Fire & Wind: A Summer of Renewal // Greater Things
Fire & Wind: A Summer of Renewal // Greater Things
Pastor Charlie Weir
Holy Spirit Foundations
The Holy Spirit is God. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit (One God eternally existing in three persons)
The Holy Spirit is a person not an impersonal force.
The Holy Spirit is a gift.
The Holy Spirit is a New Power for a new life.
The Holy Spirit fuels a new purpose for this new life.
The more we understand and embrace the Holy Spirit’s role and activity in our lives the more transformed and transformational we become.
Living for ourselves, striving for our own dreams, on our own path, in our own power, proves over and over again to NOT fulfill the longing deep inside of us. The two principal things we strive so hard to attain are security and significance.
Security and Significance are found in a ...
fresh relationship with Christ
shaped in a community of faith
living our lives with Real Purpose.
Faith for Greater
John 14:12-17 (Amplified). 12 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, anyone who believes in Me [as Savior] will also do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these [in extent and outreach], because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in My name [as My representative], this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified and celebrated in the Son. 14 If you ask Me anything in My name [as My representative], I will do it. 15 “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
Being in relationship with Jesus is where we find our security. Doing the things of Jesus is where we find our significance. This is what we were built and empowered for.
Acts 3:1-10 (NIV)
The infilling presence of Holy Spirit gives you faith for greater!
God’s Operational Mission Plan
Leadership + Co-Mission + Power + Opportunity = Life
Big Idea #1
I will discover more life when I step into opportunities with faith for greater things.
Acts 4:1-14
The only way to proclaim the message of Christ in a culture hostile to absolutes, especially spiritual ones, requires a supernatural boldness that can only come from spending time with Jesus!
“A person with an experience is never at the mercy at a person with an argument.” Leonard Ravenhill.
Big Idea #2
I will discover more life when I step into opportunities with faith for greater things and a bold witness.
Acts 4:15-22 (Amplified)
Acts 4:29-31 (Amplified)
Big Idea #3
I will discover more life when I step into opportunities with faith for greater, a bold witness and confidence to continue regardless the opposition!
Holy Spirit...
Grow my faith for greater things.
Make me into a bolder witness
Give me the confidence to continue and not back down.