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Worship leader talks about being led by the Spirit…
Good morning, everybody. Always good to be here. We just love that you’re with us. Where two or three are gathered, right? He’s here. Hallelujah. That’s amazing to think about right there, right? So I’ve been really stuck. God’s really having me stuck about being led by the Holy Spirit. We talked a little bit about this on Monday. And I’m going to read part of another devotional.
Make-it-happen kind of power…
So Jesus knew firsthand the power associated with the Holy Spirit. Then this author says, “I’m not talking about atomic power or explosions of the sun but universe-creating power. When God said, “Let there be…” in Genesis 1, He demonstrated a make-it-happen kind of power.”
I like that. Make-it-happen kind of power, right?
“All that power dwelled in Jesus ready to be unleashed with just a word. It was limitless power, able to heal the sick, drive out devils, and calm storms. It was the same power that raised the dead body of Jesus back to life. In the Greek, we call this Dunamis power. It’s where we get the word dynamite. The Holy Spirit was given to Jesus so He could accomplish every assignment given to Him. For us to be truly Christ’s followers and demonstrate the same works He did and even greater works, we must be empowered by the same spirit. It is impossible for us to walk in the same anointing Jesus had without it. This is why Jesus insisted the disciples not leave Jerusalem until they had received the promise of the Holy Spirit. Only after the Spirit came upon them would they receive dunamis power to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.”
And then in another devotional, it’s like it continued the thought. It was interesting how the Holy Spirit weaves all this together.
This author says…
“When the Holy Spirit came, power didn’t just rest on them. It filled them. So like in the Old Testament, it rested on them… [Well, now it fills us.] …transforms and launched them.”
This author talks about how Peter was once afraid to admit he even knew Jesus. But after he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he stood up and preached with fearless conviction to the very crowds who had witnessed the crucifixion. And 3,000 people came to the Lord. That’s supernatural boldness, right? Because he was filled with the Holy Spirit. In this day and age, we need that. We need that kind of boldness. The same Spirit who filled Peter fills us. He’s still giving power. He’s still giving boldness.
Ephesians 1. We know this verse. We love this verse in this church, which is wonderful. Ephesians 1:19–20, “And I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe Him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated Him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.”
I am so glad we have the Holy Spirit and His power living inside of us. I’m so glad I don’t have to do life without Him. And honestly, in this day and age, I don’t know why you would want to.
Prayed…
So, Father, we thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. We thank you for the infilling.
We thank you for your power that you put in us.
The same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in us.
We thank you for your presence and how that changes lives.
It changes hearts.
It makes us more like Jesus.
So, Holy Spirit, we welcome you here in this place.
Come and do whatever it is you want to do today.
Fill us till we overflow and spill out all over everybody else.
We thank you that you’re here. We invite you.
Prayer leader Kay…
I have one verse that I cannot get away from. It’s in 1st Corinthians 12. And he’s talking about we’re all one body. So all of us are one body. Some look like they have more important parts, but we all know the truth, right? You don’t see your liver. It’s not even very good looking when you look at it, but you need it. Whether you are seemingly important where you are with your friends, with your people, or you’re seemingly not important and you feel alone and you feel like maybe God’s passed you by or it’s too late, or you just maybe don’t matter like you thought.
In Paul’s church… This is in Corinthians. They had people there that had come from complete idol worship and had drunk blood. They sacrificed to idols, had all kinds of immorality, probably some things we can’t even imagine. But when they got born again, they were all part of the body. And they all became just as important as everybody else.
And there were some that were slaves. Some slave owners. You picture this. But when they came together, the Word says here… There’s just one phrase I just can’t get away from. “And no matter our status, whether we are Jews or non-Jews, oppressed or free, we are all privileged to drink deeply of the same Holy Spirit.”
We can all drink deeply from the Holy Spirit…
I don’t care what your status is. I don’t care about your circumstances. It matters not. Universe-creating power. Universe-creating power. But I want you just to set your circumstances aside, whether you’re in a wheelchair or whether you are living the high life in a penthouse. I want you to set your circumstances aside and begin to drink deeply of the Holy Spirit. Just drink deeply of the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t matter whether you live in Singapore or Hong Kong or Thailand or you are in Washington DC or you are a governor or you are the lowliest person on the streets of Minneapolis. We are all invited to drink deeply of the Holy Spirit. We can all come. We can all come. We can all have our fill. It’s so wonderful. Oh, thank you, Jesus.
Prayer leader Barb…
Until there’s no room for anything else. To be so full of the Spirit. We know we’ve received Him, right? To let that fullness be so big on the inside of us. That there’s literally no room for anything. No room for division, no room for strife, no room for separation, no room for sickness. No room for depression. No room for anything that is not Him.
That anointing on the inside, the Holy Spirit… I mean, we’re talking about Jehovah on the inside of you, that there’s no room for anything of this world to have a hold on you, to have a part in you. Nothing!
This morning when I was getting ready to come here, I was going to clean my water bottle and so I put a little bit of soap in the bottom of my water bottle, put the top on, shook it up, and then I got to get the soap out, right? So open the water bottle, turn on the faucet, and what happens? Water’s going into the water bottle and that soap is being forced out. That which I don’t desire in that container is being forced out by the flood that’s coming in, right?
So we believe that we’re full of the Holy Spirit, but there’s also within and upon, right? So outpouring. So He continues to pour until all that does not belong comes up and out, and that clean, pure river of life… not just in us, but flows out of us by the Spirit. So there is nothing left of this world, nothing left of the curse, nothing left of the enemy. It’s all flushed out, cleaned out, cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ, by the oil of the Spirit, by the anointing of the Holy One, by the grace and peace and mercy of God. Cleansed by the Spirit of grace.
Prayed…
So we thank you, Father, that we are so full. We just receive.
We let you flood us with your presence so that anything that would not be of you would be driven out by your power.
Not by our strength, not by our might.
But by your presence, by your power. We rely on you. We lean into you today.
Thank you, Father. We are cleansed and we are whole.
There is nothing missing and nothing broken.
You restore anything that’s been lost, anything that’s been stolen.
You restore today by the power of your Spirit.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. We worship you, mighty God.
Worship leader…
I feel the call to tell you that the altar is open. It is always a good idea to bow before our holy Lord. Without His presence, without His Holy Spirit, we are nothing. So if you need to come, you can come in the aisle. You can come all the way up here. It doesn’t really matter. But He’s holy. We need to show Him the reverence that He deserves.
So even if you’re just watching online and you need to bow wherever you are, do that. It takes boldness to do that. Just like Holy Spirit filled Peter and Peter was bold to do that and stand up in front of all those thousands of people and speak Jesus. Sometimes the boldness is to bow wherever you are in your prayer.
Prayer leader Kay…
We lay it all down, all the random thoughts, all the wondering, all the cares, the tiredness of trying to do things on our own. All the self-help books, all the striving. We lay it down. We are in front of the King of Kings, the creator of the universe. He sent the Holy Spirit to live in us and to flow out from us.
Prayed…
Oh, Father, help us to change atmospheres.
Help us to realize how big you are inside of us.
That you move with us when we move—when we walk, you walk, when we drive, you are with us.
That in whatever atmosphere we’re in, it’s automatically changed because you are there.
Help us let you be bigger and reverence you always in all things and in all places.
We drink from you today. Nothing else matters.
Prayer leader Kay…
Some point you have to say, “It’s here.” We know rain. I’ve been a Christian for almost as long as I’ve been alive and we always sang that it was in the future. That rain, that rain, that rain… At some point, we have to believe it’s here. I mean, it’s here. I don’t know what to say, but I think it’s here. I think what we have prayed for, for years is here.
Prayer leader Cindy…
I hear the abundance, the sound of rain. We see a cloud the size of a man’s hand. Stretch forth your hand, heal, set free, deliver. Freely we’ve been given.
Prayer leader Kay…
We are not the people that wait to see before we believe. We are those, that remnant, that calls it forth and brings it into the now. That’s who we are. We bring… it’s here. At some point, we have to say it’s here.
