We Need More of the Holy Spirit

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I believe the Lord Jesus wants us to pray for more of the Holy Spirit. Our nation is in an ever worsening moral condition. The only answer for the current depravity is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There is no program, no political party, no educational effort, that will cause Americans to turn from sexual lust and perversion. Only God’s Spirit has the power to do that.

(2/27/2005) In our church we are engaged in unified prayer for an outpouring of God’s Spirit on our country. We intend to keep praying until Christ sends the Spirit upon America in an unprecedented manner.

We cannot bear witness effectively apart from the power of the Spirit.

This morning we took a look at the passage in Luke where the Lord told us to pray persistently and boldly for the Spirit. Jesus said if we would ask we would receive; if we would seek we would find; if we would knock it would be opened to us.

I know this is true. I have a witness in my spirit, faith if you will, that God will pour out His Spirit on our nation, although it may be during a time of great trouble.

A friend has come to us in his or her journey. Who is this friend? It is the people of America. They do not know it but they are hungry for the Spirit of God.

We can give them words, but these will not meet their need. Only the power of God’s Spirit will bring back the transvestite, the lesbian, the gay, the girl ready to abort her baby, the man ruining his health on amphetamines, to the days long ago when he or she was a youngster in Sunday school; to the dad and mom who prayed and had high hopes for him or her.

And for those from dysfunctional families, who never had a godly bringing up—the Lord Jesus will draw near and tell them they are precious to Him, that He died that they might have a better life now and a joyful homecoming when they die and enter a better world.

The only answer is God’s Spirit! "You shall receive power!"

If we are to have God’s Spirit to the extent we desire we will have to ask for the Spirit, and then be totally obedient to God in every detail of life. Once we begin to pray for the Spirit, Christ will come to us as individuals and test us to see if there is any wicked way in us. We must cooperate with the Holy Spirit concerning all that we are shown about our personal behaviour.

At night we spoke about the fact that the 2000 years of the Church Age may prove to have been primarily for the development of rulers for the ages to come. Perhaps the most important virtue of a future ruler is stern obedience to God. In order to develop this stern obedience in us, God must bring us through many tests, some of them quite difficult

Also, we must pray for the strength to forgive everyone who has harmed us. No person can hope to rule with Christ who does not forgive everyone who has harmed him.