• empowering them to boldly and effectively bear witness to their risen Lord (Acts 1:8) • providing them with an amazingly precise degree of ministry guidance (Acts 16:6–10)42 • enabling them to stand firm in the faith and to intercede for others in this regard (Eph 6:10–18) • enabling them to experience a dynamic, despair-defeating sense of hope (Rom 15:13) All of the effects listed here, when considered together, suggest that being filled with or led by the Holy Spirit is a very important part
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