40 Days of Prayer – Youth Devotional Day 21

FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST EPHESIANS 5:18  

If you are anything like me, you like food. I love to eat everything from saucy Italian pastas  to rich West African stews to spicy, “melt your face off” Thai soups—I’ll take it all! Good food  gives me a warm and satisfying feeling that is good and pleasing to my soul, and it gives me  energy to accomplish the good things that God has prepared in advance for me to do.  

Throughout our day, we might take in a lot of things that have the potential of being good but  might not always be good for our souls—things that give us a temporary high to mask feelings  of loneliness, depression, and anxiety or just to break up the mundane rhythms of normal  teenage life.  

Take a moment now and read Ephesians 5:18. The apostle Paul tells us that we shouldn’t get  drunk with alcohol because it makes us compromise our will, lose control of our bodies, and  clouds our minds (that’s what debauchery is). Instead, Paul encourages us to be filled with  the Spirit of Christ.  

The Holy Spirit can reintegrate the aspects of our soul (will, body, and mind) that are torn  apart by sin. All we need to do is ask the Holy Spirit to fill us and then choose to walk with  Him in daily surrender. Have you ever asked the Holy Spirit to fill you? If not, ask Him today.  If you have asked the Holy Spirit to fill you before, ask Him again. Lean into Him.  

PRAYER POINTS: 

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to bring to your mind anything in your life that has  kept you from experiencing His fullness. Confess those things to Him.  

2. Pray that the Holy Spirit will come and fill you with His presence, His  power, and His peace. 

3. Pray that the Holy Spirit will enable you to truly surrender all aspects  of your life to Him.  

»by Charles Amoh