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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: cuhigher Ordered by Date |
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1 | I will pour out of My Spirit | Acts 2:17 | cuhigher | 193185 | ||
Thank you Morant61, Searcher56 and canawedding for your replies. canawedding, could you expand on what you're saying? Thanks. |
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2 | learning about the holy spirit | Rom 8:5 | cuhigher | 193102 | ||
Hi Janice - this is actually part 2 of my response to your question. Just scroll down a bit if you want to read part 1 first. ------------------------------------ So Janice, ASK – SEEK – KNOCK – PERSIST! You are on threshold of a most amazing journey into the heart of your God! We cannot begin to fathom the infinite wonders of Who He is, and of His incredible love for us!! (Prov 2:1-5) Get yourself a concordance, or if you’re online you can search this site or go to Biblegateway.com, and begin to look up and imbibe the Scriptures pertaining to the Holy Spirit. And don’t forget to ask HIM to be your Teacher and make the written word come alive in your heart! Here are a few passages from the Gospel of John to get you started. John 14:16-18 AMP And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever-- The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you. John 15:26,27 AMP But when the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth Who comes (proceeds) from the Father, He [Himself] will testify regarding Me. But you also will testify and be My witnesses, because you have been with Me from the beginning. John 16:12-14 AMP I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. Remember that from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through the Gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. May His grace and love, and the fellowship of the His Holy Spirit be with you and your family! (2 Thess 2:13,14; 2 Cor 13:14) cuhigher |
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3 | learning about the holy spirit | Rom 8:5 | cuhigher | 193099 | ||
Dear Janice, It’s so wonderful and precious to your Lord that you have such a desire to know Him and strengthen your faith. Jesus gave us the wonderful Holy Spirit for just this purpose! After He ascended back to the Father, He sent the Holy Spirit to be our closest friend and helper, and it is His fervent desire that we come into a richness and depth of intimacy with Him that will excite and thrill our souls, and empower us to live out our days on earth for His glory. The Holy Spirit Himself inspired and guided the writers of Scripture, and without His active involvement in our lives it is absolutely impossible to understand the written word of God or to live victoriously through the challenges and testings of this life. Everything we receive from the Lord is a gift and comes by His grace. However, it is very important to realize that the depth of relationship we experience with Him is largely determined by the degree that we are willing to pursue Him. Yet I must emphasize that this pursuit cannot be done through our own human effort, rather we must be completely dependent on Him. I’ve found that one of the most important keys to experiencing and living moment-by-moment in the Presence of God, is to ask Him to teach us “REST” and “WAIT” on Him. Reading the Bible and communicating with Him out of the depths of one’s heart are of course essential to developing one’s relationship with Him. However, there are sadly many Christians who religiously do these things but have very little experiential knowledge of the Holy Spirit. I would suggest that you begin and end your times of coming apart with the Lord with periods of simply being still and quietening your soul, and learning to rest and wait for Him. Many who have done this for the first time have been very pleasantly surprised and delighted at how He began to reveal Himself to them. Being still and waiting is not easy for most of us. However, if we are persistent it will be much more than worth the effort. (Heb 11:6) “BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psa 46:10) The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. HE MAKES ME LIE DOWN in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside THE STILL AND RESTFUL WATERS. (Psa 23:1,2 AMP) "He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet THOSE WHO WAIT FOR THE LORD WILL GAIN NEW STRENGTH; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary." (Isa 40:29-31) May believers today are seeking for more of the Holy Spirit and power of God in their lives but fail to remember that when God first sent His Spirit to the church on the day of Pentecost, Jesus said that the prerequisite for His coming was that they must “WAIT FOR THE GIFT MY FATHER PROMISED.” (Acts 1:4) I have found that another important key to knowing and experiencing the Holy Spirit is that we ask Him to teach us to set and keep our DESIRE and FOCUS on the things of God and His Kingdom. Again, this is something that is done by faith. “…those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the DESIRES of the Spirit SET THEIR MINDS on and SEEK those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.” (Rom 8:5 AMP) “Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, LOOKING AWAY [FROM ALL THAT WILL DISTRACT] TO JESUS, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection].” (Heb 12:1,2 AMP) And of course there is no substitute for simple faith and loving obedience to the Word of God. “And we are witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit is also, Whom God has bestowed on those who obey Him.” (Acts 5:31-33) "The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]" (Jn 14:21 AMP) more... |
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