Greetings and thank you so much for this time to come to you and spend a few moments in the word of God and prayer. We are talking this week on strengthening our inner man. As the apostle Paul prayed for those in Ephesus, he prayed for them that they would be strengthened with power in their inner man by the Holy Spirit. We want to explore and understand how can we be strengthened with God’s power in our spirit, how do we draw power and strength from God in our spirit? Yesterday, we mentioned about fellowshipping with God, being and communing with God through His word and prayer. I want to extend that thought today by talking about the importance of quietness in the presence of God. Isaiah chapter 30, verse 15, the bible says, ‘in returning and rest you will be saved, in quietness and confidence will be your strength.’ God is actually speaking to His people and if you read the context of Isaiah chapter 30, they are trying to do so many things, they are trying to run on their chariots and get away, do something on their own and in the middle of all that, God is saying, if you get back to me and rest before me, you will have your salvation and in quietness and confidence, putting your trust in God, you will have strength. Coming to this place of rest and quietness before God is something we must learn to do. Sometimes, we want to engage in a lot of spiritual activity, there is nothing wrong in praising God and other things we will do, those are good things, but we must also learn to just be quiet in the presence of God. As you read His word and as you pray, there is got to be that stillness, rest and quietness and God says in that place of quietness, we will find strength. He says, when your still, you can know that He is God. As part of our time or our engagement/ communion/ fellowship/ time with God, have time for quietness. Not that you need to say a lot of things or singing songs all the time, just be quiet before Him and let Him minister to you by His Spirit, because in the quietness you bring yourself to before God, you can hear His still small voice. Your eyes can be opened to things you haven’t seen, your ears can be opened to things you have never heard because God says, what I speak to you in the dark, or in that quietness, you can shout form the housetops. Let’s pray, Father, we ask that you will help us learn to rest and be quiet before you because you said, in returning and rest, in quietness and confidence, we will have strength. Help us to learn to do this, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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