A SPIRIT FILLED GENERATION
Ps
Darryl Woodson
“To the angel of the church in
Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits
of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you
have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about
to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received
and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will
come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I
will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their
clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for
they are worthy. He who overcomes will,
like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from
the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father
and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches. (Rev 3:1-6)
Rom
8:14 “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.”
When you were
born, it was not your choice; it was your patent’s choice. But when you are on
earth, god gives you a choice. When you were born, the spirit in you was dead.
When you make the decision to be born again, your spirit becomes alive – made
alive by the Spirit of God. God’s spirit and your spirit become one. Once you
are born again, you are given another choice to make a decision to become
spirit filled and move into the super natural. God again does not force a man
to walk into the super natural.
The
spirit filled generation, does not have a natural mindset. The last day
generation is going to be in the right place at the right time. The Spirit
should be the one directing where you should be at what time. We will
ultimately die and go into heaven. The moment you step into heaven and you
smell and seem the things you couldn’t imagine, it will hit you that the power
of the Holy Spirit who was resident in us, we actually hardly knew. You get a full understanding
that you are not a natural being but a spirit being living in a body. We serve
a Spirit God and we must be led by the Spirit not our natural senses i.e.
taste, touch, feeling, sight etc.
The
church of Sardis in Rev 3 is known as a dead church. The spirit filled
generation has to walk in the ways of God. They will be led by the Spirit and
not only have a reputation of being alive but actually be alive. You need to be
careful when you stand, for when you stand you must watch lest you fall. You
need to be careful how you live and watchful. We do not know what the devil is
planning against us. The devil will attack us in the natural area because we
are living in a body. Spiritual deadness often starts before a person ever goes
back to the vomit. Spiritual deadness comes when one loses their spiritual
intimacy with God. We all go through seasons but when we go through these
seasons, we should come out stronger.
When
you find yourself at a point when you are heading for spiritual deadness and
are no longer interested in spiritual things, you need to take these actions.
1.
Be
watchful (Mt 23:33, Mt 25:23). As a spirit being, the conversations you need to
have are conversations with God a spiritual being and thus making a spiritual
connection. There is a spiritual attack on prayer at all angels. True prayer is
when your spirit begins to connect with God. When you pray in tongues your
spirit connects but it would be recommended that you also keep your thoughts
connect with God. God is going to put watchmen on the walls. They see in the
spirit and know how to pray in the natural
2.
Strengthen
that which remains.
3.
Remember
(Rev 3:3). The church of Sardis once had a great revival. You need to look
to a time you once walked close to the
Lord
4.
Hold
fast. This means do not give up. Hold onto the little hope you have
5.
Repent.
Isaiah 11:2 says
the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, Wisdom, understanding....
Do you know what
the spirit is doing in your life currently?
Do you know what
area God is dealing with right now?
Do you know what
he is working on?
Where is the
Spirit leading you? Are you aware of the promises of God speaking to you in the
season to hold on?
Why has the Spirit
brought you to this season? Is it to purify you, discipline you or promote you?
Is it about you or another?
Do you know of
what the Spirit is leading you in specifically right now?
We have received
not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know
the things that have been freely given to us. Those who overcome the dead
state, the Lord will clothe them with a piece of cloth that is not of this
world. A garment made by the greatest designer there is -the most expensive
garment that anyone can possibly wear. God is also going to write your name in
the book of life. This can mean two things. It could mean salvation, but it
could also mean a book of remembrance as written in Malachi. And third of all,
Jesus will confess you before men and before God. A lot of people are more
concerned about the opinions of men right now. You may need to be concerned
about that if you are not living right but the ultimate concern should be how
you are living before God.