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                    “The Spirit’s empowerment is what allows us to exhibit what He wants – the love, the unity, the sacrifice, the selflessness, the exhibition of the covenantal relationship between Christ and the church, etc. But that means walking with and submitting to the Spirit.  To the degree that I / we do
                    
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                    I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 9, 2024
                
                
                
                    I was sitting on my deck at home one day this week having a brief devotional with the Lord. I looked up into a tree and saw a very small bird, a tiny yellow finch. I looked at him, and he looked at me. He was perched there without a care in the world, feeling safe and sound on his God-given turf.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    INFOLUST Consumers are lusting after detailed information on where to get the best of the best, the cheapest of the cheapest, the first of the first, the healthiest of the healthiest, the coolest of the coolest, or on how to become the smartest of the smartest. The driving force behind INFOLUST is
                    
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                    John Maxwell states, “It’s amazing what can happen to and through an ordinary man when God pours a little hardship and the power of the Holy Spirit into the mix…One ordinary man, a little persecution, and a touch from the Spirit of God led to massive conversions in the city of Samaria. As Jesus had
                    
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                    Contributed by John Hamby on Nov 6, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jesus told the disciples that they must wait upon the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The word translated “power” here is the Greek word dunamis.
	“The Greek word dunamis entered the English language when the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96) made the discovery that
                    
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                    When you stop and consider the work of the Holy Spirit—and that’s what Pentecost is all about—there are three direct dimensions:
•	First, the Holy Spirit does an INWARD work in us. He is the One who administers justification, regeneration, and the new birth in our lives. He is the One who cleanses
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Smith on Apr 4, 2007
                
                
                
                    ILL:  THE TRIANGLE OF MINISTRY
If you picture a triangle – at the top is Jesus because we know “He is the way, the truth and the life.”   At the bottom of the triangle are the different members of the body that God has uniquely placed here.  
In the middle is the Holy Spirit.  (READ JOHN 14.26)
                    
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                    ANOINTING AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
In Scripture there seems to be a parallel in the operation of the Holy Spirit and anointing oil:
1.	Anointing. The act of anointing indicated the bestowal of authorization through the spirit to act in certain capacities.
a.	The anointing symbolized the empowerment of
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Jun 19, 2008
                
                
                
                    I recently came across a Chinese parable that eludes to our thoughts for today’s text. It’s a tale about a water-bearer and his two pots of clay.
An elderly peasant had two large clay pots. One of the pots had a crack down its side to a point about half way. The other pot, perfect! Each had been
                    
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