Wednesday, July 02 || GO AND WITNESS IN THE SPIRIT’S POWER, NOT YOUR OWN

Honey Drops for Every Soul
Jul 2
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Read : Acts 1: 4-8

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses. ...” - Acts 1: 8

The filling of the Holy Spirit in a believer is predominantly for power to witness and for service. (Acts 1:8) We receive the Holy Spirit when we accept Jesus as our Savior. But we should be constantly filled with the Spirit. (Ephesians 5:18) Only then we would have power to serve effectively. The Greek word in Acts 2:4 for “filled” is “pimplemi.” It means to be filled with something which wholly controls or influences a person. God’s will for believers is to be Spirit filled. D.L. Moody said, “You might as well try to see without eyes, hear without ears, or breathe without lungs as to try to live the Christian life without the Holy Spirit.”

In the book of Acts we have an emphasis upon the power of the Holy Spirit.   The disciples were sent into the world with the gospel.  But they were not to go in their own strength.  If they had gone in their own strength, no miracles would have happened.  Dear friends, among believers we are seeing these days “service without the Spirit.”  There is a great ignorance of the Person and work of the Holy Spirit in our churches.  It is not what is done for God that counts, but rather what is done by Him.  Programs, propaganda, preparation - all these are not enough; there must be power.  God’s work must be done by God’s people in God’s way.  To be filled with the Spirit, we must empty ourselves by confessing all known sins and by dying to self.  So let us yield ourselves fully to the Lord and depend upon Him step by step, receive His power and go as His witnesses into the world.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, let me not go in my own strength into the world to witness for You or to do Your service. Let me wait in Your presence, continually, be filled with Your Spirit before and do Your work in Your way. Let the fruit and gifts of the Spirit be manifested in me for Your glory. Amen.

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