Our focus for the week is Jesus!
Today’s focus is Dependence on Him
Living for and serving the Lord, I will not do unless He goes before me and with me.
I am dependent upon Him!
Zechariah 4:1-6 (NIV)
Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps. 3 Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
4 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
5 He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I replied.
6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
What you don’t realize, all of that has happened is because God who breath in your lungs. God has performed this work in your life.
John 15:5 (NIV)
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Apart from Jesus we can do nothing.
(Ill: I’ve noticed this about grandparents --- It’s like little children when they need something, they find their grandparent and they say “papa” or “nana” I need this, as they reach upward toward their papa or nana). And - as grandparents we give them what they ask for (most times).:)
This is the picture of our dependence upon God. This is another reason why I lift my hands in worship, I am showing dependence upon God.
So today, look up to the Lord with your arms outstretched and let your Heavenly Father know how dependent you are on Him.
