Empowered: A Guide to Experiencing the Power of the Holy Spirit: Day 10
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 6 March 2020
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Pastor Mark Turman was so encouraged by Dr. Denison's book about the Holy Spirit, titled Empowered, that he asked to record its 47 chapters as daily readings for his church.
When Dr. Denison heard about this, he suggested the great idea to release these recordings as bonus episodes of The Daily Article Podcast every day from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
We hope that you will likewise be encouraged by these short, insightful, and empowering podcast episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.5 | Forum. Empowered Day 10. What happens when we are filled with the Spirit, part two? |
| 0:17.5 | Avery Willis was a career missionary, groundbreaking theologian, and an acquaintance of mine. |
| 0:22.6 | In his classic book, The Biblical Basis of Missions, he describes his own experience with the filling of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:30.6 | I'd like you to read his account today, as it may help to make the filling more real and practical to you. |
| 0:38.3 | While I was a freshman in college, the Holy Spirit created in my heart an overwhelming desire to bear witness to Christ. |
| 0:45.3 | In the months that followed, his presence overcame my natural shyness and thrust me out several times each week onto the streets and into the bars to witness. |
| 0:56.7 | However, I was not successful in leading people to Christ. |
| 1:00.7 | I memorized scriptures, studied soul-winning books, and prayed, but something was missing. |
| 1:06.8 | One day I received in the mail a booklet that told of the experiences of D.L. Moody, R. A. Torrey, |
| 1:13.6 | Billy Sunday, Billy Graham, and others whose ministries had been transformed when they |
| 1:19.6 | experienced the filling of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:22.6 | I had a burning desire to be used of God, but I could not find anyone who could tell me how to be filled. |
| 1:30.5 | Finally, a friend loaned me the book, The Holy Spirit, who he is and what he does, by R. A. Tori. |
| 1:39.4 | For the first time, I realized that the Holy Spirit is a person who possesses us instead of a power or an |
| 1:46.6 | influence we possess. Tori showed that the Holy Spirit, who lives within us, wants to fill us |
| 1:53.4 | for service. By the next evening, I had finished the book and was ready to follow its |
| 1:59.1 | instructions on being filled with the Spirit. |
| 2:01.6 | I confessed all my sins, presented myself fully to God, and asked in faith for the Holy Spirit to fill me. |
| 2:09.6 | As I confessed my sins, I realized how much the Holy Spirit had loved me and had been grieved by my ignoring him. |
| 2:19.3 | Then I presented my body, will, emotions, intellect, and spirit to be used by God in any way. |
| 2:25.3 | The most difficult part was accepting by faith the filling of the Holy Spirit without any outward sign or manifestation. |
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