Our Daily Bread Devotional Sunday 28 May 2023 Titled What Only the Spirit Can Do
The topic for today’s Our Daily Bread, ODB devotional is What Only the Spirit Can Do for today Sunday 28 May 2023, this message will help you to understand how to engage the personality of Holy Spirit. Share with a with a friend.
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ODB Bible Verse for Today
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. – Acts 2:4
Today’s Scripture & Insight: Acts 2:1–13
Our Daily Bread Devotional Sunday 28 May 2023 Titled What Only the Spirit Can Do
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]uring the discussion of a book on the Holy Spirit written by a ninety-four-year-old German theologian named Jürgen Moltmann, an interviewer asked him: “How do you activate the Holy Spirit? Can you take a pill? Do the pharmaceutical companies [deliver the Spirit]?” Moltmann’s bushy eyebrows shot up. Shaking his head, he grinned, answering in accented English. “What can I do? Don’t do anything. Wait on the Spirit, and the Spirit will come.”
Moltmann highlighted our mistaken belief that our energy and expertise make things happen. Acts reveals that God makes things happen. At the start of the church, it had nothing to do with human strategy or impressive leadership. Rather, the Spirit arrived “like the blowing of a violent wind” into a room of frightened, helpless, and bewildered disciples (2:2). Next, the Spirit shattered all ethnic superiorities by gathering people who were at odds into one new community. The disciples were as shocked as anyone to see what God was doing within them. They didn’t make anything happen; “the Spirit enabled them” (v. 4).
The church—and our shared work in the world—isn’t defined by what we can do. We’re entirely dependent on what only the Spirit can do. This allows us to be both bold and restful. On this day—the day we celebrate Pentecost—may we wait for the Spirit and respond. By: Winn Collier
Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 4–6, John 10:24–42
Our Daily Bread Devotional Sunday 28 May 2023 || Reflect & Pray
How are you tempted to rely on your own efforts or tenacity? Where do you need to wait for what the Spirit can do?
God, I’ve exhausted myself by believing that I must make things happen. Holy Spirit, come and help me.
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