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10/22/2010 - 2 Timothy 1:6-7 Power, Love and Self-discipline

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SCRIPTURE: 2 Timothy 1:6-7 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

OBSERVATION: How do we make sure that we are effective as we can be in using the gifts God has given us by His Spirit? Cultivate these threee things: power, love and self-discipline. We need all three. They balance each other out. We need power, the dunamis, the ablitity to get-er-done but, without love, power turns into manipulation and control. How many people love everyone but have no power to help them. Love without power is mushy, but ineffective, sentiment. A self-disciplined person gets things done for the Kingdom of God. They are able to say "no" to the desires of the flesh and focus on fulfilling their call. However, a self-disciplined person who doesn't love tends to look down on the "merely mortal" people around them and wonder why they can't be as self-controlled and think less of them for it.
We need all three, power--to get it done, love--so we do it for the right reason and self-discipline so that we don't get distracted along the way.

APPLICATION: I want to do better in all three. I would like to see more power in my life--to see the supernatural come about. I must confess that I am not always as loving as I would like to be--but I want to be!! And, I am too often distracted. I spend too much time just reading stuff on the Internet when I need to be focused on what is in front of me to do.

PRAYER: Lord, I am so glad that tell me that these things are part and parcel of the Spirit being in me. Fill me with Your Spirit today and may I have power, love and self-control because the Spirit works it in me.

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