Present day society has placed great emphasis, an over bearing emphasis on physical empowerment. Television commercials bombard us with products that will help “slim us down”, build up our muscles, and improve our physique and the like.
While I don’t take issue with improving our lifestyle and our health, we must not neglect the most important part of our triune being, our spirit. The Apostle Paul tells us “physical exercise profits little,” he doesn’t say it has not value. However, time and again Paul admonishes us to “keep our sight on things above and not below” and to focus on the “eternal, not the temporal”? Would God not equip us to fight the “good fight”? YES, HE DOES! And how!
Zechariah 4:6 exclaims it’s “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” The New Testament reveals to us how the Lord of Hosts empowers us with His Holy Spirit to partake of His nature. (2 Peter 1:4)
Today we know this “empowerment” as the “gifts of the Holy Spirit.” They are outlined for us in Corinthians 12:7-10. It is the proper use of these gifts that “empowers to us His divine nature” here on earth, now. These gifts empower us:
To know supernaturally: the gift of the word of knowledge, the gift of the word of wisdom, the gift of discerning of spirits.
To act supernaturally: the gift of faith, the gift of working of miracles, the gifts of healing.
To speak supernaturally: the gift of speaking in tongues, the gift of interpretation of tongues, the gift of prophesy.
