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Promises for a New Year\nHoly Spirit. Pastor Michael Dascoli\nJanuary 24, 2021\n\n\u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d Matthew 11: 28\n\n\u201cLet anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.\u201d 39 By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.\u201d John 7:37b-39\n\n"I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in \nabundance [to the full, till it overflows].\u201d John 10:10b amp\n\nThe source of the abundant life Jesus promised is Jesus Himself\n\nThe supply of the abundant life Jesus promised is the Holy Spirit\n \nThis is about a vertical connection that has horizontal effects\n\n\u201cSo then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.\u201d Colossians 2:6-7\n\nWhat Does This Abundant Life Look Like? \n\nFirst: It\u2019s about Jesus being with me forever\n\n\u201cI will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever\u201417 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.\u201d John 14:16-18\n\nAction Step: Embrace the promise\n\nSecond: It\u2019s about teaching me to know God and His plans\n\n"All this I have spoken while still with you, but the advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you." John 14:26\n\n\u201cThe person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.\u201d 1Corinthians 2:14\n\nAction Step: Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you\n\n\u201cFor who knows a person\u2019s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.\u201d 1 Corinthians 2:11-12\n\nThird: It\u2019s about convincing me of my need for God\n\n\u201c\u2026when He comes, He will convict the world of its sin, and of God\u2019s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. 9 The world\u2019s sin is that it refuses to believe in me. 10 Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. 11 Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.\u201d \nJohn 16:8-11\n\nAction Step: Practice embracing the presence of the Holy Spirit \n\nLet\u2019s Pray:\n\t-What is God\u2019s Spirit saying to you today?\n\t-How must you respond?