***And you shall know the truth. And the truth will set you free!!!***

Acts 2:33
Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

Jesus calls the "promise of the Spirit" the "baptism of the Holy Spirit"... Thus IT IS IMPT TO HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!

Acts 1:4-5
And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

What does the baptism in the Holy Spirit bring?
Acts 1:8
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.

"power" = Gk dunamis = So it is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that enables you to have the power to Work miracles and the power to prosper and have abundance!

1. We become an effective witness of Jesus

Acts 2:1-4
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:5-8
And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?

Today, if we want to be effective witness for Jesus in the MARKETPLACE, we must learn to communicate the gospel in a relevant way and speak the language that they understand.
The Holy Spirit gives us the ability to effectively witness for Jesus
That is why we cannot ignore or reject the Holy Spirit in our lives!!!
The Church will have no power to grow and no power to effectively reach the world without the supernatural empowerment from the Holy Spirit!!!

2. Dreams and Visions
Acts 2 :17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

If it is God's given dreams, it will definitely come to pass

1 Cor 2:9-12
But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man. The things which God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
1 Cor 2:16
For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

It is impt to have the Holy Spirit to be in the flow with God... When we have the Holy Spirit, we have insight into everything.
Now, we must understand that a vision and a dream is a seed. Whateva seed u plant, u sow the harvest of the seed. Spiritual attack always start at the seed form.The devil will always try to corrupt your vision when it is in the seed form... The most vulnerable form too...

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION THEN?
It is simple!!! U need to be born again...
To be "born again"= supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that expresses itself through repentance, to have a change of Mind and a change of Action.
You may not know how to do it but u can ask God to teach u...
Rom 11:16-18
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

When we become believer of Jesus Christ, we are grafted into the olive tree... It means Jesus is the root and we are the branches... The source determines the outcome... Whom u are grafted to, u become whoeva ur source is... So if ur source is God, ur fruits will be godly... If ur source is the devil, ur outcome will become sinful...

Thus "now" or at this very moment, it is very impt as u sow, as it determines ur future outcome...

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