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                    "Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a
                    
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                    Contributed by Matt Stacy on Nov 18, 2010
                
                
                
                    OBJECT LESSON: SPIRIT-FILLED BOTTLES
(Will need 2 water bottles, One empty and one full)
We can be like these water bottles, here. One is full of "spirit" and one has none. (Crush empty bottle) This empty bottle with no integrity inside is easily crushed under the pressure I apply to the out
                    
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                    By the power of His Holy Spirit filling and empowering us, let us fulfill the fervor of Dorothea Day’s poem “My Captain”:
Out of the night that dazzles me, 
Bright as the sun from pole to pole, 
I thank the God I know to be 
For Christ the conqueror of my soul. 
  
Since His the sway of
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    Listen to the description of a spirit-filled life by the ’Sunday Times’ journalist Matthew Parris – a man, who is by his own confession, not a Christian. 
“The New Testament offers a picture of God, who does not sound at all vague. He has sent His Son to earth. He has distinct plans for each of us
                    
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                    CHRIST AND THE SPIRIT
Luke's Gospel places an huge emphasis on the Holy Spirit.  As the the third century Bible teacher St. Origen puts it:
     "Christ is born; the Spirit is his forerunner. 
      Christ is baptised; the Spirit bears him witness. 
      Christ is tempted; the Spirit leads him
                    
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                    FILLED UP ANEW 
Imagine a sponge that has been used to wash the dishes. It’s all full of dirt and food and old water. It needs to be filled with clean water! But how can you do that? Easy. You wring it out, rinse it off, and wring it out again. Only when you have done this can you fill it with
                    
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                    Illustration of a famous person being filled and empowered with the Holy Spirit from Evangelist John Rice's book called, How Great Soul Winners Were Filled with the Holy Spirit published in 1949.
He wrote this book to show how its the Holy Spirit's power which empowered the great men of faith of
                    
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