March 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.