Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, September 8th.

The series on The Power of the Holy Spirit continues to help you get a better understanding of how his presence empowers believers to do all things well.

If you'll recall, the Bible says that when you trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal

Savior, the Holy Spirit came into your life to dwell. Why did he come in there to dwell?

He came in there in order to express and release the power through you and me, necessary to live

the life that God has called us to live, necessary to do the work that God has called us to live, necessary to do the work

that God has called us to do, so that everything he does in our life is an expression of

his supernatural power. And since this is a supernatural life that God's call us to live,

and it is a supernatural Lord whom we serve, and a supernatural

enemy whom we face. God has given to us a supernatural power in order to face, to live, and to do

the things he's called us to do. And so as Luke begins writing the book of Acts, he says,

the first account I composed Theophilus about all that Jesus began to do and teach,

until the day when he was taken up after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders

to the apostles whom he had chosen, to these he also presented himself alive,

after his suffering by many convincing proofs appearing to them over a period of 40 days, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

And gathering them together, he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, which he said, you heard from me, for John baptized with water,

but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. And so when they had come together,

they were asking him, saying, Lord, is it at this time you're restoring the kingdom to Israel?

This was always on their mind.

He said to them, it is not for you to know the times or epochs which the father has fixed by

his own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

And you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem

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