What Only the Spirit Can Do | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 28, 2023

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🗓️ 28 May 2023

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Win Collier, and today I'll be reading a piece I wrote for our daily bread called What Only the Spirit Can Do.
0:14.0	During the discussion of a book on the Holy Spirit, written by a 94-year-old German theologian named Jürgen Moltman.
0:22.0	An interviewer asked him sarcastically,
0:24.5	How do you activate the Holy Spirit?
0:27.2	Can you take a pill?
0:29.1	Do the pharmaceutical companies deliver the spirit?
0:33.1	Maltman's bushy eyebrows shot up.
0:36.2	Shaking his head, he grinned, answering an accented English.
0:40.8	What can I do?
0:42.6	Don't do anything.
0:44.9	Wait on the spirit, and the spirit will come.
0:49.4	Maltman highlighted our mistaken belief that our energy and expertise make things happen.
0:56.1	Acts reveals that God makes things happen.
1:00.0	At the start of the church, it had nothing to do with human strategy or impressive leadership.
1:05.9	Rather, the spirit arrived like the blowing of a violent wind,
1:14.6	into a room of frightened, helpless, and bewildered disciples.
1:15.6	Next, the spirit shattered all ethnic superiority by gathering people who were at odds into one
1:23.6	new community.
1:25.6	The disciples were as shocked as anyone to see what God was doing within
1:30.3	them. They didn't make anything happen. The Spirit enabled them. The church and our shared
1:39.4	work in the world isn't defined by what we can do. We're entirely dependent on what only the Spirit can do.
1:47.8	This allows us to be both bold and restful. On this day, the day we celebrate Pentecost,
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