THE HOLY
SPIRIT
In just about all churches we hear preachers and
teachers speaking on God the Father and God the Son.
Very seldom do you hear the term God the Holy Spirit
I find that
amazing since the work of the Holy Spirit is so vital to our faith walk and
daily lives.
The Holy Spirit is one third of the God head, and the
only one that if you speak against him, there will be no pardon
Mathew 12: 31-32.…. 31 wherefore i say unto you, all
manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy
against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 and whosoever speaketh a word against the son of
man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost,
it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to
come.
Again, I ask, why do pastors and teachers ignore the Holy
Spirit. I cannot answer that question.
Acts 2:38...38
then peter said unto them, repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost.
There are no demonstrations of the Holy Spirit in some
churches today, no one wants to teach on him.
The Holy Spirit is not an it, the Holy Spirit is the
very presence of God, the anointing of God and He is very real and very
powerful. It is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, they are the
trinity.
When we are full of the Holy Spirit, we are different.
We sing different, we act different we praise the Lord different, we sing
different, we give different, we worship different, and we respond different. It
is the right way to worship.
I don’t want to be like any other church, I want to be
a Holy Spirit filled Christian. As a Holy Spirit filled Christians some of us
shout, some of us cry, but when the spirit of God starts moving, we respond.
I want to be like the church that was born the day of Pentecost.
If it was good enough for Peter, if it was good enough
for John, if it was good enough for Paul, it is good enough for a believing church.
It is good enough for me.
How can we improve on the one that endowed Gods
favorite, David with the power to kill the giant.
How can we improve on the one that anointed Moses, and
opened the red sea?
How can we improve on the one that anointed Joshua as
they marched around the walls of Jericho?
How can we improve on the one that raised Jesus from
the dead?
You can’t get any higher than the power of the Holy Spirit.
Without the power of the person and anointed office of
the Holy Spirit, there is no fire in the churches.
We must have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to
experience the fulness of God.
The presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the
service can do more in one second than all of the sermons preached and all the
songs sung.
The power of God moving in a service can change the
sinner, heal the sick, raise the dead and mend the broken hearts. It can make
the crooked path straight.
That is what we need today, the moving and the
operating of the Holy Spirit in our churches and our lives.
Through the anointing he guides us, the Holy Spirit
leads us, the Holy Spirit empowers us, it is through the Holy Spirit we are
anointed.
The Holy Spirit gives us our sermons to preach, He
gives us songs to sing, and tells us how to preach it and how to sing it.
Have some come to a place where they think they no
longer need to depend on the Holy Spirit?
Do we no longer believe in the power and the presence
of God through the person and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
We were created not only as spiritual beings, not only
as physical beings, but also created as emotional beings.
At times our emotions are all bent out of shape and
messed up to the point that we have to put up with things all week.
On Sunday we get together in the household of faith
and the spirit of God starts moving, the hands go up and the anointing comes
down and our problems disappear.
God is greater than my body, he is greater than my
sickness. There is something about the Holy Spirit, I can’t explain it, but I know
I have it.
There is no limitation when the power of the Holy Spirit
begins to move. I am believing God for the day to come at a believers church
that they are right in the middle of a song, and the power of God will fall on
the place and people will fall out, some will run, sinners will get saved, sick
bodies will get healed without us laying hands on them, Believers will get
baptized in the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues.
The power is
here today, receive it, receive it in Jesus name.
Thessalonians 1:5-6... for our gospel came not unto
you in word only, but also in power, and in the holy ghost, and in much
assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
6 and ye became followers of us, and of the lord,
having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy ghost.
The Holy Spirit changes people when they believe the
good news
We must depend on the Holy Spirit to open eyes and
ears of the unbelievers and convince them by what they hear that they need
salvation.
Without the work of the Holy Spirit our words alone
won’t work.
The Holy Spirit not only convicts’ people of their
sin, but also assures them of the truth.
John 14: 26...26 but the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit
would help them remember what he had been teaching them.
The Holy Spirit can help us in the same way.
As we study Gods word, we can trust him to plant the
truth in our minds.
The end result of the Holy Spirits work in our lives
is a deep and lasting peace.
If your life is full of stress, allow the Holy Spirit
to fill you with the peace of Christ.
Mark 16:15-18... 15 and he said unto them, go ye into
all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 and these signs shall follow them that believe; in
my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and
they shall recover.
I don’t see any signs following them that believe
today. I don’t see anyone casting out devils, very seldom do I hear anyone
speaking in tongues.
Many of the churches today have lost their Holy Spirit
fire. We have shut out the only one that makes the word of God work in our
life.
Have we quenched
the Holy Spirit?
1st Thessalonians 1:5-6 for
our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost,
and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your
sake.
6 and ye became followers of us, and of the Lord,
having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
the word in pulpist today are not being preached with power in the Holy
Ghost, but in words only…The Holy Spirit changes people when they believe the good news.
We must depend on the Holy Spirit to open eyes and ears of the unbelievers and convince them by what they hear that they need salvation.
Without the work of the Holy Spirit our words alone cannot work.
The Holy Spirit not only convicts’ people of their sin, He also assures them of the truth.
John 14:26 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit would help them remember what he had been teaching them.
The Holy Spirit can help us in the same way.
As we study Gods word, we can trust him to plant the truth in our minds.
The end result of the Holy Spirits work in our lives is a deep and lasting peace.
If your life is full of stress, allow the Holy Spirit to fill you with the peace of Christ Jesus. It is a peace that passes all understanding.
We are overcomers, walk like it. Talk like it, live like it and act like it.
Be led by the Holy Spirit and the word of truth.
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