Jesus Followers’ Personal Pentecost Characterizes Life Positively Through the Holy Spirit and a Personal Relationship with God
MESSAGE SUMMARY: On Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, the Holy Spirit, the third entity of the Trinity, was poured out; therefore, Jesus Followers entitled to have a personal relationship with God through prayer and the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Luke, in Acts 2:38, tells us of God’s gift of the Holy Spirit to Christians: “And Peter said to them
Jesus Followers’ Personal Pentecost Characterizes Life Positively Through the Holy Spirit and a Personal Relationship with God
MESSAGE SUMMARY: On Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, the Holy Spirit, the third entity of the Trinity, was poured out; therefore, Jesus Followers entitled to have a personal relationship with God through prayer and the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Luke, in Acts 2:38, tells us of God’s gift of the Holy Spirit to Christians: “And Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’". Pentecost changed the previous limited and temporary inclusion of the Holy Spirit into human life relationships with God to a gift from God, as a part of His Grace of Salvation through Jesus, to the Holy Spirit’s availability to all that believe and follow Jesus.
How would you characterize your life in terms of peace vs. anxiety and God’s presence vs. emptiness? If you cannot characterize your life in a positive context vis-à-vis your personal relationship with God through the Holy Spirit, then you need a Personal Pentecost in your life.
Characteristics of the Holy Spirit include: 1) is the divine indweller – we can participate in the divine nature of God through the Holy Spirit; and 2) produces the divine character – manifests in us the graces of Jesus, and we need to learn to live in the power of a Personal Pentecost,
What is entailed in our living in the “Power of Pentecost”? A Personal Pentecost includes: 1) receiving Jesus, on a personal basis, into your life and by asking: “Does the Holy Spirit have me?”; and 2) regular and daily confession of your sin with regular repentance – allowing the will of God to be manifest in your life.
By following Jesus, the Holy Spirit is indwelling in you like the pilot light in a furnace which burns but without real heat being produced unless the Pilot Light is permitted to light the furnace. Therefore, you need to ignite the furnace to use the power of the pilot light (i.e. Holy Spirit) to produce the power available from the Holy Spirit in your life and in the lives of those people that God is asking you to touch. This ignition of the furnace in your life is your Personal Pentecost.
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! (Luke 11:13).
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV): Acts 2:38; Genesis 1:2; John 7:38; 2 Peter 1:3-4; John 14:16; Galatians 5:22; Romans 14:17; Romans 15:13; Romans 5:5; Romans 4:29-30; 1 Thessalonians 5:16.
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