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My Inspiration
from TT 144
by TIMES TODAY
By William King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image new.siemens.com
WIRED FOR POWER
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Can you imagine living in a house that’s wired for electricity but the house sits in darkness because you didn’t go to the breaker box and flip on the switch? No lights, appliances, air conditioning, power. That maysound a bit crazy, but I think we do something similar when we don’t deal with discouragements in our life.
When you feel like you’re never good enough, when people are talking down about you and then you join in with your own negative, critical thoughts about yourself, it’s as though you’re wired for God’s power but you’ve not turned it on.
The enemy will work overtime to keep you distracted from what God says about you. How do you turn on the power? When you read the psalms of David, you know that he was no stranger to discouragement. In Psalm 43, he begins to talk about his overwhelming feelings of oppression.
It’s as though he stops in his tracks, wheels around and defies that discouraging voice. He challenges those negative situations by focusing on God dwelling on His holy
mountain, the God who is David’s joy and delight. He declares, “I will put my hope in God!”
David realized, just as we must realize that God has wired us for power, but we have to switch it on. Romans 10:9-10 not only tells you how to get wired, but it tells you how to flow in the power. The apostle Paul says, “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
It is with your heart that you believe and are justified, it is with your mouth that profess your faith and are saved. If you are a believer today, you have the Lord Jesus inside you. The Spirit of God dwells inside you, so you’re fully wired. Now switch on the power.
When you’re feeling like you’re never good enough, believe with your heart and confess with the words of your mouth. “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” When you start feeling sick, confess, “God is my healer.” When people are talking about you, confess, “No, I don’t listen to that.”
