{"id":398138,"date":"2024-01-06T01:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=398138"},"modified":"2024-01-06T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:58:27","slug":"the-life-of-power-to-follow-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/the-life-of-power-to-follow-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Power to Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c5379556953db8dcec7c0f0a1d2f7670\"><strong>Jesus answered him, \u201cWhere I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward.\u201d \u2014John 13:36<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd when He had spoken this, He said to him, \u2018Follow Me\u2019 \u201d (John 21:19). Three years earlier Jesus had said, \u201cFollow Me\u201d (Matthew 4:19), and Peter followed with no hesitation. The irresistible attraction of Jesus was upon him and he did not need the Holy Spirit to help him do it. Later he came to the place where he denied Jesus, and his heart broke. Then he received the Holy Spirit and Jesus said again, \u201cFollow Me\u201d (John 21:19). Now no one is in front of Peter except the Lord Jesus Christ. The first \u201cFollow Me\u201d was nothing mysterious; it was an external following. Jesus is now asking for an internal sacrifice and yielding (see John 21:18).<br>Between these two times Peter denied Jesus with oaths and curses (see Matthew 26:69-75). But then he came completely to the end of himself and all of his self-sufficiency. There was no part of himself he would ever rely on again. In his state of destitution, he was finally ready to receive all that the risen Lord had for him. \u201c\u2026He breathed on them, and said to them, \u2018Receive the Holy Spirit\u2019 \u201d (John 20:22). No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.<br>All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them. When we come to the end of ourselves, not just mentally but completely, we are able to \u201creceive the Holy Spirit.\u201d \u201cReceive the Holy Spirit\u201d \u2014 the idea is that of invasion. There is now only One who directs the course of your life, the Lord Jesus Christ.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus answered him, \u201cWhere I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward.\u201d \u2014John 13:36 \u201cAnd when He had spoken this, He said to him, \u2018Follow Me\u2019 \u201d (John 21:19). Three years earlier Jesus had said, \u201cFollow Me\u201d (Matthew 4:19), and Peter followed with no hesitation. The irresistible attraction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}