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EMPOWERED WITHIN

INTRODUCTION

WAITING FOR SOMETHING THAT IS PROMISED TO YOU TAKES PATIENCE AND TRUST IN THE ONE WHO MADE THE PROMISE.

1. JESUS HAD INSTRUCTED HIS APOSTLES TO WAIT ON THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

IN THE MIDST OF WAITING JESUS PROMISED THE APOSTLES THAT THEY WOULD BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST.

THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE PERMANENT INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU.

IT WILL ABIDE IN YOU, IT WILL DWELL WITH YOU AND BE IN YOU.

THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT LIVES IN YOU IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.

IT IS A GIFT GRACIOUSLY GIVEN TO ALL WHO HAVE RECEIVED JESUS AS THERE LORD.

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COUNSEL YOU, HE WILL HEAR YOU AND GIVE YOU WISE COUNSEL.

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH.

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL DEFEND YOU AND FIGHT YOUR BATTLES FOR YOU.

LUKE 24:49 AND, BEHOLD I SEND THE PROMISE OF MY FATHER UPON YOU; BUT TARRY YE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, UNTIL YE BE ENDURED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH.

2. THIS POWER JESUS WAS SAYING TO THE APOSTLES WOULD NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL AFTER THE HOLY SPIRIT IS COME UPON THEM.

THIS IS DUNAMIS POWER, POWER RESIDING IN A THING BY VIRTURE OF IT’S NATURE, OR WHICH A PERSON OR THING HAVE THE ABILITY TO PERFORM.

THIS IS THE TRUE INTEGRITY OF A INDIVIDUALS LIFE.

THIS IS SPIRITUAL POWER, POWER THAT EXERT OVER A BELIEVER’S LIFE.

IT IS THE EMPOWERMENT THAT HAS BEEN INVESTED WITHIN EVERY BELIEVER.

IT IS POWER THAT IS DRAWN FROM GOD. THIS POWER IS UNCREATED POWER THAT’S ONE’S LIFE CAN BE CHANGED.

THIS POWER IS THE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLING INWARDLY IN THE BELIEVER LIFE, NOT HIS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, BUT HIS OR HER SPIRITUAL IDENTITY.

EPHESIANS 3:16 THAT HE WOULD GRANT YOU, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY, TO BE STRENGTHEN WITH MIGHT BY HIS SPIRIT IN THE INNER MAN;

THEN IT’S GOD’S MANIFESTED PRESENCE THROUGH A MIGHTY WIND WHERE YOU COULD HEAR HIM, BUT NOT SEE HIM.

THIS WAS GOD’S PRESENCE AS SPIRIT.

THEN IT WAS GOD’S PRESENCE AS FIRE .

DISPLAYING THE HOLINESS OF GOD.

THEN IT WAS THE INVISIBLE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING FILLED IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER.

SO MY QUESTION TO YOU TODAY HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU.