THE NARROW PATH TO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD - DAY 115

    by Rev. Robert John Cericola, Carroll, OH - EUA  

Meditation 115

Refilled with Power

Acts 1:8 (AMP) But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.

Acts 2:4 (NKJV) And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

On the Day of Pentecost, the promised Holy Spirit came upon the disciples as a mighty rushing wind and filled them with the power, the confidence, and the ability, they would need to be Christ’s witnesses. And as an outward sign of His arrival and His infilling, the disciples began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

In Acts chapter 4 Peter and John were arrested for healing a man and preaching the Gospel of Christ. The following morning, they were brought before the Rulers of the people and members of the Sanhedrin who demanded they tell them by what power they healed the sick. Then Peter, filled and controlled by the Holy Spirit, stood and explained the Gospel message and that their authority and power came through Jesus Christ. The Rulers, after some discussion, threatened Peter and John and ordered them not to speak or teach about the Name of Jesus. When they were permitted to go they returned to the other disciples and told all that the Rulers had said. When the disciples heard of this they lifted up their voices and prayed to be filled with boldness to proclaim Christ fearlessly.

Acts 4:31 (NKJV) And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

The disciples were still baptized in the Holy Spirt but after the threats and orders given by the Rulers they needed to be refreshed and strengthened with Holy Spirits power again. This is an example of how we can exchange our weakness for His strength when we live in covenant with Jesus.

Ephesians 6:10 (AMP) In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. Life along the Narrow Path must be lived through the power of the Holy Spirit that lives in our inner man (our spirit).

Ephesians 3:16 (AMP) May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].

Staying full of the power available to us through Holy Spirit is vital to growing our relationship with Father and Jesus. When you are discouraged, hopeless, depressed, and fell like you cannot go on you need to be reinforced or refilled with Holy Spirit’s power. 

Ending Thoughts

The disciples after being threatened and ordered to stop preaching about Jesus needed to be refilled with Holy Spirit’s power. They had used the power they had to heal and preach and now needed more power to carry on. Like the disciples we too need to be refilled with power. When you feel dry and far away from God just ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with His power and He will.