Recharge (Family Campout)

We can be recharged through the power and presences of the Holy Spirit.

In the bible the Holy Spirit is said to be like the wind.

Just like air He gives life when we cant see Him.

The Holy Spirit is like Electricity

- Show Energy stick used by just me

1 Thessalonians 4:17–18 NIV

17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:5–11 NIV

5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Being recharged is about being built up together when we are feeling down or have fallen into sin.

Energy stick

say something nice and begin to hold hands with others

Making a full circle making it work

When we who are children of the light come together in faith, hope and love we recharge each other. Just like we make this stick work.

The Holy Spirit will recharge us and those around us when we “Putt on faith and love as a breastplate and hope of salvation as a helmet.”

Jude 17–21 (NIV)

17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.

18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers (someone who makes fun of others) who will follow their own ungodly desires.”

19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

We can also steal others charge by the Holy Spirit.

If you believe in Jesus Christ as your love and savior you are a child of the light, but Jude makes it clear that some people are those who follow ungodly desires and become scoffers or bullies.

These can be people who don’t know Jesus and people who do know Jesus.

They are people who divide and are only out for their own gain. They are not led or have the Holy Spirit in them.

When we make fun of or bully others we have let go of or taken off the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation helmet.

- have one person hold it with me as I only use my finger tips

- I am being to pull away from encouraging them...

The Holy Spirit just like this energy stick begins to get quieter and we begin living without the Leading of the Holy Spirit.

This also happens with others who are not followers of Jesus.

- Give someone gloves to wear.

- they should hold it alone

The Spirit is not in them giving them the life or energy just like this stick, There is something in the way.

Sin creates a break in the current to and from God, but like the current flowing the stick.

But there is hope for them...

Jude 22–25 (NIV)

22 Be merciful to those who doubt;

23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.

24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—

25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

Those of us who are children of the light can share our light with others. Through mercy, faith, love and hope

- as the gloved person holds it

- hold onto it with them.

When we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us to love and mercy in their lives they will begin to see the Spirit at work and can be snatched from the fire.

Encourage one another and do not live like scoffers or bullies who don’t care for others or you are in danger of loosing the Leading of the Holy Spirit in your life.

Do you have the Holy Spirit in side of you?

Do you want to be led by Him more?