FAITH CAPSULE: It is a matter of choice to do His will and not by force.

Ephesians 5

Doing the will of God is to be, “…filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,  giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,  submitting to one another in the fear of God.” (Ephesians 5:19-21)

To Be Filled with the Spirit…what is it? Be filled with the word of God instead of being filled by the world affairs. John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” The word of God is the Spirit of God. We have to be continuous and non-stop feeding on the word that is when we can be filled with the Spirit.

Gossiping Christ
Demonstrate the fear of God as you engage speaking about the word through singing and meditation. Those who engage gossiping the Living Word God will have Malachi 4:16-17 answer for them. It is written, “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name. “They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.””

Giving thanks cannot be emphasized enough
1Thessalonians 5:18 states “In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” Giving thanks should a life style. Jesus demonstrated thanks giving. There was nothing done by Jesus without giving thanks. The miracles Jesus did were not without thanks giving. The thanks giving of the bible is not a once a year turkey engaged activity.

Submission to one another in the fear of God is the evidence of Christ in you.
Today, inside or outside the church all wants to be a self-called leader or a man-called leader. All wants to assume title not task. Jesus the author and finisher of our faith came with humility and submitted to the core. It only takes the spirit of humility for man to be able to submit. 1 Peter 5:5 buttress, “Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”(1 Peter 5:5)

Here is the word for you to meditate. “And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2:17) It is a matter of choice to do His will and not by force.

Prayer for today: Ask Him to help you disallow every spirit that does not represent Him from having a place in your life.