The Power of Being Empowered

THE POWER OF BEING EMPOWERED is my theme for this Sunday morning. We will be exploring the difference that the Holy Spirit made in Peter, John, and Stephen. It’s a wonderful thing to be empowered by God’s spirit.

What difference does the Holy Spirit make in our lives? What kind of impact might we make on our world if we let the Holy Spirit fully empower us?


"A great many think because they have been filled once, they are going to be full for all time after; but O my friends, we are leaky vessels and have to be kept right under the fountain all the time in order to keep full. Let us keep near Him." -- D. L. Moody

Grace Fellowship, Alta Loma, CA

Grace Fellowship, Alta Loma, CA
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. -- F. B. Meyer

This quote made me think. Most of us are guilty of complaining about unanswered prayer . . . about the answer we didn't get . . . or perhaps about the answer that was different than what we wanted.

Meyer suggests that my failure to pray is the greater crisis, the ultimate failure. I found myself thinking that God has blessings ready to send my way, answers to requests I have not yet asked . . . and my failure to ask is the missing link.

James said it (James 4:2) . . . my friend Wayne reminded me of it yesterday, "You have not because you ask not."

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WHY GO TO CHURCH?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."


This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals But I do know this… They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

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Rom 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. "

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