Holy Spirit Power

All winter the trees and plants have lain dormant. Just enough sap to keep them alive. As we look around us now we see the signs of spring. We see the trees and plants putting forth buds and blooms. The sap is rising in the trees and plants. This gives nutrients for new life. When you look at your spiritual life, how would you evaluate it? Is it lying dormant, just barely alive? Not doing you or anybody else any good. Not producing any fruit for God? You perhaps have lost your zeal for the things of God. Not interested in reading His word daily any more. Just doesn't mean that much any more. Have you abandoned prayer saying in your heart it doesn't do any good?
What you need is to be renewed by the Holy Spirit. To be renewed by the holy Spirit you must know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord. Have you admitted your sins to Him and asked Jesus to forgive those sins? Have you invited Jesus into your heart to live in you? If you haven't, you can do that now right where you are in the privacy of your home or wherever you may be reading these words. You must do this to have eternal life. If you don't ask Jesus to save you, your eternal destiny is a place called Hell. Jesus has paid the price for the penalty of your sins on the cross. If you are wise you will take advantage of that right now if you have never done that.
When you ask Jesus to forgive and save you, the Spirit of God baptizes you into the body of Christ which means He unites you with Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:13 (NKJV) 
¹³ For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

Then the Spirit of God indwells your very being.
Ephesians 4:4-6 (NKJV) ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Now the Spirit of the Father is in  all of those who have received salvation as verse 6 says. The Spirit of God seals you for God and His kingdom.
Ephesians 1:13 (NKJV) ¹³ In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.

Now if you have been saved and baptized by God's Spirit, His Spirit lives in you to empower you to live for Him and be a witness for Him.

 Acts 1:8 (NKJV) ⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." We are commanded in not be drunk with wine but filled with God's Spirit.

Ephesians 5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.
To be filled with the Spirit of God is an ongoing process that never stops until God takes us home to be with Him. To be filled with God's Spirit means to be completely surrendered to His control in your life.

Jesus tells us how we can live every day in the power of His Spirit. 

Colossians 2:6-7 (NKJV) ⁶ As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
⁷ rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. These scriptures tell us as we have received Jesus as our Savior and Lord, we are to walk or live in Him. That means His Spirit guides and leads us each day. Verse 7 says to be rooted and built up in Him. Then our faith will become established and we will abound with thanksgiving.We become rooted and built up in Jesus as we begin to read God's word each day and then do what it says. We become built up in Him as we pray and invite Him to fill our lives with His Spirit each day as we walk or live our lives according to what we have read in God's word.

Jesus tells us in John 15:5 (NKJV) I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Abide means to continue in a relationship with Jesus each day of our lives. As we continue in that relationship with Jesus we will begin to bear much fruit. The fruit of the Spirit is  ²² love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 (NKJV)                                                                          Check your spiritual level. How full are you of God's Spirit? How much of the Spirit's fruit is being produced by you? As you pray for and are filled with God's Spirit, you will walk in more power over sin and will begin to live in more victory than you ever thought possible.

God will be able to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we could ask or think according to that power (God's Spirit) that works in us. Ephesians 3:20.

This will not only change our lives but also the church which we attend. People will see the Spirit of God at work in our hearts and want the same in their lives. May God be glorified through our efforts. May our example of living in the power of the Holy Spirit cause others to come to the knowledge of the Lord God.