Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit

By Charles F. Stanley

Is the third Person of the Trinity a distant mystery, a vague cosmic force?

Many believers acknowledge Him as a component of faith?but perhaps not as a reality in their daily spiritual walk. Yet the Bible is clear: the Holy Spirit is a vital, equal part of God, promised by the Father to all Christians.

In Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit, beloved pastor and Bible teacher Charles Stanley reveals the inner working of the Spirit with simple, straightforward wisdom. With this book, you can better experience this awesome gift of God as you discover:

• What holiness is?and is not
• Seven works of the Holy Spirit in your life
• Three potentials God desires you to develop
• How to remain full of the Holy Spirit
• Four great questions to ask God every day

If you are faltering, or easily fall prey to temptation, maybe you've forgotten to rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit and begun to rely only on yourself. The Christian life is meant to be increasingly dependent on His power working within you. Learn today to live in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Mar 9, 2005
• ISBN: 9781418516253

Charles F. Stanley

Dr. Charles F. Stanley was the founder of In Touch Ministries and pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church Atlanta, Georgia, where he served more than fifty years. He was also a New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy books. Until his death in 2023, Dr. Stanley’s mission was to get the gospel to “as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, as clearly as possible, as irresistibly as possible, through the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God.” This is a calling that In Touch Ministries continues to pursue by transmitting his teachings as widely and effectively as possible. Dr. Stanley’s messages can be heard daily on In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley broadcasts on television, radio, and satellite networks and stations around the world; on the internet at intouch.org and through In Touch+; and via the In Touch Messenger Lab. Excerpts from Dr. Stanley’s inspiring messages are also published in the award-winning In Touch devotional magazine.

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Copyright © 2005 by Charles F. Stanley

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

All Scripture references in this manuscript are from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stanley, Charles F.

Living in the power of the Holy Spirit / Charles F. Stanley.

p. cm.

ISBN-10: 0-7852-6512-0 (hardcover)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7852-6512-2 (hardcover)

1. Holy Spirit. 2. Christian life—Baptist authors. I. Title.

BT121.3.S73 2005

231'.3—dc22

2004030537

Printed in the United States of America

07 08 09 10 11 QW 12 11 10 9 8

CONTENTS

Introduction: Our Ongoing Success as Believers

1. The Promise of God the Father

2. Who Is the Holy Spirit?

3. Why Does God Send the Holy Spirit to Us?

4. The Release of Your Full Potential

5. A Life of Holiness

6. Recognizing the Ongoing Work of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives

7. Marks of a Spirit-Led Believer

8. How Do We Remain Full of the Holy Spirit?

About the Author

Introduction

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Our

Ongoing

Success as

Believers

Once you and I have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we have the opportunity to learn spiritual principles by which we are to live the Christian life. Many believers, however, find that after a period of time in applying those principles, they incorrectly begin to feel self-confident in their success at living the Christian life. And the next thing you know, they’ve experienced a spiritual setback or moral fall of some kind.

Why is it that we often seem to start strongly in our Christian walk, and then later discover that we are facing failure in our faith?

One of the primary reasons is that we drift away from the very principles that we learned at the beginning of our relationship with Christ. Another key reason is that we become so familiar with the Word of God and the messages that we hear preached that we no longer take the truth of God’s Word to heart as diligently and as eagerly as we once did.

Yet a third reason—and perhaps the most prevalent—is that we stop relying on the Holy Spirit to lead us, to guide us, to give us the spiritual power we need to withstand temptation, and to give us the spiritual wisdom we need to recognize and to avoid error.

We never spiritually outgrow our dependency upon the Holy Spirit. The exact opposite is true. The more mature we are in our faith and the more intimate our relationship with our heavenly Father, the more dependent we must be on the Holy Spirit.

It is the Holy Spirit who guides us into the right path for us to walk and convicts us of our sin if we stray from that path.

It is the Holy Spirit who reminds us of the truth of God’s Word and teaches us how to apply God’s Word to our daily lives.

It is the Holy Spirit who works in us to conform us to the image of Christ Jesus, and who works through us to minister the presence and power of Christ to others.

The ongoing lesson all Christians must learn is how to experience and live daily in the power of the Holy Spirit! No matter where you are in your journey with the Lord, this is the key to your being a truly successful Christian.

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The

Promise

of

God

the

Father

Who is the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer today?

The foremost lesson I believe every Christian must learn about the Holy Spirit is this: the Holy Spirit is the Promise of our heavenly Father to each one of us.

In Luke 24, we find a very specific command given by Jesus right before He ascends to heaven:

[Jesus] said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me . . . Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the 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 to all

Reviews for Living in the Power of the Holy Spirit

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A wonderful book on the influences of the Holy Spirit. Worth every minute of your time to read.

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