March 6 | Daily Devotion | Let Your Home Be Heaven On Earth! | Zac Poonen

Zac PoonenMarch 5, 202410mWatch on YouTube

CFC Daily Devotions - Zac Poonen Excerpt from the message: Inward Brokenness And Outward Fruitfulness - Zac Poonen To listen to the complete message click here : https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/inward-brokenness-and-outward-fruitfulness Visit our website for more information: https://www.cfcindia.com

Summary

The message emphasizes living a balanced Christian life characterized by constant gratitude and freedom from grumbling or complaining, citing Philippians 2:4-15. The speaker stresses that this requires acknowledging our inability to live righteously on our own, necessitating reliance on the Holy Spirit's work within us. True spiritual breakthrough, like Lazarus's resurrection, only occurs when we reach a point of complete personal depletion, yielding to God's timing and power.

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Doing everything without grumbling or disputingImagine a home where you and your spouse live from morning till night without ever complaining, turning your home into heaven on Earth.Philippians 2:4–15

Proving you are a child of GodIn context, the crooked and perverse generation refers not just to immorality, but to a society that is always grumbling and complaining.

Working out your salvation from complainingWe can live this life because God is at work in us to fulfill His good will of doing all things without grumbling.

God working in us versus human resolutionHuman resolutions to live a godly life fail; we must rely on the ministry and promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Having ears to hear the SpiritJust as Jesus spoke when He was on Earth, the Holy Spirit speaks today, but we must have ears to hear rather than relying on ourselves.

The purpose of repeated failureGod allows us to fail to teach us that we cannot make it on our own, because He cannot work in us until we come to a complete end of ourselves.

The story of LazarusWhen Jesus heard Lazarus was sick, He stayed two days longer, waiting for Lazarus to die so He could demonstrate His power.John 11:1–6

Waiting for spiritual death to avoid prideGod waits for us to give up in our own ability so that we do not escape the pit of grumbling only to fall into the deeper pit of spiritual pride.

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