You Must Be Bold!
From the previous devotional we saw that the empowerment of the Holy Spirit is a vital requirement for fulfillment in life. Jesus said to His disciples, “You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8). And when the Holy Ghost comes, one of the things He does is to infuse you with boldness; He imparts you with the strength of heart you require to take steps in the face of oppositions that attempt to stop you from entering your Promised land.
Winning in life begins from the heart. Many people are highly educated, they have great visions, very strange prophecies and wonderful proposals but because of intimidation they are stagnated. Men fail and fall in their hearts before they actually fall on the earth. Every physical, open failure you see today began from the hearts of men saying, “Can I do it? Can I make it?” Little ‘girls’ are confronting them like Peter and they are taking shield when their chests should be out, confronting and clearing the oppositions out of their way.
The same Peter who denied his master in the face of a little maid, after he was empowered by the Holy Spirit stood before a great crowd and preached a fiery message that caused their heart to be pricked and thousands repented and were saved that day (Luke 22:55-62, Acts 2:1-38). So, when we talk about the empowerment of the Holy Spirit we are talking about being bold, fearless, not minding the risks attached to what you want to do in life.
It is the strength of your heart that defines the extent of your possession on earth. The earth is for strong hearted people. It takes a lion’s heart to take a lion’s share. Before David confronted Goliath he said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him…” (1 Sam. 17:32). You need that! You need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to embolden you to move forward in the face of obvious and imminent danger. The Holy Spirit gets you drunken till you begin to take dangerous steps like a drunkard.
You need to be fearless in the pursuits of life, but that cannot be developed by natural efforts, it takes the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. I perceive that you are due for promotion, something inside you is eager to move forward but you can’t tell why you are on the same spot. As you open up for the empowerment of the Holy Ghost, I see you break loose from those intimidations! I see you doing the impossible from henceforth by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit!
Your access to that empowerment is a hot desire. Let there be a yearning, a longing in your soul and God shall fill you afresh with His Spirit (Psalm 63:1-2).
Meditate on these: Zechariah 10:1, Isaiah 44:3
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