Change your focus... be filled with the spirit
I was wondering whether we need the Holy Spirit to give us boldness and God’s presence in the moment as we witness for Christ. Does that sound crazy?
I. The call of Jesus in the filling of the spirit.
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
II. In trouble deep.
11 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, 3 “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.
13 And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; 14 he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household
15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning
III. How will you argue with God
17 If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”
18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”