The Spirit That Keeps You Standing

Some jobs make you feel like you have to fight for what you believe. Jeff and his wife work in places that challenge their faith every day. Even there, they’ve come to see their jobs as exactly where God wants them—a place to be a light for Him.

Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.
—Romans 8:11 GW

Paul wrote to believers in Rome about a power already at work in them, one that goes beyond willpower. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in them, he said, and that Spirit does more than promise a resurrection someday—He makes their mortal, weary bodies alive today

The Power that rolled the stone away from Jesus’ tomb, walks into work with you today!

Wherever you work today, you know what it feels like when the room tests your faith—a job, a hard conversation, a place where your beliefs make you the odd one out. The temptation is to grit your teeth and hope you make it through.

Jeff and his wife found something better than grit. They found a Spirit already living in them, already strong enough to raise the dead, steadying them enough to stay light instead of burning out.

The Spirit who raised Jesus already lives in you, ready to carry you through wherever you’re standing today. Let Him be your strength before the day asks anything of you. Whatever room you walk into, you walk in already fueled by resurrection power.

Today’s One Thing
Before you walk into work today, pause and pray: “Spirit who raised Jesus, fill me and steady me here.” Let that be your strength for the room you’re about to enter.

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