Our devotion this week comes from the YouVersion Bible App. It was written and provided by Elevation Church. We’ll spend some time this week in a few songs written by Elevation, and looking at the Scripture background of these songs.
Fullness – Part 1
Take a moment and look up Fullness by Elevation Worship on iTunes, Spotify, or YouTube. Listen the whole way through, and then continue reading below.
“Fullness of eternal promise
Stirring in your sons and daughters
Earth revealing heaven’s wonders
Spirit come, Spirit come.”
The world we live in is moving fast and more than likely it’s only going to get faster. Responsibilities, relationships, deadlines – there’s often more required from us than it seems we have to give.
Running on empty may be the new normal, but it isn’t what God intended for us.
After Jesus suffered and died for our sins, He appeared to His disciples to teach and offer instruction for spreading the Gospel. But before He released His disciples to spread the Gospel, He reminded them of His Spirit that was to come and fill them with heavenly power.
Jesus knew this was the only way that the Gospel could spread. Running on empty would be a death wish. Jesus had been publicly crucified and now His disciples were charged with spreading the same message in the same environment occupied with the same intense persecution. The only option was to operate from fullness – to allow God’s love and anointing to overflow, pour out, and pave the way forward.
You may not be facing intense persecution or fearing for your life right now, but you have been tasked with the same mission. As a believer in Christ, you’re responsible for spreading God’s love and grace to a sick and suffering world.
Fulfilling this calling is a mission too daunting to accomplish in your own power and too important to attempt on empty.
It requires fullness, not of yourself, but of the Spirit of God.
Read Acts 1:4-5.
4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Pray and ask the Spirit to fill you and guide you today.
