Today’s Life Giving Challenge Is, Again, To Experience R.E.S.T:
Read Acts 1:8.
You Will See How Experiencing Rock-solid Eternal Spirituality Today Provides You With Three Supernatural Eternal Provisions — If You Receive The Holy Spirit
You Receive Power
When the Holy Spirit comes on people, something amazing happens: power filled power is received. The Greek word for power is dynamos.. We get the word dynamite from this word. Many believers, today, like the 1st century believers, do not have this kind of power. Like Peter, John, Mary, and all the other believers, in that upper room, without the Holy Spirit, their spirituality was weak. Why? Because they have never received the Holy Spirit. But once the Holy Spirit comes on a person, power floods that person’s life. And the Holy Spirit wants to give this power to you.
Think about it: Once The Holy Spirit came on the early believers, a MEGA Church, three thousand souls strong, became followers of Christ. And these Spirit baptized three thousand changed the world via God’s witness and outreach. The whole book of Acts is about what the beautifully Holy Spirit empowered Saints accomplished. God wants the church today to have this same power.
You Receive a Witness
Once the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you experience the Spirit’s R.E.S.T, you can become a Holy bold witness. You witness by the fruit you bear, as you demonstrate and live a life of love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, integrity/faithfulness and self control. (Galatians 5:22-23) Indeed, you are impowered to keep God’s law. (Hebrews 10:15 and following.)You demonstrate your faith, your, hope your love, your speech, and many other gifts of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12,13, 14.) And you can choose to boldly use your words as you witness to the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Without the power of The Holy Spirit, the witness is weak.
You Receive a Multilevel Outreach
As you experience R.E.S.T in the Holy Spirit, the power you have, and the witness God gives you, then you are moved to do anything, and everything, you can to reach out at multiple levels. Jerusalem or locally, Judea-or one area beyond locally, Samaria – or cultures different from your own, and even through out all of planet Earth.
The Big Question:
Here’s a challenging big question each needs to answer just like believers in Acts were challenged to answer: Have you received the Holy Spirit since you first believed. (Acts 19:2.) Read this verse until you can understand it as a serious question for you in the 21st Century. Then answer it for yourself. I can only answer this question for myself. Have you received the Holy Spirit since you first believed? Do you have power? Do you have an effective witness? Is the fruit of The Spirit produced in you? Galatians (5:22-23) Are the Supernatural gifts of The Holy Spirit demonstrated? (1 Corinthians 12-14) Do you witness, and do you actually use your words?
Some Have and Some Have Not:
Peter, and the 120 in the Upper Room, had not received the Holy Spirit since they believed. But when the Holy Spirit came, as Jesus promised, Jesus baptized the 120 with the Holy Spirit, just like John the Baptist previously prophesied Jesus would do. And when the Holy Spirit baptized them, they were completely changed; however, the 3,000 believers, who heard the Word at Pentecost, certainly did receive The Holy Spirit the moment they believed. The folks in Acts 19 had not, but when they learned about The Holy Spirit, they did receive Him and all that accompanies The Holy Spirit in a believers life.
What Is Your Journey Like?
Do you have God’s power in your life?
Do you have a Spirit Filled bold witness coming out of you, as evidenced by the fruit of The Spirit, the Gifts of The Spirit, and do you actually use your words?
Are you reaching your corner of the world?
Are you motivated to do anything, and everything you can, by God’s power, to reach your state and nation? What impact are you making on planet Earth?
Answer these and you will know if you have received the Holy Spirit since you believed.
My prayer is that you receive The Holy Spirit. I want God’s power to permeate your life. I want your witness to come from The Holy Spirit, I want you to reach out to your Jerusalem, your Judea, your Samaria and the rest of the world.
When you do, you will fully experience Rock-solid Eternal Spirituality Today.
In Jesus Name
S o J o u r n e r
Rock Solid Living 