DEVOTIONAL: PERMANENT CONNECTION

Anchor Passage: Philippians.1:20-21

    For God to use you as a minister for manifesting His signs and wonders to the world, you must be totally consecrated and committed. In addition you must be permanently connected to Jesus. In Phillipians .1:21, Paul declared that if he would be alive at all, the essence of his living must be Christ. Many of us are still living for ourselves, our families and for others. Until you get to that point  of deciding to live for Christ like Paul did, you may not be chosen by God for the manifestation of His signs and wonders. If you take a piece of hot iron and drop it into a bucket of cold water, what will happen to the water? It will heat up immediately, but as the water gets warm , the iron loses its heat. If you are connected to the Holyspirit, and you became red hot, but then you later jump into the cold water of the world, you will still be healing, delivering people and casting out demons initially, but at some point, because you are no longer connected with the Holyspirit, you will begin to lose heat until you become as cold as the world.

      Have you observed the life of Jesus Christ? Every time Jesus performed a major miracle, He would immediately set Himself apart from men unto God on a mountain in order to recharge His battery. You need to be permanently connected to the Holyspirit. When a water heater containing cold water is connected to a power source, the water will start boiling after some time. If the water heater is not disconnected, at some point, evaporation of the water will follow. If after evaporation has commenced, the water heater continues to receive power, a fire outbreak will likely happen. This illustrates that as long as you remain connected to the Holyspirit and Hos Fire continues to flow through you, at some point, you manifest Hos very nature, especially in the dimension of being a consuming fire. No wonder Hebrews.1:7 says;

"And of the Angels he saith, who make the the Angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire."

God wants you to manifest His very nature. This is only possible when the link between you and the Holyspirit is unbroken. How is that connection today? Do you once in a while dabble into sin? If you do,you break the connection and move away from manifesting as a flame of fire.

Culled from the rccg open heavens daily devotional.