heartlight.org/ Born of the Spirit — SpiritFire for 01/16/2014 Jesus replied, I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. — John 3:5-6 nlt Key Thought We are called to be spiritual people — holy, righteous, faithful, and compassionate like our Father in heaven. But our own efforts fail at achieving these. We need the power and presence of Almighty God at work in our lives to purify and sustain us in our desire to live to honor our Father. So God in his great mercy, gave us the gift of new birth — the power to be born of God (John 1:12-13). This gift, received by faith and participated in through baptism, is made possible by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit cleanses us and makes us holy no matter our past sin (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). The Spirit indwells us and lives inside us (Romans 8:9). The Spirit powerfully works to conform us to Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:17-18). So we celebrate that what we could not do in our human flesh, God has made possible through the new birth to spiritual life by the power of the Holy Spirit. Todays Prayer Thank you, Father of mercies, for the work of the Spirit to cleanse me and give me new birth into living hope as I seek to live the way of Jesus, in whose name I pray. Amen. Share on Facebook | Discuss this Verse The Thoughts and Prayers for SpiritFire are written by Phil Ware. You can email questions or comments to [email protected]. Heartlight is proud to support and promote Compassion International. ads.heartlight.org/openads/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a6f7029e&cb= This devotional was sent to mgmckay1963@gmail, who has been receiving it since 16 Jul 2011 21:50. HOW DO I LEAVE? Click this link to be removed. STILL HAVING TROUBLE? If our automated unsubscribe system isnt working for you, send an email to [email protected] and let us know what list you would like to leave. Well take care of you. HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE? Its FREE! To subscribe send a blank email to: [email protected] © 1998-2014, Heartlight Inc.
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