Title: Running On Empty
Author: Jeff Ecklund
Text: Acts 8:14-17
The best technology is useless without being powered.
(just look at the panic that happens when someones battery phone is dead). My IPad/Phone even suggests that I go to "low power" mode!
Airports are filled with stations to power up your electronics Planes themselves have outlets to plug stuff into
Driving around you see more gas stations that grocery stores because people are in need of the power it takes to move their vehicles
The fastest muscle car is just eye candy without fuel
Too many believers are "Running On Empty" like that old Jackson Browne song. Or they are stuck in "low power mode"
Sometimes we try to fake til we make it...Like a gas fireplace...there is a flame and heat... but it's not like a wood stove right?
Too many believers are trying the live the life of a follower of Jesus without the daily filling of the Holy Spirit and we end up tired, defeated and even powerless. Less powered lives
First of all the Holy Spirit was given to us as a seal;
Ephesians 1:13-14 (ESV)
13In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the
promised Holy Spirit,
14who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
So the Holy Spirit is a seal upon conversion...a stamp or signature if you will of God's ownership...A guarantee of our inheritance...
It's an amazing thing when God marks you as His own...
It's like having a vehicle title with your name on it, except the "title to your life" has
God's name on it and it's sealed by the Holy Spirit!
Every believer is good with this right? Should be!
But the second thing that the Holy Spirit does is "fill us"...
Acts 2:4 (ESV)
4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And that is when our "discomfort" ca ...
Author: Jeff Ecklund
Text: Acts 8:14-17
The best technology is useless without being powered.
(just look at the panic that happens when someones battery phone is dead). My IPad/Phone even suggests that I go to "low power" mode!
Airports are filled with stations to power up your electronics Planes themselves have outlets to plug stuff into
Driving around you see more gas stations that grocery stores because people are in need of the power it takes to move their vehicles
The fastest muscle car is just eye candy without fuel
Too many believers are "Running On Empty" like that old Jackson Browne song. Or they are stuck in "low power mode"
Sometimes we try to fake til we make it...Like a gas fireplace...there is a flame and heat... but it's not like a wood stove right?
Too many believers are trying the live the life of a follower of Jesus without the daily filling of the Holy Spirit and we end up tired, defeated and even powerless. Less powered lives
First of all the Holy Spirit was given to us as a seal;
Ephesians 1:13-14 (ESV)
13In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the
promised Holy Spirit,
14who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
So the Holy Spirit is a seal upon conversion...a stamp or signature if you will of God's ownership...A guarantee of our inheritance...
It's an amazing thing when God marks you as His own...
It's like having a vehicle title with your name on it, except the "title to your life" has
God's name on it and it's sealed by the Holy Spirit!
Every believer is good with this right? Should be!
But the second thing that the Holy Spirit does is "fill us"...
Acts 2:4 (ESV)
4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And that is when our "discomfort" ca ...
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