A Godly Life (1 Samuel 10:6)

In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Samuel 10:6, David Platt encourages us to conform our lives more and more to the image of Jesus.

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. First Samuel chapter ten verse six. Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. What a verse. This is Samuel anointing Saul to be the king of Israel. And listen to what Samuel says. He says, Saul, the Spirit of God is gonna rush upon you. What a phrase. The Spirit of God rushing on you. And the result is you will prophesy with them. So you'll speak God's word along with the people around you. Like that's the result of the Spirit of God rushing upon you. You prophesying, and you will be turned into another man. Like the Spirit of God rushing upon you will totally transform you. What a picture in 1 Samuel 10 here in the Old Testament. And this is one of those times we just can't leave this here in the Old Testament. We've got to jump over into the New Testament and realize: well, just think what Jesus said to his disciples right before he was about to ascend into heaven. Remember what he said? Acts chapter 1, verse 8. And you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Holy Spirit's gonna rush upon you. And you will be my what? You'll be my witnesses. You'll speak the good news of my love for all the people around you in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. You will prophesy, you'll speak. That's exactly what Jesus was saying in Acts chapter 1, verse 8. And then we keep reading the New Testament. I think about 2 Corinthians chapter 3. The Spirit of God is in us to transform us more into the image of Jesus from one degree of glory to another. What a picture. Turning us into another man, another woman, turning us into the image of Jesus in us. And this is where I just want to encourage you to realize this is what is happening in your life today. As a follower of Jesus, the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit is in you. It's not just like rushing upon you and then leaving you. He actually has rushed upon you and now dwells in you so that you might be turned into a totally different person and be conformed, transformed into the image of Jesus more today. That's the Spirit's desire in your life today is to transform you more and more and more into the image of Jesus. More tomorrow at this time than you are right now at this time, looking more like Jesus, thinking more like Jesus, loving more like Jesus, speaking more like Jesus. And he wants to give you power to spread the word of Jesus to people around you, to lead people to eternal life, from eternal death to eternal life. You have the power to do that, to lead people from death to life through speaking the word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit on you. So I just want to encourage you to live in this today. What a day this is gonna be. I don't know if you're listening to this in the morning, if you listen to this at night, what a day tomorrow is gonna be. Like, just let it soak in as we pray. God, we praise you for your Holy Spirit coming to dwell in us, rushing upon us, filling us. Even now, as your children, as followers of Jesus, help us to realize that we have your Holy Spirit in us, and we pray that you would transform us today. Holy Spirit, do your work in us. Make us more like Jesus today, we pray, than we were yesterday. And make us more like Jesus tomorrow than we were today. Transform us to think more like Jesus, to desire more like Jesus, to speak more like Jesus, to act more like Jesus, to love more like Jesus. And we pray you would help us to speak your word and the power of your spirit. God help us to be bold with the gospel, to share the gospel with somebody today, with your spirit upon us. We pray that you would use our lives to lead people today from death to life. God, help us to experience the fullness of all your design and desires for us in your Holy Spirit today. And God, we pray this for the spread of your glory around the world. God, we pray specifically today for Iranians in Iran and all around the world, spread in so many different places, including the city where I live and the man I was talking with about the gospel just recently from Iran. God, we pray that the gospel would spread to Iranians specifically today. You would draw Iranians to faith in you through spirit-empowered witnesses in Iran, through the church in Iran. We pray that for all the places where Iranians are scattered in the world, we pray that for the church that I pastor and wherever there are Iranians, we pray that your church would speak your word and the power of your spirit in ways that draw Iranians to faith in Jesus. Oh God, we praise you for this reality, for the foretastes we read about here in 1 Samuel chapter 10, and the reality, fulfillment we have in our lives today. Help us to live in this, to live in the fullness of your Holy Spirit in us today. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.