The Holy Spirit And Your Potential

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DAILY VITAMIN
- The Holy Spirit And Your Potential
"Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]".              (Eph 3:20 AMP)

     A mass of gold excavated from the earth has no visible value until it is refined. As long as its ores and impurities remain, its true potential in the market remains unrevealed. This is exactly how we are without the fullness of the Spirit upon us. Our potentials stay hidden and limited, because only the anointing of the Spirit can magnify it to visible value.
   Acts 4:13 says that when the Sanhedrin found out that Peter and John were suppose to be timid uneducated men, but on seeing the boldness, poise and dexterity of their words, they realized that they must have a part of Christ in them. And so we see Peter who once needed his in-law to be healed healing others by the power of Christ's Spirit. Jesus did promise to send them [as well as all who would believe] a Comforter - that is the Holy Spirit who can use even the despised things of the world to shame the ones of importance (1 Cor 1:27-28). And He also can make your potentials refined for greater effectiveness. He can increase your influence.
    Look at Jesus, having been immersed by Him, His fame went far and wide (Luke 4:14). That is, He makes of great effect the things people once assumed were meager. This is because He enhances our capacity for greatness and the effective use of the gifts and the God-Life which is now ours in Christ. Micah called it being strengthen with might by the Spirit (Micah 3:8). That is, being overwhelmed with the capacity for exploits that makes the oppressed a deliverer as we see in Samson. Or that makes the forgotten the celebrated as with David. Or that makes the despised the Lord of all as with our Lord Jesus. Everywhere there is a fullness of the Spirit, there is always an effectiveness and audaciousness of power in manifestation.
    Hence, by the Holy Spirit your true value gets revealed like refined gold. So if you haven't received His fullness yet, now is the time; and it is so simple. All you have to do is desire Him with all your heart and ask for Him, and you will be filled. Remember, as many as thirst [for Him] will be satisfied (Matt 5:6), and God will never keep Him from all who ask for Him (Luke 11:13). So ask today and be filled, so as to bring your potentials to the best God has ordained it to be. You can be more than this. Yes! You can.

Prayer:
Heavenly Father, I thank you because you have given me the liberty to drink from your water of life so as to have a living spring flowing through me by the Spirit of God. I ask for a fresh infilling of the Spirit, and as I exercise my liberty in Him, may I be transformed in all ramifications of my life- gifts and experiences likewise -from glory to glory, in Jesus' Name. Amen

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