Practicing Radical Reliance

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ACTS 27: 1-44:

• On board an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy; vs 6-8 shows the expertise of the sailors in manoeuvring the ship in difficult sailing conditions.
• Experienced sailors, who have made the journey along that route several times and are accustomed to the water course/terrain.
• Paul, a man of the Spirit of God warns against continuing on the journey, foreseeing the danger, not only to the ship but importantly to the lives of all 276 souls on board.
• Naturally speaking, it makes sense for the centurion to listen to the pilot (man of experience) than to Paul (man of the Spirit), a mere prisoner, with no experience whatsoever in sailing.
• Deep calls to deep (Psalm 42:7) – it takes a spiritually minded man to understand the things of the Spirit.
• The things that are seen are made out of things that have not yet appeared, i.e everything exists in the spiritual realm before they manifest in the physical (Hebrews 11:3) – this is the order of things right from creation of the universe as we know it.

DECEPTION OF THE PHYSICAL:

• Experience and expertise. The men who designed the luxury ocean liner Titanic were so sure of their ingenuity that the chief engineer boasted, “Not even God can sink it.” We know the fate of the ‘masterpiece’ on its first and only voyage!
• Physical circumstances which sway the opinion of the majority- vs 12. vox populi vox dei instead of “one with God is a majority”.
•  Are you controlled by popular opinion? Where or who is your reliance? Are you carnally minded or spiritually minded? – Romans 8: 5-8.
• Are you going through some physical unpleasant situation that is making you hasty and not willing to wait on the LORD for His perfect will for your life?
• A soft blowing south wind, giving them a false sense of safety and comfort – vs 13.
• The Euroclydons of this world always hide behind a soft blowing south wind – vs 14. We must be 100% in tune with God’s Spirit all the time. 
• A man of the Spirit is always steps ahead vs 30-31.

LET US PRAY:

• Dear Lord, please let me walk in the reality of Gal. 2:20. I do not want it to be a jingle, a catchy cliche that I repeat.
• Lord, help me remember that You have given Your verdict over the wisdom of this world – 1 Cor. 1:19-20, 2:6. You have made foolish the wisdom of this world. Please help me not to dissipate energy on pursuing that which You called foolish and is coming to nothing.
• Lord, please fill me with the knowledge of Your will in all Wisdom and Spiritual understanding.
• Please instruct me and teach me in the way I should go; guide me with Your eye, according to your word – Psalm 32: 8.
• Dear Holy Spirit, since I (the carnal/natural man) died at the Cross, and have been replaced by the life of Christ (the Spiritual Man),  reveal to me the wisdom of God in all things- 1 Cor. 2: 1-7.

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Walk by Faith

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2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

I walk by faith and not by sight; for the things I see are temporary.

Lord, I believe and so I say that I walk by faith and not by sight.

PRAYER:

•  Father, open my spiritual eyes to begin to walk with You by faith.
• Please remove every sensitivity in my physical senses so that I will not relate with You from this angle anymore.
• Lord, please do not let the natural, the physical, the obvious or the legitimate control my life anymore.
• Since I cannot please You without faith, please Father, give me the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Help me to begin and continue to please You in all I do.
• Lord, let it be unto me according to my confession that I will henceforth live and walk by faith and not by my senses.

 Act 4:1- 4

The New Wine and the Church

Peter and John were preaching the undiluted, fresh, relevant and immediate message of the gospel. The leaders of the time could not stand the message as it opposed everything they believed in, and everything they had preached/taught and stood for. They felt threatened by the message of the Cross and were willing to do anything to stop it. They crucified Jesus, so they thought silencing Peter, John and the rest of the disciples should not be a problem for them! This same Council had condemned Jesus to death a few months back (Luke22:66) but thanks be to God; they could not silence Him in these disciples.

However they did not bargain for the Holy Spirit – the “Embolder”, the “Quickener”, the “Strengthener” and the “Standby”.  They underestimated His work and effect in the lives of the people. 

We cannot afford today to undermine the Holy Spirit and His work

in our time and generation.

Many of the people who heard the true, immediate and fresh gospel believed their message and were added to the Church; and the Church grew, founded on the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as delivered through the Holy Spirit from the mouth of Peter and John.

PRAYER:

• Lord, touch the heart of the Church. We plead that Jesus will be the only, central and crucial message of the Church.
• Lord, grant holy boldness to Your true disciples within and outside of the Church to proclaim Christ unreservedly.
• Father, disturb the sleep of death in Your body – the Church.
• Fill Your Church with this new wine so that there will be revival in Your body.
• Let the Spirit of Christ bring divine unrest within the Church so that we may rise to our rightful place on earth.
• Jesus said we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Please Lord, re-instate Your church to Your original plan and purpose.
• The world is refusing to accept the Lord because the Church is more interested in making a name for themselves through financial and political gains. Lord, we ask that You will remove the desire for these gains from the Church that the world may gain Christ instead.
• Father, please release the fire of the Holy Spirit on your Church worldwide that we may demonstrate the Lordship of Jesus to the world.
• Lord, please make Your Church a vibrant agent of change and transformation in this 21^st century.

Hebrews 4:9-11

Labour to enter into His rest…

PRAYER:

• Holy Spirit, bring me to a place of complete rest in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Let my communion with the Father be seasoned with deep revelation, as deep calleth to the deep within.
• Blessed Holy Spirit, baptise me to overflowing.

Matthew 11:28-30

Come to me all ye who are weary…

PRAYER:

• Lamb of God, I gladly come to You;
• Set me free from my carnal mind once and for all.
• Help me to continuously look in faith to You.
• Holy Spirit, set me free that I may be free to live this life of faith.

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