Just came back from a full Holy Spirit charged prayer meeting!
you should have been there! what a great start to the year. just spending time dedicating to God, praying for our year and speaking faith into the days to come!
These lyrics were just so ministering and so apt. The more we sing it, the more we speak of our desire to be seek His face in this time!
If you missed the prayer meeting or you want pastor's slides, here it is:
Results of being filled with the Spirit:
1. Witness
Act 1:8 But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
The Bible say the Holy Spirit come upon us so that we shall be witnesses of the Gospel. Let's start by praying for the Holy Spirit to fill us and let's pray that we will be witnesses. Pray for every name that comes to your mind - that you will be witness to this person!
2. Prophecy and Vision
Act 2:17 "And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
Let's pray that the anointing of the prophetic will be upon us. Awaken our spirit to the revelation from God.
3. Spoke the Word of God with boldness
Act 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness.
Lay hands on your lips or mouth as you pray that out of your mouth will come the Word of God with boldness!
4. Wisdom
Act 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
Pray for God's wisdom to be upon your Life Group leaders. Speak wisdom into them!
5. Guidance
Act 8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join yourself to this chariot.
Pray for God's guidance into every area of our life. Commit to Him every parts of life - our career, office, school, business, time, schedule, finance, thoughts... let God's guidance leads it!
6. Miraculous
Act 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and He went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the Devil, for God was with Him.
Let's pray for the miraculous in us and through us!
7. Prevent from stepping out of God’s Will
Act 16:6 And coming through the Phrygian and the Galatian region; and by the Holy Spirit being forbidden to speak the Word in Asia; Act 16:7 having come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia. But the Spirit did not allow them.
The Holy Spirit not just provide but He also protects us. When God shuts a door, He knows what's better for us. Let's pray for ourselves as we obey God and pray for the Holy Spirit to leads us into God's will.
8. Discerning the Lord’s heart
Act 17:16 But awaiting them in Athens, Paul's spirit was pained within him, seeing the city full of idols.
Act 18:5 And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
And pray that we will be sensitive to discern the Lord's heart this year. Pray for your every month. Speak what you want to see in January, February, March... til December!
A year start right is a year start with God.
Persevere and continue to fast and delibrate seek God's face!