Acts 1:8
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Power! The power to do. The power to change. Supernatural power. Not the power of the world. It is not the power of position, recognition, wealth, or as many today may think politics.
The power of the Christian is supernatural. It is the power of God Himself. It is knowing God resides in the life of each believer. The power of the Christians life is experiencing the presence of God living in his life. The power of God living in the believer’s life is knowing nothing else is needed to fulfill God’s purpose for one’s life.
The power of God is humbling power. It is knowing whatever was desired before, those things of this world, are not important. They are only temporary fixations of diversion keeping the follower of Christ from truly experiencing the fulness of God’s presence.
The power of God is filling to overflowing. True believers, those who have accepted Christ, those who are followers of Christ no longer crave the things of this world. Once the believer realizes the power of God, he is completely or as one put it, “is supremely fulfilled, and satisfied.”
Experiencing the presence and power of God within one’s life is the summit, the supreme experience of one’s life. Nothing else is ever needed. It is this for which the human heart craves, and once God’s Spirit truly dwells within a person, that person is supremely fulfilled and satisfied.
There is a cost. In Luke 9:23 Jesus says, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Following Jesus cannot be accomplished without the power of the Holy Spirit. True followers of Christ receive God’s Spirit in them at the time of receiving Christ as Savior.
So, why do so many professing Christians sit idly by and continue to live for the world and not Christ? The end of a once great nation is at hand.
Isaiah writes:
4 Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.
5 Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.
7 YOUR COUNTRY IS DESOLATE, YOUR CITIES ARE BURNED WITH FIRE; STRANGERS DEVOUR YOUR LAND IN YOUR PRESENCE; AND IT IS DESOLATE, AS OVERTHROWN BY STRANGERS. “Isaiah 1:4–7”
Outside of God there is no power to overcome evil. Acts 1:8 “But you shall receive power WHEN…”