Real Power for Kids: Knowing the Holy Spirit as Your Friend (Real Life (Harrison House)) - Softcover

Rod Baker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157794707X ISBN 13: 9781577947073

Publisher: Harrison House, 2005

Synopsis

The Real Life Series is written to teach children ages 6 to 9 about the fundamentals of Christianity. These fun, scriptural messages help kids understand salvation, the Holy Spirit, and healing on their level. Each book contains 12 delightful illustrations that help illuminate these life-changing concepts. Author Rod Baker has worked in children?s ministry for the last 20 years in prominent ministries such as the 20,000-member church, Victory Christian Center and 12,000-member church, Church On the Move, both located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With a strong demand in churches and ministries for scripturally sound, inexpensive tools to teach kids, these books are perfect as a giveaway for children to take home and read again and again.

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About the Author

Pastor Rod Baker has served for over 20 years in children’s and outreach ministry. He currently serves as director of the children ministries at Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He ministers to more than 4,000 children each week through children’s church, bus ministry, Sidewalk Sunday School Trucks, and Kidz Clubs, as well as a food pantry which feeds over 2,000 people a month.

Under Rod’s direction, the Victory Kidz School of Ministry is training up children’s and youth workers for this millennium while his newly developed, "Leaders in Training" program, is producing the same from our inner city youth. Rod has successfully taken hundreds of children on mission trips integrating the curriculum being taught in all the children’s ministries.

Rod and his wife Gloria reside in Tulsa with their children.

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The Holy Spirit is a gift from God to you and everyone who accepts Jesus as his or her Savior. He will be your helper to guide you and help you know how to pray. He will comfort you when you feel afraid or alone.

Read along, and we will walk you through every step you need to take to receive the power of the Holy Spirit.

The gift of the Holy Spirit has been promised by God for a long time. John the Baptist preached about it. Jesus told His disciples about the Holy Spirit. Before Jesus returned to heaven after His work on earth, He told them to wait in the city of Jerusalem until they received power from heaven.

That is exactly what they did. On the day of Pentecost, one hundred and twenty men were all praying. They were praying the same thing. They were praying for the promise of the Holy Spirit.

Suddenly, there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind. Something that looked like fire appeared in the room and landed on each person. When that happened, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with an unknown language as the Spirit gave them the words to say.

The Holy Spirit filled all the people in the room. No one was left behind. Everyone received the promise. The Holy Spirit works the same way today. Everyone can receive.

The disciples left the Upper Room in power. From that moment on, they were changed. They spoke in the temple. They preached from prisons. They healed the sick and the lame. It was like Jesus was there again doing the miracles, but this time, God was using His Holy Spirit-filled disciples.

You can receive the power of the Holy Spirit. You can have the same power that they had in the Bible. God has made sure that every person has been given the gift. It's yours for the taking. All you need to do is accept Jesus as your Savior and receive the gift by faith.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harrison House
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157794707X
• ISBN 13: 9781577947073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28