Lee Dodd

Power, brothers and sisters! This was the baptism with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. God poured out His Spirit on His church. Indeed, the church of Jesus Christ is an empowered church!

Do you yearn for your life to count in Christ’s kingdom? Divine power is necessary. There’s nothing optional about it! Hunger for the Spirit’s enabling power, long for fresh outpourings, and stir one another up to this kind of thirst.

Luke 24:49 "And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” Here, in the city of God, these servants of God will wait in dependence on God for the promise of God to come.

The Christian life is the faithful and the fruitful life. You don’t merely need help to remain faithful; you need power to remain fruitful. In and of ourselves, our prospects of fruitfulness are bleak. Filled with the Spirit, the possibilities are both extraordinary and endless.

Luke 11:13 "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Not power for power’s sake, and not power for our own sake, but power to serve the Lord Jesus sacrificially.

Dear Christian, God makes no mistakes. When you are suffering, know that it is God's good gift to you. For every look you take at your suffering, be sure to take 100 looks at your Savior.

The Gospel isn’t a good piece of fiction. The Gospel is fact, rooted in actual history that is documented and defensible.

“Christianity is not some program, political machine, or morality manual. It is the living Christ doing awesome deeds on the earth, in and through His church.”

Jesus Christ comes to set the captives free, but then He brings those now liberated slaves home with Him. They become members of His household, members of His family. And as family members, they are able to partake of all the benefits of being God’s children.

God’s mercy long outlives my sin.

A Christian’s confidence is always proportionate to his consideration of Christ (Hebrews 3:1-6).

It seems many Christians today are seduced by the superficial, sensational, and shiny due to being ignorant of their inheritance.

Liberties will be lost, speech will be silenced, and babies will be brutally killed. And yet, the Word of God is true, the people of God will persevere, and the church of God will triumph.