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30…THAT STILL, SMALL VOICE

Good morning! Have you ever had a feeling you needed to do something but argued with yourself about doing it? I experienced that yesterday morning before I went to church. That still, small voice within me told me to put a box of my devotionals back in my car that I took out the week before. Because I was running late, I argued with myself about taking the time to do that and I would have missed out on a blessing if I hadn’t done what the Holy Spirit, which I referred to earlier as that still, small voice within me, prompted me to do. But I’ll get back to that in a minute.

Spiritual power and worldly power are not all the same thing. Worldly power is what we can do ourselves but spiritual power is what Jesus was talking about in Luke 24:49. Jesus told His disciples that He was “sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” The type of power that Jesus was talking about was the power given through the Holy Spirit. And then in Acts 1:8, Jesus tells us why we need the Holy Spirit. “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

The Holy Spirit is our helper in life. But if we don’t train ourselves to hear that still, small voice within us and be obedient to what we are told, we aren’t going to be able to utilize that power effectively. If we discard the promptings of the Holy Spirit with little things, we definitely are not going to hear Him when He tries to help us with bigger things. Because I yielded to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, I was able to make a new friend at church and have available one of my devotionals that she was wanting because they were in the box that I put in my car.

Lord, help us to use the power within us effectively by yielding to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Amen.