Holy Ghost Power is Necessary

Message was taught by Pastor Stephen Brown at Sunday Night at the Light at LOGIC.

1 Cor 2:4-5
⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

We have microwave churches and convenient churches. There is nothing wrong with cutting edge technology or innovative ways to bring people to church but the churches need to have power. Learn all you can but in the midst of it you have to have power. Education doesn't mean anything without power.

Phil 3:8
⁸ Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

If we don't have the Holy Ghost we are in trouble. When did church become about convenience? God will send the Holy Ghost to those who want to see God move.


Demonstration of the Spirit

1 Cor 1:27
²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;

Be careful of what you label what you don't understand. There are some who are spiritually gifted. Take Sylvia Brown. She is a psychic who the FBI calls on to help save cases What would happen if the FBI instead called the Holy Spirit filled people instead!

Demonstration of the Power


Acts 1:8
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.”

This should be a devil casting church. Peter, Paul, Jesus and the disciples raised the dead. God used Kathryn Kuhlman to performed miracles. We don't even want to go to the hospital to pray for the people. All we say is gimme, gimme. We need to learn to cast the devil out.


1 Cor 2:5
⁵ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

People should say that they have seen enough because all that God has done.


Psalm 23:5
⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
         You anoint my head with oil;
         My cup runs over. 

A little dab won't do it. How much do you want it? You've go so much you have enough oil for everyone.

Isaiah 10:27
²⁷ It shall come to pass in that day
      That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder,
      And his yoke from your neck,
      And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
     
The anointing is the burden remover, yoke destroying power. There are no more burdens or yokes being destroyed today. If you want the Holy Ghost to move you have to get on your knees. Salvation costs nothing but the anointing costs everything. You will have to give up some things. If these preachers were so anointed, had power like they had money they will be able to lay hands on people and they will get delivered. You have power when the devil knows your name.

Acts 19:11-16

¹¹ Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹² so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. ¹³ Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” ¹⁴ Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
¹⁶ Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.