For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
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than one person has replaced a car battery only to find the new battery
"dead" within a few days. They may even repeat this process several
times, blaming a string of "bad batteries." Only when they realize that
the problem is not the battery but the alternator do they get back on
the road.
A battery stores
power to start a car's engine; but the alternator, turned by a belt
that is powered by the engine, keeps the battery fully charged. Lose
the alternator and, in time, the battery will go dead. The Holy Spirit
functions in the Christian's life like an alternator in a car—the
source of power that keeps our spiritual batteries charged. Just as a
car needs electrical power for many functions—lights, radio, gauges,
spark plugs—so the Christian needs spiritual power for many reasons as
well: patience, endurance, love, service, resisting temptation,
obedience, and others. The primary way to short-circuit the Spirit's
power in our lives is to harbor unconfessed sin.
Stay free of
unconfessed sin (1 John 1:9) and full of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians
5:18), and you will never lack for spiritual power.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
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