MY FRIENDS, ASKING GOD”S SPIRIT TO CONTINUALLY AND ABUNDANTLY TO BE BESTOWED?

Aug, 8, 2014

MY FRIENDS, ASKING GOD”S SPIRIT TO CONTINUALLY AND ABUNDANTLY TO BE BESTOWED?

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:13 (NIV)

We ask ourselves, when will this GREAT ABUNDANCE of God’s grace and Spirit be bestowed upon us. Why is God holding back, my heart is ready to receive what He has to give. Or are we? what are we actually asking for When we say we are seeking the Spirit of God and His power?

So today let’s focus on, what we are asking. Remember “the work that God has begun in the human heart in giving His light and knowledge must be CONTINUALLY moving forward”. Lets take Daniel for instance who went into captivity as a teenager.

In addition, from the beginning he CONTINUALLY “let [his] light so shine before men, so that they would see his good works and in so doing they would recognize this light and Glorify God also.” Matt. 5:16 (PSV) So he and his three companions would not eat of the kings meats and wines and it paid off eternally.

He is now an old man in his nineties still serving God “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.” Job 13:15 (NKJV) kingdoms and rulers has changed but Daniel knows His God is changeless.

Daniel is now a president under the new rulership of the Medes. for “It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first:” Daniel 6:1-2 (KJV)

But of course the god of this world still did not understand Daniels faith and endurance and his dedication to Jehovah after more than 70 years, no he did not understand that Daniel was still crucified with Christ and [he] no longer lived, but Christ lived in [him].

[In addition], The life [he had been living from his youth he still] lived…..by faith in the Son of God, who [he knew] loved him and gave himself for [him] Gal 2:20 (PSV) So Satan and the forces of evil devised a plan to get Daniel to recant on the God he served or die and then God’s dedicated worker “for such a time as this” would go down in defeat.

Will Satan ever learn when it comes to God’s faithful? Oh that we had such faith. Verse 7 tells us “All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.”

Now let’s see how God’s faithful handles man’s mandate. Verse 9 and 10 tells us “Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, [he did not hide his faith under a bushel but] he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he knelled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed [CONTINUALLY], and gave thanks before his God, as he [had always done]”

My friends such faith and endurance, THAT IS HOW YOU GET GOD”S SPIRIT ABUNDANTLY BESTOWED UPON YOU, but where I need you to focus today, Daniel’s faith never wavers and he is thrown into the lions den and spends a night in the company of some hungry lions.

Verse 20 thru 22 tells us “and when [the king] came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou SERVEST CONTINUALLY, able to deliver thee from the lions?

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me…” My friends our Savior will soon be here. The question we all must ask ourselves is, will I personally be a leading vessel for Christ CONTINUALLY SERVING HIM during this time while GOD HIMSELF CONTINUALLY AND ABUNDANTLY BESTOWS UPON US HIS SPIRIT.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY