Called to Conquer by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781441213273
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-08-06T04:00:00+00:00

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The One Who Guides You

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.

John 16:13

There is no substitute in the whole universe for the Holy Spirit. He is absolutely unique, and He can do what no other person and no other power can do. He is the only One who can do in us what God wants to be done.

There is a Scripture in the Old Testament that says, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6). Those last words tell us something important. The Lord of Hosts is speaking – the God who commands all the hosts of heaven and earth. He says, “Might and power cannot do what has to be done, which is to change people radically on the inside. Force will not do it. Pressure will not do it. Law will not do it. Government cannot do it. There is only one agent that can do it – the Holy Spirit.”

I want you to grasp that.

If you want to enter into the calling that God has prepared for you in Christ, you must be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit. Apart from the Spirit of God you cannot do it. There is no substitute. Education won’t do it. Talent won’t do it. Money certainly will not do it. Nothing and no one but the Spirit of God – the Holy Spirit – can do it.

The One Way to Maturity

Paul makes this definitive statement in his letter to the Romans: “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:14, emphasis added). The only people who qualify to be sons and daughters of God are those who are led by the Holy Spirit. As we have noted, it is a tragic fact that vast numbers of people who have been born again of the Spirit of God have never learned how to be led by Him. There is no other way to grow to maturity in Christ.

In the Greek language being led is a continuing present tense meaning “as many as are being continually led by the Spirit of God.” It is not something that happens in church on Sunday morning or when you kneel by your bed to pray. It is something that happens day by day, hour by hour and moment by moment. Those who are being continually led by the Spirit of God, they – and only they – become mature sons and daughters of God.

I had a tremendously powerful personal experience of the Holy Spirit when I came to know Jesus. Lying prostrate on the floor of an army barrack room in World War II, I experienced the power of God for well over an hour. It was a totally strange experience for me. My initial encounter with Jesus was also an encounter with the Holy Spirit and His power.

From then on, the Holy Spirit was always a reality to me.

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