Hunger For God Expressed Through Prayer, Worship, Study Of The Word Etc. Attracts His Presence What We Do Has A Profound Affect On How And When God Moves Praise Expectancy Worship Persistence Faith Submission The Holy Spirit is always moving, He is active, He is alive but He never acts or manifests without a command from God’s Word or in response to an invitation from a human to come The Holy Spirit Can Be Grieved, Quenched, Resisted, Opposed, Substituted… But He Is Always Moving Even At Creation We See This Genesis 1:1-3 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. (KJV And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.) 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. The Holy Spirit was moving or hovering over the face of the water waiting to respond to the Word Spoken by God The Holy Spirit is the agent of God’s power He is the Power of God But He does not manifest that power until a demand is put on that power James 4:2 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. But when we invite him to come, when we welcome his presence and make time and room for him, He will come 2 Chronicles 5:11-14 11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. 12 All the Levites who were musicians — Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives — stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang: "He is good; his love endures forever." Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. When the Glory of the Lord filled the temple, King Solomon began to pray, thanking God for all He had done Then the King began to speak the blessing of God over the people When He Did, Another Wave Came 2 Chronicles 7:1-3 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2 The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. 3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "He is good; his love endures forever." The Second Wave Was More Powerful Than The First! Acts 1:8 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 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. People from all over the known world were in Jerusalem to worship and they heard them declaring the mighty acts of God in their own languages Acts 2… 12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?" 13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine." 14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: "Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15 These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine in the morning! 16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 "'In the last days, God says, I will pour out (OF) my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. 21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' This initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit was the first wave Prophet Joel said in Joel 2:23… 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. The Day Of Pentecost Was The Moderate, First Wave Outpouring But God Poured Out Of His Spirit Time And Time Again As Recorded In The Book Of Acts Acts 4:29-31 29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. 30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus." 31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Acts 13:50-52 They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. 51 So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Acts 16:24-27 24 Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. The first century church experienced wave after wave of the Holy Spirit There is one infilling, but many re-fillings Every Time You Pray Out In The Spirit, The Spirit Of God Is Flowing Through You, Or Filling You This Refreshing From The Holy Spirit Is Another Wave Of His Glory Ephesians 5:18-20 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 3:19 19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, Times: Kairos (kahee-ros'); of uncertain affinity; an occasion, i.e. set or proper time, Season Refreshing: anapsuxis (an-aps'-ook-sis); a recovery of breath, i.e. (figuratively) revival: Affinity: Relationship by marriage. An attraction to or liking of something. Our Affinity toward God is our connection to something definite in His time. Based on Acts 3:19 it is stated that after a man has repented, there will be times or seasons of reviving breath or revival from God, based on our relationship with God. In Other Words, Another Wave Comments are closed.
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AuthorPastor Dave White is Senior Pastor of WOLCC, founded in April of 1995. Archives
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