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  From:  Wings47   6/16/2003 10:01 am  
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"BUT GOD HAS REVEALED IT TO US BY HIS SPIRIT." 'But' indicates a change. 'But' inserts hope in the midst of hopelessness. Most people do not know what God intends for their lives. They have not seen their secret wisdom, nor have they heard about it. They have never even thought about the stuff because there are certain things we cannot understand unless the Holy Spirit reveals them to us. They are deep within our potential that we need help to drag them out. 
God had those deep things within Him before He made us; He put them into us at birth. But we don't know they exist because sin has clogged up the entry way. It is as if God struck a well and put wealth in it--a wealth of oil. Wealth is under there in your bosom. There is wealth in your personality--wealth in your being. But it has been clogged up and capped off by sin. 
When you were born, the cap over your potential was firmly in place. Outside God's grace you will never know what is buried beneath that cap. Billions of dollars of wealth are buried within you, but you are not aware of it. You're walking along cool, but you don't know who you are. You don't understand that what you see is merely the shadow of your potential. That's why the Bible says, 'not has it entered the hearts of man the things God has under the cap for him." Oh, man! 
THE HOLY SPIRIT CONNECTION. 

In His mercy, God has placed within each of us the answer to this dilemma. After the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God sent the gift of the Holy Spirit. That same Spirit, which we receive at our new birth, provides the connection between our spirits and God's secret wisdom. 

Your capped potential is like a new battery. You came into the world full of the ability to run the whole thing. But you're just sitting there. Your stored power isn't being used. Like a battery that needs acidic water inside it before it can really fulfill its purpose, you need something to unleash the potential locked inside you. The HOly Spirit is the key that allows all the dormant power within you to come to life. Without the filling of the Holy Spirit, you can never function to your fullest potential. 

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE KEY THAT ALLOWS ALL THE DORMANT POWER WITHIN YOU TO COME TO LIFE. 

Have you ever wondered why we have to be born of the Spirit? Why does the Holy Spirit come and connect with our spirits? Think for a moment about your spirit. The deepest knowledge about ourselves comes to us through our spirits--we can't know anything deeper than our spirits reveal. No one knows more about you than you know about yourself, for who can understand a man better than his own spirit (1Corinthians 2:11)? 

If you just got saved, your spirit doesn't know anything about you. Before your new birth in Christ, you were spiritually dead. Your spirit has been paralyzed for 15, 20 or 30 years (however long it took you to get saved). You have been dumb and ignorant about who you really are, because you can't truly know yourself until you become spiritually alive. 

If you are not a Christian, you don't even know who you are. Only the spirit of a man knows the real thoughts of what a man is supposed to be, and we are born spiritually dead. We will never know who we are supposed to be until we accept Jesus as our Savior and receive God's gift of His Spirit. 

If then, your spirit doesn't know any more about you than what it has learned since you got saved, look at how little it knows. Just look at you. Do you know where you would be if you had not been saved? 

Now don't get me wrong. You aren't perfect yet. Don't get carried away. You know there is still much that needs to be worked on--many things that need to be refined. But do you know what happens? The more we know about who we are, the more our attitude toward ourselves changes. Isn't that something? The minute we realize who we are we say, "Wait a minute now, I'm the King's kid," and we begin to put on kingly clothes. We think, "Gosh, man. I'm a prosperous person," and we start expecting things to happen in our lives. As our knowledge about who we are grows, our lives change. 

All this is possible because the Holy Spirit goes to the cap on the well of the wealth of our potential and pries it off. He comes into our lives and goes straight for the things that are clogging us up and dragging us down. Through the power of God, He pulls off that cap and starts to drill. 
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Dr. Myles Munroe 
Understanding Your Potential 

 
  
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   From:  Minister Falcon (OSMFalcon)     6/16/2003 10:07 pm  
To:  Wings47   (2 of 2)  
 
  627.2 in reply to 627.1  
 
Love this book!  It has such a good concept of our potential in God!  I recommend this book too! ~Minister Falcon  

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Edited 6/30/2003 2:53:20 AM ET by Minister Falcon (OSMFALCON) 
  
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