I want to welcome you to the Quality Christian
Living Podcast. I am your host, David Friend.
Today's podcast is entitled, Holy Spirit, Faith
and Power. We're going to discover how the Holy
Spirit brings a powerful amount of faith and
power to our life. And we'll learn from the life
of Stephen, who we'll read about in the book
of Acts. We'll better understand how faith and
power come from the Holy Spirit, and finally,
how we can be filled with the Spirit each and
every day of our lives. I know God's got some
great plans for us, but let's go to the Lord
first in prayer. Heavenly Father, I thank you
for the opportunity, once again, to bring this
podcast to those who are listening literally
around the world. We pray now you would bless
them, and I pray that you would anoint this podcast,
and I submit to you, and I ask the Holy Spirit
to take complete control, take charge, about
to speak about today. The topic is the Holy Spirit,
so therefore, we need you. we seek you. We need
your guidance and direction. I pray you would
bless this and that those who are listening in
would receive something very special today. Holy
Spirit, may you open up our hearts to receive
directly from you. I pray that you would guide
every thought, every comment, the reading of
each scripture and that your name would be blessed
and we just give you thanks for it. We ask now
that those who are listening in would receive
exactly what they're looking for and only you
can accomplish that. So we'd be careful to give
you the praise and glory for what's about to
take place and I with these things now in Jesus
name I pray amen this has been a very exciting
series for me and a lot of people are calling
me people are texting me I've had emails that
they're being blessed by it and being touched
by it so I just thank the Lord for that because
when we talk about the Holy Spirit we talk about
the greatest power that's ever been written about
and when we read the Word of God we have to always
remember that every word in the Word of God has
been inspired by the Holy Spirit for those who
wrote it so I hope you're ready to hear what
the Holy Spirit does to give us faith and how
he does that and how he gives us power in our
prayer times, power in our walk with God, power
to live that life that God wants us to live.
For the Holy Spirit to help us increase our faith
and experience His power, we must be filled with
the Spirit. Let's look at a man who was filled
with the Holy Spirit. The Apostles needed help.
to serve the growing church. They were outnumbered
by people and there was so much going on they
needed people to serve other people so that the
apostles could spend time preparing the Word
of God and ministering to people one -on -one.
So they decided to recruit others. It says in
Acts chapter 6 and verse 5, there were seven
who were chosen and one of them was named Stephen.
So they picked out seven men who were there to
be probably the first deacons that we've ever
heard of in the church. Then in Acts chapter
6 and verse 8 in the New Living translation.
It says this, Stephen, a man full of God's grace
and power performed amazing miracles and signs
among the peoples. Now the thing that I like
about that scripture, I mean there's a lot about
it, but that particular verse puts two things
together that a lot of people don't, I think,
understand. And that is this man was full of
God's grace, it said at first, and power to perform
amazing miracles. So when you put that together,
a lot of people say, well, grace and power, do
they go together? Absolutely. God has incredible
grace for each and every one of us, unlimited
grace for us, and he has the ability to have
the greatest power and does have the greatest
power that man has ever seen. God is omnipotent,
omniscient, and omnipresent. God is God. But
Stephen was filled, or full of God's grace and
power so that he was able to do amazing miracles.
and signs among the people. So therefore the
Holy Spirit blessed him and gave him these gifts.
In upcoming podcasts we're going to talk about
the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the
Spirit and we're going to talk about how the
Holy Spirit gives gifts to people in whom he
chooses who to give them to. It's his choice,
it's his selection, if you will, to let those
gifts come down upon people. So Stephen was an
ordinary man. Now that's so important to this
teaching because we're all ordinary people. Stephen
was an ordinary man that the Holy Spirit made
supernatural. And that can happen to us. We can
literally be transformed by the power of the
Holy Spirit. We're transformed when we become
followers of Jesus Christ. We become slaves to
sin before we receive Christ but then we're set
free of that and we become a new person. The
Bible says a new creation we become so therefore
Stephen was a new creation and an ordinary man
who didn't understand the Holy Spirit and didn't
understand what the supernatural was but he became
what he didn't understand was possible and that
he was filled and full of the Holy Spirit and
worked in supernatural ways. He was selected
to be a deacon. I mentioned deacon earlier but
really he was. He was selected to be a deacon
in the two new church in Jerusalem. Now most
theologians call Stephen the first Christian
martyr. That means the first one to be killed
for his faith and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Stephen was filled with faith and the Holy Spirit.
When you read through chapter 6 and chapter 7
about the life of Stephen and what he went through
and the accusations that came up against him,
he had to be filled with the Holy Spirit. But
while that was going through that, Stephen loved
serving other people. He was filled with grace.
That scripture said, remember, filled with God's
grace and power to perform miracles. Well, he
was a servant and he got the attention of God
because he was a servant, because he loved people
and he wanted to help other people. He wanted
to help the apostles build a great church and
so he served. And many of you out there who are
going to churches, I hope that you'll examine
yourself and say, am I really serving where God
wants me to serve? Am I doing what I should do
in my local church to help that church grow?
Can I possibly be someone like Stephen who's
filled with the Holy Spirit? Well, the way you
become filled with the Holy Spirit and we'll
get into that in just a moment. One key step
is that we need to think of others as being more
important than ourself. We need to learn how
to love other people and to serve other people.
Now Stephen is famous because of his verbal attacks.
on the religious, non -Christian leaders of the
day. He preached about Jesus being the Messiah,
and because of that he was accused of blasphemy.
He had a trial that was a mock retrial. It was
just a mock trial. It was fake and phony because
the people had nothing against Stephen. They
just had everything against Jesus, against these
Christians, about followers of Jesus Christ.
And Stephen was bold enough to tell them that
they were wrong. They were wrong in God's sight,
had rejected Jesus, and therefore Jesus is the
one that his accusers hated, and so therefore
they accused him of the very thing that they
were doing. They were accusing him of blasphemy,
turning against God, and therefore they plan
to stone him to death. So Stephen was stoned
to death. And during that stoning, two very powerful
moments took place. It's so important that we
understand that because we go through trials.
I'm sure everybody out there right now is going
through some kind of a trial or a difficult thing
that you're going through. You're facing some
circumstances you really don't want. You want
them out of your life. Trials happen. We have
to look to God, the author and the finisher of
our faith, and he is our source. He's a very
present help in times of trouble. So Stephen
knew that because he knew what was going to happen
because that's how They talked about people when
they didn't like them or they disagreed with
them. They wanted to stone them to death. A moment
ago, I said that there were two very important
things that took place. Well, let me share those
with you. First one was about a man named Saul
of Tarsus. He stood by and supported the murdering
of Stephen. Saul later became the apostle Paul.
The other major event in that stoning is recorded
in Acts chapter seven, verse 59 in the New Living
Translation. Here's what it says, as they stoned
him, Stephen, prayed Lord Jesus receive my spirit
and in verse 60 he fell to his knees shouting
and Lord don't charge them with this sin and
with that he died now does that sound familiar
or what remember at the crucifixion Jesus said
Jesus said forgive them for they know not what
they're doing and so Stephen while he was being
stoned was so full of the Holy Spirit so filled
with the power of God they looked up to heaven
and said they don't know what they're doing so
please don't count this against them and I just
I just think that is just an amazing example
of how we can deal with the challenges we face
in our life. Now I'm not saying we're going to
be stoned. I'm not going to say we go through
what Stephen went through or what Jesus went
through. What I'm saying is when we're in the
midst of the battle, let's not let the battle
drag us down to lose our faith. Let's have the
battle increase our faith, increase our trust
in God so that while we're going through something,
we'll be focusing on what we're going to go to.
We want to look forward to that. future, to what's
going to take place, for the potential that God
has, for the ability he has, and what God is
going to take us through. In order to do that,
we've got to have Holy Spirit faith and Holy
Spirit power. I can't continue this podcast without
reading something that is so incredible when
it comes to understanding the power that Stephen
had in his life. I just can't leave this alone.
It's found in the book of Acts chapter 7, and
I think it's verse 55, and it says, but Stephen,
full of the Holy Spirit, gave He's steadily into
heaven. Hear the word steadily. He didn't take
his eyes off of Jesus and saw the glory of God
and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor
at God's right hand. In the middle of the battle,
he kept his eyes on Jesus. Boy, we all need that.
Let me just pray right now. I just feel the Holy
Spirit all over me right now. Heavenly Father,
I pray for those who are going through the battle
right now, Lord, they'll put their eyes on Jesus.
They'll look up into the heavens and see Jesus
is there with his hand extended saying, I'll
never leave you or forsake you. I'll always be
there for you. I'm always going to be at your
side. So Heavenly Father, help those going through
difficulties right now that their eyes will be
off the difficulties and on their Savior, their
Redeemer, their Lord, and so they can handle
anything that's thrown at them because Jesus
is there to strengthen them, to help them, and
carry them through. And I'll thank you for that
in advance. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Just
one more little thought. Look at what Stephen
experienced, but because of him being full of
the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. He never
took his eyes off of Jesus. I pray that you're
receiving this in the way that it's intended
that the Holy Spirit is helping you to give you
strength where you need it. Think about this
for a second. When we are full of the Holy Spirit,
our faith becomes supernatural. That's powerful.
That's amazing. We operate in what we read about
in Romans chapter 8 and verse 27. And he who
searches our heart knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for God's people
in accordance with the will of God. We operate
according to the will of God. We operate in the
will of God. We operate in the power of the Holy
Spirit and the strength of the Holy Spirit and
the faith that the Holy Spirit helps us to have
and shows us that we can have. from one realm
of faith to a whole new realm of faith. When
Jesus talked about having great faith, He talked
about people who just did not allow their circumstances
to rob them of what God was taking them to, what
God wanted to bring into their life. You know,
God knows the mind of His Spirit operating in
us, obviously, because He is part of the Godhead.
He's part of the triune God, God the Father,
God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. So therefore,
God knows the mind of the Holy Spirit who is
in us. That is what takes us into the supernatural.
I know that might sound a little heavy to you,
but that's what the Word of God tells us. It
teaches us that. So how do we become full of
the Holy Spirit? Well, first of all, we need
to be witnesses of the things that have happened
good in our life. And we need to be witnesses
to the goodness of God, the power of God. the
forgiveness of God, the life that we used to
live now has changed to the life that we're living
today. And we can be full of the Holy Spirit
when we recognize that we're witnesses of what
God has done in our life. Listen to Ephesians
chapter 5 and verse 18. It says here, do not
get drunk with wine because that will ruin your
life. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. That means
we need to live a life filled with seeking a
closer walk with God, a life filled with the
goodness of God, a life of prayer. a life of
meditation, thinking on the things of God, a
life of praying in the Spirit, a life of praying
without ceasing, which simply means, that doesn't
mean you... non -stop pray 24 hours a day, you
have to sleep. But obviously, to pray without
ceasing means that when we're conscious, when
we're awake, our whole life needs to be focused
on, I can do that because God will help me go
through that. I know that all things are possible
because of what Jesus has done in my life and
because of his power and his strength. That is
really praying in the spirit. We need to have
the word of God so in our heart that when anything
that we do comes up, we have a scripture to match
that. We have a scripture that takes that. When
I was challenged in my life on various different
occasions. I always found it so important to
say, trust in the Lord with all my heart, lean
not on my own understanding and all my ways acknowledge
him and he direct my path. That's Proverbs 3
.5. I quote that over and over again because
I say that every day in my life. No matter what
I'm facing, before I go to bed, I have to say
that. Before I go to bed, I have to remind myself
about what Paul wrote in Philippians. He says,
to be anxious for nothing but everything through
prayers, petitions with thanksgiving, make your
Let me get back to the question, how do we become
full of the Holy Spirit? Here's a scripture,
I think, that just hits the nail on the head,
so to speak. In Acts chapter 5 and verse 32 it
says this, God gives the Holy Spirit to those
who obey and surrender. to Him. Now, if you're
saying, I don't know if I have the Holy Spirit
guiding me and leading me, well then we might
want to evaluate whether we're listening to Him,
obeying God, and surrendering to Him, because
He wants the Holy Spirit to operate on us. Now,
when you become a Christian, when you receive
Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and in
the prior podcast I prayed for people to... Receive
Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior to ask for
forgiveness of their sins and when they did that
with a sincere heart and they and they prayed
that prayer and asked Jesus in their life the
Holy Spirit came to dwell inside of them and
that's wonderful and that's how it is for all
of us but in order for the Holy Spirit to work
in our lives and to guide us and for us to be
filled with the Holy Spirit and operate in the
Holy Spirit we have to obey and surrender to
God and it's not that hard to do as long as we
just wake up in the morning and maybe just Start
off with a me and say, Lord, thank you that it's
morning. Thank God that morning is here. And
I'm just going to ask for you to guide and direct
me. It can be as simple as that. We can just
say, thank you, Lord, for this day. Anything
to be positive and encouraging and uplifting
to your spirit to encourage yourself in the Lord
and give him credit for the blessings that he's
putting in your life. So we've got to be encouraged.
by the Holy Spirit who lives and dwells inside
of us. It's so hard for me to talk to people
who are Christians. They love the Lord. I mean,
they're good people. They love the Lord. They
go to church all the time. They give their finances
to the Lord. They help people. They bring their
family or friends to church. And they're just
really great people. But sometimes when you ask
them, how are you doing? How are things going
in your life? Some of their responses are, well,
I'm getting by. I'm just making it. I'm still
breathing. I'm still above ground. And they make
those kinds of statements. that grieves the Holy
Spirit. If we walk around saying, well, I'm still
breathing and that's how I'm getting by, that's
really not much of a confession of what Jesus
has done in our life. When we ask, how are we
doing, if you have nothing else to say, just
say, I'm blessed. And when the other person's
looking at you, they hear that out of you, it
touches them, it changes them. And so in order
to walk in the Spirit and have that kind of faith
and increase faith and power in our... prayer
life and power and our trust in God, we've got
to claim the good things of God and the promises
of God and say, I'm blessed in Jesus' name. Now,
here's another question a lot of people have
asked me over the years. How do we receive greater
faith and power? I've talked a lot about it,
give you scriptures about it, but some might
say, well, that's all good and those are great
scriptures. I know I'm supposed to obey the Lord
and all those good things, but give me some specifics.
So let me just give you a few things I think
the Holy Spirit has given me to share with you
about how we can really receive greater faith,
that means greater prayer life, and power in
our life. Number one, study the scriptures. Get
the word of God out and study the scriptures
that talk about faith. Talk about the scriptures
that talk about power. power, and put those into
your heart and mind. Remember one or two of them,
and they'll help you understand how to receive
greater faith and power. Another way is to pray
daily. At least some time of our day, whether
it's two minutes or two hours, spend some time
every single day in prayer. I just can't imagine
going to sleep at night without praying. I can't
imagine not eating a meal and not praying. I
can't imagine not taking time during the day
sometime and pray for the needs of other people
I know that are hurting. And please forgive me
if you think I'm patting myself on the back because
I'm really not because I get challenged I get
times when I don't feel like praying but I pray
anyways I don't feel like praying certain scriptures
or whatever but I pray them anyways because I
find out if I do that if I do that I know that
I'll get the attention of God and I know that
he'll be pleased with that so the first thing
I said to do in order to receive greater faith
and power was to study the Word of God two is
to pray daily another one is to seek God's presence
now how do we do that we seek God's presence
by worshiping Him by singing songs of worship.
When you get into your car, put Christian music
on. Not just all the time, but put Christian
music on and it'll lift up your spirit. Have
Christian music playing in your home. Go to church
and get there for the worship time and the sermon
time. You know many times when I would preach
that people would come in and I would see them
coming in while worship is going on and they're
missing part of the worship time. That's an important
part of the service is to be there for the worship
time. That way we're drawing closer to God. We're
together in unity, lifting up the Lord, giving
his praise. The Bible says to enter his courts
with thanksgiving. We should give thanks in our
worship time. And so we've got to seek God's
presence, and we do that by singing to him, by
worshiping him, by listening to wonderful, godly
music, and get that into our heart. Another way
is to serve other people is a way to receive
greater faith and power. That's what Stephen
did. Remember it said that he had great power
because he was a man who served others and he
had great grace because he served other people
and he had great faith and all that because of
the fact that he put other people above himself.
He wanted to help them. He wanted to serve them.
Jesus did that. He came to serve. Jesus came
to this earth and all he did just went around
serving people, healing people, praying for people,
encouraging people, blessing people. And when
he was challenged, he took authority over them
in the name of Jesus. He did. But bottom line,
Jesus was a servant and he served other people
and we need to do that so to repeat that very
quickly how do we receive greater faith and power
read the scriptures pray daily get into God's
presence through worship and serve other people
I've heard this question many times how can we
be full of faith well faith has several components
one is trust another is patience another is not
to be anxious and to stop worrying Stephen was
so full of faith and the Holy Spirit that even
when he was being stoned he Focused only on Jesus.
He was so full of faith that his eyes never wanted
to go off of Jesus I know there's challenges
in our life and I have a lot of challenges. I'm
currently the pastor over Congregational care
and daily. I mean seven days a week. I hear I
get calls I get texts I get emails about people
who are hurting and and they're challenging sometimes
sometimes I feel like maybe I'd like to have
a little rest from that but when that comes in
we've got to pray Sharon and I will stop and
we'll just see God will pray for I need the comes
in because we know that God will be pleased with
that. I know there's distractions in life and
I know it's difficult sometimes to be full of
faith and be full of the Holy Spirit but Stephen
found a way to do that and that's a beautiful
example because remember what I said he was an
ordinary man who became super ordinary, super
natural I said because of his faith and because
of his trust in God and because he wanted to
walk in the Spirit and the power of God. I guess
I need to start wrapping this up. Time is going
fast. The Holy Spirit helps our faith and gives
us power when we work together with those who
love God and desire to do His will. Listen to
that. When we work with other people, that means
we go to church with them, we pray with them,
we help them in their needs, and we volunteer
to be a part of a local church and to minister
to other people and reach out to other people.
That's when we can sense the power of the Holy
Spirit helping us and increasing our faith and
giving us power. You know, when you help someone
else, you're helping yourself. A lot of people
don't realize that, and many, many people do.
Many realize when you help someone else, it just
feels good, doesn't it? When I was a little kid,
I was a greedy little kid. I just wanted every
everything from Christmas and I didn't really
care if anybody else got anything and I was just
terrible and I'm so thankful that God took that
away from me as I grew up and when I found Jesus
Christ as my Lord and Savior all of a sudden
He started showing me that when I helped other
people and I made sure that they got what they
needed that He would take care of me and give
me what I needed. And so therefore when we're
around wonderful people that need help and people
that are loving and people that are not even
loving people, just simply people that we need
to help, we will be blessed. we will increase
our faith and we'll increase the power and our
trust in God to do mighty things in our life
and we are then walking in the Spirit and full
the Holy Spirit when we help others. The Holy
Spirit has the same amount of unlimited power
as God the Father. We've got to remember who
the Holy Spirit is. He is everything. And it's
not an it. I've heard people say, the Holy Spirit,
it this and it that. No, no, no, no. No, the
Holy Spirit is not an it. The Holy Spirit is
a person. It's the third person in the triune
God. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy
Spirit, three in one. We have one God that we
serve, not three gods. If we desire to live an
overcoming life, we've got to understand the
power, the unlimited that the Holy Spirit has.
So if we want to live that life that's overcoming
and abundant and Spirit -led, then we must have
a goal to walk in the Spirit and be full of the
Holy Spirit like Stephen was. And I keep throwing
Stephen up, I guess more than anything else,
is because he's just an ordinary guy. He was
just a normal person. But when the Spirit of
God filled him to overflowing, he became supernatural.
He became so filled with the Spirit that all
he wanted to do was help others and challenge
those who were up. set with him and upset about
his faith he was a a man that took on you know
the whole the Sanhedrin's he took on the the
priests of the day who had the authority the
ability to kill him that didn't bother him he
moved forward and then when we look at Stephen
I guess when you think about Stephen, what he
went through, all the accusations he went through,
and if you want to read more about his life,
then get the book of Acts out, chapter 6 and
chapter 7, you'll learn so much about Stephen.
But all the things he went through, he was very
strong and very bold in what he believed, because
he wasn't going to back down, just was not going
to back down. And yet, when he started getting
stoned by his accusers, he looked up into heaven,
and I just picture him with, he had joy that
came over him, joy that came over him. You know
when Jesus was crucified on the cross the Bible
talks about for the joy that laid before him
You know he endured the cross so therefore Stephen
knew that he understood that through the spirit
And he actually had joy in seeing Jesus in heaven
when he was going through difficulties so counted
all joy when we run into trials and challenges
because God is a rewarder of our faith and his
Rewarder of our desire to serve him and he'll
give us power to overcome the challenges that
we face in life You know I think I'd be remiss
if I didn't give you the scripture of where Jesus
experienced joy when he was on the cross. It's
in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 2. It basically
tells us very clearly that for the joy that was
set before him he endured the cross and Stephen
did that and we can experience difficulties and
we will. I mean I've fought some terrible battles.
I've had horrible cancers. I've had terrible
challenges in my life and yet God has always
brought me through and I always think about how
blessed we are that God is always there, always
ready, and the Holy Spirit who lives and dwells
inside of us is that same power that God Almighty
has, and yet he's living within our meek little
frame that we have here on earth. Now to wrap
this up again, we are not perfect people, and
we never will be, just because we became Christians,
but we serve the one who is Jesus Christ. We
will make mistakes and experience sin, you know,
as we go through life, but always remember that
God's grace is greater than our mistakes and
the sins that we commit. It doesn't mean we go
on sinning. It just means that if we make a mistake,
God's grace is sufficient. Call upon Him. Tell
Him you're sorry. Ask for forgiveness. 1 John
chapter 4 verse 4 says this, the spirit who lives
in you is greater than the spirit who lives in
the world. I think that scripture alone will
help us to understand how the Holy Spirit can
give us faith, greater faith than we have now,
and also help us to have great power in our life.
So I'm going to ask you to allow the Holy Spirit
to increase your faith and your power. Let me
pray for you. Heavenly Father, thank you for
this opportunity. Thank you for those who've
listened in. I pray now that they would be blessed.
I pray the Holy Spirit would fill them faith,
greater faith, and fill them with power to overcome
the challenges they will face. Thank you, Lord,
for this opportunity, for this time, and I give
you all the praise for it. In Jesus' name I pray,
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my podcast, you can go to cpnshows .com or every
listen to your podcast. My next podcast is entitled
Holy Spirit Power. Now I believe that many Christians
are not aware of the power of the Holy Spirit
and that we may not really be able to comprehend
how the Holy Spirit brings us that power to overcome
evil and darkness and addictions and all types
of things in our life. And the promise of Jesus
giving the Holy Spirit to us coming was more
than just to help us be better and live comfortable.
There's just so much more to that. So I'm excited
about this podcast. So with that, I'm going to
close this up by giving you a blessing. May the
Lord bless you and keep you in his they shine
upon you and be gracious to you and give you
peace. May you prosper and be in good health
even as your soul prospers. So until next time,
may God richly bless you. May you receive faith
and power as you walk in the Holy Spirit. Thank
you for listening to Quality Christian Living.
I have been your host, David Friend. This has
been podcast number 323 entitled, Holy Spirit,
Faith and Power.