Day 40: Life in the Spirit 

The Bible says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound
mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7)  

As born-again believers, we don’t live our lives according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” (Romans 8:1)  

The entire Christian life is “in the Spirit.” By the Spirit, the Son of God is the Anointed One. This set the
pattern. Just as He went about doing good because He was anointed with the Spirit, so must we all. We
are told to walk (as Jesus did everywhere) in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit, love in the Spirit, live in the
Spirit, be filled with the Spirit, sing in the Spirit, and have the fruit of the Spirit. The Spirit-filled life is
not an experience to be cultivated only in special conditions like indoor flowers. Christians are
not flowers.  

During the early expansion of the industrial cities of England some clergymen could not be persuaded to
take a parish among the hordes of unwashed workers, because they said it might spoil their
“spirituality.” The Holy Spirit makes believers tough specimens for all conditions. They carry perpetual
springtime in their soul and are “winterized” (as Americans describe the preparation of their homes for
the cold weather).  

When the Holy Spirit came, the apostles discovered a new resilience, a new strength within them, and a
power that operated in their weakness, which sent them out into a brutalized, pagan world to demolish
its idol establishment and change history. That is a true mark of “the Spirit-filled life.” Things like that are
happening today.  

This current crisis is testing the church all around the world giving us the opportunity to prove that the
baptism in the Spirit makes God’s people unconquerable! 

Source: (Adapted from Taking Action pg. 38-40)