Being Filled With The Spirit In Power

 

Today's verse is Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

    Amongst some the question has been posed: “What is the evidence of being filled with the Holy Ghost?” I will not give you the answer they arrived at, and at this time I do not know if the question is even a question we should be asking. Consider the command: “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit:” and the truth found here: “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” Now, let us consider, just in case it is a proper question, what would be the answer? As I began to write this, the answer I would have given is: that we have boldness to tell others of Jesus Christ, but now I am convinced that that is incomplete, and possibly even misleading. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance” these are the things we will see in ourselves if we are filled with, or walking in, the Spirit. So, as we have been commanded, surrender to the control of the Spirit of God, which he gave you when you believed, and as Peter has commanded: with diligence, “add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brother kindness charity. For if these things be in you. and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Genesis 1, Matthew 1, Ezra 1, Acts 1

Tomorrow’s reading will be Genesis 2, Matthew 2, Ezra 2, Acts 2