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Morning by Morning, January 25 - Life in the Spirit
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Fixing my eyes on You, I watch and wait for the leading of Your Spirit (Hebrews 12:2). For the sons and daughters of God our Father are led by the Spirit of God who abides within us (Romans 8:14). ...
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you” (Romans 8:9-11 NKJV).
Come, Holy Spirit. I welcome You here in my heart and here in every moment of my day. Guide my steps. Direct my path. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Help me lean not on my own understanding, but trust in You with all my heart -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- even every choice I’ll make and every challenge I’ll face (Proverbs 3:5-6).
This is living life “in the Spirit” instead of living life “in the flesh.”
More of Your Spirit; less of my flesh. More of You as the Source of all I am and all I need and all I do; less of me trying to be and do and find fulfillment in my own ways in my own strength and my own wisdom apart from You. You must increase; I must decrease, in the sense my growing trust in You and deeper surrender to You in all that I am and all that I have, all I will ever be and all I ever will have (John 3:30).
“The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full day” (Proverbs 4:18). I’m not righteous by anything I have done, but by all that You have done. And I’m on “the path of the righteous” -- step by step, day by day, morning by morning, from glory to glory -- only because the Righteous One lives in me -- “the Spirit of Christ” in me (Romans 8:9); “Christ in (me), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
So as I entrust my life and my day to You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- I trust Your nature and surrender to Your will to come live this day through me. Another day of “life in the Spirit” -- “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25).
Let it be said and let it be so, all by the power of Your grace and life of Your Spirit living in me, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be filled with Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ in you, the hope of God's glory arising and shining and living through you today, as you live this day in the life of the Spirit, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries
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