Mo Power - Mas Poder

Mo’ Power: The Power to Be Delivered, To Overcome, and to Testify Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis, p. 24

I. By His Indwelling Holy Spirit

A. W HAT ’ S UP ? The Spirit of God dwells in us, Eph. 1.13; Rom 8.9; 1 Cor. 3.16-17

Acts 2.33 – Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

B. B REAK IT DOWN ! The Spirit is God’s gift to us, to be with us, John 14.16-17

John 14:16-17 (ESV) – 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

C. C HECK THIS OUT . Greater is he who is in us that the one in the world, 1 John 4.4.

1 John 4.4 (ESV) – Little children, you are from God and have overcome them , for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world .

D. M AKE IT P LAIN . The Spirit empowers us to overcome in our Christian walk

Subdues our sin nature , Gal. 5.16-23

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Produces fruit in our character (ibid)

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3. Imparts love , hope, knowledge, grace, Rom. 5.3-5;15.13; John 14.26-27

John 15.26 (ESV) – But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth , who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.