What is true for the body of believers is also true for you individually.

Lord, I want to know what it's like to be filled with your spirit, to be infused with you,

to be able to walk away from a conversation with somebody that I truly have resented and despised.

And for some miraculous reason, I love them today.

Our fear is, what if he doesn't come through?

And what if I haven't spent enough time with God to even know what he wants me to say,

what he wants us to do, how he wants us to move, how he's directing us.

Our adequacy is from God.

Our adequacy is from God.

He has made us competent to be ministers,

and it's not talking about the office in this particular context.

Paul is talking about the actual action of it.

It's the ministering of it, the serving of it.

He has made us servants, if that feels better, if it's harder to say, I'm a minister of the spirit. Well, servant,

servant, we serve the spirit, then try that on. It's coming from God. He has made us competent

to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit for the letter kills,

but the spirit gives life. You know, you've heard this over and over perhaps, but I'm not sure it ever

gets old, because it could not be truer. The old saying that Christ didn't call the qualified,

he qualified the called. He did not call the qualified. Like, you know, it's like, he called me

because I was good.

That's not his way.

That's not his way.

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