Nancy DeMoss Wogglemouth says, our own strength and our own talents aren't enough.

And I believe we have today, in the church, men and women ministering in a host of different ways,

doing God-ordained tasks being called and set apart by God to serve him, but doing it without a conscious sense

of the anointing of the Holy Spirit and what we get is words. We get tasks, but we don't get the

power of the Holy Spirit of God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, May 9th, 2016.

What are the main things on your to-do list today? It's easy to launch into a day and try to tackle those kinds of to-does on your own.

But Nancy's going to remind us how important it is to do everything in the power of the Holy Spirit.

She delivered this message at Revive 15 this past fall. She was talking with women's ministry

leaders, but all of us are called to a mission, and we're all leaders to somebody. So we all need

to hear what Nancy has to say. Let's listen. I told the women in the pre-conference this morning

that something I've prayed many times over the years,

prayed over the years, is that the Lord would never let me get to the place where what I do in ministry would come easily for me. And that is a prayer he has been very faithful to answer.

Because no matter how long I do this, no matter how much of it I've done,

I come to any setting like this with a sense of fearful, awesome, responsibility, and weight

and neediness, dependence on the Lord. And I think there are no sweeter words that we can say to the Lord,

maybe to tell him we love him is certainly sweet, to tell him that we praise him, but also to say,

I need you. Because what does God do for needy people? What does God do for the humble?

Those who know they don't have what it takes. God pours,

what? Grace on the humble. What is God's grace? It's the desire and the power to do what God has

called us to do. So as long as I think I can do this, I sometimes have the sense that God's

sitting up in heaven going, you think you can do this? Go ahead. Try. In fact, it's not just that. God

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