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Old 07-20-2007, 08:32 AM
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If the example of Jesus teaches us anything, His wilderness temptation reveals that being led of the Spirit often leads us to a place of inspection. What we have to remember is that although Luke 4:1 informs us that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness temptation, verese 14 reveals that "Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit."

It has been my observation during a lifetime of serving the Lord, that it's not the popular demonstrative Pentecostal worship that empowers a believer. Worship certainly refreshes, but refreshing is not the same as empowerment. It's in the trials of my life that I have discovered the grace of God and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit that opens a person's understanding to the will of God and the purpose for certain circumstances.

True empowerment comes when a person, like Jesus in both His wilderness and Gethsemane temptations, is totally surrendered to the greater good of the Kingdom of God, and therefore able to truly say, "Not my will, but YOUR will be done."
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