Greetings! and thank you so much for this week, that we could journey together, spending a few moments each day in the word of God, just praying together. I trust you had a good week and you've been growing in your faith and God's hand is on you. This week, we've been reflecting on spirit filled living and we've just been talking about various aspects of what it means to live spirit filled lives and we close off this week by looking at the passage in Ephesians chapter 5, verses 18 through 21, where Paul is highlighting the characteristics of a spirit filled life, he tells us don't be drunk with wine but be filled with the Spirit. He concludes that passage in verse 21 by saying, submitting to one another in the fear of God. That means a person who is filled with the Spirit, just walks, and just flows in genuine submission, in that meekness and humility, in that place of yielding to people and not wanting their own rights, fighting for their own things and there's a sense of submission, submitting to one another in the fear of God. It's an honest submission, a genuine submission, knowing that it's done before the Lord. So, that's a characteristic of a person who's filled with the Spirit. He walks in submission of people, there is no arrogance and pride and wanting my own way and insisting on our own rights, that's not it, but a person who is filled with the Spirit just flows in humility, flows and gentleness, flows in submission because he's doing it in the fear of God and that Paul says is an expression of a spirit filled life. Now that doesn't mean you don't speak up, you don't say something is right, that something is wrong or you don't express your ideas or views, you're not saying that, but in all that you do, there is that gentleness, there is that submission, there is a yieldedness, there is an expression of meekness, that humility that comes through in all that we do from the Holy Spirit. Remember the fruit of the Spirit, is gentleness, the fruit of the Spirit is meekness and that comes through even if you are going to make leadership decisions, management decisions, strategic decisions or all these things, you may be in the top position and doing all these things, but in all of that, the fruit of the Spirit, gentleness and meekness becomes evident. People see that and that is an expression that you are a man, or a woman who is filled with the Holy Spirit. May we all express that. Let's pray, Father, we ask that in all that we do, no matter how powerful we may be, no matter how influential we maybe, no matter what positions we may hold, that gentleness and meekness be seen through our lives, that we will submit ourselves one to another in the fear of God and be glorified in our lives, in each of our lives, as we live lives full of your Spirit, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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