Do you ever feel powerless to do what God is asking you to do?

You see, I can't do this.

This is impossible.

Me, teach a Sunday school class, me lead a small group.

I can hardly talk.

I can't do this.

Nancy DeMoss Wogglemouth reminds you what an angel told Mary when she was given an impossible assignment.

The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshaddy you.

If this is what God is calling you to do, then it will be His power, the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, May 10th, 2016.

Most of us run around busy all day.

It's so tempting to gear up and start working hard on your list without Most of us run around busy all day.

It's so tempting to gear up and start working hard on your list without remembering where our strength comes from.

Yesterday, we heard part one of a message from Nancy about doing all we do through the power of the Holy Spirit.

You can hear part one at revive our hearts.com. But now let's hear some practical observations. Number one, we must let God speak to us before we speak his word to others. We must let God speak to us before we try to speak His word to others.

And if you'll start looking at this lens through Scripture,

you'll see it all over the Old and New Testaments.

Ezra, chapter 7, verse 10, tells us that Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord

and to do it and then to teach in Israel its statutes and rules.

First his own study, his life to study, to do, and then to teach.

We read in Psalm 39, my heart became hot within me.

As I mused, as I meditated, as I marinated, as I let God speak to me, as I mused, the fire

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