Being Spirit Filled

Our pastor was out of town today due to the death of his wife's sister, so we had another pastor come to preach. His text was on being Spirit filled, and the passage was on Ephesians 5:18-29.

He stressed how important it was that we have an intimate walk with the Lord daily. One way to do that is to saturate ourselves with the Word of God. Psalm 119 is an excellent Psalm to saturate ourselves with, and an excellent Psalm to memorize verses from. If we saturate ourselves with the Word of God, it will overflow into our families, our churches, our workplaces, and into every part of our lives.

What we fill our lives with will be what flows out of us, out of our hearts. Luke 6:45 tells us that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Rather than filling our minds with television shows, movies, and other things, we need to be filling, and saturating ourselves with Scripture, and with the Lord. We need to take to heart Romans 12:1-2, which tells us not to conform ourselves to this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of our mind.

We need that intimacy, and closeness with the Lord every day. Imagine what would happen if we spent the same amount of time with our families that we do with the Lord. Would we be able to say that we have a close, intimate relationship with them?

I hope you take the time to think about your relationship with the Lord, and evaluate how intimate you are with Him. Is He number one in your life?