Daily Reading - "I Am Filled With Power, With The Spirit Of The Lord." Mic 3:8 NIV

Here is how it read today.

Tues. March 16

"I AM FILLED WITH POWER, WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD." (MIC 3:8 NIV)

Releasing The Power Within You

Picture this: Huge shovels dig house-sized scoops of coal. Pulverized and loaded onto railroad boxcars, the coal travels to a generating plant in East Texas where it's crushed into powder. Super heated, this powder ignites like gasoline when blowin into giant furnaces that crank three turbines. Whirring at 3600 revolutions per minute these turbines are housed in massive concrete and steel casings. They generate enough electricity for entire cities. You ask the chief engineer, "Where do you store the electricity?" He replies, "We don't store it, we just make it. When a light switch is flipped on in Dallas, a hundred miles west, it places a demand on the sytem; it registers at the generating plan and prompts greater output." Understand this: God's power cannot be stored; it only comes in the measure required, at the moment of need, and as your faith places a demand on it. To release the power of God that is already within you, you must: (1) Decide that material things will never be your first pursuit. Seek first his kingdom...and all these things will be given to you as well" (Mt 6:33 NIV). (2) Realize that God cannot move where there is no faith. "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Heb 11:6 NIV). So begin using your faith, even in small things. (3) Keep in mind that God will always use something you already have. So look within yourself, acknowledge what He's given you and "put it out there." (4) Don't forget to give God the glory. When the praise comes, pass it on to Him.