Fill vs. Feel
Acts 2:4 “And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].” (AMPC)
Our final thought from yesterday’s devotional was that marriage is not the solution to loneliness. The Holy Spirit is the only answer to loneliness. Marriage does not end loneliness. Again, this is always a shock to single people. Read the rest of this entry
The Answer
Matthew 28:20 “…I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.” (AMP, emphasis added).
Not only is this empowering for us not to commit evil, but it is also empowering for us to always be comforted, for us to always have company. If you have the presence of the Holy Spirit, you are carrying the Maker of the heavens and the earth. Read the rest of this entry
Ever Present
John 14:16 “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.” (emphasis added).
We said yesterday that The Holy Spirit resting on the believer was a new concept to the Old Testament believer. In times past, for example with Moses at the tent of meeting, the presence of God would descend like a cloud and Read the rest of this entry
Constant Help
Romans 8:26-27 “And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words… for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.”
God knows we are going to run our mouths. So, as we are running our mouths, The Holy Spirit is saying, “The Blood of Jesus!” God knows we are going to rove our eyes. And as we are roving our eyes,
Another Advocate
Psalm 103:13-14 “The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him. For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.”
When Jesus was about to be taken, what was on His mind, was how we His disciples would be okay. How can His disciples continue to function? Your assignment is to
From Within
John 7:38-39 “‘Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given…” (NIV, emphasis added)
Jesus came so that you may have life. And the key to this life in God is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who unlocks this life. And this life that Jesus is talking
Need To Know
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (NIV)
Today, we are looking at three things about this policy, the Word of God. The first is that we need to realize that the Word (promise) of God is both conditional and unconditional. Some of God’s promises
Covered
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (NKJV, emphasis added)
Increasingly, people are being swayed from one side to the other, believing anything and not even knowing what they believe. Someone I know, a minister of the gospel or shall I say supposed to be, was saying there is nothing like the Blood of Jesus. Read the rest of this entry
C. I. S.
Psalm 126:1-2 “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The Lord hath done great things for them.” (KJV, emphasis added)
As you experience The Turning Point of your destiny, you experience a Change In Direction, a Change In Atmosphere, and a Change In Focus. When something is before you, Read the rest of this entry
Change Focus
1 Samuel 17:45 “David: You come to me carrying a sword and spear and javelin as your weapons, but I come armed with the name of the Eternal One, the Commander of heavenly armies, the True God of the armies of Israel, the One you have insulted.” (The Voice)
What the turning point does, is it makes you see where you can make a change in your life that will bring about the drastic result that everybody wants. Suddenly, you begin to see that it is on the Problem side
