{"id":4442,"date":"2026-04-13T02:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:21:23","slug":"ive-got-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/ive-got-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Got the Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Monday, April 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve Got the Power<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.\u00a0<\/em><strong>Acts 1:8, ESV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Jesus ascended to Heaven, His followers were left with a mission but not on their own. They were empowered by the Holy Spirit. The book of Acts tells this story. This is a story many of us know well. But it\u2019s worth pausing and really taking it in.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary men and women\u2026 carried on the life-changing work of Jesus. \u00a0through the power of the Holy Spirit. So how was that possible? Through the power of the Holy Spirit. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, they didn\u2019t just try to imitate Jesus, they were filled with His power. What seemed impossible in their own strength became possible through His presence within them.<\/p>\n<p>And so, it is today. The same Spirit that empowered the early church is alive and at work in you. You were never meant to do this on your own. The mission of Jesus is not sustained by human effort; it is fueled by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>So today if you are feeling tired, weary, or just lost, take a moment to pause and invite the Holy Spirit to fill you again to guide you, strengthen you, and lead you in every step. Because you don\u2019t just have a mission.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got the power!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Holy Spirit, I yield to You. Guide my steps, order my thoughts, and make me sensitive to Your voice within me. Strengthen me in my weakness and fill me with Your power. Help me to walk in dependence on You, not striving in my own strength. Use my life to carry forward the work of Jesus. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 13 I\u2019ve Got the Power But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.\u00a0Acts 1:8, ESV After Jesus ascended to Heaven, His followers were left with a mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}