This week on the podcast Paul and Ben wrap up the series "With You Always." As we who follow Jesus seek to live out the mission of Jesus, we are deeply dependent upon the presence of the Holy Spirit. We need God to open doors. We need God to make us bold. We need a power that we will never find within us--one that only comes from God.

Jesus' first disciples were taught by the best teacher they could have asked for. They were well equipped. They had been trained to be like their master. In spite of this, Jesus told them not to leave Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came to them (Acts 1:5). Just as the first disciples could not take the gospel into the world on their own power, so we, today, have a desperate need for the power and presence of God as we seek to do the work of God.

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