Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit (Lk.
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A brief theological overview of the three different workings of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life. They include the Holy Spirit indwelling the believer at the point of salvation, filling the believer when he is yielded to Him, and the Holy Spirit erupting into an overflow up and out of the believer at the point of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. These three works of the Holy Spirit are compared and contrasted, using a chart formation, which lasts for several pages.
This 40-page booklet is a revision of our earlier
booklet, “The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.” We have doubled the size
and added extensive practical teaching on how to be baptized in the Holy
Spirit and begin speaking in tongues, as well as how to operate the other
gifts of the Holy Spirit. Mark shares his personal struggle, his blocks,
and how God removed them one at a time until he was able to operate freely
in the gifts of tongues and prophecy.
This booklet will free you or your friends from rationalism and release
you into Spirit encounter. You will find it life-changing! Pass copies out
to your friends. Use them in home Bible study groups or Sunday school
classes.
"I believe this book will be used
greatly to: 1) open hearts of rational Christians to the possibility
they have been deceived and kept from entering into the abundant
supernatural life promised by Christ, 2) bring mature understanding
regarding the work of the Holy Spirit to the charismatic and pentecostal
movements, and 3) help answer the question, ‘I have been baptized in
the Holy Spirit, now what?’
"I also expect it to be an
excellent tool to aid in bringing seeking Christians into Holy Spirit
baptism and the gift of tongues."
-- Joe Allison CEO, Gaptek Inc. - Electronics Manufacturing Services Company
Elder with Dove Christian Fellowship - Red Lion
"This
booklet will help the average believer allow the Holy Spirit to baptize
him and to release him in the gift of tongues, which is, practically
speaking, a foundational gift that helps one get released in and operate
in all other gifts of the Spirit. Dr. Virkler’s experience of speaking
Portuguese as the Spirit released him in the gift of tongues is
fascinating, and as always, the principles seen in Scripture of letting
go of the rationalistic control of one’s mind and flesh and of tuning
to Spirit-flow while stepping out to speak in tongues are very
helpful."
-- Dr. Gary Greig Founder - Kingdom Training Network
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you need from it to really change your life, here are some options for
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in the Holy Spirit is also available
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Baptism in the Holy Spirit seminar in
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more about this opportunity and how you can schedule this practical workshop at your
church.
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This 220-page book leads you in meditating on several hundred verses that discuss the Holy Spirit. You will grow in intimacy with the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the anointing within you will increase! You will exclaim as the disciples did on the Emmaus Road “Did not our heart burn within us…while
He opened to us the scriptures?” (Luke 24:32)! In addition to being led to journal through these verses, you will read numerous
two-way journal entries from Mark Virkler, as well as a five-page prayer at the conclusion of the book, part of which is recorded below.
“Holy Spirit, I come to You. I choose to walk in obedience and faith, as these are Your requirements for receiving Your abiding presence. You flow freely when I live in love and unity with others and when I seek to build others up. I choose to be diligent to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. I will let people lay hands upon me to receive Your indwelling and anointing. Holy Spirit, I come to You.
“Holy Spirit, come. You drew me unto salvation. You grant me intimacy with God. You make me a temple of God. Holy Spirit, I seek all Your works in my life. Please indwell me, fill me, flow out from me and pour Yourself out upon me. I consciously welcomed You into my heart at the point of my salvation. I was baptized by You at the point of time I yielded my outer faculties from self control to Your control and asked for and sought Your empowering.
“You renew me each and every morning. Your daily filling requires a constant yielding of my heart and soul to You, which I choose to do. I desire for You to flow out through me. Empower me from within. I desire that You be poured out upon me. Through Your various workings, You give me victory over sin as well as victory over sickness, disease and the devil. Truly Your power sets the captives free. Holy Spirit, come.” (Four more pages of this prayer follow in the book.)
Perhaps nothing is more powerful than journaling through Scriptures. Make this book your daily devotional for a period of months.
"Mark’s new book has sparked in me a
new hunger to say once again: 'Holy Spirit, I want to know You
more.' I know that as you study the work and the person of the Holy
Spirit laid out in the pages of this book, and as you begin to ask the
Holy Spirit questions, you, too, are going to discover a new level of the
manifest presence of God in your life. The Bible will come alive; an
unquenchable hunger for more of God will arise in your heart, and you will
experience an overflow of miracles, signs and wonders. As the Church
prepares for the greatest revival to ever hit the earth, every Christian
and every student of the Word and Spirit needs to have an encounter with
the person of the Holy Spirit. This book provides an open door for you to
begin glorious communion with God’s Spirit today!"
What exactly has God declared are the essential foundational experiences which one must have if he is going to move and live in the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit? God doesn't leave it up to chance. We don't have to guess what these foundational experiences are. He states them clearly in Hebrews 6:1,2. They are:
Repenting from doing works on our own.
Having faith in God.
Experiencing four different baptisms.
Experiencing the power of the laying on
of hands
Experiencing the resurrection power
of Christ within.
Honoring the laws of judgment.
Take it to the next level
If you want to go beyond simply reading a book and hoping you get everything
you need from it to really change your life, here are some options for
you.
Opportunity 2
Earn college credit while
being apprenticed to mastery in this area! This book is also available
as part of THE120 Foundational Experiences, a three-credit distance learning college course from
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This book is designed to be used in a 13-week new members' class of a church which is pursuing intimacy with the Holy Spirit. As people come to your church, they come with many different theological backgrounds and expectations as to what church ought to be like. It is crucial that you align these people's hearts and minds as they join the church, or they will end up pulling in many different directions and causing division.
The purpose of this book is to introduce people to what a Spirit-anointed church looks like and acts like, and what it believes about the power of God. The chapters are short so that the one who is leading this class can easily enlarge upon a particular emphasis which their church has chosen to focus on. Since people have read the chapter before coming to class, the class time can be a time of life-giving discussion, rather than lecture.
Want to go deeper?
If you want to go beyond simply reading a book and hoping you get everything
you need from it to really change your life, here are some options for
you.
Opportunity 2
Earn college credit while
being apprenticed to mastery in this area! The Supernatural Church is also available
as part of THE121 The Law and the Spirit, a three-credit distance learning college course from
Christian
Leadership University. Experience God's revelation truth while earning your degree from
home!
This book guides you in doing an original research project in any area in which you are seeking to demonstrate the supernatural release of divine power through your life. For example, one project recorded in this book is entitled, "Healing a Chronic Illness Through Receiving and Acting Upon a Word of Knowledge."
You will be guided in setting up a scientific experiment to test the validity of your stated belief or hypothesis. You will conduct your research and record your results. In this book, you will find two such completed projects.
You will also explore in-depth the three key New Testament words for power:
exousia, dunamis and energes. The approximately 250 verses from the New Testament which have the word "power" in them are printed in their entirety in three major lists, based on the underlying Greek word for power. This book will make you work, but when you are done, you will have examined, in detail, some aspect of the release of God's power through your life.
Are you prepared to reach out and minister to
spiritually thirsty people around you? In John 7:37-39, the Lord Jesus
promised that the Holy Spirit's power would flow like "streams of
living water" from anyone who believed on Him. You can touch others
with the life-changing power of God. Through you, the sick can be healed,
the weary can be refreshed, and the bound can be set free.
In Your River Must Flow, experienced teacher,
Albert Gengenbach, presents the simple biblical principles established by
the Lord that will enable any Christian to live the powerful New Testament
lifestyle and perform the great works promised by Him in John 14:12-14.
Experience the flow of the Holy Spirit power through you
to do the miraculous. You have been called to this purpose. You have been
gifted and equipped, and Your River Must Flow!
In this book, James Rutz offers the following statistics on Worldwide Numerical Growth of charismatic Christians:
From 1970 through 2000 the Spirit-anointed church grew at an 8.8% annual rate.
They went from 71 million to 707 million = a 10-fold increase in 30 years.
At this rate, half the world will be Spirit-filled by 2022.
The demonstration of the power of God (healing, deliverance and hundreds of resurrections) is quickly winning the world to Christ.
For his calculations in Mega Shift quoted above, James Rutz did not include the liberals
or the evangelicals because of their slow growth rate:
Evangelicals grew at a 1.1% annual rate during the same years.
The liberal church declined in membership.
More Statistics from Mega Shift
3000 people are being saved every 25 minutes. Pentecost now reoccurs every half hour! Thus there are 175,000 more Christians every day.
Currently 1/3 of the world is Christian.
In November of 2000, 6 million Nigerians attended a six-day Reinhard Bonnke crusade. Over 1 million people accepted Jesus during the last night alone, and hundreds of thousands were healed of every condition imaginable.
Hundreds of stories of resurrections have come in from
52 different nations.
South African church growth specialist Karel Sanders reported in 1998 that 42% of the new Muslim converts are coming to Christ because of “visions, dreams, angelic appearances, and hearing God's voice.”
God is doing a new thing – the world is being won by dreams, visions, His voice and a demonstration of the power of God in their midst!
