Empowerment

Empowerment

I want to obey, but it’s difficult. How will God help me?

God’s Response

If you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, who will never leave you. John 14:15-16

Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. Matthew 26:41

You must be even more careful to put into action God’s saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him. Philippians 2:12-13

When God requires, he also empowers. When Jesus faced troubles, he found a quiet place, away from the crowd, and prayed to God for strength. Follow Jesus’ example and first remove yourself from temptation and then ask God for help. You also have the aid of the Holy Spirit, who comes alongside you in your time of need. Even as the air you breathe empowers your body to function, so the Holy Spirit empowers your spirit to obey.

God’s Promise

If you keep looking steadily into God’s perfect law—the law that sets you free—and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. James 1:25