The Holy Spirit is here! Last week, we discovered three things; what the Spirit can do through us, the powerful name of Jesus, and that salvation comes by no other name. As we continue gathering our tools, there are a few more gifts we discover along the way. Let’s read on in Acts 4; “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note […]
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The Holy Spirit is here and we are seeing the work of that Spirit. Just a few weeks ago, 3000 people came to know Christ. As our numbers grow, 2000 more join in, making our totals over 5000, just since the Holy Spirit’s arrival! As Jesus tells us, “we will do even greater things,” now we realize how powerful the spirit is and what those things might look like! Even as we look at ourselves, we begin to see […]
The Holy Spirit is here! Last week, we remembered the arrival. This week, we are going to find even more gifts of the Spirit which enables us to do all the greater things Jesus told us about. Galatians 5:22 NLT tells us about some of the gifts that come to us when we receive the Holy Spirit. “…the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” I […]
“This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Because on this day, we begin to understand the gifts of Easter. And on this day, we receive the greatest gift, the Holy Spirit! I love celebrating, especially birthdays. This past Sunday, we celebrated what is considered to be the birth of the church. That is what Pentecost is, the arrival of the Holy Spirit after Jesus’ ascension. In Acts 1:4-5, Paul recants […]
This morning, I woke up with an old familiar hymn rolling around in my head. The words to Breathe on me breath of God go like this, “Breathe on me, Breath of God, fill me with life anew, that I may love the way you love, and do what you would do.” Breath is important to our lives. Without it, we die. But how critical is it to loving the way God loves and doing what God would […]
The other day, I woke up to an old hymn playing in my head, “Trust and Obey.” “Trust and obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus than to trust and obey.” I instinctively knew The Lord was trying to teach me something. Today, I want to share that lesson of how to trust and obey with you. I remember, years ago, sitting in a church service with this unsettledness in my spirit. An anxiousness really. I felt as if the Holy […]