• Slow And Steady  PRO

  Contributed by Troy Borst on May 28, 2003 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Acts 1:4-8, 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8

  Tags:  Holy Spirit Attributes, Holy Spirit General

  Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

SLOW AND STEADY

The power of the Holy Spirit is not just for salvation, but transformation, a process that might be slow and gradual. The difference might look like this:

You can take ten gallons of gasoline and release a tremendous amount of power and energy by just dropping a lighted match into it. It makes a dramatic onetime impact. But there is another way to release the energy in that gasoline. Place it in the fuel tank of a new Honda, designed to get 30 miles to the gallon. The high tech engine will use that ten gallons of gasoline to take a person 300 miles or more.

Explosions may be spectacular, but the sustained, controlled burn has staying power. You don’t want to be a flash in the pan, you want to make