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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How The Holy Spirit Leads Us With Wisdom

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 45 ratings
     | 17,480 views

    Wise people learn to listen to the Spirit so they can be filled with the knowledge of His will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding

    How the Holy Spirit Leads Us With Wisdom Illustration:An angel appears at a faculty meeting and tells the dean that in return for his unselfish and exemplary behavior, the Lord will reward him with his choice of infinite wealth, wisdom or beauty. Without hesitating, the dean selects infinite ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How The Holy Spirit Convicts Abusers Of Power

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 52 ratings
     | 3,614 views

    How to not be overcome by power abusers but to overcome with God’s goodness, love and truth

    How the Holy Spirit Convicts Abusers of Power Illustration:In The Christian Leader, Don Ratzlaff retells a story Vernon Grounds came across in Ernest Gordon’s Miracle on the River Kwai. The Scottish soldiers, forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad, had degenerated to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Five Things That A Spirit-Filled Church Does Series

    Contributed by John Hamby on Nov 21, 2000
    based on 521 ratings
     | 126,181 views

    How a Spirit-filled church conducts itself.

    A Study of the Book of Acts Sermon # 6 “Five Things that the Spirit-Filled Church Does!” Acts 3:1-10 Luke has described the early church by saying, “Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.” (Acts 2:43). In Acts 2 Luke does not give us any ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Arthur Potter avatar

    Test The Spirits, Whether They Be From God Or Not.

    Contributed by Arthur Potter on Dec 30, 2000
    based on 76 ratings
     | 2,913 views

    Let me ask you a question. How many people do you think stay home now, that used to enjoy a rich, full, spiritual life with God. And why do you think they stay home?

    Look around you this morning, tell me what do you see? Let me ask you a question. How many people do you think stay home now, that used to enjoy a rich, full, spiritual life with God. And why do you think they stay home? The only explanation is that they did not as we studied, “Test the ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    What Christians Think About The Holy Spirit Series

    Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 17, 2001
    based on 394 ratings
     | 32,958 views

    Four freedoms the Holy Spirit brings explained for people investigating the Christian faith.

    Robert Duvall wanted to make a movie called The Apostle back in 1983 (Newsweek 4/13/98, 60). He wanted to make The Apostle because he felt that the motion picture industry had mostly ignored the work of the Holy Spirit in American religion. According to Duvall, "Filmmakers hardly ever depict ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Six Signs Of Walking A Spirit Filled Life Series

    Contributed by Dan Cale on Feb 28, 2005
    based on 165 ratings
     | 28,729 views

    From Acts Chapter 2 this sermon looks at 6 characteristics of the early Christian Church as they walked in the fullness of the Spirit of God.

    Walking In The Spirit Pt 3 Six Signs of Spirit Filled Living Acts 2:37-47 This past two weeks we have been talking about Walking In The Spirit. Our Key Scriptures have been… We’ve talked about Power with a Purpose – Jesus said “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Avoid The Negative Messagethe Spirit Of Defeat

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 17, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 6,134 views

    We must examine why we feel defeated and develop a plan that will lead to deliverance and victory. Listening to the negative crowd can hinder God’s work.

    Listening to the Negative Message THE SPIRIT OF DEFEAT By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com This is a two part lesson. YOU CAN NEVER OVERCOME THE NEGATIVE, YOU MUST OVERWHELM IT! I. INTRODUCTION: A. A BIG PART OF WINNING IN ANY GAME IS ATTITUDE. I am told when a professional sports ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Let The Spirit Of God Infuse You With Love

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 25, 2005
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,018 views

    If only we could make the world believe that we loved them, there would be fewer empty churches, and a smaller proportion of our population who never darken a church door. Let love replace duty in our church relations, and the world will soon be evangeliz

    Let the Spirit of God Infuse You With Love (I Cor 13:4-8) We all need a fresh infusion of God’s love for without it we become apathetic, angry and self-absorbed. We live in a world that is crying out for love, acceptance and any measure of kindness. Illustration: A Great Motivator Love reaches ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Basic Training: The Holy Spirit Is Our Guide Series

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 29, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 11,261 views

    This is the 5th of a 5 part series on basic bible doctrines for our new congregation. (New Church Plant as of 4-6-03)

    Basic Training: The Holy Spirit is Our Guide JOHN 14:16-18, 25-27; I CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 INTRODUCTION: Man on the Street video: “What is filled with the spirit?” There were actually some pretty good answers to that question in those interviews but most of the people asked, either didn’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Test The Spirit's-Know Love-Fear Not! Series

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 16, 2005
    based on 20 ratings
     | 4,864 views

    John gives us three actions that are to be apart of the children of God’s daily lives. Test the Spirit’s, Know Love, and Fear Not.

    1 John 4 – Test the Spirit’s! - Know Love! - Fear Not! Thesis: John gives us three actions that are to be apart of the children of God’s daily lives. Test the Spirit’s, Know Love, and Fear Not. Listen to this Chapter on the DVD, The Audio Bible and follow along in your Bible! Scripture Text: 1 ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Eleven Beneficial Enabling Powers Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 14, 2005
    based on 165 ratings
     | 17,876 views

    Too many of us fail to appropriate the enabling power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, relationships and ministries to our own detriment. The following eleven descriptions give a brief over view of the ways the Holy Spirit empowers us to do exceedingly

    How The Holy Spirit Functions for Believers John 16:13-16 Too many of us fail to appropriate the enabling power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, relationships and ministries to our own detriment. The following eleven descriptions give a brief over view of the ways the Holy Spirit empowers ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Bob Marcaurelle avatar

    The Holy Spirit- God Touching You And Me

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Nov 19, 2005
    based on 20 ratings
     | 9,488 views

    The Holy Spitit is the encounter or touch we have from God the Father and God the Son.

    The Christian Faith (The Holy Spirit) Week 1 1. The Spirit’s Divine Personality Jn. 14:17-18 Copyright 2005 by Bob Marcaurelle GOD TOUCHING YOU AND ME “The wind blows where it want to; and you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is just ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joel Pankow avatar

    Mary's Response Reflects The Truest Christmas Spirit

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 23, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 7,864 views

    An indepth reflection on the first few verses of Mary’s Magnificat show the source of her joy prior to that First Christmas.

    December 25, 2004 Luke 1:46-48 Mary said: My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed. When the news media showed video tapes of people in Palestine ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Steven Angus avatar

    The Holy Spirit: What Does He Do? Series

    Contributed by Steven Angus on Sep 26, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,405 views

    The work of the Holy Spirit

    Yates Pool is a famous oil field in West Texas. During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, this field was a sheep ranch owned by a man named Ira Yates. Because of Yates’ inability to make enough money on his ranching operation to make his mortgage payment, he was in danger of losing his ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Warner Pidgeon avatar

    Stephen, A Man Full Of Faith And Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 2, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,066 views

    This a sermon given to a group of mainly over 60’s, challenging us to think about Stephen. In particular the way he copied Jesus by praying for his persecutors.

    Acts 6: 7-15 At the time of Jesus there was a group of very faithful worshippers. This group of faithful worshippers were utterly dedicated to preserving the ways of God in their community. They loved their Bible (our Old Testament) and they were very vocal in their defence of the faith which had ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican