"The Recharged Life"
Malachi 4:2
"But for you who revere my name, the
sun of righteousness will rise with heal-
ing in its rays. And you will go out and
frolic like well-fed calves."
2 “Ngunit sa inyo na nagpaparangal sa
akin ay sisikat ang aking katarungan na
tulad ng araw, at ang sinag nito'y mag-
papagaling sa inyo. Lulundag kayo sa
tuwa na parang mga guyang pinalaya
sa kulungan.
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God
is the strength of my heart and my
portion forever.
Intro
Do you ever feel spiritually drained?
Have you ever feel that the “spirit” has
just been exhausted in your life? We all
feel this way from time to time; but an
energetic Christian knows the cure! We
have to RECHARGE our spiritual life oc-
casionally!
Definition of recharge
: to make a new attack
: to regain energy or spirit
: to become charged again :
to refill with electric charge
Batteries keep our devices working
throughout the day—that is, they have a
high energy density—but they can take
hours to recharge when they run down.
— Patrice Simon et al.
transitive verb
: to charge again
especially : to restore anew the active
materials in (a storage battery)
: to inspire or invigorate afresh :
RENEW
Illustration
Battery Power
The power in an automobile battery can
be used up if it’s not continuously
charged. That is what an alternator does
in automobiles – charge the battery in
the ignition system and supply power to
other electrical equipment. If the battery
is dead because it’s not been charged,
an automobile will not move, no matter
how good the engine is.
Another relevant illustration is that of a
cell phone battery. As you use the cell
phone, the bars indicating the amount of
stored energy in its battery begins to re-
duce. If the battery is not recharged, it
keeps on reducing and after a while
starts giving an alert. If such an alert is
ignored, the phone goes off once the
battery power is used up. The owner be-
comes unreachable. The consequences
could be very costly, especially in case
of emergency.
It is dangerous to get to a point where
you’ve used up your spiritual battery. As
a dead phone, you cannot communicate
with God and neither will He be able to
communicate with you. It is of utmost
importance for a child of God to continu-
ously recharge his spiritual battery and
prevent it from being used up.
Proverbs 20:29
says that the glory of the young is their
strength but from Isaiah
“Even youths will become exhausted,
and young men will give up. But those
who wait on the LORD will find new
strength. They will fly high on wings like
eagles. They will run and not grow
weary. They will walk and not faint” (Isa-
iah 40:30-31 New Living Translation).
We see that the youths may be a bundle
of energy but they can exhaust their
strength.
If youths can be exhausted, the old
cannot boast of inexhaustible strength.
That means everybody can exhaust his
strength, and nobody should be under
any illusion that his strength is inex-
haustible. This same applies to spiritual
battery whether one occupies an eccle-
siastical office or not. This is even truer
of those in ecclesiastical positions who
shoulder so many responsibilities that
tend to exhaust them spiritually.
1.Reconnect to the Source of Power
GOD IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF
ALL POWER (STRENGTH)
Ephesians 1:19 -20
And [so that you can know and under-
stand] what is the immeasurable and
unlimited and surpassing greatness of
His power in and for us who believe, as
demonstrated in the working of His
mighty strength, which He exerted in
Christ when He raised Him from the
dead and seated Him at His [own] right
hand in the heavenly [places].
In a sense we have to come to the end
of ourselves, to the point where we real-
ize that we need God totally. At this
point we get to a place of 'desperate de-
pendence' as opposed to 'partial depen-
dence'. When we live our lives without
this 'desperate dependence' we live life
standing on a banana peel, ready to slip
when the next hurdle comes our way.
Often we look everywhere but to God for
our strength. We will look to others, to
our ability and skill, to our qualification
and career, to our finances and re-
sources, to our beauty or strength when
we need to be looking to God. All these
other things have the capacity to let us
down - they are not sure things. But
God and His power is what we can com-
pletely depend on. Don't look to other
places for your strength and happiness,
look to God and find your peace in Him.
WE HAVE NO POWER APART FROM
GOD!
There is a song: 'I HAVE NO POWER
OF MY OWN'.
John 15:5 I am the Vine; you are the
branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in
him bears much (abundant) fruit. How-
ever, apart from Me [cut off from vital
union with Me] you can do nothing.
We have to stay vitally connected to
God. Our strength flows from God as
we remain connected to Him. If we
cut ourselves off we will last for a
while, but ultimately we will run out
of strength. Often when people face
difficulty they get disappointed with God
and become disillusioned and turn to
their own ways. We must learn to hold
onto God and realize we need Him and
His power in our lives to bring us out on
top.
A.) Reflect
After God had created, He reviewed
His creation, calling it “very
good.” Similarly, as His image-bear-
ers, we can take time to look back,
look up, and look within.
Look up: What has God done? What
am I grateful for regarding His at-
tributes and work in my life?
Look within: Where am I?
Look back: How was the week? What
did I learn?
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in
me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 77:12
“I will meditate also of all thy work, and
talk of thy doings.”
Note:
take time to reflect on God’s goodness,
the past week, and the week to come.
B.) Refocus
As you periodically reflect, you will find
regrets. But we must learn from them
and not live in them.
Certainly, the apostle Paul regretted his
wasted past. He had valued the wrong
things over Christ, and he had perse-
cuted the Church But Christ freed him
from the chains of regret.
Philippians 3:1-7
V:7
7 But whatever were gains to me I now
consider loss for the sake of Christ
C.) Return
to your roots and remember your begin-
ning (church at Ephesus)
Rev 2:4-5
Yet I hold this against you: You have
forsaken the love you had at first.
5 Consider how far you have fallen! Re-
pent and do the things you did at first. If
you do not repent, I will come to you
and remove your lamp-stand from its
place.
2. Recapture your Faith, Love, and
Hope
a. FAITH
Rom 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.
b. LOVE
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a
man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him, and we will
come unto him, and make our abode
with him.
c. HOPE
Rom 15:4
For everything that was written in the
past was written to teach us, so that
through the endurance taught in the
Scriptures and the encouragement they
provide we might have hope.
3. Realize that God is working in you
a. God that strengthens us
Ps 18:32
“It is God who arms me with strength,
and makes my way perfect.”
b. Establishes us in Faith
faith is believing in God and trusting in
His plan, even when you don’t under-
stand it and can’t see it. As it applies to
our life, however, faith is about more
than just a feeling, it’s about living it. We
live our faith through obedience to God
and acts of service.
Ephesians 3:16-17
I pray that out of his glorious riches he
may strengthen you with power through
his Spirit in your inner being, so that
Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith. And I pray that you, being rooted
and established in love.
c. Is able to do immeasurably more
than we ask or think
Eph.3:20
20 Now to him who is able to do immea-
surably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work
within us,
Conclusion:
Heb 10:19-25
Therefore, brothers, since we have confi-
dence to enter the Most Holy Place by the
blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way
opened for us through the curtain, that is,
his body, 21 and since we have a great
priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw
near to God with a sincere heart in full as-
surance of faith, having our hearts sprin-
kled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience
and having our bodies washed with pure
water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the
hope we profess, for he who promised is
faithful. 24 And let us consider how we
may spur one another on toward love and
good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting
together, as some are in the habit of doing,
but let us encourage one another — and
all the more as you see the Day approach-
ing.
Times of refreshing
Here in Your presence
No greater blessing
Than being with You
My soul is restored
My mind is renewed
There's no greater joy, Lord
Than being with You
