BEFORE AND AFTER

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Main Idea: God desires for you live a spirit filled life.

Key Question: Are you living by the spirit?

1. He was prayed up. (1:14, 2:1)

Acts 1:14 NKJV

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

Acts 2:1 NKJV

When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Philippians 4:6 NKJV

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16 NKJV

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Is prayer reactionary? Just when the doctor calls?

How much time do you spend talking with God?

2. He was filled up. (2:4)

Acts 2:4 NKJV

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

a.

Ephesians 5:18 NKJV

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

John 3:34 NKJV

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

b.

Do you pray for the filling of the Spirit?

Do you try to be led by the Spirit?

3. He spoke up. (2:14)

Acts 2:14 NKJV

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.

a.

Luke 12:11–12 NKJV

“Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

b.

Acts 1:8 NKJV

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.”

We struggle to witness because we fail to spend time talking with God! We operate of self and not the Spirit!