1 John 4:4: You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Every Christian is indwelt by the Spirit of God. Listen to what Paul has to say: “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” (Rom. 8:9). Was Paul talking to some super–duper saints, some who had really arrived, some very spiritually–minded saints who were living on a high plane? No. He was writing to the Corinthians, and he called them carnal and babes in Christ. The Corinthian Christians were just about everything they should not have been, and yet they were indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Every child of God is indwelt by the Spirit of God. This is the reason that you do not need an angel to appear to you tonight to tell you what you need to know. Rather, you need to have the Holy Spirit teach you, and the Holy Spirit teaches through His Word. You cannot stay away from the Bible, be ignorant of it, ignore it, and yet expect to have the Spirit of God lead you and guide you. I try to get people into the Word of God because I have seen that the Spirit of God opens people’s hearts, and He protects them from this world in which we live. 1
Loving Him
Are you living like a person who has the indwelling presence of God living inside of you? Are you living like a person who does not have to be pushed around by the darkness of this world? Are you living like a person who is experiencing His indwelling power to live a separated life from worldliness, for His good pleasure and glory?
For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” 2 Corinthians 6:16
Loving Others
It is Him in us that enables us to overcome the intimidators of this world. – TWEET IT
Changing Me
Lord, thank You for being my Overcomer.
1. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (1 John) (electronic ed., Vol. 56, p. 117). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
