the Lord, it makes Him draw close to us. The Word says that the Lord inhabits, lives in the praises of His people. If He lives in our praises then He enlivens us, He makes us more alive and rejuvenated when we praise Him.
I believe we all have a prayer on the altar that seems impossible for a breakthrough, something that we can't see how that prayer can be answered. We know it will take nothing short of a miracle for that prayer to be answered. How many of you know that God is still in the miracle working business? He hasn't changed, He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
As Christians, it is not our outward appearance which is most important, but what is on the inside of the heart, we seek to beautify the inner man, that which is not corruptible even the ornaments a meek and quiet Spirit. (1 Peter 3:3-4). If there is no evidence of true or real repentance, how can we work on or improve or even correct our faults or problems?
