Leaning on the Lord involves looking to the indwelling Spirit as our source of power as we feed on the Word. We are reading the Word, talking to the Holy Spirit, saying, “I cannot live without doing this. The only possible way I can come up in victory is leaning on You, drawing on You, interacting with You.” We do not trust our discipline. We do not trust our prayer life. We trust the Person with whom our prayer life gets us in contact. We do not trust fasting. We do not trust any of the spiritual disciplines. We trust the Person we are talking with–God the Holy Spirit. We do not trust our past victories. We might have had a tremendous breakthrough a month ago or a year ago in an area, but we do not trust those victories. Those victories where we have a breakthrough in our heart, that breakthrough is not permanent; it is not there until the end. That breakthrough can be lost quickly. We do not trust yesterday’s victories, but neither do we trust yesterday’s failures. Maybe we really blew it a month ago or we were stuck for a year in something, and we need to say, “I am not going to stay stuck in that. I am trusting the Person who dwells in me. I am talking to Him. I trust in Him; therefore I am talking to Him, because I have no thought of making this thing work without interacting with Him.” So we do not trust our discipline, we do not trust our victories, and we do not trust our failures. Our faith and hope is in the Lord.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:27:44 +0000
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