The Preaching With Power course can teach you the skills you need to prepare an effective sermon but unless you have the power of God on your message it will not bring God's results.Being an effective speaker may allow you to sway people and attract a good sized crowd but if the results of your preaching are to have eternal consequences it will be because God takes your words and brings conviction to the hearts of the congregation. So, how do you obtain this power on your preaching? I believe there are 2 main ingredients to the recipe.First, you must be a person of the Word of God. You cannot expect the God of the Bible to use you unless you are a person who is thoroughly steeped in His word. To be a person of the Word means that you have to make the Bible a integral part of your life and every day routine. You cannot expect God to give you messages filled with His power when you only study His word when you need a sermon. The Bible is NOT a tool for sermon creation. It is the living Word of God that can speak to your heart and can change the lives of people. You must read it, in fact, devour it with your mind so it can have its effect on your life. When you interact with God's word on a daily basis, multiple times per day, you are having a continual conversation with God. God will speak to you through his word, inspiring you, filling you with His great truths. You will then be able to preach from the overflow of God's inspiration on your life. With out the continual interaction with God's word you will not have power in the pulpit.The second ingredient is prayer. I am not talking about the vain repetitions and the redundant requests you make day in and day out. I am talking about real prayer where you ask God for a baptism of power on your ministry. We find in the book of Acts that the disciples were told to tarry in Jerusalem until they received power. They were not to go and preach under the power of the flesh. So, we find that after they received power that their preaching had miraculous results. My dear friends, we need power in our pulpits, not just eloquence. We need the Spirit of God to take our words and miraculously use them to bring men to Christ. Without the Holy Spirits power on your preaching you are only going to reap what the weak flesh can sow. However, the Holy Spirit can take our daily interaction with God's word and work in us a miracle of synthesis that will bring forth a harvest much greater than our feeble sermons warrant.Combine these two ingredients, season them with efforts to improve your preaching and I am sure that God will use you to make a significant impact on your community.