Day 3 "Starting The Engine"

There are some things that just go good together: peanut butter and jelly, cream and coffee, cake and icing, tea and sugar, batman and robin, long ranger and tonto, chris tucker and Jackie chan and the list goes on and on. Today we learned that the power of prayer and the power of God are divinely connected and goes good together. There a scripture that came to mind as I read our book today Romans 8:26-28 26 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. 27 He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. 28 That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:26-28 (MSG) We are simply spitting in the wind if we are trying to become a powerful people and a powerful church without the Holy Spirit.

Thought for Today: “Have you ever wondered why there are good people who love God, read His Word, and pray, but they don’t see His power move in response to their prayers? Their lives don’t seem to affect or change the world around them for God’s kingdom, and so the world looks upon their faith as being irrelevant. Often the reason of that is many people don’t understand the need to ask for the Holy Spirit’s power. God’s power is made available to us in order to do two things. One is to accomplish God’s purpose here on earth. The other is to give evidence to people around us that Jesus is alive but we cannot do either if we attempt to pray without the Holy Spirit.”

Today’s Prayer: “Father, we recognize that all three persons of the God head are vital in our walk to please you. You have invited us to call You our “Father.” You have given us the privilege to pray in “Jesus’ name.” And today, You have given us not only the keys to the kingdom but the power of the kingdom in the “Holy Spirit.” We desire desperately Your Holy Spirit so that our prayers will be powerful but more than that, that we would even know how to pray. We don’t know how to pray. We don’t know what to pray for apart from Your Spirit. Infuse our prayer with Your Spirit. Teach us! Lead us! Remind us! Revive us! Renew us! Restore us! And refresh us through Your Holy Spirit. Even rebuke and remind us of our sins so that we can be cleansed and that nothing will stand in the way of You blessing us, using us and lifting us. We receive a fresh anointing of Your Spirit so that we can accomplish Your purpose for our lives and to be Your witnesses in this world. Give us the words to say so that we can become a powerful, prayerful and purposeful church in our community. In Jesus’ Name, Amen!