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Daily Devotion

The Works of the Holy Spirit in Acts Continues

Created: Tuesday, 07 August 2018 14:08
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SCRIPTURE:
ACTS 1:6-11 
 
 
For another thing, all the leaders of the Church were men of the Holy Spirit. The SEVEN are men of the Holy Spirit (Acts 6:3); Stephen and Barnabas are full of the Spirit(Acts 7:55 ). Paul tells the elders at Ephesus that it was the Holy Spirit who made them overseers over the Church of God (Acts 20:2).
 
For still another thing, the Spirit was the source of day-to-day courage and power. The disciples are to receive power when the Spirit comes (Acts 1:8); Peter's courage and eloquence before the Sanhedrin are the result of the activity of the Holy Spirit (Acts 4:31); Paul's conquest of Elymas is the work of the Holy Spirit (Acts 13:9). The Christian courage to meet the dangerous situation, the Christian power to cope with life more than adequately, the Christian power to cope with life more than adequately, the Christian eloquence when eloquence is needed, the Christian joy which is independent of circumstances are all ascribed to the work of the Holy Spirit.

For one more thing, ACTS 5:32 speaks of the Holy Spirit "whom God has given to those who obey Him." This has in it the great truth that the measure of the Spirit which a man can possess is conditioned by the kind of man he is. It means that the person who is honestly trying to do the will of God will experience more and more of the wonder of the Spirit.

In the first thirteen chapters of ACTS, there are more than forty references to the Holy Spirit; the early Church was a Spirit-filled Church and that was the source of its power.

  
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Life Application:  I trust that you are developing a longing to be continually filled and overflowing with the Holy Spirit and expecting a "Book of Acts" lifestyle because of the dynamic of the Holy Spirit.

Praise/Prayer: Dear Father, I am so anxious for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will ignite a fire of God that would burn in my city and all across the USA. It has been too many years since the fire of the Holy Spirit has spread across our world. Come, Holy Spirit; we need You! Amen!

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