CHRISTIAN LIFE PROGRAM
RECEIVING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Brief Outline
1. God has promised the Holy Spirit to His people. With the Holy Spirit, we gain a new nature,spiritual power, and the power to serve.
2. Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit. We turn to him and receive the new life in the Holy Spirit from him.
3. God offer us various gifts. One of these is the gift of tongues.
* Tongues is a gift of praise.
* To receive this gift, we simply desire it, ask for it in faith, and cooperate with the Spirit's promptings in speaking out.
4. We must nurture the new life and God's gifts.
* Do not allow Satan to rob you of your gift.
* Do not expect all problems to go away at once, though many will.
* Be faithful to a regular time of daily prayer.
The challenge
You have claimed Christ's promise of the Holy Spirit to anyone who asks. You have been baptized in the Holy Spirit and have received a new life from the Lord. You are "a new creation:the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come" (2 Corinthians 5:17). You have begun a new life in faith. Will you commit yourself fully to Jesus Christ and grow into the life in the Holy Spirit?
Receiving the power of the Holy Spirit is one of the important talks in the Christian Life Program (CLP), this is the time where they will be baptize being a true and complete Christian. This will be done through praying over of the participant. But before that, the week before the baptism, their team leader would go in the house of participants to get interview from them about of what gift they will like to receive by the holy spirit. The gift consists of 9 namely, The Gift of Knowledge, The gift of Wisdom, The gift of Prophecy, The gift of Faith, The gift of hearings, The working of miracles, The discerning of spirits, Different kinds of tongues and the interpretation of Tongue. The team leader will discuss it one by one and asks what gift do they like and want to receive. in the day of baptism, the team leader should know the gifts of each participants. They will be called one by one and pray for them. After this, all of the participants are now renewed christians.
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