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The Power
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God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God” (1 Corinthians 2:12). I can’t make you see or cause you to comprehend the power of God or the way the Holy Spirit wants to work in you. That is beyond my capabilities and authority in your life. But you don’t need me to convince you because the Holy Spirit will do that Himself. Jesus said, “the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things” (John 14:26). But you ?rst have to acknowledge the Holy Spirit and invite Him to move in you freely. We can only move in the power of God’s Spirit if we have ?rst received Jesus as Savior. You need to “know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be ?lled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). When you have Jesus as ruler of your life, you will come to know Him as the one “who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20). Because of His Holy Spirit in us—or His power in us—He can do more in our lives than we can even think to ask for. How great is that? Being ?lled with the Holy Spirit is not something that happens against our will. It is something we have to be open to, something we must desire, something for which we have to ask. “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your ch ildren, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). We have a choice about whether we will be ?lled with the Holy Spirit or not. We have to ask God to do that. I am not going to get into the various doctrines of men about the Holy Spirit of God. There seem to be as many of these as there are denominations. All I am asking is that you recognize the Holy Spirit of God as the power of God,