if we express our desire to be controlled by God’s Spirit, confess any known sin to Jesus, and then, simply by faith, appropriate God’s power in our lives, that power is now fully operative.2 Jesus claims, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you” (Acts 1:8), and instructs the disciples to wait until they “have been clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). Even more, read in John 3:34 where Jesus says that God “gives the spirit without limit.” The Holy Spirit was power. We