Everyone always talks about freedom around the fourth of July. But where can we find real freedom? Today, let’s look at what real freedom looks like and where we can always find it. Yesterday, I received a group text from a minister which read; “Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Walk by the Spirit, whose fruit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, and self-control.” (Galatians 5) Although I often take my freedom for […]
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The Holy Spirit is the very thing that enables us to do the work God has called us to do! The Spirit gives us power. That Holy Spirit is here with us today and always! When Jesus was crucified, died and buried, all things seemed bleak, as if it were over. But it was not the end of the story. Three days later, the Son of God rose from the grave and continued to teach us, preparing us […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we learned last week, without the “power from on high,” we can do nothing. Fortunately for us, The Holy Spirit is here! Last week, we saw 3000 give their lives to Christ. This is the start of something big, something that is still transforming lives thousands of years later. There is a movement happening and we get to be a part of it! Christ had to go so the Great Counselor could come. The Spirit is our Emmanuel […]
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 […]