SCRIPTURE: Luke (NIV) 24:49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” 50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
OBSERVATION: Jesus is here promising that the same Holy Spirit that had come upon Him when baptized by John would clothe them with power. (Luke 3:22) The Spirit had descended upon Him in the form of a dove but would come upon them with the sound “from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind…and would sit upon them like cloven tongues of fire.” (Acts 2:1-4)
The same Holy Spirit would continue the same ministry in the disciples as He had started in Jesus!
APPLICATION: If Jesus needed the Holy Spirit before beginning His ministry as the Son of Man, how much more do I need the presence and anointing of the Holy Spirit. If the early church needed to wait in Jerusalem for the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit before obeying the Great Commission, how much more do I need the anointing of the Holy Spirit today!
What the world needs today is for the church today to be filled with the Holy Spirit, every day. The world needs Holy Spirit-filled and Holy Spirit-empowered believers living and working next to them every day of the week. The world needs to meet people filled with the same Holy Spirit that filled Jesus. They need to meet them in the marketplace, in the schools, in the offices, in every place.
PRAYER: Holy Spirit, help me to be what the world needs, a believer full of Jesus and walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. May I live every moment of every day full of you. I surrender my life to be use by You for the glory of Jesus. Amen
Pastor Leon
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