What Jesus told the disciples to wait for was more than what we understand as ‘energy’, or ‘power’. The Greek word used in the text of Luke has the sense also of ‘ability’, ‘strength’, ‘confidence’.
The biggest issues that face us are not those of raw power. What often cripples us as witnesses and servants of God is a lack of confidence, a sense of insecurity. A lack of conviction that God really loves us.
It is interesting that when Pentecostal power came to the believers, it was to bring them into a closer and deeper intimacy with God. A sense of closeness and confidence in His love, that released them into ecstatic praise of God.
Let us look and yearn for this. For a Pentecostal visitation that we will ‘tarry’, look and wait for, in coming days and weeks and months if need be. Let us look for it singly, in families, in groups and as congregation together. Let testimonies be shared of what God is doing in our lives, as confidence grows and abilities are discovered and uncovered, new and renewed.
People taught, enabled and empowered by the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name.
The biggest issues that face us are not those of raw power. What often cripples us as witnesses and servants of God is a lack of confidence, a sense of insecurity. A lack of conviction that God really loves us.
It is interesting that when Pentecostal power came to the believers, it was to bring them into a closer and deeper intimacy with God. A sense of closeness and confidence in His love, that released them into ecstatic praise of God.
Let us look and yearn for this. For a Pentecostal visitation that we will ‘tarry’, look and wait for, in coming days and weeks and months if need be. Let us look for it singly, in families, in groups and as congregation together. Let testimonies be shared of what God is doing in our lives, as confidence grows and abilities are discovered and uncovered, new and renewed.
People taught, enabled and empowered by the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name.
