The Spirit’s Power

Deuteronomy 32-34; 1 Corinthians 2 

“’My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.’”

1 Corinthians 2:4, 5

What does our faith in God rest on today?

If our faith is based on the eloquence of our pastor or a well-presented formulation of the Gospel, we are at risk of living a second-hand faith. We need our own faith-walk and experience of knowing God through more than propositional truth. The irony is that Paul’s doctrinal formulations are used as salvation texts. Paul himself calls us to demonstrations of the Spirit’s power in both our lives and in the lives of others to authenticate and personally ground our faith-walk. Of course we need the truth of God’s Word, but much of the world today is seeing and experiencing the living Word through demonstrations of God’s power before they understand his written Word.

“Lord Jesus, thank you for the reality of your presence and powerful love in my life, family, and community. Continue to reveal yourself in your Church and throughout the world that all might believe.”