Category: Holy Spirit
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Live in the Power of the Holy Spirit
Living by the Spirit is essential for overcoming sinful nature and avoiding small sins that can damage spiritual lives. Galatians 5:16 emphasizes that walking in the Spirit provides necessary power and guidance. Daily surrender, prayer, and Scripture engagement are vital steps for believers to maintain this influence and produce godly…
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Walk in the Holy Spirit
Galatians 5:16 emphasizes the importance of walking by the Spirit to overcome sinful desires symbolized by “little foxes.” These minor sins can disrupt spiritual growth. The passage encourages reliance on the Holy Spirit, embodying qualities like love and patience while avoiding reliance on personal strength. Regular self-examination and prayer support…
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Righteous Conviction does not come from the world or self.
8 When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: 9 About sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; 11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.12 “I still have many things to tell…
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Come to Know and Believe.
John called himself a fascinating title: 23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was reclining close beside Jesus. John 13:23 2 So she went running to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know…
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Two Directions.
We make our lives complicated. This verse expresses and explains the simplicity of God. All of God’s principles and expectations are simple, but we like to “human” things up as I say. We complicate and nit pick, pick apart everything God has to say and respond… but God?!? Paul lays it out as…
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The Breath of Re-creation
Psalm 104 is a beautiful song about the Lord our God as Creator. From Him all life is breathed. The CSB uses the word breath here. Other translations use the word spirit. The actual Hebrew word is, rûaḥ, and means Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal,…
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Prayer: it’s war on the floor
There are going to be times in our journeys that it seems like we are in the midst of a great physical battle. The real war is against the powers of spiritual darkness. The enemy’s goal has not changed since the fall of man. Satan knows the His destiny, but…
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energized.
The awareness of God’s presence energizes for our work. Jesus is our supervisor over all we do. He supervises us while we work, play, and spend time in His Word learning. He’s our ultimate CEO and teacher! He not only watches us from afar, He is with us in all…
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eager anticipation keeps us living productively.
An eager anticipation of the return of Christ keeps us living a life of productivity. In scripture we find three admonitions given to us about the Lord’s return: Watch Faithfully God’s Word encourages us to: “Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.”1 Corinthians 16:13 CSB “But…
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walking with the Holy Spirit
One of the greatest, among so many, discoveries in my relationship with God was learning to hear and walk with the Holy Spirit. He had always been there since I was saved, but I did not know until 20 years What or who the Holy Spirit was. I was aware…
It Starts Small 