POWER FROM ON HIGH – Jeff Lee

Just moments before Jesus ascended into heaven after His resurrection; He gave His final message to His disciples. We can be assured it was of most importance.  Luke 24:46-49 reads, “…and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”

He instructed them to remain in Jerusalem until they received the promise of the Father, which was the gift of the Holy Ghost. He made it very clear to them that even after spending three years with Him they were not equipped to do ministry the way He intended until they be endued with this Power from on high.

If it was important for those trained and taught by Christ Himself. It is absolutely important for us today. We must be filled with the Spirit of God. He is the one who enables us to effectively be the preachers of this hour. Bible colleges, talented and well-trained ministers, evangelism seminars and great evangelistic programs are all significant. But I’m here to tell you the Disciples of Christ we read of were mostly ignorant and unlearned men who didn’t have all that we have today. Yet, they turned the world around them upside down. In Luke 3:16, John answered, saying unto them all, “ I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.”

Acts. 1:8 says, “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 Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The one essential above everything is for us to experience our own personal baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Once His disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost they overcame their timidity and fear. They began to preach with great power and boldness. After the Holy Ghost had come upon them the Pharisees perceived Peter and John to be ignorant and unlearned yet marveled and took notice and said; “ these men must have been with Jesus. THE POWER was evident, thousands were saved and signs followed them that believed. If we are going to face this dark world in the hour we live we must be filled and lead by the Power of God!!!

Get before God BELIEVE and RECEIVE for this same PROMISE of the father and you also shall be baptized of the Spirit. You will have full power over all principalities and powers, the ability to loose the bands of wickedness, to mend broken hearts, to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke of bondage. To cast out demons, lay hands on the sick to recover, to give sight to the blind and preach the GOSPEL to the poor. You will began to break away from your self-efforts and be a disciple with Dunamis Power in which revival will be breaking out all around you, everywhere you go. The baptism of the Holy Ghost was not a suggestion.

Jesus’ last message needs to be heeded and proclaimed over and over again until a slumbering, sleeping and barren church becomes alive with this Baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire.

Jeff Lee