Refilled and Restored • Daily Devo #552

Daily Devo 552 • Word Count: 1,415 • Evening Devotional

**Audio Version of Devotional: Refilled and Restored Audio 552

Opening Prayer:

Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you, O God, for the mighty woman of God. Thank you, God, that she has made it through another evening. I thank you for the grace and glory of God over her and over her family tonight. I thank you, God, that she will get her rest in Jesus’ name.

I thank you that there are no limits, O God, no walls, no barriers, no hindrances over her rest tonight in the name of Jesus. I’m praying for the refilling of your Spirit, O God, and for rest that is filled with the glory of God. Rest that moves beyond distractions. Rest that just settles so deeply that there is no confusion that God is with you.

Lord God, I thank you right now that the mighty woman of God, her rest is covered. I thank you that her family is covered. I thank you for a sweet sleep in the name of Jesus, restorative sleep full of your Spirit. I thank you, Lord God, for you are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

You are the Lord of the breakthrough, O God. You make ways out of no way, King of Glory. I’m praying that the mighty woman of God tonight be covered. Let her sleep be covered, let it be filled, O God, with your Spirit. Let it be full of peace that surpasses all understanding, for you are God alone. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.

We see something peculiar in Acts chapter 4. In Acts 4:31, we see that the disciples, the apostles, as they’re praying, as the people of God are praying together, that the place was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

So we see that the Holy Spirit is pouring out deeply through Acts 4:31 because they prayed. Now, they were, of course, receiving resistance. The resistance was from Acts 3. The resistance was against them preaching in the name of Jesus. It was not a resistance against the miracle signs and wonders, but against them preaching, ministering, and healing in the name of Jesus.

So they didn’t want to honor Jesus as the power behind those great works. In facing that threat, the apostles in Acts 4 decided that they were going to pray to God for boldness. They were going to pray to God to pour out his Spirit on them, that they would pray with even more boldness, that they would go forth with more fire in the face of resistance and being challenged not to pray, essentially.

Now we see in Acts 2 another outpouring of God’s Spirit. And in that outpouring, some of the same people that are here in Acts 4:31 that were there, they were also in the upper room. They were in the upper room, and they were a part of the 120 who were praying.

And they also that day added 3,000 to the body of Christ because of the preaching they did. Their preaching was so full of glory and their preaching so powerful that 3,000 were added to the number of the body of Christ. 3,000 converted right there from all the nations. They were there. And so we see how the outpouring of the Spirit brings power.

It brings an empowerment. There is a gifting, there is a weight that comes. We see the gifts in 1 Corinthians 12. We also see gifts in Romans 12. We see the different gifts that all come from the same Holy Spirit, but have different functions and different use cases inside the body of Christ.

Tonight, the most important piece here is to remember that there are going to be many fillings. There will need to be many fillings for the demonstration, for the edification, the uplifting of the body of Christ, for healing. The fillings will keep coming forth: the filling of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit pouring out, and you being filled with the Holy Spirit.

This may be an opportunity in this season, despite the resistance, the exhaustion, the tiredness, and your overwhelm with the issues of life; this may be an opportunity to be poured into by His Spirit, to be open to receive the outpouring again. To be open to receive that you cannot do it on your own. To be open to receive the fact that you may not know it all, but God does.

He is El Shaddai. He’s the Creator of the universe and everything in it. So our God knows. He reigns over the just and the unjust.

So when we’re looking at this scripture and seeing the evidence of another filling for those who were also there in Acts 2 during the Pentecost, they’re now there in Acts 4, and the ground is shaking, and God is pouring out His Spirit, and they are filled again. And as they were filled, they began to preach. They began to speak the Word of God with more boldness.

Acts 4:31 states:

³¹ And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. - Acts 4:31 KJV

So yes, there was another filling. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost. They were all filled again. And so tonight, as you rest before the Lord, as you consider the weight of the day and the things that you’ve dealt with, as you begin to move some things out of your heart and begin to release some things, and as you do a cataloging of the day and what went right, what went well, what still needs to be done on another day, in the midst of that, remember to pray for a refilling.

Pray to be refueled in the name of Jesus with God’s Spirit.

You need an outpouring of His Spirit to anchor. We need the outpouring of His Spirit to uplift. We need the outpouring of His Spirit to instruct, to bring to us all things, and to give us divine instruction. We need the outpouring of the Spirit of the living God. And we need it frequently.

We need that when we’re tired, and we’re exhausted, and we don’t really know what to do. Going before the Lord and praying for that refilling, praying for your heart to be refilled and refueled for the work that you’re called to, for the life that God is calling you to build, to not grow weary in what is right, what is good.

For in due season you will reap a harvest if you faint not (Galatians 6:9 KJV). We see all of these reminders to sit before the Lord and to pray and to seek his face and to know that God is more than able. But here we see tangibly that when we pray, we’re also receiving that refilling, that we can pray to be filled with His Spirit again.

We can pray for the refilling, and we can be restored in Christ Jesus when we pray. The Bible tells us, for they that knock and ask, they will receive. Matthew 7:7 is clear in that regard. You can ask the Lord, and you will receive. You can ask. And Matthew 7:7 in the King James Version states:

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: - Matthew 7:7 KJV

And it goes deeper in verse 8 for everyone who seeks. God is really speaking and encouraging us through this scripture to be still, to be refilled, to rest before Him, and to know that He is God.

Closing Devotional Prayer

Lord, I thank you for the mighty woman of God. Cover her tonight, God, as we come to the end of yet another evening devotional. I thank you for the breaker over the mighty woman of God and over her home. I thank you that her sleep be covered in the name of Jesus and full of peace.

And I give you glory, O God, that tomorrow’s cares will care for themselves, that they will straighten out and be ordered in the name of Jesus by faith. And so, Lord, I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name.

See you in the next Evening Devotional. Good night.

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