Gospel Power

It is high time for us to know who the Holy Spirit is and what Jesus said about Him as the secret of Gospel power. It is not a case of struggling and sweating to get the Spirit, but of letting the Spirit come in. We do not make His power. We do not make Him effective, We do not generate Holy Spirit power by prayer, sweat, agony, time, effort, or anything else. The father gives it as a gift, not as a reward or wages, something we earn. If we could make ourselves so good that we deserved the Holy Spirit, we would not need Him. Like Elisha, we are called to pick up the Elijah mantle, but our Elijah is Chirst Jesus. We do not ask " Where is the God of Elijah? " (2 Kgs. 2:14) but "Where is the God of our Lord Jesus Chirst?" for the one greater then Elijah has come.

Lord help us as a church to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. That we could flow in that gospel power that can so change Southern Illinois. Help us to walk fully in the things you have called us to not for our on sake but for the sake of ours as well. That your glory should come and rule in this place we call home. This place called the Throne Zone your home Amen.