Reigniting Your Life

Reigniting Your Life

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HArX_wEUoFs

In last week’s message we looked at our need to have our lives reset back to God’s original design or setting, and then we looked at how that reset happens.

At the end I gave a series of steps, and in the last step we looked at maintaining what the reset accomplished, and this begins with allowing the Holy Spirit to fill us to overflowing.

Before His death and resurrection, Jesus said, “It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.” (John 16:7 NKJV)

And then Jesus added that He will send the Holy Spirit to become implanted in our lives, so that the Holy Spirit will be able to then lead and guide us into all truth (John 16:13).

Let me use an example to explain this whole idea of our need to reignite our lives once we have reset them.

A customer wrote a letter of complaint to a company he had bought a knife from. He said that as he used his new knife it had gotten dull, and he had expected that the knife to last a lot longer when he bought it.

The company responded, “It will. All you have to do is sharpen it.”

No matter how sharp a knife might be, if it isn’t re-sharpened it will get dull. In the same manner, no matter when we get our lives reset to God, if we don’t get them reignited, then we’ll find ourselves getting further and further away from God’s original design, purpose, and plan.

To illustrate, let me ask some rhetorical questions, that is, I’m not asking for a show of hands or a shout out, but rather I’d like everyone to take a moment and quietly reflect and think about how we would answer.

• Are you happy with where you are in life?

• Do you believe that God is happy where you are in life?

• If Jesus were to return right now, will He find not only faith on your part, but will He find you truly in love with Him?

Every one of us has been through so much. We’ve been through what many refer to as “The Ringer.” We’ve been through one battle after another, from illness to financial difficulties, and everything in-between, and all of it has literally taken our breath away. And what we need, before we get too dull and used up, is to get our lives re-sharpened, that is, we need to get ourselves reignited.

In looking at the pillars of our church, as they represent the whole of the church, it seems that the excitement for evangelism, that is, our need to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ has waned somewhat. We can also say that same thing about discipleship, that is building up God’s house within each of us, and we can add to that our mission of making a difference in our community and world for Christ. Each one of these pillars seem to have taken a back seat to everything else that is going on in the world and in our lives.

We have become so concerned about all these other things going on in our world that we’ve forgotten the main thing, and that is Jesus Christ. This was the Apostle Paul’s take when he said, “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2 NKJV)

It is for this reason that I’d like to talk with you about getting reignited, that is, our need to get supercharged for God. In other words, we need to get ourselves filled and overflowing with the Holy Spirit.

Now, before we can begin, it’s important that we understand just who the Holy Spirit is, especially if we want and need to be filled and reignited by Him.

In short, the Holy Spirit is God, or as He is often referred to as the third person of the Godhead. The Bible makes it clear while God is one, He is actually several that make up that one, and we see this in the Bible, as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Now, most have no problem when it comes to God being both the Father and Jesus, His Son, but not so much the Holy Spirit. But the same qualities of God the Father and Jesus Christ are found in the Holy Spirit. Now, this is brought out quite sufficiently in a small booklet I’m getting published soon on the Trinity. But until it is, you can read it on my spiritual transformation webpage https://spiritualtransformationseries.com

But there is something that brings this all together and that is what Jesus told His disciple about the Holy Spirit who He would send in His place, which is found two chapters earlier.