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Fresh Power - What Happens When God Leads and You Follow!
We are two weeks into our summer reading of Pastor Jim Cymbala’s book, “Fresh Power.”
Two weeks ago, we looked at “There You Are,” and how the Holy Spirit places you in the right place at the right time so that God can use you in situations that are all around you all the time.
If we are trusting in God, His Holy Spirit will place us where we need to be.
This will be different many times than where you think you need to be.
We need to remember that God has a plan for the lives of all of those around us, not just us.
We need to believe that God does want to use us and move out in faith, when he starts to do so.
The Holy Spirit will draw a line between what is just life and what is really important in life.
God has a sovereign will for our lives.
Some of those things he will reveal to us, but many times we have to trust him for the rest.
There are things that only he knows that you won’t fully understand until you get to heaven.
You can trust God, because He will never lead you wrong.
The Holy Spirit will match what He has put within you with the need around you.
He knows why you are here.
He knows why you are good at things and gifted with things that others aren’t
And he has placed you in work places, and relationships and homes and families so that those giftings can be used.
Remember, we are limited by time.
all that we see is the here and now, and we remember the past.
But God has been in everyone of your days and he has placed things within you so that they can be used for his glory along the way.
This week, our reading was chapter 2 - Of Cemeteries and Insane Asylums.
That we have to find the right place between the two when it comes to our faith and trust in God’s Holy Spirit.
A church that preaches against the Holy Spirit and won’t accept, because they don’t understand what God has given us, is dead.
A church that goes totally the opposite direction, and doesn’t follow what the Word of God says about the moving of His Spirit, is crazy.
And it’s not the middle ground that we are working for, but the truth about the God’s Holy Spirit.
The Word is very clear.
One of those Scriptures is the one I want to look at today.
The last words that the disciples heard Jesus say, as he ascended into the clouds was this...
You shall receive Power and you shall be witnesses to me.
It could have been said like this, you are receiving power so that you can witness of me.
Everyone, just take a second with me, close your eyes, relax and take a deep breath.
Let it out.
It’s going to be okay.
I know that we get all keyed about ministry and witnessing in our world, but it’s okay.
It’s not you.
It’s God’s Holy Spirit that will do the work......THROUGH YOU!
So relax.
Michael Durso
Besides, just think about Michael Durso’s story.
Nobody but the Holy Spirit could have done anything there.
Raised in a very afluent Italian Catholic family, with a gourmet pasta business that was doing very well.
Raised to take the business over.
Meets a girl named Maria who is from another very well to do family
Together they lived the good life.
And the high life.
cocktails of various drugs all mixed together - heroin, quaaludes, acid, and cocaine.
They travelled to beautiful and distant places, to get away and do drugs.
Then one day, while on vacation in Mexico, Maria says to him, Hey by the way, when we get home, we should go to church.
He didnt’ want to, but when you are with a beautiful woman in Mexico and life is good, you don’t rock the boat - He said okay
He said that he went, in a defiant mood.
He dressed outrageously to shock the religious people
He sat in the front and made a spectacle of himself, clapping loudly and greeting everyone.
He said as the guest speaker spoke, he didn’t hear a word he said.
and all of a sudden during the close of the service.
This is what he said.
(keep in mind - he wasn’t paying attention)
Suddenly, I felt overwhelmed.
I knew my life was headed for hell.
All my confidence in my religious upbringing and my smart image vanished.
I felt ashamed of my appearance.
Both Maria and I headed for the front.
Instead of going to club to party that night, they went home and cleaned house.
thousands upon thousands of dollars of things went out to the building incinerator.
(keep in mind - nobody told them to do this)
magazines, their music collection, the drug paraphernalia, jewelry, clothing
Michael moved out of the apartment, until they could get married.
they grew in the Lord, got involved in ministry at Brooklyn Tabernacle and today are pastoring Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens.
How does that happen?
Only by the Holy Spirit who says I give you “Power to Be My Witnesses”
So we take last weeks lesson, about being in the right place and time with the right giftings and now we see that God uses us to be witnesses and to make huge differences in the lives of people around us.
First,
The Holy Spirit Makes Us Witnesses
He works in our lives.
He puts us in places where we see the power of God moving.
That builds our faith
That gives us a foundation to stand upon.
Much like David and the Lion and the Bear before Goliath.
The Holy Spirit opens our eyes to see the truth.
The Holy Spirit gives us the ability to accept the truth
He then gives us the ability to live the truth.
Listen to me church family, You cannot tell anybody what happened, if you weren’t a witness to it happening.
Man, we don’t need Christians going around speaking what they think about Christ.
We need men and women who have experienced the power of Christ and can tell their testimony.
What’s a testimony?
This is what Jesus did!
Why do you think Michael and Maria Durso did so well in the street ministry of Brooklyn Tabernacle?
They had experienced the power of God to break those very things in their lives that the people in the streets were living through now.
He cleans up our lives.
We can’t be witnesses if there are things in our lives that will lead people away from Jesus.
And all of us in the flesh have those things.
sins
temperaments
idiosyncrosis
failures
relationship flaws
They hinder us from being witnesses for Christ.
But the Holy Spirit handles them in our lives.
Whatever it is that the enemy is keeping you held back from sharing your faith with, the Holy Spirit can free you.
Perhaps it is his lie that you are never going to be free from that sin
Perhaps it is the lie that you can’t speak before people
Or they will think that you are crazy or treat you as such
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