Bethel Church LJ Podcast

It is through partnership with the Holy Spirit, in submitting to God and to His rule and reign in our lives that we are able to root out the lies that have given the enemy access, and evict the enemy from that place where he sought to bring influence. 

The ultimate goal of the apostles was to see those who joined themselves to the Lord become like Him. We can never fulfill the Great Commission by just declaringJesus as Savior; He must be Lord of all,or He is not Lord at all.

What we see in the Bible is that the normal Christian experience was to be baptized with the Spirit and to continually be filled with the Spirit that you may be equipped with power to fulfill the purposes of God in and through your life.

Even if you began a good work, the work of God, but have somehow fallen short, you, like Abram, like the NT church of Acts, can still get back on track and allow God to work through you to fulfill His purpose for your lives.

What we see in the Bible is that the normal Christian experience was to be baptized with the Spirit and to continually be filled with the Spirit. It was not a suggested experience, nor was it a one-time experience. It was a continual, empowering experience to them, and so should it be to us.

It is the normal Christian experience to be baptized with the Spirit and to continually be filled with the Spirit that we might be empowered by the Spirit of God.  It you are a believer, this empowering is for you.

We whom are tasked with the prophetic grace of seeing and hearing and intercession, are to help carry the burdens of the children of God, and strengthen those who are weak, and protect the lives of those whom we are responsible for by taking what we see and hear and bringing God’s will to save, not to condemn to those within our charge even at the risk of our own safety, and reputation.

In Christ, by means of His work not he Cross, the original purpose of mankind was restored which was to fill the earth with he way of God.  Jesus summed it up brilliantly in His model prayer:  Your kingdom come, Your will be don, on earth as it is in heaven!

The gifts of the Spirit that flow from the outpouring of the Spirit, although different in their functions, all flow from the same Spirit and serve to bring us together and build us up as the body of Christ as we all work together for the betterment of the whole.

Nehemiah is a type of the Holy Spirit and what that should reveal to us is that the Holy Spirit is about bringing the work of building the Church to fruition. For the work to be accomplished, it requires the participation of all the people of God.