A Spirit-Filled Life (3)
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How do we keep Spiritual vitality?
How do we keep Spiritual vitality?
Seek the Holy Spirit’s refreshing
Seek the Holy Spirit’s refreshing
Read Acts 3:19
19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
We must remember
++The work that God has done
++Activate the gift
++It is in you
5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
We must examine ourselves
++Validate our Faith
++Build it up
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
What is praying in the Holy Ghost?
31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Pray Without Ceasing
Pray Without Ceasing
Read 1 Thessalonians 5:17-19
17 pray without ceasing,
18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
19 Do not quench the Spirit.
What are we commanded to do?
Spiritual Vitality is found in
++Prayer - Intimacy
++Thanksgiving- Identity
++Bold trust-Sensitivity
Be Fervent in Worship
Be Fervent in Worship
How does worship help you keep your spiritual vitality?
6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Meditate on the Word
Meditate on the Word
How does Meditating on the word help you keep your Spiritual vitality?
36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
92 If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Walk by Faith
Walk by Faith
How does walking by faith help you keep your spiritual vitality?
5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Live a Yielded Life
Live a Yielded Life
How does living a yielded life help you keep your spiritual vitality?
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.
Cultivate a Sensitive Spirit
Cultivate a Sensitive Spirit
What is an advantage of a Sensitive Spirit?
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
19 Do not quench the Spirit.
20 Do not despise prophecies,
Walk in Obedience
Walk in Obedience
How does walking in obedience help you keep your spiritual vitality?
29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.