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“After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” Acts 19:21

I recently had a plumbing problem.  It has been ongoing.  The condensation pump for the AC unit has a tube going from it to drain to the outside.  Unfortunately, when the tube was installed and the hole was drilled to put it through the concrete, it was placed too high on the wall.  The pump doesn’t have the power to push the weight of that much water to that height so it winds up overflowing and draining into the house.

Not good.

Once it has been primed though, it works fine.  I just have to keep it primed.

All the pieces were in place.  Technically it should have worked… but what needed to come through the tube was more than what had been planned for.

The difference between purposing in the flesh and purposing in the spirit is that while one may prepare us… the other primes us.

When you have been primed (backfilled to remove all of the voids, empty spaces, dead air) God can send through you so much more than what you are expecting.

What you would be unable to make happen in your own strength… what your “pump” could not handle… will flow.

Are there things you have planned for… things that you feel that you are ready for… that it is time for…

That just don’t seem to be happening?

You can’t understand why.  Why it isn’t working.  Why it isn’t happening.  Why it seems so hard.

Maybe it is because what God wants to give through you is far more than you could ever handle in your own strength!

It is so much more that your limitations could imagine.

You need to be primed!

You need to purpose in the spirit!

The Greek word that is translated “purposed” is tithēmi.  It means “to set or place, to establish, to determine, to be resolved.”

When you are determined in the flesh you can see accomplished what the flesh can do…

When you are determined… established… resolved… in the spirit than you can see accomplished what the Spirit can do.

How do we do it?  How do we move from the flesh to the Spirit?

How do we have the confidence to say “I must also see” and to find ourselves, as Paul did, ultimately in that place of promise?

We commit it to the Father… IN JESUS’ NAME…

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.” John 16:23

“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” John 14:13

“Whatsoever”

That is a word without limitation.  That is a word that needs priming.

God has prepared you.  He will not waste the talent… the gifting… He has given you.

He will not waste the time that went into planning… or the effort you gave because of dreams you had… dreams He had given you.

Don’t give up on your “I must also see.”

He hasn’t.

He will accomplish more.

He will go beyond your limitations.

Stay primed.

SDG