Driving Under the Influence

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
John 16:13 ¹³Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
    One of the greatest tragedies of my era has been drunk driving. Statistics show that drunk driving
Statistically, one motorist dies in a drunk driving related inident every 50 minutes. One in three will be in an alcohol related crash in their lifetime. It unfortunately kills a lot of young people, leading to great grief among family and loved ones.
    As my grandpa always says, as it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual. As destructive as a force that drunk driving is to the United States, being drunk and yielded to the Holy Ghost is even more dangerous to the kingdom of hell. Paul tells us to not be drunk with wine wherin is excess, but to be filled with the Spirit. The book of Acts tells us that when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all in one mind and one accord, and they were all filled with the holy ghost, began speaking in tongues and magnifying God. The Bible then says that others mocking, said these men are full of new wine.
    We all are driving in life towards a destination, for those of us who are saved, it's heaven. For those of us who are not saved it's hell. The problem is that the car of eternal life was not meant to be driven carnality, but was meant to be driven drunk- under the influence of the Holy Ghost!
    When a delinquet is driving druck his judgement is impaired by the alcohol. He can't really get a good girp on his car, things start to blur, he kinda just has to start making it on a little bit of faith, and a hope and a prayer that he doesn't run into an oncoming car, or into a tree. He is really at the mercy of how drunk he really is, if he is just a little bit drunk, he might be able to make it home safely, if he is really drunk, there's not a chance that he will make it home safely.
   I don't know about you my brother or sister, but I don't want to make it home safely! There is a dying world out there, that needs to know about the God that I serve, and I don't want to make it to heaven and face a holy God, without having gone all out to do His Will, without having yielded to Him in every area!!
   We get into situations on the road of life, that we just can't make it by with our own understanding. The Bible says in Romans 8:26 ²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. We need the Holy Ghost to pray for us and make intercession for us. When we are yielded to the Holy Ghost, He gives us a new perspective on life. We are given an understanding of our situation, where if we were in our right mind we would have lost our mind, but because the Holy Ghost is working through us it gives us a divine understanding, that all things are working together for the good of them that love Him. It gives us a divine understanding that think it not strange the fiery trial of your faith! It gives us a divine understanding that many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers Him out of all them! Oh I feel like praising God right now, for the power of the Holy Ghost working in my life! It enables us to bare spiritual fruit in situations where we wanna cuss somebody out. It enables us to preach anointed sermons when we can't seem to get a thought down on paper. It enables us to not be anxious, but take everything with prayer and supplication and thanksgiving to God!
    Don't try to drive through life on your own power, the Bible says we can drive underneath the influence of the One who is all-powerful, all-loving, all-knowing, all-present.
   I encourage you right now find a place to pray, get some praise music going, and begin to ask God to fill you with His spirit! Speak in tongues, cry out to God, praise Him, stir up the gift that is within you! It is so necessarry to be drunk in the Spirit. The more drunk you are, the more control God has. Yield to Him!