When we encounter problems in life, let's look at our actions first.

While playing the blame game you cannot ask for forgiveness.

Do not get back on the blame merry go round.

Spiritual leaders challenge people to action.

God's spirit working through men and women can do incredible things.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.

38 Then Peter said to them,"Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

9 "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"