*A SELF- MAILED GIFT OF STRENGTH!*
Live Daily Die Daily Footstool Devotional
27th February 2023
1 Corinthians 14:1-5 NLT - Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy. ² For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious. ³ But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them. ⁴ A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally, but one who speaks a word of prophecy strengthens the entire church.
⁵ I wish you could all speak in tongues...
Have you ever wondered how some people who do amazing things openly find inner strength to keep going everyday? I’m sure you have some people like this in your social circle who are always so consistent and appear motivated and powerful so much so that you wonder how and why they keep going on. The truth is that no one is powerful to do anything without some supernatural support. You will never be able to succeed big time in your life’s work without an external source of strength sustaining you and urging you on.
Remember that in Genesis chapter 6, the Bible says there began a crop of people who started achieving fame and stardom and become so skilled and warrior-like and though these people were human beings like everyone else, they also had a supernatural thing at work in them- they were half spirit beings and half human beings because they were produced from sexual relations between fallen angels and the daughters of men. They were the “men of renown” not because they simply had more inner self-motivation than others, but rather because their very genetic makeup demanded that they be super- human.
Genesis 6:4-5 NLT - In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
⁵ The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.
But such super-human abilities were nothing to be applauded by God, because those abilities were only being used for wicked purposes.
God wants to increase your personal strength. He doesn’t want you to live as weakling, only merely human. As you can see, the systems of the are failing everywhere and if you decide to live only a simple merely human life, you will not succeed much. You have to decide to consciously include as part of your daily routine, time to suck in some supernatural strength into your weak, tired, unmotivated, cold and dry life.
If you can speak in tongues, you are blessed with a great gift that can help you to draw on the strength of the Holy Spirit for your personal animation, motivation and advancement. When you speak in tongues, you lend your lips to the Holy Spirit who lives in your spirit , so that He can make pronouncements that are spiritually intelligent and able to create advantages for your propulsion. Speaking in tongues is a gift of encouragement and boldness to your own self. People will wonder how you keep going on and that powerfully so when you intentionally make time to speak in tongues daily. You have to learn to invite spiritual assistance into your weak human space, otherwise you will like ordinarily and soon, you will be down and out.
Look, everyone who is making it and getting some form of renown or success is being assisted by something out- of- this- world. As a child of God, don’t only dream of prophesying or doing things things to strengthen and help others. You must plan for your own spiritual health, exercise and nutrition by making time to learn in the Spirit and pray in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is always on Standby, available to kick in when your energy levels a
