EPHESIANS 1:13

"And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit"

TO PONDER:

How many times have you called on the Holy Spirit for help?

Do you remember deciding to follow Christ, to accept Him into your life, to believe and trust in Him and finally coming to a place where things started to fall into place and being filled with the Holy Spirit. Have you ever experienced that peace and serenity, even in the hardest of times?

I’d been brought up in the Anglican church, and oft times I’d go off with my little prayer book to Sunday service, listen to the sermon, read the designated prayers, sing the hymns, do what I was expected too … but I never really felt at home or overly satisfied? Never, were we encouraged to give our life, or to depend on Christ or even get to know there was the Holy Spirit. I searched for years for what was missing. 

Salvation comes through the hearing of the truth, believing and trusting in Christ and letting go and letting God, not trying to do it all on our own by human efforts. We don’t need to strive for approval or acceptance.  Oh! If only someone had told me earlier in my searching, that I had already been specially chosen, spiritually blessed from Heavenly places, redeemed through His blood and forgiven, and adopted into His sonship/daughtership through Christ and believe I’d been sealed by the Holy Spirit. 

PRAYER:

Dear Lord thank you that I heard and accepted the message in your timing. I pray that through every day your words will be instilled in my heart.  That your love and acceptance shines through to those whom I encounter. Thank you that you sent the Holy Spirit to be our constant companion as we travel this earth. 

AMEN

Today's Devotion Written by Noeline Brock, LifeWay Online