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Be Filled Now

Hebrews 6:12
“We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.”

Walking with the Lord is a daily pleasure. We do not become saved to ask for His Spirit once and never ask again. We must ask Him to fill us now, and when this now is over, the next now. We need Him in every moment of every hour of every day. However, when we do not have our hearts completely fixed on Him, we are quick to fall victim to the deception of the evil one, the world, and our flesh. The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak and I know that the moment I lift my eyes from Him is the moment in which I become lazy. Lazy meaning my time of prayer and reading His word lessens until it becomes non existent. This is when I stop earnestly seeking Him and back slide into myself because, as the Lord reminds us in Genesis 4:7, “if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door.” My walk is not as strong as I would like it to be and because of this, when I back slide, my heart becomes hardened towards Him and I lose all that He has just so diligently worked to fix, finding myself back at square one. This is when I feel that God has left me, when in reality I have left Him. Why would God lead to leave? He doesn’t. Genesis 28:15 says, “I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go…” giving clear indication that the Lord is always with us, even if we are not if we are seeking Him. Like the potter and the clay, we will find ourselves struggling with God until we are finally able to give our lives completely to Him, surrendering all. However, if we are constantly in battle with Him, He will use someone else to complete His work because we are not ready yet. 

Application
Today, I will write down all the things that are withholding me from completely surrendering to the Lord and ask Him to show me why these things are so much more important to me than my relationship with Him. 

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