By His Spirit -Rev.M.D. Rogers

Your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers — they need more than our words. They need to see the powerful moving of God’s Holy Spirit.  Numbers 11:24-25  24. So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.  25. Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the SPIRIT that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they PROPHESIED,…  •• Picture it — moved by the Holy Spirit, all 70 elders began to prophesy.  • Kind of a mini-Day of Pentecost!  •• Those who don’t know the Lord need to see whole churches of those who do know the Lord moving.

What does the church supremely need to remember? The truth embodied in this text. "Not by might, nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord." God's work is not done by our resources, of intellect, of wealth, of enthusiasm, nor by resoluteness of effort or by cleverness. Though all these are necessary, none of them, not all of them together, nor any human endeavoring can do God's eternal work.
As Jesus was born of the Spirit, baptized of the Spirit, led by the Spirit, and proclaimed the Kingdom of God in the power of the Spirit, as He offered Himself through the Eternal Spirit to God, so should we!
For the Spirit of God calls, gifts, equips and works through the people of God. God's Spirit is paramount, if God's people are to do God's eternal work.
These words, not by might, nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord brought the needed empowering to the feeble handful of discouraged people surrounded by the enemy. And we too should feel the sweetness of the promise that told them not to despair nor to be despondent because they had little of what the world calls might and power. We here today need to hear this messageand have faith in God's resource which is available to us through His established channels outlined in His Word.