A Whole lot of Shaking going on

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A Whole lot of Shaking going on

• Getting Focusin a Shaky World!
• Acts 423-35
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Today is Pentecost Sunday

• The Day the Church Recognizes afresh the Advent
  of the Spirit as the fulfillment of Gods New
  covenant Promises among us.
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Getting our Wind

• We read the first 6 chapters of Acts somewhat
  casually I fear
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• In fact Scripture indicates that as we approach
  the Last days before Christs return the His
  Spirit explosions ratchet up rather than slow
  down.
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We cannot be Who Christ is calling us to be
without His Spirit empowerment

• Jesus instructions
• Luke 2449 I am going to send you what my Father
  has promised but stay in the city until you
  have been clothed with power from on high
• Acts 18 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

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Catching their breath

• The Day of Pentecost outpouring among them had
  changed everythingnow they were living in 3D
  and full blown resurrection power.
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A Breaker miracle occurs Acts 3

• A man born crippled who had been a mainstay at
  the temple Gate beautiful as a beggarwas healed
  through the Power of the Spirit in Peter and
  John.

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Now the Shaky part comes in Acts 4

• Acts 43 They seized Peter and John, and because
  it was evening, they put them in jail until the
  next day.

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How do we function in a Shakylast days world?

• The picture of a functioning Last Days Church
  full of the Spirit and Power... standing against
  the shaky times

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Text Acts 423-35  

• 23 On their release, Peter and John went back to
  their own people and reported all that the chief
  priests and elders had said to them. 24 When they
  heard this, they raised their voices together in
  prayer to God. Sovereign Lord, they said, you
  made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and
  everything in them.

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Acts 425-26

• 25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth
  of your servant, our father David Why do the
  nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
  26 The kings of the earth take their stand and
  the rulers gather together against the Lord and
  against his Anointed One.

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Acts 427-28

• 27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together
  with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in
  this city to conspire against your holy servant
  Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your
  power and will had decided beforehand should
  happen.

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Acts 429-30

• 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.

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Acts 431

• 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.
  

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Acts 432-33

• 32 All the believers were one in heart and mind.
  No one claimed that any of his possessions was
  his own, but they shared everything they had. 33
  With great power the apostles continued to
  testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus,
  and much grace was upon them all.

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Acts 434-35

• 34 There were no needy persons among them. For
  from time to time those who owned lands or houses
  sold them, brought the money from the sales 35
  and put it at the apostles feet, and it was
  distributed to anyone as he had need.

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Satan wants to stop the Advance of the church!

• Satan will tell you this Holy Spirit thing is not
  for you.
• Satan will tell you that the Baptism of the
  Spirit is divisive.
• Satan will attempt to hide this power dimension
  from the Church of Jesus Christ so that she
  relies only on her own abilities.

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Gods Dream over His You His Church

• A Restored Relationship with the Father, through
  Jesus Christ.
• His purposes flowing out of our lives, by an
  Every Day Empowerment, in the power of the Holy
  Spirit.

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What do you do when life gets shaky

• Realize that Heaven is waiting on us with
  Promise!
• Waiting for us to unleash His Promise in prayer 
• Waiting for us to step into our New authority
• Waiting for us to understand our New position
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What do you do when life gets shaky

• II. Rely upon Our God who is the Sovereign Lord
  of the Universe vv. 24-28
• The subject of their prayers
• Getting Heavens perspective of our situation
  (God working in all this stuff)!
• Placing it all in His hands
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What do you do when life gets shaky

• III. Ask for More of His Empowering Presence
  vv. 29-30
• Getting Heavens perspective of our situation
  (God working in all this stuff)!
• Placing it all in His hands
• Boldly ask for His Supernatural Presence to flood
  us.
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Enable your servants to Speak Your Word boldly

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• A Word that has Supernatural Authority and Power
  in Jesus Name.
• Stretch out Your hand to heal and perform
  miraculous signs and wonders through the Name of
  Your Holy Servant Jesus.

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Have you wondered if miraculous is for today???

• Have you wondered if Jesus wants to do today what
  He did while here on earth here is Your answer!
  
• The Key to this boldness was the Power of the
  Spirit of the Living God flowing in them
• They discovered a secret to life changing
  authority Spirit Fullness.

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The Expectation of their prayer  

• Signs and wondersa part of Speaking Boldly
• Healing and miracles Speaking Boldly
• All the Gifts of the Spirit flowing through the
  life of the Church, its leaders and people.
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Marks of a Church badly in need of The Promise.

• A people who have little zeal for God and much
  attraction to the things of this world.
• A people who have lost their first love.
• A people who spend little time in prayer and do
  not love the Word of God.
• A people who have little boldness in witness
• A place and a people just like you and me!
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Gods Answer to their prayer

• Vs. 31 After they prayed, the place where they
  were meeting was shaken. And they were filled
  with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God
  boldly.

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Gods Answer to their prayer

• His light touch
•  God just slightly ever so lightly touched the
  ground near the place where the church was
  praying. WHY????
• God is more interested in filling us with His
  power than we have imagined.
• God delights in demonstrating His glory to an
  expectant people
• Heaven Waits on us.

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Gods Answer to their prayer

• The church is largely unaware of Gods deep
  desire to Shake the place
• God moves into uncomfortable
• God sovereignly Moved infilling them with
  Himself

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Gods Answer to prayer

• 31b And they were filled with the Holy Spirit
  and spoke the word of God boldly.
• On the Day of Pentecost Wind, Fire and Explosive
  Sign gift called Speaking in other tongues.

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Gods Answer to Prayer

• A second Pentecost Building shaking evidence
  and again a BOLDNESS rose up among them
• The Results. (Initial evidence Substantial
  Evidence)

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The Impact of Pentecost .

• Spoke the Word of God boldly with all its
  elements..
• Supernatural Signs and Wonders..healings
  miracles.
• A Unity produced in them because of surrender to
  the Spirit of God operative among them.. vs. 32

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The Impact of Pentecost .

• A graciousness of Heart and Faithexpressed in
  unusual love being expressed in a communal
  sharing of resources, time and life.
• Power in witness and power in testimony
• Much grace a deep settled peace and
  supernatural trust that eliminated human
  distorting desires and sin.

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The Spirit comes to dwell in His people and not
just come on them.

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• The work of the Holy Spirit is a distinctive
  blessing of the New Age Jeremiah 3133-34

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A Relationship not just an Experience

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• A promise which all believers are made to
  participate and drink of the Holy Spirit
• The Baptism is a continual appropriation of
  Spirit life, a saturation of the Holy Spirit in
  the inner being so that Rivers of Living water
  continuously flow (John 737-39)
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Spirit Baptism is all about empowerment

• Living in the Life of God
• Staying in Step with the Spirit

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Christs disciples felt the need for renewal and
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• The church never outgrows the need for a Renewed
  Encounter and Surrender to Gods empowering
  Presence

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Who is this Holy Spirit ?

• He is the third person of the Godhead, sent by
  Jesus to be our friend, guide, empowering
  Presence.
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This Promise is not

• Obsolete, Outdated, Unsophisticated or
  Overwhelmed by the technology and knowledge of
  the 21st Century!
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Today is Pentecost Sunday and Heaven is waiting
on us.

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How to receive the Holy Spirit.!

• John 737-38
• On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus
  stood and said in a loud voice, If anyone is
  thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever
  believes in me, as the Scripture has said,
  streams of living water will flow from within
  him.
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Actual Steps to Receiving

• Be thirsty.
• Come unto me Jesus!
• You are allowed to drink
• Release the Outflow out of your bellies will
  flow the Living Water