What's Under Your Hood!

We were so excited to visit with friends who we hadn’t seen in several years. We caught up on kids, jobs and everything that mattered to us all but this man was biting at the bit to show us his prized possession. We had noticed the beauty as we came up to his house, it was a beautifully restored yellow Thunderbird. This beauty brought back memories to us all, as we remembered it’s sleek body and sporty look in days gone by. The paint was perfect with chrome strips and bumpers. The original hub caps gleamed in the afternoon sun and the interior was as perfect as the day it rolled off the showroom floor. We all commented that we could almost smell the “new” in it. He was proud of the original knobs that turned the windshield wipers off and on and the old radio that was set to play the songs of that era. He had pictures of his car from every angle, inside and out that he hung proudly on his garage wall but the only thing it didn’t have was POWER, it had no engine. Our friend ran out of money so the beautiful car could only sit there looking pretty.

I thought of this today as I studied the with my daughters via Facebook, “The Power of a Woman’s Words”. We can try to control our words, we can try to win others to Christ with our words but the truth is in our own strength, without the POWER of the Holy Spirit we are like the beautiful car sitting in the driveway we are going no where.

In the book we were asked to look at Peter’s life before the Holy Spirit in Matthew 26:69-74 with the Peter we see in Acts 2:14-41. In the account in Matthew we see a , once “shiny car“, who was ready to die for Jesus, reduced to a frightened man who denied he even new the Savior but in the Acts account we see a bold Peter filled with the POWER of the Holy Spirit proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In verse 41 we see that three thousand were added to their number that day. What could we “the Church” do today if we would do as Jesus said and tarry until we are filled with the Holy Ghost!

In the last days, God says, I will pour our my Spirit on all people. Acts 2:17

Satan has nothing to worry about as long as we sit in our driveways looking pretty, but oh how we could shake him up if we actually had the POWER under our hoods. I so often try to do things in my own strength and find frustration and failure, but it is time we all begin to live in the POWER of the Holy Spirit! Come Holy Spirit we need you!