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The Key to Power



John 12 (NKJV)

49 For I (Jesus) have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.




This is key in doing things in the Spirit verses doing things influenced by our physical bodies.  






50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. 



Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”






The key to being influenced by God's Holy Spirit is a continually surrendered will.  






Jesus didn't say everything that crossed His mind.  



Jesus emptied Himself of all His power as God upon the earth (Philippians 2:5-11).  






His power came from continually yielding to God's Holy Spirit while He was upon the earth.  



He functioned showing us how to do it.  






If Jesus had said everything that crossed His mind, He would have been operating being lead by His physical body. 






The impulses of our physical bodies are harmful to our walk with God (John 6:63).  






When Jesus would say and do what God, the Father, directed Him to say and do, He was following God's Holy Spirit.






We must be like Jesus.  






We must not say everything that crosses our minds like Jesus.  






We must say and do only what God, our Father, tells us to say and do.    






Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
https://flcmedia.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/productvideo/1015-InTheSpirit-01-SpiritOrFlesh-HD.mp4 

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