Francis Schaeffer once asked his wife:

“Edith, I wonder what would happen to most churches and Christian work if we awakened tomorrow, and everything concerning the reality and work of the Holy Spirit, and everything concerning prayer, were removed from the Bible. I don’t mean just ignored, but actually cut out—disappeared. I wonder how much difference it would make?” We concluded it would not make much difference in many board meetings, committee meetings, decisions and activities.

—Edith Schaeffer, The Tapestry: The Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer (Waco: Word, 1981), 356.

Let’s press one another on to live lives dependent upon the Holy Spirit of God rather than ourselves.

Father, would You empower your Word by Your Spirit to cause Your church to accomplish Your mission. For You are able to do far more abundantly than we can even ask or think according to the power that works in Your church.