Are You Available? By Gloria Copeland

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Gloria Copeland

How will we be able to walk in the spirit even
though we are clothed with this flesh? We do it by
spending more time pursuing the things of the spirit
than we spend pursuing the things of the flesh.

We will have to become dedicated to prayer and to
fellowship with God. We’ll have to be dedicated to
His Word and be willing to pull aside from this busy
life around us to get alone with God so He can guide
us, teach us and communicate with us.

If you spend time around people who have strong
personalities, their lives will automatically affect your
life. You will find yourself doing the things they do.
Their mannerisms will rub off on you. You can’t help
it. It just happens. Well, if you spend enough time
with God, He’s going to rub off on you!

Moses said, “Who am I to talk to Pharaoh?”
And God told him, “Certainly I will be with you.”
God was saying to Moses, It doesn’t matter who you
are. It’s who I am that counts. All Moses needed was
to have God with him.

Your natural ability doesn’t determine your
usefulness. All you have to be is one who lives in the
presence of God. He has the ability!

God doesn’t look to us for ability. He looks
for availability. Make yourself available to Him by
praying in the spirit, worshiping and fellowshiping
with Him. He will begin to manifest His character,
His nature, His glory and His Spirit in you. That’s
what He wants to do. He came to live inside you so
He could radiate from the inside out! That’s what
happened with Jesus.

When Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration,
the glory of God within Him radiated outward and
He was transfigured. “His face did shine as the sun,
and his raiment was white as the light” (Matthew
17:2). It will happen the same way in our day. God
has never changed His ways. The glory of God will
come from inside us—from the inner man—as we
give ourselves totally to God and walk in the spirit.

We were predestined to be conformed to the image of
Jesus (Romans 8:29). God has reproduced Himself in
the believer so He can show Himself to the world
through the believer.

God desires that the earth be filled with His
people who are full of His glory. Romans 8:18 says
the suffering we experience in giving up the things of
this world is nothing compared to the glory of God
which will be revealed in us. This glory is not only
going to fall on us from above, but will also come out
of us, for God is living inside us!

We are a group of people who are going to love
God to the degree that we’ll choose to go into our
prayer closets and intercede rather than to enjoy the
pleasures of this world. It takes more dedication to
do that than to preach. When you’re in your prayer
closet, no one sees but God.

What is the result? “Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians
6:7-8). When we sow to the spirit, we reap the high
life—peace, prosperity, divine healing—all the
blessings of God. The blessings of God have always
been offered to people who serve and love Him with
their whole hearts.

Gloria Copeland

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