OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL.BY PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE
BE REFILLED Thursday June 1 2017
Memorise:
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit:
Ephesians 5:18
Read:
Ephesians 5:7-19
Eph 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Eph 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret
Eph 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit:
Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to
the Lord;
Message:
The moment you give your life to Christ. a long drawn out battle for your soul begins. While your spirit would want to begin to exercise control over your soul as it rightfully should, your body would resist it and ask you to go in the opposite direction. To be victorious in this protracted battle, you need to understand your new nature and the life of the Spirit so that you can easily flow in it From time to time, people ask me how l was able to grow in the Spirit, but they are never satisfied with the answer I give them. Let me share some of what helped me with you. The moment you become born again, your spirit man is brought back to life. The fish is born in water and so cannot survive outside its
natural habitat of water. John 3:6 says,
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit"
Therefore, now that your spirit man is born again, you are expected to gravitate towards the things of the spirit if you
want to grow. Your new birth is a spiritual experience, and only the things of the Spirit will help you grow.
One way to grow in the Spirit is to repeatedly experience being filled with the Holy Spirit 0n the day of Pentecost. after the Holy Spirit descended, the disciples gained their first experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 2:4 says,
"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."
Later on, when they gathered to table a pressing challenge before the Lord, they prayed earnestly, and they experienced the in-filling of the Holy Spirit again. Acts 4:31 says
"And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness."
Furthermore, to successfully live the life of the spirit it is not enough to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. You must pursue
a growing, personal relationship with Him and crave for more opportunities to be filled by Him. No wonder Ephesians 5:18 commands us to be filled with the Spirit Like the disciples, if you want to be filled over and over again, be separate from the things of the flesh, have fellowship with God where you can worship Him in spirit and in truth, attend Church services together with like-minded believers, feast on His word and pray in tongues regularly.
Action Point:
Consistently try to increase the amount of time you spend praying in tongues Pray in tongues and sing in tongues. This
will help your spirit grow.
Bible in one year:
Acts 22-23,
Jeremiah 39:11-40:6,
June is going to be a beautiful month for us. Make sure you settle your cross over with Jesus!
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