"description":"One of the things you do not find in the Book of Acts is the reliance on church buildings. Yet in almost every Christian circle and denomination, there is an emphasis upon building the church, not that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the body of Christ may be built up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d112 but rather the building of an actual structure that we refer to commonly as the church. There is a great benefit at times in having a building where the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people can meet in and use for the ministry of the Gospel. Yet, when we look at the Book of Acts, we find no visible record that the Church built buildings. Though they met in some physical locations such as Solomon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Colonnade113 and the hall of Tyrannus for even two years!114 Yet, this was not the common practice of how saints met across the rest of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Churches. Even when looking carefully in Church history it is hard to find evidence of a building being used until 300 AD when pagan temples were being converted into churches under the reign of Constantine.",
"description":"As one reads through the Book of Acts, the work of the Holy Spirit in the early Church is evident on every page. If you remove the work of the Holy Spirit from the Book of Acts you have virtually nothing left. Truly, He empowered the first disciples to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turn the world upside down.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The places in the world today where the Church is expanding the fastest are those places where Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 followers are yielded to and empowered by the Holy Spirit.",
"description":"Christianity was birthed in the Holy Spirit. Jesus our Lord taught it was essential to rely and wait for the power of the Spirit. We sadly see many abuses of Spirit-led living in modern Christendom but this should make us all the more hungry for the true manifestation. We are impotent without the infilling power of the Spirit. When we have God in the midst everything changes. We will not be able to stay quiet, we will speak boldly for our Lord that bought us with such a great price.1003 The underground Church in China chooses their leadership from those who are the hungriest after God. Are you hungry for the living God? For His power displayed in your life?",
"description":"We need to know the Holy Ghost, because He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our life. We need to drink of that Fountain of life. It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sufficient to be baptized with the Holy Ghost, but now to walk in the Spirit, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153e has translated you out of the kingdom of darkness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d How many people claim to be baptized with the Holy Ghost, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re satisfied to still live in the flesh, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re satisfied to still be governed by the flesh! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where our frowns come from. But beloved, that, the Bible says, is dangerous: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we live in the flesh, we shall die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We shall die! \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But if ye live in the spirit\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Do you know the Spirit? Do you know the Holy Ghost? Is He your habitation? Is He your realm? Is He the ocean of life and of light and of grace and of love and of joy and of peace into which you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been sunk, deeply sunk, so that your whole being has been transformed into this ocean of love? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have you received the Holy Ghost?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"description":"At a Brooklyn Tabernacle prayer meeting, Pastor Cymbala presented an exhortation about being led and controlled by the Holy Spirit. A excellent message sharing the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church and His role in the life of the believer. Cymbala shares 3 different aspects of the work of the Holy Spirit.",
"description":"Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil, and it was what was demonstrated at the Cross that is His triumph over the whole demonic realm. The early church had this perspective, and it needs to be ours at the end, for surely that same demonstration will be required. We need to see the spiritual realm as the apostles and Jesus saw it. The reality of the spiritual realm is the same as it was 2000 years ago.",
"scripture":"Ephesians 5:18, Acts 19, John 1:47-51",
"topic":"Spiritual Growth",
"description":"\"Until the throne room is central to church life,\" Dana warns, \"we're not gathering under an open heaven.\" If we are going to represent the Lord Jesus Christ, we will encounter all kinds of opposition--counterfeit ministry, demonic opposition, interference in the prayer meetings, and so on. To counteract the principalities and powers, we must know what it means to be filled with the Spirit.",
