February 6 – 13, 2026

FOLLOW THE ROAD TO POWER 

Acts 19:1-7 “While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?’ They answered, ‘No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.’ So Paul asked, ‘Then what baptism did you receive?’ ‘John’s baptism,’ they replied. Paul said, ‘John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.’ On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve men in all.”

You CAN be a Christian, saved and going to heaven, without being baptized by the Holy Spirit.  But why would you want to be? Without the Holy Spirit, Christianity can be boring and uneventful and powerless, and church can feel like a social club. And you can spend the rest of your life thinking, “There must be more.”

You will have greater wisdom, greater revelation and insight, greater discernment, greater gifting, greater passion—by walking in the fullness of the Spirit of God! You’ll also experience greater joy, peace, assurance, confidence, excitement, anticipation because…the Holy Spirit did not retire after the apostles died! One third of the Trinity is not dead or no longer relevant. The Holy Spirit is just as powerful as He ever was. Don’t let the Holy Spirit sit on the shelf with all the fairy tales. Move Him off the shelf of fiction. Move Him onto the shelf of facts and let Him be as active as He ever was.

God is looking for active participants. Why? Because He already has enough spectators!

He is funny. 

He is exciting. 

He is adventurous. 

And He wants to use YOU!

 

This is an excerpt from a 90-day devotional written by Emil and Karen. To order the full devotional, click on the TO ORDER DEVOTIONAL page.