Stay Hydrated
…be filled with the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:18b
We are Spirit – Sensitive.
13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”
14 The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
Exodus 33:13--16
So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”
I Corinthians 14:24b
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit,whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
John 7:37 – 39b
27 …. Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. 28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. 29 So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?”
Acts 10:27b - 29
34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
39 “We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen….
Acts 10:34 – 36; 39 – 40
44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. 46 For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, 47 “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
Acts 10:44 - 48
The Holy Spirit still speaks through Scripture and in supernatural ways.
The Holy Spirit leads us, often calling us to step out into the unfamiliar.
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever.
~ Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit empowers us for life and the mission Jesus gave us.
The Holy Spirit still surprises us and works in ways that we often don’t understand.
Let’s be curious and receptive for all that the Holy Spirit wants to do.
Let’s be spiritually hungry for more of the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Let’s be obedient as the Holy Spirit speaks to step into new areas and arenas.
Let’s be confident that if we ask Him that he will lead us and guide us.
The world needs a church that will say yes to the Holy Spirit’s power and grace to flow through them. HTC – Let’s be that church!