How to Experience The Spirit's Power in Your Life (Part 3)
"After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly." Acts 4:31
There is one purpose for God's power: to bear witness to the truth--Jesus Himself.
Because there is one purpose for God's power, there is one purpose for seeking God's power.
Because there is on purpose for seeking God's power, there is one experience of God's power.
Now this one experience, for one purpose, may be manifest in different ways...but it will achieve the very same and only goal: to point people to the risen Savior, the Lord Jesus.
Whether you speak in tongues, heal the sick, cast out demons, teach a Sunday school class, home school your children, write a blog, wait tables--whatever you do to make Jesus known will have God's power. Whether spectacular or regular, there will be power, if you want to make Jesus known.
Do you want to make Jesus known? By that, I don't mean to argue about Jesus, or to try to prove He is who He said He is. I mean do you want people to experience Jesus in you, the very Spirit of the Risen Jesus in your body?
Think of it this way.
You and I could meet, if you wanted to. The best way for you to share who I am with someone is to have them meet me for themselves. Now you could show them my blogs or books, or pictures. You could introduce them to my wife and children and best friend. But nothing surpasses them meeting me in person.
You know how you can see a picture of someone, even a very good picture, and then meet them and feel that kind of disorientation of who they actually are? They seem taller, or shorter, than what you thought. They seem friendlier, or more serious, than their picture. Their voice doesn't quite match what you thought it would sound like. All of this is because you're dealing with someone who is alive, and thus beyond your imagination and control.
Jesus is alive. He isn't just bible stories, movies, or sermons. He is a person. And He's in you, if you believe in Him. People experience Him in you by you introducing Him to them.
This is how:
1. Ask the Spirit of Jesus to permeate everything you think, say, and do, so that when people encounter you they will encounter Him in you.
2. Thank Him for doing it, because it is written, "If you asking anything in agreement with God's will, He hears you, and if you know that He hears you in whatever you ask, you know that you have received what you have asked of Him." It is Jesus' will that you make Him known, that you will be His witness. So you can thank Him for doing what you asked.
3. Bear witness to the truth. Again, Jesus said, "For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. All who are of the truth hear my voice." It is also written, "Those whom God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of the Son." These two verses together mean that your purpose for being born again by the Spirit is the same as Jesus' purpose for being born by the Spirit: to bear witness to the truth. So do what Jesus did, and you will experience the same power He did. Bear witness to the truth. This is something you can do all day, everyday, no matter who you are, where you are, or what you are doing. There is no situation where you don't need to bear witness to the truth. Jesus said, "All who are of the truth hear my voice." Those who seek truth will find Jesus. Those who are open to hearing the truth are open to hearing Jesus' voice.
If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died for your sins and rose from the dead, and you want to experience the Spirit's power to make Jesus known, in you and through you, pray this prayer with me,
"Father, in the name of Jesus, fill me with Your Spirit, so that I can make Jesus known. Thank you Father. I will bear witness to the truth."
That's it. You have the Spirit's power in your life, and you will experience it as you bear witness to the truth.
Tell me about your experiences in the comments section. (And follow me, so we can continue to share these experiences.)
There is one purpose for God's power: to bear witness to the truth--Jesus Himself.
Because there is one purpose for God's power, there is one purpose for seeking God's power.
Because there is on purpose for seeking God's power, there is one experience of God's power.
Now this one experience, for one purpose, may be manifest in different ways...but it will achieve the very same and only goal: to point people to the risen Savior, the Lord Jesus.
Whether you speak in tongues, heal the sick, cast out demons, teach a Sunday school class, home school your children, write a blog, wait tables--whatever you do to make Jesus known will have God's power. Whether spectacular or regular, there will be power, if you want to make Jesus known.
Do you want to make Jesus known? By that, I don't mean to argue about Jesus, or to try to prove He is who He said He is. I mean do you want people to experience Jesus in you, the very Spirit of the Risen Jesus in your body?
Think of it this way.
You and I could meet, if you wanted to. The best way for you to share who I am with someone is to have them meet me for themselves. Now you could show them my blogs or books, or pictures. You could introduce them to my wife and children and best friend. But nothing surpasses them meeting me in person.
You know how you can see a picture of someone, even a very good picture, and then meet them and feel that kind of disorientation of who they actually are? They seem taller, or shorter, than what you thought. They seem friendlier, or more serious, than their picture. Their voice doesn't quite match what you thought it would sound like. All of this is because you're dealing with someone who is alive, and thus beyond your imagination and control.
Jesus is alive. He isn't just bible stories, movies, or sermons. He is a person. And He's in you, if you believe in Him. People experience Him in you by you introducing Him to them.
This is how:
1. Ask the Spirit of Jesus to permeate everything you think, say, and do, so that when people encounter you they will encounter Him in you.
2. Thank Him for doing it, because it is written, "If you asking anything in agreement with God's will, He hears you, and if you know that He hears you in whatever you ask, you know that you have received what you have asked of Him." It is Jesus' will that you make Him known, that you will be His witness. So you can thank Him for doing what you asked.
3. Bear witness to the truth. Again, Jesus said, "For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. All who are of the truth hear my voice." It is also written, "Those whom God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of the Son." These two verses together mean that your purpose for being born again by the Spirit is the same as Jesus' purpose for being born by the Spirit: to bear witness to the truth. So do what Jesus did, and you will experience the same power He did. Bear witness to the truth. This is something you can do all day, everyday, no matter who you are, where you are, or what you are doing. There is no situation where you don't need to bear witness to the truth. Jesus said, "All who are of the truth hear my voice." Those who seek truth will find Jesus. Those who are open to hearing the truth are open to hearing Jesus' voice.
If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died for your sins and rose from the dead, and you want to experience the Spirit's power to make Jesus known, in you and through you, pray this prayer with me,
"Father, in the name of Jesus, fill me with Your Spirit, so that I can make Jesus known. Thank you Father. I will bear witness to the truth."
That's it. You have the Spirit's power in your life, and you will experience it as you bear witness to the truth.
Tell me about your experiences in the comments section. (And follow me, so we can continue to share these experiences.)
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