Issachar Coaching Cluster Year 2 Session 1 Empowering by the Holy Spirit Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

How has your Abba Father been blessing you over the Summer? What was you first real paying job? Prayer

A primary objective of the District is to produce Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leaders at every level in the Bride of Christ.

Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model

Top Three Evangelism Prayer List Who Are The Individuals The Lord Desires Me To Befriend?

Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Empowering by Holy Spirit Competencies: 1-Claiming the Promise, Presence & Power of the Holy Spirit 2-Obeying the Holy Spirit -Quench Not -Grieve Not -Resist Not

Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Empowering by Holy Spirit Competencies: 3-Being filled with the Holy Spirit 4-Manifesting the Fruit of the Holy Spirit 5-Exercising the Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Being Filled With the Holy Spirit “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.” Eph 5:18, NIV

Filled...to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc. (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

The verb “pleroo” is a 2 nd person plural present imperative passive voice which implies a translation something like: “be being filled with the Holy Spirit”

What are some implications of the comparison between “being drunk with wine” versus “be being filled with the Holy Spirit?”

Someone once said “we leak, we’re all cracked pots!” what do you think?

Acts 8:14-17 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. When they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

How does one arrive at and remain in the state of “be being filled with the Holy Spirit?”

11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will

your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" Luke 11:11-13 NIV

What attitudes, actions, or circumstances would hinder one from “be being filled with the Holy Spirit?”

Soul Spirit Body Known Unconfessed Habitual Sin

What has the Holy Spirit been whispering to you?

Now lets move on to a Learning Principle

In a survey of top executives, the Center for Creative Leadership discovered the following percentages related to learning: Books, lectures etc. ________ Coaching/Mentoring ________ Experience ________

In a survey of top executives, the Center for Creative Leadership discovered the following percentages related to learning: Books, lectures etc. 10% Coaching/Mentoring 20% Experience 70%

Will Rogers “Some men learn from books, some learn from watching others, the rest of us learn from peeing on the electric fence.”

Learning from Experience External Processes Experience Reflection on Experience Form concepts, generalizations (make meaning) Test concepts in new situations Internal Processes Figure adopted from D. A. Kolb Experimental Learning. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentiss Hall 1985

What are some intentional ways to learn from experience?

-Debriefings What just happened? What can we learn? -Coaching with immediate feedback -Journaling- “Yesterday…” - -

What are some Expressions of Being Filled With the Holy Spirit? Ongoing awareness of Holy Spirit’s guidance & presence Experiencing power for godly living & victory over temptation Experiencing power for witnessing Experiencing power for ministry Establishing DAWG Days- Day Away With God

What are some Expressions of Being Filled With the Holy Spirit? Manifestations of the Fruit of the Holy Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Gentleness, Kindness, Self-control… Do not need “laws” to tell us what God created/intends for us to be and do

What are some Expressions of Learning from Experience? Reflective Journaling daily experiences Immediate feedback from coaching Renewing of our mind Metacognition- thinking about one’s thinking (“taking every thought captive”)

What resources/practices have assisted you in Being Filled With the Holy Spirit? Daily claiming Holy Spirit’s filling Pursuit of God- Tozer Knowledge of the Holy- Tozer Reading, Meditating, Memorizing & Claiming Scripture Explore/practice fasting & prayer Seeking Jesus & the Holy Spirit!!!

What resources/practices have assisted you in Being Filled With the Holy Spirit? Daily asking to “be being” filled with the Holy Spirit (the Baptism of the Holy Spirit) “Be Still and know that I am God…”

On a 1 (Low) to 10 (High) scale, how would you rate your “being filled” with the Holy Spirit in past weeks? What has been sustaining you at that level?

As you listen to the Holy Spirit, what is He whispering? What specific action steps would catapult you to the next level of “being filled” with the Holy Spirit?

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