Notes of Faith April 13, 2024
POWER UP: Be Filled With His Power
APRIL 13, 2024
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
Micah 3:8, NIV
Recommended Reading: Acts 4:29-31
Elisha Hoffman was a pastor and hymnwriter who penned some of our favorite Gospel songs. One of his lesser-known hymns, published in 1904, says:
Fill me with power for service and use me;
Is there not some work my weak hands can do?
Make me a channel of life and of blessing,
And with the Spirit anoint me anew.
Make that your prayer today. When we’re filled with the Holy Spirit, we’re powered up for service. The Lord uses His Spirit-filled people to accomplish ministries that are truly supernatural. Though we may not see all the results at once, it’s enough to know we’re His channels of life and blessing.
Use this old hymn today to power up for revival and renewed service.
The indwelling of the Lord Jesus Christ made real and rewarding by the Holy Spirit…is life with a capital L.
V. Raymond Edman
Acts 1:7
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.
NASU
Matt 28:19-20
19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
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Luke 11:11-13
1 "Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 "Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? 13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"
NASU
Acts 4:31
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
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Rom 15:13
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
NASU
Pastor Dale