It is possible for your power needs to outweigh your power supply.
When we attempt to draw more power than a circuit can provide we will be left powerless. In life we need to be connected to a power source that can supply our power need. Power comes through connection.
Jesus is the only source of power that can supply all of your needs.
Jesus promised in Acts 1:8 that we would receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on us.  If this power is for us to receive, then we need to stop living powerless lives.
Power comes with the Holy Spirit connection. Power comes through connection. Are you connected?

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Power comes through Connection
Sermon notes by Chris Fluitt
Redemption Plano tx
 
Welcome to the year 2017.
Hello to all of our podcast listeners, Youtube subscribers, and whoever might be finding this sermon. My name is Chris Fluitt. I serve as lead Pastor here at Redemption Church in Plano Tx. It is an honor to minister the Word to you today.
1 Powerful Year
My prayer for you this year is that you would have a POWERFUL YEAR. A lot of us feel like we limped through 2016. We may feel like we barely survived in our relationships, our health, and our finances.
I am praying that your 2017 would be a year of power, strength, momentum, victory, encouragement, faith, miracles, and success. God wants to power your year. He wants to power every area of your life. DO YOU WANT THAT?
Acts 1:8 is our memory verse for the month of January.  Memorize this scripture.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”(NIV)
2 We need Power
One of the worst things that can happen in your home is to lose power.

* No heat in the winter.
* No AC in the 8 month long Texas summer.
* No light in the night time hours.
* Worst of all… No Netflix.

We need power to function. We need power to succeed. When we have no power, nothing works. All the high dollar things you are so proud of don’t work without power.
Your 60 inch smart tv with the truest of black and the highest 4k resolution… is a broken picture frame without power.
Your iPhone 7s with its apple A10 fusion quad core processor and 3 GBs of ram, those strange little Bluetooth earbuds, and all those cool games and apps… it is a $700 paperweight without power.
Most of the things you own… the things your dream about owning, are worthless without power.
 
Your relationships need power. Your marriage. Your family. There is a need for power.
Your church needs power.
Your calling in God needs power.
We need to power up our finances, our careers, our education.
We are in need of power in every area of our life.
 
Acts 1:8 tells us that God will give us power.  If God has promised to give us power, then we need to stop living powerless lives.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you…NIV)
3 Power is yours to receive
If power is yours to recive, then we need to stop living powerless lives.
Acts 1:8 gives us a principle.
4 Power comes through connection
When you are connected to the Holy Spirit you will receive power.  Power comes through connection.
 
This makes sense in the physical.

* Your house is literally connected to power line cables. Without that connection there is no power.
* If you don’t connect your phone to the charger then it will not receive power.

The power comes through connection.
 
Do you understand why we worship? Do you understand why some around you are singing and raising their hands?  They are connecting.