The Daily Guide
God's creative power
Behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:20 - NKJV
Mary conceived a child in her womb by the Holy Spirit. This was an absolutely unique and awesome act. It was an act of the creative power of God's Spirit. In different way and at a different scale the Holy Spirit is creatively at work in our lives today. One of the most everyday ways that God's children experience this is when God puts a creative idea in your heart. At moments like that, you sense the idea you have as conceived in your heart by the Holy Spirit.
Ask God about the due date when you experience an idea conceived in you by the Holy Spirit! Our human tendency is to think today's idea must be due for today's delivery. Usually this isn't the case. It takes time for your baby of an idea to grow enough in the womb of your heart for delivery. Give the idea time to grow. Like the mum-to-be, you might think the baby's got to be born right away or you'll burst. Yet you have to know the baby has a due time that cannot be hurried.
My wife, Ruth, knew by dreams that she was with child in two of her five pregnancies. She went by those dreams and started counting the days to the due dates. Both counts proved accurate! Likewise you can enquire of the Lord and find out a "due date" for your idea. With that information, stop pushing in the natural and start resting in the Lord until the delivery time comes in due season. While you rest in the Lord, diligently nurture and protect every idea and vision conceived in you by the Holy Spirit! Job 33:15-16.
There's a divine timing to divine ideas.
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