How easy it is to limit ourselves by thinking “I can’t” when, with God’s power, we can! We act as if we are on a bicycle, limited by our own strength and endurance when, instead, we’re in a highly-tuned God-powered race car, capable of winning the Indy 500!
Fill me, O Lord; fill me with your Holy Spirit so that I can change and become the person you made me to be!
There is no growth without change; there is no change without fear or loss; and there is no loss without pain. Every change involves a loss of some kind: You must let go of old ways in order to experience the new. We fear these losses, even if our old ways were self-defeating, because, like a worn out pair of shoes, they were at least comfortable and familiar. [Rick Warren, from “The Purpose Driven Life”]
I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. [John 6:35 (NIV)]Giver of Life, may we be less concerned this day with satisfying our physical needs and more concerned with our spiritual emptiness. Ease the hunger in our souls, O Lord. Fill us with the true bread of life: your Holy Spirit.
Devotions of the Heart 