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Previous Daily Devotional About receiving power… Deuteronomy 9:9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water. (NIV) Moses was humble. Moses went to the mountain in a spirit of reception. Moses did not go to receive the stone tablets with a heart full of ego. Moses did not go to meet God to receive a blast of power from God. Moses did not go to God yearning to be a maximum leader or dictator over God's people. In a worldly sense, God's people perhaps needed a dictator who ruled with an iron fist, but it is the way of God not to coerce us or intimidate us. God's way is to point out to us the way we should go and then He leaves us to decide if we want to follow His directions. Following or not following God has its consequences. Following God brings blessings. Not following God brings a multitude of curses. From this example of the humility of Moses, we can see we must lose our ego. To have any kind of power from God, we must do the great work of preparing our heart and life to receive whatever it is that God wants to give us. Moses was on the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments but fasted for forty days and forty nights. Most likely, Moses came close to death but was restored enough by God to carry the tablets down the mountain after Moses received them. In our world, receiving is the opposite of giving. However, in the supernatural world giving and receiving are both the same. Supernaturally, when you give you also receive and when you receive you also give. There are no boundaries in the supernatural as there are boundaries in the world. Therefore, with God, the acts of giving and receiving both happen at the same time. To be able to receive requires an act of our heart that is not an act but an inner consent to be given. To receive power from God requires that our heart be open and that we be so humble as never to ask for power and that we be so humble as to never want or seek out His power. |
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