The Holy Spirit
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eternally-gratefull
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I can try to share how he comforts me.
1. In time of extreme distress and tribulation. he shows me that this lifetime is so short compared to eternity that this time is so small I will probably not remember it. He reminds me that God will take care of me. More importantly. that God has some meaning for this. and it is for good. I may not see what the effect is. But I can trust my father it is for someone (maybe even my own) good.
2. He reminds me when I sin of how stupid and weak I am. Yet what a loving father I have. who wants something better for me, and I am stopping that with my sin.
3. He chastens me when I am pigheaded and not listening. And he does not spare the rod one iota. This helps remind me of who I am in Christ
4. He teaches me the word, and helps me understand when their are questions.
5. A few times, I am sure he got right in my way, and stopped me from doing something stupd. or going someplace he did not want to go.
6. Most importantly, he testifies with my spirit that I am a child of God. when ever I have doubts (which happen alot sometimes) he makes sure I am comforted by showing me the truth, not the lie my flesh or satan wants me to hear.
I am sure I can find many many other things, but thats a good start. And hopefully what you are looking for.
1. In time of extreme distress and tribulation. he shows me that this lifetime is so short compared to eternity that this time is so small I will probably not remember it. He reminds me that God will take care of me. More importantly. that God has some meaning for this. and it is for good. I may not see what the effect is. But I can trust my father it is for someone (maybe even my own) good.
2. He reminds me when I sin of how stupid and weak I am. Yet what a loving father I have. who wants something better for me, and I am stopping that with my sin.
3. He chastens me when I am pigheaded and not listening. And he does not spare the rod one iota. This helps remind me of who I am in Christ
4. He teaches me the word, and helps me understand when their are questions.
5. A few times, I am sure he got right in my way, and stopped me from doing something stupd. or going someplace he did not want to go.
6. Most importantly, he testifies with my spirit that I am a child of God. when ever I have doubts (which happen alot sometimes) he makes sure I am comforted by showing me the truth, not the lie my flesh or satan wants me to hear.
I am sure I can find many many other things, but thats a good start. And hopefully what you are looking for.
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eternally-gratefull
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seems like not to many want to answer.. You got them stumped..lol
To be honest with the second question. I been thinking about it for about ten minutes now. All I can come up with is faith.
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psychomom
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The Holy spirit is the bread and the wine that Christ has shared with us, it nourish us back to health.
Luke 22:18 For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
Mark 2:22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins (being Baptize or leaving your old self and putting on your new self).”
Matthew 27:25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
Matthew 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
John 19:34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
Leviticus 1:15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off the head and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.
Matthew 23:19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
He opens up our understanding to His Word.
He does not point to Himself (despite Charismaniacs) but points us to Jesus.
He takes our stuttery prayers and with groanings He.. well, here...
And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered; and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
(Rom 8:26-27)
He does not point to Himself (despite Charismaniacs) but points us to Jesus.
He takes our stuttery prayers and with groanings He.. well, here...
And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered; and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
(Rom 8:26-27)
There is an AWESOME series you can listen to free online that just aired this last week that explains Him wonderfully. 
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Ukorin
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I think both eternallygrateful and Elin are right.
Faith and obedience.
When we are disobedient, we become calloused to the pricking of the Spirit,
and deaf to His voice.
It's not that you get more Holy Spirit when you are obedient, but that you are actually waiting on the Lord, and can then hear/feel/know what He is communicating.
Prayer is perhaps the most crucial and misunderstood aspect of obedience.
If we are praying the way the Bible tells us to pray, then we would be asking for the Lord's help and guidance in EVERYTHING. This takes on a slower pace for decision making, and allows the Spirit to guide, rather than instinct and self.
Faith and obedience.
When we are disobedient, we become calloused to the pricking of the Spirit,
and deaf to His voice.
It's not that you get more Holy Spirit when you are obedient, but that you are actually waiting on the Lord, and can then hear/feel/know what He is communicating.
Prayer is perhaps the most crucial and misunderstood aspect of obedience.
If we are praying the way the Bible tells us to pray, then we would be asking for the Lord's help and guidance in EVERYTHING. This takes on a slower pace for decision making, and allows the Spirit to guide, rather than instinct and self.
I think the Holy Spirit includes all of God. It is in scripture, for in the first of John, Christ (one with the Father) is called the word, and the Holy Spirit is of Christ. We are to fill our minds with the word of scripture, all of it. In Acts, when Paul was told he could take the word direct to the gentiles without going through the Jew's rituals, they were to go to synagogue to learn the word. The word of God feeds the Holy Spirit.
We hear the Holy Spirit when we humble ourselves and just listen as children. When we add to the word or refuse some of it, we are not humbly listening and accepting just the word.
We hear the Holy Spirit when we humble ourselves and just listen as children. When we add to the word or refuse some of it, we are not humbly listening and accepting just the word.
I know that a women or a mothers make a good teachers, because men are harsh, impatient, and very strict, and which back in the days the tribe leader has the woman to take care of the young son until he is able to perform the duties of the father. Like Isaac love Esau over Jacob because Esau was a warrior which most men preferred their sons to be. The Holy spirit has came three times in a physical form; the first time Holy spirit had came to visit a man and put the image that she represented on his tilma, but the Holy spirit didn't mentioned its name at that time. But later the Holy spirit visited a girl in Lordes France and told the girl who it is, and it said that she was the Immaculate conception and which immaculate means "Holy". And the third visit was with three shepherd kids and the Holy spirit had just told them that it is the one that's on the rosary, and which the Catholic had started making after her first visit to honored her. They believed that she was Mary , like the disciples had thought that Jesus was one of the prophets in the old testament. Jesus had never mentioned the Holy spirit gender is because in the gospel of Thomas has shown how hard their hearts were about letting a woman be above them, but by the task of the Holy spirit, it show that it has a feminine qualities. According to the ranks of the family structure in those days is that the father comes first, and then the son comes next, and then the mother because a women has weak feelings for others.
What is the Holy Spirit?
-the begetting agent that comes from God, the Holy Spirit is the earnest or
down payment, of our salvation (Ephesians 1:14; Romans 8:16).
14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of
the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
What does the Holy Spirit do?
27And I will put (my spirit) within you, and (cause you to walk) in (my statutes),
and ye shall (keep my judgments, and do them).
16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
The Holy Spirit is described as our Helper, Comforter, Paraclete.
How do we access this help? How do we become comforted?
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.
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:
how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
-the begetting agent that comes from God, the Holy Spirit is the earnest or
down payment, of our salvation (Ephesians 1:14; Romans 8:16).
14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of
the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
What does the Holy Spirit do?
27And I will put (my spirit) within you, and (cause you to walk) in (my statutes),
and ye shall (keep my judgments, and do them).
16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
The Holy Spirit is described as our Helper, Comforter, Paraclete.
How do we access this help? How do we become comforted?
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.
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:
how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
There are some Christian groups (see below) who teach that the Holy Spirit is feminine or has feminine aspects. Most are based on the grammatical gender of the words in the original Bible languages where the Holy Spirit is the subject. In Hebrew the word for spirit (ruach) is feminine.[SUP][2][/SUP] In Aramaic also, the language generally considered to have been spoken by Jesus, the word is feminine. However, in Greek the word (pneuma) is neuter.[SUP][2][/SUP] This is not thought by most linguists to have significance for the sex of the person given that name.
There are biblical cases where the pronoun used for the Holy Spirit is masculine, in contradiction to the gender of the word for spirit.[SUP][2][/SUP] The New Testament refers to the Holy Spirit as masculine in a number of places where the masculine Greek word "Paraclete" occurs, for "Comforter", most clearly in the Gospel of John, chapters 14 to 16.[SUP][3][/SUP] These texts were particularly significant when Christians were debating whether the New Testament teaches that the Holy Spirit is a fully divine person, or some kind of "force". All major English Bible translations have retained the masculine pronoun for the Spirit, as in John 16:13. Although it has been noted that in the original Greek, in some parts of John's Gospel and elsewhere, the neuter Greek word for "it" is also used for the Spirit.
The Syriac language, which was in common use around AD 300, is derived from Aramaic. In documents produced in Syriac by the early Miaphysite church (which later became theSyrian Orthodox Church) the feminine gender of the word for spirit gave rise to a theology in which the Holy Spirit was considered feminine.[SUP][4][/SUP]
In 1977 a leader of the Branch Davidian church, Lois Roden, began to formally teach that the feminine Holy Spirit is the heavenly pattern of women, citing scholars and researchers from Jewish, Christian, and other sources.[SUP][5][/SUP]
There are some independent Messianic Judaism groups with similar teachings,[SUP][6][/SUP] and some scholars associated with mainline denominations, while not necessarily indicative of the denominations themselves, have written works explaining a feminine understanding of the third member of the Godhead.[SUP][7][/SUP]
The Unity Church's co-founder Charles Fillmore considered the Holy Spirit a distinctly feminine aspect of God, considering it to be "the love of Jehovah" and "love is always feminine".[SUP][8] Gender of the Holy Spirit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/SUP]
There are biblical cases where the pronoun used for the Holy Spirit is masculine, in contradiction to the gender of the word for spirit.[SUP][2][/SUP] The New Testament refers to the Holy Spirit as masculine in a number of places where the masculine Greek word "Paraclete" occurs, for "Comforter", most clearly in the Gospel of John, chapters 14 to 16.[SUP][3][/SUP] These texts were particularly significant when Christians were debating whether the New Testament teaches that the Holy Spirit is a fully divine person, or some kind of "force". All major English Bible translations have retained the masculine pronoun for the Spirit, as in John 16:13. Although it has been noted that in the original Greek, in some parts of John's Gospel and elsewhere, the neuter Greek word for "it" is also used for the Spirit.
The Syriac language, which was in common use around AD 300, is derived from Aramaic. In documents produced in Syriac by the early Miaphysite church (which later became theSyrian Orthodox Church) the feminine gender of the word for spirit gave rise to a theology in which the Holy Spirit was considered feminine.[SUP][4][/SUP]
In 1977 a leader of the Branch Davidian church, Lois Roden, began to formally teach that the feminine Holy Spirit is the heavenly pattern of women, citing scholars and researchers from Jewish, Christian, and other sources.[SUP][5][/SUP]
There are some independent Messianic Judaism groups with similar teachings,[SUP][6][/SUP] and some scholars associated with mainline denominations, while not necessarily indicative of the denominations themselves, have written works explaining a feminine understanding of the third member of the Godhead.[SUP][7][/SUP]
The Unity Church's co-founder Charles Fillmore considered the Holy Spirit a distinctly feminine aspect of God, considering it to be "the love of Jehovah" and "love is always feminine".[SUP][8] Gender of the Holy Spirit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/SUP]
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Kerry
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Luke 11
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
and it is evidenced by speaking in tongues. Yeah yeah I know you don't believe that well that's your problem and ask God he won't give you a scorpion or He is a liar.
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
and it is evidenced by speaking in tongues. Yeah yeah I know you don't believe that well that's your problem and ask God he won't give you a scorpion or He is a liar.
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lisa79
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Is that why in the beginning Genesis 1:25 " And God said let US, make man in OUR image after OUR likeness:..." Then Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created he him; male and female he created them"
I always wondered why that was but I figured that since there is only one God but that the bible says the father, the son and the holy ghost are all equally God and I thought that since they are all "He" that maybe God is spirit and God is love ;making God the spirit of love within a man making the spirit of God female.
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Kerry
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Pretty lady what your name lisa. God created man and that means women as well in His image. Meaning that we are three in one. Look when Adam sinned God said you shall surely die yet he lived to be what 900 years old. ask yourself what happened. he died spiritually and all he had was flesh AKA body, what did God do, He killed an animal and used it's skin to cover their nakedness. if you look God required their first born son as well
God did the same thing, He gave us His first born son to cover our nakedness and remove it.
God did the same thing, He gave us His first born son to cover our nakedness and remove it.
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Enga
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Dear friends and loved ones, we have not received the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:16 says that, [SUP]16 [/SUP]and the Spirit himself speaks to our spirits and makes us sure that we are God’s children.
Dear fiends we cannot confuse our spirit of God. Our spirit is Different from the spirit of God that Jesus promised to send.
We have not receive the Holy Spirit the Jesus promised
The disciples in the past have baptised people with Holy Spirit. The people who baptised are the ones that had the Good news Just like you and me today, and they believed in Jesus Christ just like and me today, and they baptised in water just like you and me today and they did not receive Holy Spirit. As soon as the disciples laid their hands on them and prayed to God, the people receive Holy Spirit.
So tody we say that we have been baptised in holy Spirit and we say that we have receive Holy Spirit and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. If you have receive Holy Spirit then who is that disciple laid his hand on you and you receive the Holy Spirit? Name that Disciple please?
If you can not name the disciples then we have to find it now?
For more questions please ask me or visit my blog http://christianchat.com/blogs/enga/
Romans 8:16 says that, [SUP]16 [/SUP]and the Spirit himself speaks to our spirits and makes us sure that we are God’s children.
Dear fiends we cannot confuse our spirit of God. Our spirit is Different from the spirit of God that Jesus promised to send.
We have not receive the Holy Spirit the Jesus promised
The disciples in the past have baptised people with Holy Spirit. The people who baptised are the ones that had the Good news Just like you and me today, and they believed in Jesus Christ just like and me today, and they baptised in water just like you and me today and they did not receive Holy Spirit. As soon as the disciples laid their hands on them and prayed to God, the people receive Holy Spirit.
So tody we say that we have been baptised in holy Spirit and we say that we have receive Holy Spirit and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. If you have receive Holy Spirit then who is that disciple laid his hand on you and you receive the Holy Spirit? Name that Disciple please?
If you can not name the disciples then we have to find it now?
For more questions please ask me or visit my blog http://christianchat.com/blogs/enga/
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Enga
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Dear friends and loved ones, we have not received the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:16 says that, [SUP]16 [/SUP]and the Spirit himself speaks to our spirits and makes us sure that we are God’s children.
Dear fiends we cannot confuse our spirit of God. Our spirit is Different from the spirit of God that Jesus promised to send.
We have not receive the Holy Spirit the Jesus promised
The disciples in the past have baptised people with Holy Spirit. The people who baptised are the ones that had the Good news Just like you and me today, and they believed in Jesus Christ just like and me today, and they baptised in water just like you and me today and they did not receive Holy Spirit. As soon as the disciples laid their hands on them and prayed to God, the people receive Holy Spirit.
So today we say that we have been baptised in holy Spirit and we say that we have receive Holy Spirit and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. If you have receive Holy Spirit then who is that disciple laid his hand on you and prayed to God adn you receive the Holy Spirit? Name that Disciple please?
If you can not name the disciples then we have to find it now?
For more questions please ask me or visit my blog http://christianchat.com/blogs/enga/
Romans 8:16 says that, [SUP]16 [/SUP]and the Spirit himself speaks to our spirits and makes us sure that we are God’s children.
Dear fiends we cannot confuse our spirit of God. Our spirit is Different from the spirit of God that Jesus promised to send.
We have not receive the Holy Spirit the Jesus promised
The disciples in the past have baptised people with Holy Spirit. The people who baptised are the ones that had the Good news Just like you and me today, and they believed in Jesus Christ just like and me today, and they baptised in water just like you and me today and they did not receive Holy Spirit. As soon as the disciples laid their hands on them and prayed to God, the people receive Holy Spirit.
So today we say that we have been baptised in holy Spirit and we say that we have receive Holy Spirit and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. If you have receive Holy Spirit then who is that disciple laid his hand on you and prayed to God adn you receive the Holy Spirit? Name that Disciple please?
If you can not name the disciples then we have to find it now?
For more questions please ask me or visit my blog http://christianchat.com/blogs/enga/