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    Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit
    Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit
    Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit
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    Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit

    By Charles F. Stanley

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    Is the third Person of the Trinity a distant mystery, a vague cosmic force?

    Many believers acknowledge Him as a component of faith?but perhaps not as a reality in their daily spiritual walk. Yet the Bible is clear: the Holy Spirit is a vital, equal part of God, promised by the Father to all Christians.

    In Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit, beloved pastor and Bible teacher Charles Stanley reveals the inner working of the Spirit with simple, straightforward wisdom. With this book, you can better experience this awesome gift of God as you discover:

    • What holiness is?and is not
    • Seven works of the Holy Spirit in your life
    • Three potentials God desires you to develop
    • How to remain full of the Holy Spirit
    • Four great questions to ask God every day

    If you are faltering, or easily fall prey to temptation, maybe you've forgotten to rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit and begun to rely only on yourself. The Christian life is meant to be increasingly dependent on His power working within you. Learn today to live in the power of the Holy Spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 9, 2005
    ISBN9781418516253
    Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit
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    Charles F. Stanley

    Dr. Charles F. Stanley (1932–2023) was a New York Times bestselling author who wrote more than sixty books, with sales of more than ten million copies. He had been senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia and his outreach ministry—In Touch—reached more than 2,800 radio and television outlets in more than fifty languages. Dr. Stanley was inducted into the National Religious Broadcaster’s (NRB) Hall of Fame in 1988. Dr. Stanley’s goal was best represented by In Touch Ministries’ mission statement: to lead people worldwide into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and to strengthen the local church. This is because, as he said, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”

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    Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit - Charles F. Stanley

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    Copyright © 2005 by Charles F. Stanley

    All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

    Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

    All Scripture references in this manuscript are from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Stanley, Charles F.

    Living in the power of the Holy Spirit / Charles F. Stanley.

    p. cm.

    ISBN-10: 0-7852-6512-0 (hardcover)

    ISBN-13: 978-0-7852-6512-2 (hardcover)

    1. Holy Spirit. 2. Christian life—Baptist authors. I. Title.

    BT121.3.S73 2005

    231'.3—dc22

    2004030537

    Printed in the United States of America

    07 08 09 10 11 QW 12 11 10 9 8

    CONTENTS

    Introduction: Our Ongoing Success as Believers

    1. The Promise of God the Father

    2. Who Is the Holy Spirit?

    3. Why Does God Send the Holy Spirit to Us?

    4. The Release of Your Full Potential

    5. A Life of Holiness

    6. Recognizing the Ongoing Work of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives

    7. Marks of a Spirit-Led Believer

    8. How Do We Remain Full of the Holy Spirit?

    About the Author

    Introduction

    Our

    Ongoing

    Success as

    Believers

    Once you and I have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we have the opportunity to learn spiritual principles by which we are to live the Christian life. Many believers, however, find that after a period of time in applying those principles, they incorrectly begin to feel self-confident in their success at living the Christian life. And the next thing you know, they’ve experienced a spiritual setback or moral fall of some kind.

    Why is it that we often seem to start strongly in our Christian walk, and then later discover that we are facing failure in our faith?

    One of the primary reasons is that we drift away from the very principles that we learned at the beginning of our relationship with Christ. Another key reason is that we become so familiar with the Word of God and the messages that we hear preached that we no longer take the truth of God’s Word to heart as diligently and as eagerly as we once did.

    Yet a third reason—and perhaps the most prevalent—is that we stop relying on the Holy Spirit to lead us, to guide us, to give us the spiritual power we need to withstand temptation, and to give us the spiritual wisdom we need to recognize and to avoid error.

    We never spiritually outgrow our dependency upon the Holy Spirit. The exact opposite is true. The more mature we are in our faith and the more intimate our relationship with our heavenly Father, the more dependent we must be on the Holy Spirit.

    It is the Holy Spirit who guides us into the right path for us to walk and convicts us of our sin if we stray from that path.

    It is the Holy Spirit who reminds us of the truth of God’s Word and teaches us how to apply God’s Word to our daily lives.

    It is the Holy Spirit who works in us to conform us to the image of Christ Jesus, and who works through us to minister the presence and power of Christ to others.

    The ongoing lesson all Christians must learn is how to experience and live daily in the power of the Holy Spirit! No matter where you are in your journey with the Lord, this is the key to your being a truly successful Christian.

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    The

    Promise

    of

    God

    the

    Father

    Who is the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer today?

    The foremost lesson I believe every Christian must learn about the Holy Spirit is this: the Holy Spirit is the Promise of our heavenly Father to each one of us.

    In Luke 24, we find a very specific command given by Jesus right before He ascends to heaven:

    [Jesus] said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me . . . Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all

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