You can't do it in the flesh

"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts."

                                                                                 Zechariah 4:6.  NKJV

'What are souls without His grace? They're as dead as the branch in which the sap does not circulate. What is the church without Him? It's as parched and barren as the fields without the dew and rain of heaven.' Anon quote from Secret Power Dwight L Moody

To do things in our own strength is not enough. It achieves nothing in Spiritual terms. Preaching the Word or teaching God's principles without the power of the Holy Spirit, will achieve very little. It's rather like pumping water at a well with no water in it, or trying to drive a car with no petrol in the tank. It's pointless.

  And yet, week after week, many ministers preach a sermon and there is no fruit from it at all. Now this can be because there has been no altar call to offer prayer for people touched by the Spirit; there has been no time for a sermon or because the Word was given in the flesh; there was no room for the Holy Spirit.

  This happens all over the world. The Word is preached and yet, there is no response. God said in Isaiah:

'For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.'                     Isaiah 55:10-11

When God speaks, there will be a response. If not, we have to question if it was done in the flesh. However, this is not just a pulpit thing, it is in our everyday lives. Do we live our lives in the Spirit or struggle on in the flesh? We may not all be pastors, but whatever we do, we are all called by God and many of us are in danger of burning ourselves out because we are living in the flesh instead of allowing God to work through us. Also, we are trying to do too much. We need to rest at times.

  Jesus said, 'Without Me, you can do nothing.' John 15:5. So stop what you're doing for a moment and ask God to fill you with His Spirit; and then determine, from this day, you will only walk in the Spirit.

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