I'm sure you have been to a funeral and have seen a body lying in a casket. Are you looking at a person? What makes a person is not the body. Instead, the person is what comes out of the body. The Holy Spirit is a person. He has the ability to love and the ability to hate. He speaks, and He has His own will. But exactly who is He? He is the power of the Godhead—the power of the Trinity. What is His job? To understand the job of the Holy Spirit, we need to understand the work of the Father and the Son.
Knowing the Holy Spirit Person to Person. Emmanuella - May 16, at 6: If you are quenching the Holy Spirit, then this means He is already moving in on you to try and help you out. It has blessed me. So many Christians receive that same experience and stop right there. Comments are not pre-screened before they post.
He has always been the one who says, "Let there be. Then, God the Holy Spirit brought the light. Let me illustrate it this way. If I asked you, "Please turn on the light," three forces would be involved. First, I would be the one who gave the command. But finally, who brings on the light?
It is not me, and it is not you. It is the power—the electricity—that produces light. The Holy Spirit is the power of the Father and of the Son. He is the one who brings into action the performance of the Son. Yet He is a person. He has emotions that are expressed in a way unique among the Trinity.
I've been asked, "Benny, aren't you forgetting the importance of Christ in all of this? How could I forget the one who loved me and died for me? I cannot forget the Father nor the Son. Here's the answer the Holy Spirit gave: That's what the Holy Spirit longs for—your fellowship! And there are no selfish requests in fellowship—just friendship, love and communion. That's how it was with me. My entire approach to prayer changed. I began to wait for the Holy Spirit before I prayed. I would say, "Precious Holy Spirit, would You now come and help me to pray? And here is another principle I learned: The Holy Spirit is the only teacher of the Bible.
For so long, I struggled to understand the Bible. He revealed the Word to me. I came to understand that the Bible itself was written by the Holy Spirit. He used men from all walks of life, but every one of them was led by the Spirit. From my first encounter with the Holy Spirit, I began to know that He was the great teacher. But I still wanted to know who He is. So I said, "I'd like to know what You are like. What He revealed to me was a mighty person and a childlike person at the same time.
He said to me, "When you hurt a child, he will stay away from you; when you love a child, he will be very close to you. That is how I began to approach Him. I felt that He was gentle, yet mighty and powerful. Like a child, however, He wants to stay ever so close to those who love Him. Wherever the parents go, the kids hang on and follow them. It's a sure sign that the kids are loved and cared for. That's the way it is with the Holy Spirit. He stays close to those who love Him. How was it possible that the great evangelist Charles Finney could preach the gospel and people would be "slain under the power," confessing their sins?
What was the power that fell when John Wesley opened his mouth to preach? It was the person of the Holy Spirit that accompanied their ministry. The cooks didn't even know she was walking by—but the next thing you know, they were flat on the floor. Kathryn didn't pray for them; she just walked by. When she left the meeting, it seemed as though the power of His presence attended her. Day after day, hour after hour, I lifted my hands and said, "Precious Holy Spirit, would You come now and just talk to me? But if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
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Please consider the following statements pertaining to comments posted by you and other visitors to our website: If you are quenching the Holy Spirit, then this means He is already moving in on you to try and help you out. Otherwise, there would be nothing to quench. Same thing with the other three key words — resisting, rebelling, and grieving. If the Holy Spirit was not becoming very active in your daily life in the first place, then there would be nothing to resist, grieve, or rebel against. All 4 of these words are very strong words, once again showing that the Holy Spirit is not only living on the inside of each one of us, but once He is in there, He wants to become very active in our daily life so He can help us complete our divine destiny with the Lord, along with helping us to become the kind of a person God wants us to become in Him through the sanctification process He wants to do with all of us.
You cannot fulfill your true purpose and calling in this life, and become the true sanctified saint God is wanting you to become in Him unless you have the Holy Spirit helping you out with all of this. This is why Jesus has said that without Him, we can do absolutely nothing in this life.
Bottom line with these first three captions — the Bible is telling all of us very clearly that not only do we have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us as a result of accepting Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior, but these verses are also giving us additional information that the Holy Spirit has a specific ministry with all of us — and that specific ministry is to guide us, lead us, and teach us in this life. And if the Holy Spirit has the job of guiding us and teaching us in this life, then this means He is going to try and supernaturally communicate to all of us from time to time.
And your job will then be to learn the different ways He will communicate to you — which will now take us right into the next section — the 8 different ways that the Holy Spirit will lead us and communicate to us in this life.
Read below or add a comment I also want to teach others about our helper- the Holy Spirit; may God increase you more and more and enlarge your territory in the word of God. I will pass this on to my friends. Thank you for writing this article. I was confused when hearing the holy spirit daily.
I thought I was sick. Now after reading this I know that Its walking through deeper waters with the Lord. I enjoy having the communication with the Holy Spirit. It makes me feel special. Thanks for the information. Thank you so much for this topic. You have certainly brought me closer to God and I promise that I will tell others about this.
I am awesomly blessed with this. In fact my cup is already running over. Thanks so much God bless you richly. Am blessed by this article and i was able to pick and expand my understand about the teaching of the holy spirit.
I have READ the first part of the article. It has blessed me. God bless you much more for being a blessing to this generation. About Us All Our Articles. Once again, here is this most important verse:
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