Power for Living

Saturday 4 July
READ: Acts 1:8
MORE LESSON: Act 2: 1 - 4

The forces of hell that are released against men in these end times are so strong that it is not possible to live a successful Christian life without the power of the Spirit. Weakness, sin and struggle become the order of the day when the power of God is lacking in a life. There was a young lady that literally couldn't live a single day without fornication. She was so much afflicted by the spirit of immorality that she wouldn't survive a day without having a man sleep with her. This spiritual torment made her go around each day begging her male class mates to come sleep with her: she just couldn't withstand the forces of hell that was contending with her. Finally she came to a crusade where I was preaching, she gave her life to Jesus and the power of the Holy Ghost came upon her. After seven days she came to me and testified, “I can't believe it but I have lived the past seven days without any man sleeping with me.” That was the beginning of her deliverance and she thereafter continued to live in holiness. It was the power of God that enabled her to live in holiness even though she had been a slave of sin. I want you also to know that it is absolutely possible to live a life that pleases God, all it takes is the enabling power of the Holy Spirit.
When a man gives his life to Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside him. Everyone who has accepted Jesus has a measure of the Holy Spirit inside them. However, you need to go beyond that measure and access an overflowing measure of the Spirit. The Spirit of God overflows your life when you receive the baptism of the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. The Holy Spirit is the power for living. He empowers you to live in holiness, power and miracles. In John 7:37-38, Jesus said, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. He was talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit which is available to everyone who thirsts and desires it. When you ask, God will give you the Holy Spirit (Luk 11: 13).
It is easy to receive the Holy Spirit. A sister gave her life to Christ and then I began to make her understand that she needed the power of God with the evidence of speaking in tongues. She asked me, 'do you mean like this . . . ?' And then she began to speak in tongues. I didn't even lay hands or pray for her, she just received. She later told me that as I was speaking, she began to sense a language within her, and so she decided to speak it out and that was it. Today, receive yours.

Prayer/Action
* Ask for the overflowing power of the Holy Spirit to come afresh upon you and uphold you in grace.
* Ask God to rekindle the fire of the holy Spirit upon you and re-energise your faith.
* Lift your hands and pray in the Holy ghost.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
In 2015, I will sour higher, not by my power or might but by the Spirit of the Lord, in Jesus’ name.