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Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit!

by Pastor Jim Brown
Horizon Christian Fellowship
(www.calvarychapel.com/hcfw)



In Zechariah 4:6 God tells Zerubbabel through the prophet Zechariah that he should cease from his own works and striving and “trying” and allow God to do the work through him and for him. This concept is contrary to our prideful nature – we naturally want to “do” and then get the credit (the glory). However, if we really want to do what God desires for us, then we will allow Him to effect change, to direct our path and to guide our hands (and lives). This is the ultimate in trusting God and is exactly what He desires for us – His children.

The author of the book to the Hebrews, in chapter 4, tells us that we should labor to enter into the rest that God has for us...how do we labor to rest? We labor by choosing to yield our lives to God and by choosing to cease from our own works and simply rest (and trust) in the fact that God is God and we are not. We rest in the fact that God has a much bigger plan than we could ever conceive and that He know best what is the greater good for each of us as well as how it works out in the plan of redemption and blessing for all the earth across all time.

If we want to be in the center of God’s will for our lives, if we want to be walking a victorious Christian life and have that joy that comes from fellowship with the Father, then we must cease from using our “own” power, we must cease from using our “own” might and simply allow God to be God and ask for His Spirit to work in us and through us to conform us to the image of His Son, Jesus, and to effect the changes and directions for our lives that only He can give.

Pray with me that we choose to yield up ourselves and cease from our own works and rest in God’s Holy Spirit and eternal plan...
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Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Hebrews 4:9-11 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Email me at pj-brown@sbcglobal.net

posted by Pastor Jim @ 9:01 AM