471 You’re a Powerhouse




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Summary: <br> What if I told you direct access to the single most powerful force in this world is available to you today? Would you be so bold to use it? If the power is available, would you believe that you’re worthy to tap into it in your life … or would you shrink back and tell yourself you’ve never had power to change a dang thing in your life, so why try it now? Sadly most of us hear about this power, even believe it’s true, yet dismiss ourselves from carrying it within us.<br> GIRL, YOU ARE A POWER HOUSE!!!! And here’s why … 1 Corinthians 3:16 says “Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?” Then Zecheriah 4: 6-7 says “It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord, nothing, not even a mighty mountain, will stand in (the) way; it will become a level plain before him!”<br> Understand what this means. You have the spirit of God living within you and that spirit can move mountains! Power house! There is power living within you and it’s not meant to just stay inside of you, that power is meant to flow from you and touch every area of your life and the lives around you.<br> It’s a trick of the enemy to make you believe you’re powerless. It’s also a trick of the enemy to make you believe that while God is powerful and capable of moving mountains, he’s not interested in moving yours. That’s crap. I call absolute total and complete crap! Why would God place his spirit within you, give you his mountain moving power, then not care about it?<br> So, the question becomes, how do you access this power? Answer, you pray.<br> And there goes your attention. Prayer is honestly boring sometimes isn’t it? You’re busy, you’ve got things to do and being still ain’t one of them! We’ve been tricked into worrying about things, complaining about things, and stressing over things instead of doing the one thing that actually changes things … praying. And I say we mainly as me, because dang I sometimes forget the power I have dwelling right inside of me.<br> This weekend I was the recipient of many prayers. I posted on social media on Friday night after my TEDTalk practice and asked for prayer for my emotions. I wasn’t nervous, I was a weepy mess. I got one sentence into my practice and started crying. Now, ain’t nobody want to watch some woman on a stage crying over something they don’t understand. But there I was on the night before the biggest opportunity of my life so far, and I can’t get it together. So, I prayed and I asked others to pray. And hot dang if it didn’t make a HUGE difference! I shouldn’t be surprised by that, and yet somehow I’m still blown away by God’s direct response to our requests.<br> Knowing this power, I recently started doing a thing. I started playing a game with my prayers. I started looking for random people that I come across, and secretly pray ridiculous blessings over them. Driving on the road a trucker passed me and I felt moved to pray for him so I asked for undeniable favor in his life. A young man was extra kind to me in the store, so I walked behind him (that sounds creepy, but I did my non-creepy walk) and I prayed for complete healing and restoration in every area of his life. It’s become a game. I see someone and I imagine what they may need, and while they have no idea, I just pray.<br> If I am a power house, housing God’s spirit within me which has the power to move mountains, why wouldn’t I send out that power into the world? Why wouldn’t I want to share it with strangers? Why wouldn’t I want to pour it out on my family? Why wouldn’t I want to tap into that power in my own life? FLIP THE DANG SWITCH WOMAN, YOU’VE GOT THE POWER.<br> In John chapter 16, Jesus has gathered the disciples,