“How To Experience Resurrection Power”

Fall Forward: Restart.Revive.Renew — September 4, 2011

 

If your car is having a hard time getting up a hill, what do you need?

If your computer is having a hard time processing information, what do you need?

The answer is, power!

If your first love for Jesus Christ is running low,

If your marriage is running low,

If your passion to make a difference is running low, If your joy is running low, If your outlook is running low, If your expectation is running low,

 

The good news is it does not have to be that way!

 

There is a power that God provides: a power that is a Person! It is the Person of the Holy Spirit!

A few questions to ask: * “Is there a difference between being in the presence of God and knowing God personally? * “Is there is a difference between being in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit and being filled with the Spirit?”

The Apostle Paul said “I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead.” (Phil 3:10) Resurrection power!

We gain needed wisdom on the subject of Resurrection Power by freeze framing the ten days between the Ascension of Jesus Christ and the day of Pentecost.

The core inspiration and blessing that the Holy Spirit brings to our lives is that He testifies of Jesus! “But I will send you the Advocate–the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.” John 15:26 If you are experiencing resurrection power, Jesus will be front and center in your life!So how do you experience resurrection power?

#1 Ask the Heavenly Father (Lk. 11:9-11)

#2 Give Room to His presence by learning how not to grieve the Holy Spirit. Behind every sin is a lie. The Lord is in the mind-changing business. Allow the Lord to change your mind! (Eph. 4:30-32)

#3 Be available to be a conduit of the life of God–quenching not the Spirit, but allowing the “fire” to be flamed through your life in your world! (I Thess. 5:19

“If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:9-11 NIV)

“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” (Eph 4:30-32)

“Do not quench the Spirit.” (I Thess 5:19)

THIS WEEKS “FALL FOWARD APPLICATION?”

Spend time alone with God. Looking to Him for resurrection power! How?

#1 Ask the Heavenly Father (Lk. 11:9-11)

#2 Give Room to His presence by learning how not to grieve the Holy Spirit. Behind every sin is a lie. Allowing the Lord to change the way you think. (Eph. 4:30-32)

The Holy Spirit works in conjunction with the Truth of God’s Word to rewrite the programming that informs our thinking. This will include revealing the lie behind the sin in your life which grieves God and inhibits His presence of blessing and healing. Behind your lifestyle is a belief system. It needs to be identified! Ask the Lord to reveal the lie behind the sin of: Lying; Anger; Stealing; Cursing;Bitterness; Unforgiveness; Sexual immorality.

#3 Be available to be a conduit of the life of God –quenching not the Spirit, but allowing the “fire” to be flamed through your life in your world! (I Thess. 5:19