2011-08-08T11:47:17-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/instrument/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/looking-for-something-clean-6400 2011-08-08T11:47:17-05:00 Maybe you're short on credentials, but you hate the sin in you. You make a quick confession when you sin, and you try to run from tempting situations. Well, you know what? You're what God is looking for, because all He is looking for is something clean. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-you-can-t-see-the-way-to-go-6220 2010-11-30T09:57:25-05:00 The "don't know" times are God's instrument to drive you deeper into Him, to surrender all self-reliance for a desperate dependency on Him. You may not know which way to go, but you don't have to stand there fearful, paralyzed or marching in circles. Your Lord, your Shepherd is placing His arm inside yours to lead you where you could never go without Him. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206:13&version=NIV 2009-09-03T17:30:16-05:00 Christians are called to offer themselves--the entirety of their lives--to God's service. This precludes us offering our bodies to sin, as we did before Christ redeemed us. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=5965 2008-01-10T13:00:38-05:00 The Holy Spirit is closely identified with the words of the Lord Jesus. "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The Gospel proclamation can not be divorced from the Holy Spirit. Unless... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=16434 2008-01-06T12:41:23-05:00 To please God, a person must be just an instrument for God to use. For a few seconds, picture in your mind the variety of wonderful and useful appliances we have in our homes. They have been engineered and built to perform tasks of all kinds. But without the inflow of electrical power they are just