Help from the Holy Spirit #5
| "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit" says the Lord. (Zechariah4:6) |
- The people were demotivated,
- the city was in ruins,
- and the skilled artisans had remained in Babylon.
God gave Zechariah a vision and a promise that the task could be completed, but it required a change of mindset: they had to put their trust in the powerful working of the Spirit and not in human strength and effort.
There comes a time when we have to admit our inability to manage a task on our own. It is then that we must rely on God's help to accomplish the work He has given us to do. We must be clear here: God does not give us the power of His Spirit for us to accomplish tasks that we want to achieve. He gives us the energising power of His Spirit to help us achieve the things He has called us to.
Paul reminded the Ephesians that the power of the Holy Spirit working in them was the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. (The Greek word for "power" is "dunamis" which is where we get "dynamite," "dynamic," and "dynamo" from)
If we identify something God wants us to do and we choose not to put our faith in our own schemes and plans, then we can expect that God will do even more than we can ask or imagine.
The famous missionary Hudson Taylor said: "God's work, done God's way, will not lack God's supply."
