{"id":2342,"date":"2013-07-07T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2013-06-20T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T08:23:19","slug":"a-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2013\/07\/07\/a-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><i>\u2018Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.us\/116\/jas.4.8.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">James 4:8<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you are married and you never spend time with your spouse, can you have a relationship with him\/her? Of course not! You can sleep on the same bed and yet be total strangers. This is also true about our relationship with the Holy Spirit. Don\u2019t just be content with having Him around; you have to talk to the Holy Spirit. You have to find time to be with the Holy Spirit. You have to create time to live in Him, move in Him, and exist in Him. Some people see the Holy <!--more-->Spirit as a tool of fire to consume all their enemies. And sadly that is the only interaction they have with the Holy Ghost. How can He be manifested in His fullness in such lives? For some people the Holy Spirit is just reduced to some hysteric display of speaking in tongues. There are all sorts of perceptions out there but today God wants you to know that He wants to have a relationship with you where you can love the Holy Spirit. Where you can embrace the Holy Spirit and just talk to Him. The Holy Spirit is a singing spirit. He loves songs. The more your relationship grows with the Holy Spirit, you will find out that you may not have the best voice but you have a heart of worship. The Holy Spirit wants to talk to you. The kind of talk I am referring to here is just a conversation about regular things. The Holy Spirit cracks jokes, do you know that? He wants to have a normal conversation with you. When someone treats me badly, what I do is talk to the Holy Spirit about it. Not for Him to punish the person but more of telling my friend how my day was and how I was treated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a lot of people hear the word Pentecostal, they immediately have their guards up. In fact some people based on their perceptions have changed it to <i>pente-rascals<\/i>. It is simply because there have been a lot of \u2018<i>abuses<\/i>\u2019. A lot of people really don\u2019t understand who the Holy Spirit is so they make up things that have to be spiritual. And instead of glorifying God they end up bringing disrepute to the name of Jesus. God wants a real relationship with us so that through His Spirit He can reveal Himself to us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong> [song]: Into my heart, into my heart. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus; Come in today, come in to stay. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world\u2019 James 4:8. &nbsp; If you are married and you never spend time with your spouse, can you have a relationship with him\/her? Of course not! You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-spirit","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}