Romans 15:13 (NKJV)
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
In the passage above, we see a reference to “the power of the Holy Spirit.” This truth study aims to explore the power of the Holy Spirit. In another study, we looked at the presence of the Holy Spirit. Here we will develop Bible truths concerning Holy Spirit’s power, how that power manifested in Jesus’s ministry, how it manifested in the ministries of the apostles, and how it is available to the believer today.
Two of the Greek words that are translated in our English Bibles as “power” are “dynamis” (Strong’s Concordance G1411) and “exousia” (Strong’s Concordance G1849). Dynamis has meanings that include strength power, inherent power, ability, power for performing miracles, or the power of force or might. Exousia has meanings that include authority, power of choice, permission, or right.
Dynamis can be compared to the physical might of a bulldozer to move earth at a construction site or a person in the gym lifting weights. Exousia can be compared to the authority exercised by a parent over their child, a teacher over their student, or a police officer over citizens.
Holy Spirit has universal authority and power of choice as described by exousia. He is a member of the Godhead (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and They own everything (see Hebrews 1:2, AMPC). This universe was created by the Godhead, and it is maintained, sustained, and propelled by Their powerful word (see Hebrews 1:3, AMPC). They have the first word and final authority in all things. This Godhead always exercises complete exousia throughout the universe. This study, however, will focus primarily on Holy Spirit’s immeasurable ability to perform miracles and use His force and might to do as He wills, as described by dynamis. The Godhead is supernatural. Their work is always miraculous. It is far, far above any earthly system, law of nature, or restraint. The Godhead is never limited by matter, energy, or time. Since They created matter, energy, and time, it is subject to Them in all ways and at all times. We must begin to appreciate what an enormous advantage this is for the child of God. In New Testament believers, Holy Spirit has been sent to empower us with dynamis for living our lives. Christians have also been given exousia for living our lives, but this dynamis is the primary focus of this Truth Study.
Read Romans 15:13 again.
Romans 15:13 (NKJV)
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The word for “power” in this verse is dynamis. Holy Spirit has miraculous and supernatural ability to assist God the Father in filling us with all joy and peace as we believe. He causes us to abound in hope. It is not our own ability that brings about this joy, this peace, or this hope. It is the power, or the dynamis, of Holy Spirit that produces joy, peace, and hope in any of life’s circumstances.
This scripture from Romans 15 is just one of many passages that announce or describe Holy Spirit’s ability to move supernaturally in the life of a believer. If we pray and ask Him to exert His great power to fill us with all joy and peace as we believe, and to cause us to abound in hope, He begins to perform this work of power in us. We connect with dynamis by faith. We experience dynamis by believing for it to manifest. We access this power by speaking, declaring, praying, laying on of hands, anointing with oil, or by whatever instructions Holy Spirit speaks to our spirits. More will be said about accessing dynamis later.
In the first chapter of the first book in the New Testament (the Gospel of Matthew) Holy Spirit is introduced as a Spirit of miracle working power, dynamis.
Matthew 1:18 (NASB 1995)
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.
The word “power” is not found in this verse in many translations of the Bible and neither dynamis nor exousia appear in the original Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. However, numerous translations add the word “power” to explain how Holy Spirit accomplished the immaculate conception and virgin birth Jesus Christ.
Matthew 1:18 (ERV)
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened. His mother Mary was engaged to marry Joseph. But before they married, he learned that she was expecting a baby. (She was pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit.)
Matthew 1:18 (AMP)
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by [the power of] the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:18 (NLT)
This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Christianity and the fundamental doctrine of the new birth are predicated on the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus had to be one hundred percent human and one hundred percent God when He lived and walked among people on the earth. Holy Spirit had to supernaturally and miraculously “over-shadow” Mary (Luke 1:35, AMPC) and cause her to conceive Jesus in her womb. God is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit’s dynamis power was essential at the very first moment of the New Covenant and it will continue to be essential until and even past the time God’s Kingdom is established in this earth by His victorious church (Matthew 6:10, AMPC).
As Jesus began His earthly ministry, the action of Holy Spirit’s dynamis power was always on full display. In the Gospel of Luke, we find Jesus, in chapters 3 and 4, being baptized in water and in the Holy Spirit. After His baptism by John the Baptist, Jesus was sent by Holy Spirit into the wilderness to fast for forty days. After those forty days, He underwent serious temptations by the devil. Jesus overcame Lucifer’s temptations by quoting scripture to him. These events are described in Luke 3:21, 22 and Luke 4:1-14.
When Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan River, Holy Spirit came upon Him and came into Him to stay. As Holy Spirit descended like a dove and rested upon Jesus, God the Father spoke that He (Jesus) was His much-loved Son in Whom God Himself was well-pleased. At this point in time, Jesus was empowered – with Holy Spirit’s power – to accomplish all the works that the Father gave Him to do.
Luke 4:14 (NASB 1995)
And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district.
Luke 4:14 (EASY)
Then Jesus returned to Galilee. The Holy Spirit continued to give him power. Everyone who lived near there heard the news about him.
The English word “power” in verse fourteen above is translated from the Greek dynamis.
With this Holy Spirit-given power, Jesus preached a sermon from the scroll of Isaiah (Jesus quotes Isaiah 61:1,2) announcing His purpose for being in the earth and with them. Read this passage from Luke 4 carefully.
Luke 4:14-20 (NIV)
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Some call Luke 4:17-20 Jesus’s “inaugural address” as the world’s Messiah. Many Bible scholars point out that Jesus did not do any miracle or work of power (dynamis) until John baptized Him and Holy Spirit filled Him.
After Jesus read the passage from Isaiah to the people in the synagogue, He told them that the passage spoke of Him, indicating to the listeners that He was their long-awaited Messiah. Some of the local people were very displeased with this announcement and they attempted to throw Him off a cliff. Jesus left, safely, and immediately began to cast out demons and heal sick people. He began to manifest his purpose (Isaiah 61:1,2, and Luke 4:18,19) by supernaturally and miraculously bringing dynamis to bear in the lives of desperate people. It was the “power of the Holy Spirit,” as Luke 4:14 explains, that Jesus manifested.
All four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) contain records of Jesus performing miraculous healings and restoration of people, miraculous provision, miraculous preservation from danger, and many, many signs, and wonders. As a man, filled with Holy Spirit, Jesus “…went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil…”
Acts 10:37, 38 (NLT)
37 You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee, after John began preaching his message of baptism. 38 And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
The Gospels record the ministry of the God-Man, Jesus Christ. He manifests the power of Holy Spirit everywhere He goes, for everyone who has a need, at all times. No person who came to Jesus for help was denied, rejected, or turned away. Know this – this power manifested by your Savior Jesus is always also available to you everywhere you go and at all times in your life. Hebrews 13:8 is clear that Jesus has not changed in His ability to exercise dynamis.
Hebrews 13:8 (AMPC)
Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages).
Jesus still healing and restoring all who are oppressed, sick, needy, and broken. Today. Right now.
Let us look at Jesus ministering to needy people during His earthly ministry from the record of scripture. The following passages describe Him manifesting dynamis.
Matthew 8:1-3 (NLT)
1 Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the mountainside. 2 Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” the man said, “if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
John 5:1-9 (NIV)
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath
Luke 8:43-48 (NIV)
43 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. 44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. 45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” 46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” 47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 48 Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”
The word translated “power” in verse forty-six of Luke 8 is dynamis. Since Jesus was surrounded by crowds of people touching Him, Peter was surprised that someone’s individual touch alerted Jesus that “power has gone out of me.” This woman literally activated and drew the dynamis out of Jesus by her faith.
These are just a few of the many reports of Jesus healing and performing miracles for sick or disabled people as a man filled with Holy Spirit power. But Jesus also ministered dynamis to provide for people’s needs of provision and safety.
Matthew 17:24-28 (NLT)
24 On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?” 25 “Yes, he does,” Peter replied. Then he went into the house. But before he had a chance to speak, Jesus asked him, “What do you think, Peter? Do kings tax their own people or the people they have conquered?” 26 “They tax the people they have conquered,” Peter replied. “Well, then,” Jesus said, “the citizens are free! 27 However, we don’t want to offend them, so go down to the lake and throw in a line. Open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will find a large silver coin. Take it and pay the tax for both of us.”
John 6:1-13 (ERV)
1 Later, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (also known as Lake Tiberias). 2 A great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he did in healing the sick. 3 Jesus went up on the side of the hill and sat there with his followers. 4 It was almost the time for the Jewish Passover festival. 5 Jesus looked up and saw a crowd of people coming toward him. He said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough bread for all these people to eat?” 6 He asked Philip this question to test him. Jesus already knew what he planned to do. 7 Philip answered, “We would all have to work a month to buy enough bread for each person here to have only a little piece!” 8 Another follower there was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Andrew said, 9 “Here is a boy with five loaves of barley bread and two little fish. But that is not enough for so many people.” 10 Jesus said, “Tell everyone to sit down.” This was a place with a lot of grass, and about 5000 men sat down there. 11 Jesus took the loaves of bread and gave thanks for them. Then he gave them to the people who were waiting to eat. He did the same with the fish. He gave them as much as they wanted. 12 They all had plenty to eat. When they finished, Jesus said to his followers, “Gather the pieces of fish and bread that were not eaten. Don’t waste anything.” 13 So they gathered up the pieces that were left. The people had started eating with only five loaves of barley bread. But the followers filled twelve large baskets with the pieces of food that were left.
John 6:16-21 (ERV)
16 That evening Jesus’ followers went down to the lake. 17 It was dark now, and Jesus had not yet come back to them. They got into a boat and started going across the lake to Capernaum. 18 The wind was blowing very hard. The waves on the lake were becoming bigger. 19 They rowed the boat about three or four miles, Then they saw Jesus. He was walking on the water, coming to the boat. They were afraid. 20 But he said to them, “Don’t be afraid. It’s me.” 21 When he said this, they were glad to take him into the boat. And then the boat reached the shore at the place they wanted to go.
These scripture passages are just a very few reports in the Gospels of Jesus doing supernatural and miraculous works by the power of Holy Spirit. The Apostle John said this about Jesus’s many works of power in John chapters 20 and 21.
John 20:30, 31 (AMP)
30 There are also many other signs (attesting miracles) that Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these have been written so that you may believe [with a deep, abiding trust] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God; and that by believing [and trusting in and relying on Him] you may have life in His name.
John 21:25 (AMP)
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were recorded one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
Jesus was a miracle worker. But how is Jesus demonstrating dynamis in the Gospels two thousand years ago relevant to us today? It is relevant today because this same Holy Spirit provision of dynamis has been invested or deposited in every born-again believer. Jesus ministered dynamis to people in need as a man filled with Holy Spirit. We have that same power in us, and we can minister in the same dynamis as Jesus. The Book of Acts records the relevance of dynamis in the apostles’s lives. Consider Jesus’s instructions to His disciples as He was preparing to ascend to Heaven after His crucifixion, resurrection, and appearance to more than five hundred people. The passages below from the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts are the final instructions He gave. The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts were written by a physician named Luke to his friend Theophilus to give him a thorough account of Jesus’s ministry. In Acts 1, the “first account I made” is referring to the book of Luke so this information flows from Luke to Acts. Jesus is speaking in Luke 24:49. Luke quotes Jesus in Acts 1:4,5, 7,8
Luke 24:49 (NASB 1995)
And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Acts 1:1-8 (AMP)
1 The first account I made, Theophilus, was [a continuous report] about all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day when He ascended to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given instruction to the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen. 3 To these [men] He also showed Himself alive after His suffering [in Gethsemane and on the cross], by [a series of] many infallible proofs and unquestionable demonstrations, appearing to them over a period of forty days and talking to them about the things concerning the kingdom of God. 4 While being together and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Of which,” He said, “you have heard Me speak. 5 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized and empowered and united with the Holy Spirit, not long from now.” 6 So when they had come together, they asked Him repeatedly, “Lord, are You at this time reestablishing the kingdom and restoring it to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority. 8 But you will receive power and ability when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be My witnesses [to tell people about Me] both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”
Luke 24:49 speaks of “sending the promise of the Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power [dynamis] from on high.” The passage in Acts says, “He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised.” And “But you will receive power [dynamis] and ability when the Holy Spirit comes upon you…”
The word for “power” in Acts 1:8 is dynamis. Jesus is telling His disciples that just as He received the power of the Holy Spirit to perform miraculous signs and wonders, they would also receive this power.
In Acts 1, we see the disciples getting their marching orders from Jesus. They were to stay in Jerusalem until that which the Father had promised came upon them.
Acts 1:4, 5 (AMP)
4 While being together and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Of which,” He said, “you have heard Me speak. 5 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized and empowered and united with the Holy Spirit, not long from now
In Acts 2, Holy Spirit falls upon the disciples in the upper room. This was their “baptism with the Holy Spirt and fire” (Matthew 3:11; John 1:33). Each disciple received their own personal prayer language (tongues).
Acts 2:1-4 (NLT)
1 On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. 2 Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting. 3 Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. 4 And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
This was the fullfilment of the “promise of the Father” and the “baptism with the Holy Spirit” that Jesus had promised the disciples.
Then Peter, with his newly acquired power, preaches a sermon in which over three thousand people are saved and added to the new church of Jesus Christ. In his sermon, he explains that Jesus was offered up for the sins of the people. Their response to Peter’s words is found below.
Acts 2:37-39 (ERV)
37 When the people heard this, they felt very, very sorry. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?” 38 Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Then God will forgive your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 This promise is for you. It is also for your children and for the people who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself.”
It is interesting that Peter knew immediately after he was baptized in Holy Spirit that the gift of Holy Spirit would be available to all believers. Jesus had told the disciples that they would receive this gift, but Peter announced in his first sermon that this precious gift would be given to all who believe. Speaking under the influence or “anointing” of Holy Spirit, Peter knew instinctively that the baptism of the Holy Spirit was for all believers.
In chapter 3 of the Book of Acts, there is a record of a miracle of restoration accomplished by the newly Spirit-baptized Peter and John.
Acts 3:1-13 (ERV)
1 One day Peter and John went to the Temple area. It was three o’clock in the afternoon, which was the time for the daily Temple prayer service. 2 As they were entering the Temple area, a man was there who had been crippled all his life. He was being carried by some friends who brought him to the Temple every day. They put him by one of the gates outside the Temple. It was called Beautiful Gate. There he begged for money from the people going to the Temple. 3 That day he saw Peter and John going into the Temple area. He asked them for money. 4 Peter and John looked at the crippled man and said, “Look at us!” 5 He looked at them; he thought they would give him some money. 6 But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold, but I do have something else I can give you. By the power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth—stand up and walk!” 7 Then Peter took the man’s right hand and lifted him up. Immediately his feet and legs became strong. 8 He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk. He went into the Temple area with them. He was walking and jumping and praising God. 9-10 All the people recognized him. They knew he was the crippled man who always sat by the Beautiful Gate to beg for money. Now they saw this same man walking and praising God. They were amazed. They did not understand how this could happen. 11 The man was holding on to Peter and John. All the people were amazed. They ran to Peter and John at Solomon’s Porch. 12 When Peter saw this, he said to the people, “My Jewish brothers, why are you surprised at this? You are looking at us as if it was our power that made this man walk. Do you think this was done because we are good? 13 No, God did it! He is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is the God of all our fathers. He gave glory to Jesus, his special servant. But you handed him over to be killed. Pilate decided to let him go free. But you told Pilate you did not want him. 14 Jesus was holy and good, but you said you did not want him. You told Pilate to give you a murderer instead of Jesus. 15 And so you killed the one who gives life! But God raised him from death. We are witnesses of this—we saw it with our own eyes. 16 “This crippled man was healed because we trusted in Jesus. It was Jesus’ power that made him well. You can see this man, and you know him. He was made completely well because of faith in Jesus. You all saw it happen!
This healing of the lame man was the beginning of the apostles’s power ministry in the early days of the church. When the apostles ministered healing to this man, the religious leaders of the day strongly opposed them. The men who had turned Jesus over to the Romans to be crucified did not want Jesus’s disciples healing people in His name. The disciples, however, were not deterred or discouraged by religious opposition. Here was their prayer for God’s help in Acts 4.
Acts 4:29-31 (NLT)
29 And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word. 30 Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 31 After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they preached the word of God with boldness.
In Acts 5 we see how God answered the prayer from Acts 4.
Acts 5:12-16 (NLT)
12 The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple in the area known as Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 But no one else dared to join them, even though all the people had high regard for them. 14 Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women. 15 As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by. 16 Crowds came from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed.
The disciples obeyed Jesus and He was faithful to perform what He promised. They stayed in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit fell upon them (Luke 24, Acts 1). Then they were empowered to perform the works that Jesus did (Acts 2, 3). The Book of Acts is also known as the Acts of the Apostles. Some have said it could be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit. It is the account Luke wrote to record many of the miraculous works of power that men did who were filled with and empowered by Holy Spirit.
Is this power available to Christians today? Can we minister in dynamis to people in need today? The answer is an emphatic “yes!” Consider Jesus’s words below.
John 14:12, 16, 17 (NASB 1995)
12 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Chapters 14, 15, and 16 from the Gospel of John record the discussion Jesus had with His disciples immediately before His death at the Last Supper. Notice that Jesus promises believers that the Father is going to send Holy Spirit (the promise of the Father) to us, and He will empower us to do the works that Jesus did, and even greater works. These promises were made to the disciples. How can we appropriate them for us today? Recall Peter’s first sermon.
Acts 2:39 (ERV)
39 This promise is for you. It is also for your children and for the people who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself.”
In John 14:12 above, Jesus clearly states we will do the works He did and even greater works. There has been much speculation about what Jesus meant by “greater works.” Jesus raised His friend Lazurus from the dead. How could there be a “greater work” than raising the dead? Perhaps He was stating that His Spirit-baptized church would do the same works in greater numbers and in more places.
Peter proclaimed in Acts 2:39 that the promise is for everyone God calls to Himself. The following passages of scripture also verify our right to access Holy Spirit’s power.
1 John 3:1 (AMP)
See what an incredible quality of love the Father has shown to us, that we would [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
As God’s children, we are entitled to live in the same power and glory that He lives in. As Paul states below, we are God’s adopted children and His heirs. We have inherited all that He has with Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:15-17 (AMP)
15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear [of God’s judgment], but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [the Spirit producing sonship] by which we [joyfully] cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [believers] are children of God. 17 And if [we are His] children, [then we are His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His spiritual blessing and inheritance], if indeed we share in His suffering so that we may also share in His glory.
Many will agree that they have shared in the sufferings of Christ but have not yet shared in His glory. Holy Spirit is leading the church into sharing of Christ’s glory and inheritance with Him.
The Apostle Paul also told the Galatians that we are sons of God and heirs of God.
Galatians 4:6, 7 (HSCB)
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
The Kingdom of God revealed here on earth will include Christians who know they are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. They will boldly walk in the dynamis power of Holy Spirit. Paul prays a prayer for Christians in Ephesians 3:14-21 that is powerful. It is a good prayer to pray for yourself and your loved ones. Verse sixteen is especially important in experiencing and manifesting Holy Spirit power.
Ephesians 3:16 (AMPC)
May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].
Again, the word “power” in English translations of the verse above is “dynamis” in the Greek language of the New Testament. Recognizing that dynamis power exists is the first step to walking in it. Knowing it is your right to walk in dynamis as a child and heir of God is the next step. Asking in faith for this power to be manifested in and through you follows.
Beloved Bible student, if you are God’s child and a born-again believer, you share in Jesus’s inheritance. Everything that belongs to Jesus belongs to you. The righteousness He earned? It is yours. The favor with God He earned through His ceaseless obedience? Yours. The peace with God that He continually enjoys? Also, yours. And the power in which Jesus ministered is our inheritance. We are privileged to minister and demonstrate this dynamis. It is our right. We have the freedom to take this power and, like Jesus, go about doing good and healing all who are oppressed by the devil.
Ask Jesus to baptize you with Holy Spirit and by faith begin to look for opportunities to reach out to hurting people. Let Holy Spirit lead you. Listen to Him and obey the prompting He provides.
Ministering in the power of Holy Spirit is your right and your privilege. Do not be denied.