You Need To Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
Acts 13:9
Acts 13:9 NIV
Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said
Acts 13:12 NLT
“When the governor saw what had happened, he became a believer, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.”
1. Jesus said you need it!
Acts 1:4, (NIV)
On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
1 John 5:14-15 NIV
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”
2. Work the Holy Spirit does in you
Acts 1:4-5, (ESV)
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me; John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
3. So you can fulfill God’s purpose
Acts 1:8 (NIV)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Acts 13:52 ESV
“And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 14:3 NLT
“But the apostles stayed there a long time, preaching boldly about the grace of the Lord. And the Lord proved their message was true by giving them power to do miraculous signs and wonders.”
Acts 1:8 (NIV)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses
