Now, this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
1 John 5:14-15
Ruth Paxson met with a missionary who confessed her defeated attitude. She no longer found joy in her Bible or a passion for souls in her heart. Hers was a joyless, peaceless, powerless life.
She left in the same state, but Paxson felt the Lord was working and prayed for her using 1 John 5:14-15. Overnight, the woman confessed to a hurt that had robbed her of her victory. Her joy was back!
Recommended Reading:
Romans 8:9-11
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 [a]through His Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:9-11 NKJV
Paxon wrote, “Real victory is a glorious and marvelous change in the innermost recesses of the spirit which transforms the inner disposition and attitude as well as the outward deed and act.”1 Do you have victory in your life today? If not, confess any hindering sin, yield yourself afresh to Christ, and trust Him to work in you today.
1. Ruth Paxson, Life on the Highest Plane (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1996), 234-235.
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