The engine in your car is its power source, and it\u2019s activated when you put the car in gear. Only then do you have the momentum you need to get where you need to go. One of the dangers in seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit is that you can reduce it to an \u2018experience\u2019, rather than \u2018putting it in gear\u2019 to accomplish great things for God. <\/p>\n
In the New Testament when someone was filled with the Holy Spirit\u2014things happened. People turned to Christ. Healings took place. On one occasion, they had a book-burning in the town square (see\u00a0Acts\u00a019:19). They didn\u2019t just celebrate in church\u2014they took it to the streets! In Scripture, the first picture we have of God is of Him in His creative role. He creates us in His image, breathes life into us, then tells us, \u2018Go out and become productive.\u2019 (See Genesis 1:28.) <\/p>\n
If you\u2019re praying for someone with all the answers to come along and change your circumstances, it won\u2019t happen. You\u2019re not a helpless bystander. What God has placed inside you will change what\u2019s outside you\u2014provided you put it to work! What\u2019s within you is greater than the trouble you have been through, the situation you\u2019re in, or the obstacles that lie in your path. When everything around you is saying no<\/i> and something within you is saying yes<\/i>, that\u2019s \u2018God\u2026 working in you to make you willing and able to obey Him.\u2019<\/i> The \u2018willing\u2019<\/i> is your part; the \u2018able\u2019<\/i> is His part. <\/p>\n
When you get those two things working in sync, your life will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The engine in your car is its power source, and it\u2019s activated when you put the car in gear. Only then do you have the momentum you need to get where you need to go. One of the dangers in seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit is that you can reduce it to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}