TOPIC: LET THE SPIRIT SHOW YOU WHAT GOD IS DOING
Bible reading: 2 Kings 9-11; John 5:1-24
Memory verse: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” John 5:17 (KJV)
The NIV rendered the above memory verse this way, “…My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.” What was the work Jesus was talking about here? He healed a man on the sabbath day and the Jews got offended. They never even praised God for the miracle of healing but persecuted Jesus for making a man who had been impotent for thirty eight years whole on the Sabbath day!
One sign God gave John about the Messiah is that the Spirit of God would descend upon Him. “And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptise with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remain on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. [34] And I saw and bare record that is the Son of God” John 1:33-34 (KJV). And it is the same Spirit that knows the mind of God and what He is doing per time. “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God” 1 Corinthians 2:11 (KJV).
God went further to tell us, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased“ Matthew 3:17 (KJV). This should be an eye opener for all of us especially since the same Spirit that was at work in Him has He given to us to replicate and even do greater works than He did (John 14:12). Everything Jesus did was pleasing to the Father because He does all He sees the Father doing. The miracle at the wedding feast, the meeting and conversion of the Samaritan people even though Jews don’t talk to them, and the healing of the impotent man at the pool were all what God is doing in heaven but someone had to bring it to the physical.
Jesus did not give us his Spirit for nothing, No! He gave us to assist or help us in doing the works of God. The Father is ever busy in heaven doing good works but we must agree with Him like Jesus did here on earth to manifest these works in the physical. Therefore, as one with the Spirit of God go out in agreement with Him to save souls, heal the sick and teach many about the kingdom of God. Remember, when His disciples went, the bible said, “… the LORD working with them, and confirming the word with signs following” Mark 16:20 (KJV).
Prayer: Holy Spirit, open my eyes to see what My Father is doing and direct me on what to do here on earth in Jesus name.
Bro. Worthmore Aghanenu