How fast and responsive are you? Are you quick to obey or do you go from zero to sixty in about sixteen days? God is the Pilot within and provides power to fulfill His purpose. If you’re sluggish and slow then you don’t much Almighty power to go. So do you got pep, or are you a schlepp?
If you were the one driving your life, what would it be like you were driving? Pinto or Porsche, motorcycle or horse?
If you want power, be quick to obey with some pep in your step. He won’t accelerate the unresponsive because they’ll end up a wreck.
He takes no joy in conducting the one that’s lukewarm. But those that He knows He can trust to perform, He quickens and orchestrates beyond the norm. Till the sound of their engine is soul symphony - on fire and fast and living with glee.
Rom 8:1-11
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
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Rom 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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Ps 80:17-18
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
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Ps 119:25
25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
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Ps 119:37
37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
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Ps 119:40
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
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Ps 119:149
149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment.
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Ps 119:154
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
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Ps 119:156
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy judgments.
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Ps 119:159
159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.
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