Loaded With Power



We are in the last weeks of this year. It doesn't require deep revelation to know that 2019 brought some trials in your life.  I am sure you have seen a dark day or two.  You have had to cry when you hoped there would be laughter. I know I've cried some days when I hoped there would be laughter. Nevertheless, I don't need a premonition to know I still have the victory.

Everyone goes through at one time or another, but I have some good news for you today! You are loaded with power.  When Jesus was preparing the disciples for his departure, he made them a promise.  He told that he would not leave them comfortless, but he would send the Holy Ghost and he was not coming empty-handed.

Christmas is a time of giving.  Though we should be more ready to give than receive, it's feels good to be on the receiving end.  Jesus gave us the gift of eternal and the Holy Ghost loaded us with power.  This power isn't so that you can lord over others.  It isn't to make you great among people.  This power is to give you the victory in all situations.
The power of the Holy Ghost gives you power over yourself! Over your perspective.  Over your attitude. And then over your circumstances.  With power, you can call those things that are not as though they are.  You can speak to your mountain.  With the power of the Holy Ghost, you can pray deliverance into your own mind. You can witness to a dying world.

We used to sing about the power to walk right, talk right, and live right.  You don't have to live discouraged by what is going on around you if you will tap into the power that's working in you.  The Holy Ghost will be your peace in situations that you can't understand.  You don't have to accept the lies that the devil tells you.  When he says you can't make it, remind him that you are loaded with power.  When he hisses hopelessness and defeat, don't be afraid.  Tell him you are loaded with power.
I want to dance in victory and go into 2020 rejoicing in the miraculous works of my God! I intend to do just that.  Not because I am great. Not because I know so much. I will walk in victory because I am loaded with power!

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8


Reaching the lost at any cost,
Pastor Odie Kennedy

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