Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, September 9th.

The Holy Spirit lives within every believer in Jesus.

Let's continue the series to gain a clear understanding of how to align your life to walk in the power of God's spirit.

Are you experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit in your life, or is your life very easily explained

in your energy and your strength, your knowledge, your wisdom, in your skill, in your ability,

and your talent, your life is being lived out? Is what you're accomplishing in life, what you're able to do, or is it the

result of the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life? Well, these are good questions that

you and I need to ask ourselves because sometimes a person can't tell whether it's what they're doing

or what God is doing in their life. Now, so I want us to look at this whole idea of the

pursuit of the power of the Holy Spirit, the pursuit of the spiritual power. Now, and today,

in churches we hear all this talk oftentimes about the power. Let's get the power. What for?

To make me feel good, that's not the purpose of it.

What for?

So I can boast of being one of God's chosen servants.

That's not biblical.

The power of the Holy Spirit is equally available to every single child of God.

Don't get personalities mixed up with what God promises in

His Word because God's promise of the Holy Spirit powers to every single believer. And you see,

if our motivation, if our motivation is, for example, if I came out here on Sunday morning and

I'd ask the Holy Spirit to feel me afresh anew and to demonstrate his awesome power so I could preach better,

so you would be impressed.

I'm here to tell you God would have nothing to do with that.

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