YOU ARE INVITED, THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN: JESUS HAS EXTENDED THE INVITATION, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED IN TO SPEND THIS LIFE AND YOUR LIFE AFTER THIS WITH HIM. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND HEART SO HE CAN SAVE YOU, MOLD YOU INTO A NEW CREATION. WILL YOU ACCEPT, WILL YOU SAY YES TODAY?
INTRODUCTION: TRANSFORMATIONAL LIVING: POWER/PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
Acts 1:8 -But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
God has important work for us to do for Him, but we must do it by the power of the Holy Spirit and the purpose of the Spirit is to strengthen us. His two main gifts are knowledge and power. But the only way he gives us knowledge is through the Bible.
Matthew 28:19-20- 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” But they were told to wait first to receive the Holy Spirit.
Luke 24:49- I am going to send you what my Father has promised but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
1 Peter 1:20-21- “No prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (1 Peter 1:20-21).
Our spiritual walk involves the Word of God and the Spirit of God on the inside of us and without them both, there is no POWER! Let’s be like the Wonder Twins, and activate the POWER!
If you want to live a life of POWER in this Christian walk, you have to know the POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD!
We have all of Christ by the POWER of the Holy Spirit. We cannot be defeated, and we will win because we are more than conquerors.
IT IS DYNAMITE. DUNAMIS- the Greek word for POWER!
IT CAUSES IMPLOSIONS (a force on the inside) and EXPLOSIONS (a shock wave/outside force)!
The Holy Spirit is working in and through us and it is His POWER alone that keeps us and transforms us into the women and men that God desires for us to be.
This POWER sets us free and it allows us to be a witness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Love of God!
SCRIPTURES TO LIVE BY:
EPHESIANS 3:16-21- 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.
2 PETER 1:3- 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
NEXT WEEK, WE FINISH UP NEW SERIES: TRANSFORMATIONAL LIVING: STIRRING UP THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
Next week read: 2 Timothy 1:6-14
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REMEMBER MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IT TAKES GRACE TO MA
Remember my sisters and brothers, it takes GRACE TO MAKE IT!