0916 Towels & Titles - Ministry in the Marketplace

Ministry in Marketplace Full of Him

Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business Acts 6:3

Being FULL of the Spirit is not only for those in MINISTRY but also in MARKETPLACE.

Holy Spirit = Power + Wisdom + Faith

Power will get you out of prison.

Wisdom will open the key to the palace.

And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?” Genesis 41:38

Alternative to being filled with Spirit is being filled with self (stress, sin, and Satan)

You have the Holy Spirit at salvation but being full of the Holy Spirit comes at surrender.

Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit when He was obeying, praying and staying (Matt.3:14; Luke 3:21)

You can’t have fire without fuel.

How to be filled by the Holy Spirit:

Community Prayer Obey

If you want to get drunk, you have to drink. If you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, you have feed yourself on holy things.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18

When you’re FULL of the Spirit your FACE changes.

And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel. Acts 6:15

Reputation is your photo, character is your face.

Without the Holy Spirit we have to repair our reputation and change our character.

You don’t change your character by working on it, you change your character by working on your relationship.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23

We trust His substitutional death on the cross for our salvation but now we must yield to His substitutional life inside for our transformation.

Character is fruit of the spirit not result of my efforts.

It’s fruit, not works

It’s fruit, not fruits

It’s attitude, not action

It grows, not given

Its slow and sour before sweet

It feeds others

Don’t work on your issues, work on your intimacy

It’s not about suppressing the flesh, surrender to the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit FULLNESS impacts your FOCUS.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God Acts 7:55

Being filled with the Spirit does not mean you SKIP hellish situations, it means you don’t SPILL in them.

When people get nastier, don’t leak spiritually. Empty people will try to empty other people.

If Pharisees didn’t leak their hate why should I lose my spirit?

When I am filled with the Spirit, I am also sealed by the Holy Spirit (Eph.1:13)

Focus on heaven when faced with hell (vs.56)

He saw Jesus.

Surrender to Savior not situation (vs.59)

He prayed, Jesus receive my spirit

Respond to presence not react to people (vs.60)

He prayed for his enemies, not against them

Devil succeeded in killing him but failed in leaking him.

If you can be distracted from God by your problem, you can also be distracted from your problem by God.

If God does not deliver me from this, He will stop the drainage.

If he spills your blood, don’t let him spill your intimacy.

Its okay if we go through hell on the way to heaven. Satan will get little of heaven on the way to hell.