TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – July 11, 2004

MESSAGE:  “POWER FOR LIVING:

                     …How, When and at What Price!”

SCRIPTURE:  Acts 8:14-24

KEY VERSE:  v. 17  “Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.”   

FOCUS:  The coming of God's Spirit brings incredible enablement for daily life.

 INTRODUCTION:  “No man can really see himself as God sees him apart from the working of the Holy Spirit in his heart and mind.  The Spirit lays bare the heart of man, exposing his sin, and pronounces him guilty before God.  This is a disturbing experience for any man.  He may lose his sleep or his appetite.  He certainly loses his peace of mind.  but the Holy Spirit shows man his sin only in order that man will seek the Savior."                                ~ E. Stanly Jones

I.    GET RIGHT WITH GOD

II.    MAKE A FULL SURRENDER OF ALL YOU ARE

III.    RECEIVE BY FAITH GOD'S PROMISED PROVISION

IV.    LIVE EVERY MOMENT UNDER HIS LORDSHIP

CONCLUSION:  “The day I died" - "That was the day my old self died and my new life began."

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis