LIFT! - Random "Spirit-Fullness" Thoughts from Ps Jack Hayford

I am really enjoying Jack Hayford's book, Living the Spirit-Formed Life.

He has some great thoughts. Like this one....

It is God’s desire that all believers answer to the call to live the Spirit-filled, Spirit-formed life. This is "the normal Christian life as conceived by Jesus."

He also writes in many other books.

Check some of these quotes out:

Nothing in the believer’s life is more essential in becoming a replication and representative of Jesus Christ than being daily empowered by the Holy Spirit.

From Pentecost until our Lord’s return, the Church’s commission is to receive “power from on high, do business until I come, go into all the world,” and experience “the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through the accompanying signs” (see Luke 24:49; 19:13; Matt. 28:18-20).

The full mandate is only possible through being baptized in the Holy Spirit (see Acts 1:5-8; 2:1-4), being continually filled afresh with His love and power (see Rom. 5:6; Acts 4:8; 7:35; 13:52; Eph. 4:18-20), and abiding in the fullness of the Spirit (see also Acts 1:13,14; 2:11).

Then this.....

The Lord did not give us spiritual language as a point of argument but as a resource to capacitate the Church.

Then this.....

Jesus makes clear, however, that there is a difference between the indwelling Holy Spirit and the overflowing Spirit. In John 4, He tells the woman at the well, who needed saving grace, that the water He had to give would become in her a fountain springing up unto everlasting life. Then, in John 7, speaking about the Holy Spirit who would later be given, He says, “Those who believe in Me, out of their inner being will flow rivers of living water.” Jesus distinguishes between coming to receive eternal life at the well of salvation, and rivers of living water that not only refresh us, but also flow out of us in ministry to other people by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Then this.....

I will never argue against the idea that tongues are an evidence of the baptism of the Spirit, because I think there is sufficient evidence for that. But the Lord did not give us spiritual language as a point of argument for the Church. He gave it as a resource to capacitate the Church. The Holy Spirit, who has come to dwell in us, wants to overflow every one of us and, in that overflow, to release His spiritual language.

Thanks Ps Jack Hayford!

I can't wait for our new L.I.F.T! teaching series - living in fullness today!