Holy Spirit Power
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In “Holy Spirit Power,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about holiness, the Holy Spirit, the condition of the church. Drawing especially from John 7, John 2, John 20, John 3, the teaching emphasizes that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God.
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Odle focuses on the Holy Spirit while working through John 7, John 2, John 20. The message argues that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Luke 4, Revelation 3, Romans 11. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on revival while working through Luke 15. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through 1 Timothy 2, Revelation 14. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Ephesians 4. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through 2 Peter 2, Acts 5. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Psalm 66, Psalm 68. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the Holy Spirit while working through Psalm 55. The message argues that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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lord let that be our prayer this morning god that you will empty us lord empty us of everything that's not of you lord that's flesh that's pride that's selfish desires it's lust that's just god just empty us lord because we want to be filled with the holy spirit we want to make more room in us for the holy spirit to fill us and to anoint us and to set his fire in us lord i just pray that in the name of jesus lord that you'll just get that in our heads that what we need is more of the holy spirit more fire more passion more anointing more glory in us first because lord is not by might nor by power that anything is accomplished by your holy spirit god everything that's truly done by you is done by the power of your holy spirit in the mighty name of jesus god help us to understand that it's not how much knowledge we have it's not how long we've been saved it's how much anointing and fire of the holy spirit we have that makes a difference i pray that this morning in jesus name amen and amen you know once again i feel like the lord just completely changed everything yes sir sure only set inspire you to get on the altar first amendment amen amen i hope everybody heard that losing the mic praise the lord before you get the fire you got to get on the altar amen that's good hallelujah and that's you know if i could get people to understand that more than anything else i think you know i think it was leonard ravenhill said this in his book my revival teres many years ago and i know he used to say it in his preaching he used to say with all thy getting get unction and and what he meant by the word unction is the word unctions used in first john as a word for the anointing or empowerment of the holy spirit um see this is what listen with god there's always a goal there's always a reason for things right and we think a lot of times that you know you know we don't always put together why god wants certain things done right but really listen to me the main thing you know or the main reason that god wants you to get sin out of your life and compromise out of your life and lukewarmness out of your life
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is first of all of course to save you that nothing will keep you from going to heaven for all eternity that's number one but number two is he wants everything out of the way in your life so you can be filled with the holy spirit and you can be anointed amen there's nothing more wonderful than the anointing i know another thing that leonard ravenhill used to say he goes i have a hard time sometimes explaining what the anointing is but i can tell you what it isn't and even preaching and teaching in christian ministry and witnessing and all the things that we want to do praying for the sick casting out demons anything that's truly accomplished in the kingdom of god that's of god is going to be accomplished because somebody got anointed by the holy spirit got empowered by the holy spirit was led by the holy spirit and the holy spirit worked through them amen and so when we talk about the holy spirit um you know he can be quenched he can be grieved he can be resisted um and a lot of that goes on in in the very people that should be yielding to the holy spirit submitting to the holy spirit flowing in the holy spirit and so i i don't know the lord just as we sang those songs this morning about fire and about being filled with the fire you know there's different aspects to the work of the holy spirit and and i love them because you know he's referred to let me just give you the symbols real quick that the bible refers to the holy spirit first of all as living water jesus referred to the holy spirit as living water how many of you know we can't live without water in the natural realm right you need water every day don't you now some of us don't drink enough of it i.e just like in the christian world we don't drink in enough of the holy spirit but he's referred to as living water so the very thing that most of the planets made out of and the thing that we have to have to to survive to live and not become sick and dehydrated and our organs start shutting down and die the lord's trying to tell us something he refers to the holy spirit as the living water so the very spiritual life if if you want to to enhance your spiritual life and flow and have spiritual life flowing through you instead of spiritual death then you need the holy spirit amen you need to be filled you need to be filled as jesus said be filled to overflowing he that believeth on me but out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water john 7. that's what he said so we should be people so filled with the living water of the holy spirit that it just overflows out of us like a river amen another
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symbol of the holy spirit is the dove right when it's the bible says that jesus was baptized in john 2 and other places when it talks about jesus was baptized in water by john the baptist said they saw the the holy spirit come and descend upon him like a dove now why did the holy spirit take that symbol to represent him because i want to tell you the the dove represents a a peaceful creature quiet right but you know this if a dove lands in your yard and you want to just you want to be close to that dove and watch that dove and be you know and check it out you can't make any wild movements you can't make any loud noises you can't just you know be crazy and what the lord's trying to show us i believe through that is to have the peace of the holy spirit the leading of the holy spirit we have to sometimes what we have to spend time being quiet and being still and being with him and that's where the peace comes from right so the holy spirit's talking about you you want me you're going to have to spend time with me in quiet in prayer in private time away from all the distractions away from all the loudness right come on just sharing what's on my heart this morning all right right now another revelation we have of the holy spirit is he's wind right now i love this when jesus john chapter 20 and i'm going to give you a lot of verses this morning we are going to turn to some in a minute but in john 20 after he rose from the dead it said he walked up to his disciples and he said he breathed on them and said receive the holy spirit so jesus breath he breathed on them he blew on them and they received a touch an impartation of the holy spirit now i believe that's when they received the holy spirit to be born again but there was an impartation of the holy spirit but the symbol was the breath of god the wind of god of course on the day of pentecost when they were baptized in the holy spirit and spoke with other tongues it says that a rushing mighty wind filled all the house right now what's wind what's what do we see when wind wind gives power to you know back in the day they didn't have motor boats they had sails right wind gives power to these ships in the sea to move to go places and and i can prove my point because in john 3 jesus talked about everyone who was born of the spirit would be like the wind right be led around some sometimes people think oh you're crazy when you're led by the spirit because you're you're kind of blown over here a little bit and you're kind of blown over there a little bit but right what is what does romans 8 14 says the sons of god which means the sons or the daughters of god are led by the spirit of god and i love another terminology you know what the bible talks about in ephesians 4 about the fivefold ministry and not
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being blown about by every wind of doctrine right so the devil has his wind right trying to lead us into error lead us in deception lead us into sin but the wind of the holy spirit always leads us into truth right jesus said this when the holy spirit has come he will lead you and guide you into all truth he will speak to you he will show you things to come so the wind i believe represents the communication and the guidance of the holy spirit in our lives amen oh now here we go now there's how many i've given you what three all right there's another one yeah another one is the anointing of the holy spirit or the oil he's he's a symbol of the holy spirit in the bible is the oil and that literally means to be smeared marked touched with this oil now this oil when you when that that word is charisma right that word is charisma and that word means to be empowered by the holy spirit so the anointing of the holy spirit is the empowering you to do the ministry empowering you to preach and teach empowering you to be a witness empowering you to to break the strongholds of the enemy remember the bible says in in isaiah chapter 10 that the yoke of the enemy is destroyed because of the anointing oh come on now amen if the yoke of the enemy is destroyed because of the anointing you ought to say this i need the anointing oh yeah listen i know a lot of christians who are unanointed okay and i'm going to tell you why we're going to get i'm going to pick the bible up here and we're going to flip through some things here in a second but oh how we need the anointing the anointing also represents the gifts of the holy spirit the the nine gifts prophecy tongues interpretation of tongues discerning of spirits seeing discerning what's going on in the spirit realm word of knowledge when god reveals something supernaturally about either the past or the present word of wisdom when god really reveals something about his future or his will for you a lot of people think prophecy is all about the future no word of wisdom is about the future okay prophecy is about the future too but word of wisdom is god revealing his will about the future all right god can reveal to me there's going to be a famine that's prophecy that's revealing to me there's going to be a famine but a word of wisdom god reveals to me what he wants me to do about when that famine comes that's the word of wisdom okay a word of knowledge is when god reveals to me something that i there's no way i could know about your past or your presence something going on in your life
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