February 12, 2023 THE HOLY SPIRIT
John 14:16-17,26-16:13a ““I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you.” “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth,”
1 Corinthians 6:19 “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?”
Romans 8:26, 15:13, 8:9 “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,”
Galatians 5:2-23a “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”
2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
Romans 5:5 “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
Ephesians 1:13 “In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,”
What a blessing that God has chosen to send His Holy Spirit to live in each believer. Having the Holy Spirt in us lifts us above living according to our own understanding; the Holy Spirt empowers us and guides us according to the ways of God. It is no casual or small thing for us to be temples of the Holy Spirit; without the Holy Spirit living in us, we could never live the Christian life as depicted in the scriptures. Because we have the Holy Spirit, we can be conscience of the presence of God in us; we have access to the wisdom of God; we have discernment; we know truth; we have the fruit of the Spirit as listed in Galatians 5:2-23; we know God’s will for us; we have the super-natural power of God at work in us; we have hope and joy that are not dependent on circumstances; we can understand the word of God--and the list goes on. Also, the Holy Spirit reveals to us our true identity as sons and daughters of God-and that is so important. So, let us not take for granted the presence of the Holy Spirit in us; let us learn to discern His voice and His leading; let us walk in the Spirit, and not in the flesh. The Holy Spirit always leads us to life.
Romans 6:10-11 “The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, He will give life to your mortal bodies by the same Spirit living within you.”
Blessings, Buddy
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