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ACCEPTABLE TO GOD - PART 5
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 2024
Everyone acceptable to God has the right to have a quality personal relationship with the Godhead, because indeed there is a spirit in man, but having some reasons to believe that you have the Spirit of God in you, you should be able to activate your spirit to be receptive to God's voice, denoting that one must always be spiritually minded. So it's not enough to be acceptable to God, your soul and spirit must be rightly conditioned to be inspired by the Almighty.
When your thoughts and spirit are easily influenced under His inspiration, you become a man or woman fit to hear Him clearly and to act accordingly. To that effect, Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Ephesians 5:17 reads, "Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do" (NLT). And you can't really "understand" unless you are constantly filled with His eternal Spirit. Zero wonder the next versified statement (verse 18) reads, "Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit." More below!

Reference: Acts 10:34-35 New Living Translation (NLT)
'So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to Him."'
Peter was still perplexed and completely at a loss as to what his vision could mean when the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon's house, arrived at the gate. The Bible says, 'While Peter was thoughtfully considering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Now listen, three men are looking for you. Get up, go downstairs and go with them without hesitating or doubting, because I have sent them Myself"' (Acts 10:19-20 AMP).
Now Peter had finally met them, and extended hospitality to them by granting them overnight lodging. But did you really think that after lodging the visitors from Caesarea, Peter went to bed, sleeping the whole night? Bear in mind that the Holy Spirit interrupted his reasoning, which was before the interruption, efficiently coordinated while considering the full interpretation of the vision. So he still needed the inspiration of the Almighty to grant him the accurate understanding, meaning that after lodging his visitors, he didn't sleep without gaining full understanding of such vision of great importance. He must have been under the inspiration of the Spirit, where he was favoured with "error-free" insightful knowledge and understanding of the vision, such that his visualised perception was eventually marked by accuracy and exactness of "decoded" version of the vision's metaphoric details.
Yes, Peter must have observed a night watch of extended prayer, which must have strengthened him to gain a new outlook of enlightenment somewhat different from his former sentiment - especially regarding a new observatory attitude towards the Gentiles, thereby undermining the fact that it was unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with or befriend a Gentile, or to even visit him.
So at night, in his mindful state of prayer, the Spirit of God must has conveyed to him, the full interpretation of revelatory insight into the vision he had, before they departed the next morning, together with some other Christians believers from Joppa. Stay tuned for part 6. Shalom!
Scripture Reading - Proverbs 1:7; 1 Corinthians 2:6-7; Ephesians 1:17; Romans 8:5.
Exuberant Declaration:
There is a special ability in me to hear from God and to receive the precise understanding of what I hear and perceive. There is also a superior capacity of teaching wisdom at work in me, as the Spirit of truth searches the deep things of God, and reveals them to my spirit, and that is indeed, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ. Praise God!



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