The Holy Spitenables and empowers you supernaturally
Acts 1:8
The promise for power-The protice of power - The prayer for power -
Acts 8:26-33
Ephesians 3:16 and Ephesians 1:15-21
<> The Holy Spirit teaches you accurately
The promise for revealing truth - John 14:25-26 and John 16:12-15
The purpose for revealing truth - Il Timothy 3:14-17
To be saved = verses 14-15
To live saved = verses 16-17
Teaching = This is what is right
Reproof = This is what is wrong
Correction = This is how to get right
Training in righteousness = This is how to stay right
I shared with the morning Bible Study (that gathers every Wednesday at 10:00 by the way) that to me, the best Super Bowl commercial was Harrison Ford and his Jeep. His lines caught my attention:
"The longest thing we will do is live our lives. And life doesn't come with a user's manual...I but it would have been easier if it had, wouldn't it?" Well...God did! The Bible.
66 books. 1,189 chapters. 31,102 verses. 757,439 words.
They help us know God better.
They help us love God better.
They help us trust God better.
They help us obey God better.
They help us serve God better.
They help us live life better.
They help us glorify God better.
God established three institutions: The family, the government, the church. And all three are to operate under and according to the ultimate and final authority of God's Word. Want to know why families fall apart, governments fall apart, churches fall apart? They give their own wants and wills the authority that only the word of God holds and deserves.
Trouble today: Either the Bible doesn't line up to your life or your life doesn't line up with the Bible!
The Holy Spirit gorifies God through you fruitfully
The premise for being fruitful- John 15:1-8 The life of Jesus in me, being lived out through me.
The evidence of being fruitful - Galatians 5:22-23
<> The Holy Spirit comforts you peacefully
The promise of peace -
John 14:27
The picture of peace-
Acts 7:54-56
Peace is not the absence of challenges/trials in life... Peace comes from trusting in the Lord in them all.
Isaiah 26:3 - You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
The prayer for peace - Philippians 4:4-7 (But don't forget verses 8-9!)
<> The Holy Spirit perfects Christ's joy in you fully. I wrestled between "perfects" /"provides" BUT
The promise of joy - John 15:9-11
The picture of joy - Acts 13:48-52
The prayer for joy - Romans 15:13
Reminds me of what God is doing at Northside!
"Now may the God of hope fill you with..."
<> The Holy Spirit declares God's Word through you convincingly
• The promise - Mark 13:9-11
The picture - Acts 4:5-13-
<> The Holy Spirit sanctifies you progressively
John 17:17 and I Corinthians 6:11
<>The Holy Spirit leads us purposefully
The prayer and the picture -
Acts 13:1-4 and Acts 16:6-10
