Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1.8, KJV)
Jesus said in Acts 1.8, when you receive the Holy Spirit, something is going to happen to you that will transform you and change you! When I was seeking for the Holy Spirit as a boy, I spent 3 months in prayer. Why? Because God was saying, “How much Holy Spirit do you want?” I wanted 99% Holy Spirit, only 1% me. Aged 15 I had to empty everything out of my life – all my hopes, my fears, my ambitions, so that God could fill me, and I could burn with Fire. And still today, I want to be ON FIRE for God!
I want you to wake up and live a Turbo-Charged life! How? Paul says in Romans 12:1, ‘Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to the Lord.’ But, he says, that is only ‘reasonable service’. It’s expected of you. If you’re a servant, an employee, that’s what you do for your wage. If you want the Fire of God to burn in you, present your whole body, your whole life, as a reasonable sacrifice. Look at Leviticus 6 where God commanded the priests to put the sacrifice on the altar; He said, when you light the fire, that fire must NEVER go out! That’s the challenge in my life, even at my age: I must NOT let that Fire go out! That Fire has to burn more and more strongly! But HOW? If you want the Fire to burn, it’s not more wood – it’s more sacrifice! More sacrifice! It’s only then that the Fire will never go out.
But that’s the price we have to pay! You don’t become a Christian for an easy life. My life has not been easy. God didn’t protect me from cancer, or from people who stole my business from me, He didn’t stop people who hated me from trying to kill me, He didn’t stop them putting me in a communist prison. But God delivered me through every storm, through the cancer, through the prison. That’s God! I wouldn’t have a testimony today without the storms in my life. But God demonstrates His Power in the storm! Be like Peter, get out of that boat. When the storm hit the lake and the disciples saw Jesus coming towards them, Peter was the only one who said, “If it’s You, call me!” And Peter, in the storm, got out of the boat. If you KNOW Jesus, get out of YOUR safety, get out of YOUR security. He’s calling you now! What did Daniel say? Those that KNOW God will do exploits!
It was safe and secret in that Upper Room. But what a transformation when the Fire came down! Get out of your boat, come out of your place of safety! Acts 1:8 – that’s the Turbo! You will receive Turbo-Charging when the Holy Spirit comes! Church – when the Holy Spirit comes, the Turbo kicks in! And the Power is released! WOW! But YOU – YOU – must take the responsibility, you must go out and do EXPLOITS in Jesus’ Name!