today we're going to talk about the power of the holy spirit and we're going to start out with you know what are some reasons that in my life and in your life sometimes that pot where the holy spirit is missing so here's a first one we have abundant information and limited application abundant information we live in an information age but limited application there was a verse jesus declared acts one eight but you receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses in jerusalem today as some area and to the ends of the years and many long term christians will say well i already knew that verse in fact i have that memorized in so they want to go a little deeper and we talk about power do missis the same word is dynamite and there's some encouragement in that kind of power and say let's let's what else is in that verse and then you talk about witnesses that same word is is the co word for murder and it speaks to faithfulness to jesus no matter what the consequences are and they say well that's good and what other information about the verse but at some point we have to stop and look at the application and say well is the holy spirit moving powerfully in your life locally and is god using you to make a difference internationally because that's the application of that verse the first two words are so important but you know why did jesus say that the disciples were pressing in when you going to set up your kingdom lord when is it going to happen and they wanted to know when when when many people today are asking when is jesus going to return when when when if someone ever tells you they know the date you just say no the scripture says no one knows the date all right so but we're asking when when with so many questions when will i get married when will i get that promotion when will i get a new job when will this happen in my family say when when give us more information and information is a blessing information is good we should go deep into scripture but jesus is saying but you what about the application the emphasis the disciples is it's nice you're asking questions but i want you to focus now on being filled with the holy spirit and having the spirits power in so that's the thrust jesus knows that we can live with supernatural power daily daily in so that's where he directs the disciples now here's a second thing to consider thinking god's power is for some other person or some other denomination now in second timothy one seven discipline ok that word timidity literally in the greek means cowher this fear based to passive have you ever given in to fear and then you know that god has something more but you become timid would be easy for timothy to sit back and say it's probably not going to be much powerful happening here because paul filled with the holy spirit in god's power over there in peter filled with god's spirit power over there do you ever do that your walk with god god's probably not going to much significant my life but oh i've got a friend you should check that out no i've got another friend god really works powerfully in their lives sometimes we say well there's a couple denominations god heals god's powerful over there but not ours or sometimes we say well i know some churches were gods really powerful in so we can easily point a finger and say over there that's where god's power is and it's true timothy was young it's true he was inexperienced it's true he had a lot of opposition in those things probably fears but they should not have the final say for when you have the spirit of god you're able to overcome fear through the power of the holy spirit and i think to replace that timidity with courage what paul is doing in writing this is helping timothy along in creating a hunger for more of the holy spirit and i just wonder in your own life today how hungry you are for more of the holy spirit and his poller so that's where timothy is going now here's a third reason why we can have a power outage and it's this being content with less than your god given potential just being content in complacent and i want to take a look at the final book in the bible the book of revelation turn to chapter three so there are sixty six books this is the final book the holy spirit you know wrote through different people and this was written by john john wrote the gospel of john first john second john third john and then this is the first book neither cold nor hot i wish you were either one or the other so because you are lukewarm neither hot nor cold i am about to spit you out of my mouth you say i am rich i have acquired wealth and i do not need a thing but you do not realize that you are wretched pitiful poor blind in naked i counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so you can become rich and white clothes to wear so you can cover your shameful nakedness insaf to put on your eyes so that you can see let's think about laodicea there was an earthquake about thirty five years before this and the city had completely recovered so now financially they were thriving but jesus says spiritually there is poverty in bankrupt when you think about latest see i think about a textile industry where there's wool and clothing in jesus's yet you're naked you need garments of purity and holiness and zeal and then this city was known for a medical school and for healing for people's eyes this eyes savin jesus  ok that's your reputation but spiritually blind jesus really challenging