July 14, 2019 - Summer Series Building Blocks, Believing the Holy Spirit

July 14, 2019 How might you be transformed by the Holy Spirit? Speaking in tongues or performing miracles is not the greatest evidence of being filled with the Holy Spirit. The greatest evidence is the transformation of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. By creating us in his image, God gave each of us the capacity to think, to feel, to act, and to receive his Spirit. Unfortunately, too often we cut ourselves off from the Spirit of God and selfishly determine the way we think, feel, and act I. INTRO: BELIEVING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. -Romans 8:26-27 II. WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? 1. The Holy Spirit is a ________________________________________. Revelation 2:7a, Romans 8:26a, Romans 8:26b, John 14:26, Acts 13:2b, Acts 9:31 2. The Holy Spirit has the attributes and nature of ____________________________________. Genesis 1:2, 1 Corinthians 2:10b, Luke 1:35a, 37, Psalm 139:7-8 4. As a transformed person, you will ________________________________________ differently. Romans 12:2b 5. As a transformed person, you will ________________________________________ differently. Philippians 2:5, 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 3. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of ________________________________________ . III. HOW CAN YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT? Acts 2:38 1. You must ___________________________________________________________________ to receive the Holy Spirit. Luke 11:13 2. You can receive the Holy Spirit by: Acts 1:14a; 2:2,4 6. As a transformed person, you will ________________________________________ differently. Matthew 20:25b-28, Acts 1:8 •Admitting... •Asking... •Surrendering... 3. As you surrender more, you will... Acts 19:5-6