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Acts 1:8 – “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

The first Pentecost took place fifty days after the first Passover.  After the children of Israel experienced deliverance from Egypt, they journeyed to Mount Sinai where God visited them with great power.  The God we serve is powerful.  His not powerless.  Religion often seeks to silence Him, but He still speaks. Religion seeks to make Him powerless, but He still saves the lost, heals the sick, and fills those who hunger for His presence.  He is not just powerful, but He is all-powerful.  Genesis 18:14 says, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”

            We cannot lean on our own human strength. We cannot depend on our own talents and abilities. Jesus gives these instructions in John 6:63, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”  We must live in the power of the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:25 says, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

One of the names used to identify the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures is the Spirit of Power.  Dr. Elmer Towns writes in his book, The Names of the Holy Spirit, “Paul implied that the Holy Spirit could be described as the Spirit of Power when he prayed, "that He [God] would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man" (Eph. 3:16). Because the Christian life involves God living through us, the Holy Spirit is the source of all spiritual power needed both to live for and to serve God. Just as an electric motor will not run if it is not plugged in, so Christians will fail in their Christian lives if they are not plugged into the Holy Spirit, filled with His power and allowing Him to live through their lives.”[i]

The Holy Spirit introduces us to the supernatural life.  1 John 2:27 says, “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.” The anointing is the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit that enables you accomplish exploits for the Lord.

[i] Towns, Elmer, The Names of the Holy Spirit, PDF, page 85.

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