Your Independence Day: Receive the Spirit’s Power

 

The message that Apostle Holcomb preached this week is entitled, "Your Independence Day: Receive the Spirit's Power." The scripture text is John 20:22. Jesus breathed on His disciples and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. The Godhead is the ministry of representation. Thus when we are saved, it is the Holy Spirit who brings us to Jesus. No man can come to Jesus except he is drawn by the Holy Spirit. Likewise after we have accepted Jesus as personal Savior and Lord, it is He who brings us into contact with the Holy Spirit's ministry. If you are a child of the Most High, you need to receive the power of God, which is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. This supernatural endowment from God gives us power over Satan, sin and self. The Holy Spirit gives us the ability and the strength to quit habits, to release ungodly relationships, to walk right, to talk right, and to live right; to live our lives pleasing and acceptable unto the Father. The question then becomes according to Acts 19:1-6, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" This word since is interesting to me because it can carry a couple of connotations. Have you received the Holy Ghost because or in view of the fact that you are saved? Likewise, have you received the Holy Spirit from the time when or after you were saved? Both are indicators that the Holy Spirit's ministry is not optional, but it is necessary for the power of God from on high to flow in and through us. Acts 10:38 says that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him." Once again, this shows the ministry of representation in progress. Once we have received the Spirit's baptism, we can go about doing good, as Jesus did because God is with us. If you need to accept Jesus as personal Savior and Lord, please contact me. Likewise, if you are saved, and you are void of power; you truly love God but there are some things that you haven't been able to let go of; you need the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. You need the power of God! Allow Jesus to take you into another dimension of who He is; Savior, Shepherd and Sovereign King! Acts 1:8 says that you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And as always, please remember to remain in the place of grace. Remain in the place by Jesus.