GOD THE FATHER, JESUS THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,
AND WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?
It is most importent in the blogs to come, that you truly come to understand why it is so very crucial for us Christians to "glorify God in our very beings and in our spirit," considering that you hopefully have at some point, given your life (born again) to the Lord God Almighty!
Thank You, precious Lord God Almighty (God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit) for what a blessing it is to being able to share such incredible and most helpful Godly information from the Holy Spirit, for believers tragically during my writing of blogs for five years 8000 readers were cut off by the Satanic enemy using man in the year 2000!!
Not long ago, I began asking the Holy Spirit: "Would You have me writing my blogs once again?" Finally, the Holy Spirit encouraged me, I believe, to do so - thankfully, and praise God! So here we go...what a blessing, and hopefully what you continue to learn, will so change your spiritual life and your very being like never before - it truly will...been there, done it, and will continue to as long as the Lord allows me!
As we go, I will reveal such scriptural truths...count on it and be so very blessed, for you will be spiritually working as the Holy Spirit guides and directs you through your Godly life, as did the disciples of old!
Talking about "spiritually working as the Holy Spirit guides us...", I must share with you an incredible experience of the Spirit empowering me!
Several years ago, my wife and I were visiting our daughter and family in Kansas City. It was nearing supper time and we learned that there were five tornados headed our way!! Our son-in-law truly surprised me when he declared that he had ordered "take out for supper" and asked me "should we go pick up our supper?" Concerning what was happening with those five tornados, I was truly dumfounded as you can imagine! I thought for a moment and decided to "take a chance!" Off we went to the restaurant which was about 10 miles away...wondering if I had made such a dumb/dangerish decision! We were about half-way when I heard the Holy Spirit say: "pray this for your son-in-law: for you made the correct decision going and when you arrive, you will hear the word "dissipate" as you enter the restaurant, you will hear on the television, the weatherman declaring: "Folks, you will not believe this, for the five tornados approaching us are no more, for they have dissipated!" We got the food and headed home with no tornados! I could not have had that incredible experience had I not been empowered by the Holy Spirit! Praise God, to be sure!
And just what was the powerful spiritual lesson concerning this incredible experience? The Holy Spirit at work! - the experience of the five tornadoes and Him empowering me, thankfully and how many times He has and continues to empower me...praise God, and He will empower you, IF you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit! Jesus was baptized in the Holy Spirit and the original 12 disciples were baptized by Jesus before He went to the Father after the 40 days, for they were born again and then filled with Holy Spirit and empowered to accomplish God's plans.
I will share just how critical the blogs are for you who desire to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and not just read them but be so very active with them! I so wish you would have been able to read those from the beginning many years ago!
I want to share something with you concerning my blog prior to its being shut down several years ago. There were many, many "unknown" foreign blog readers - 50 foreign countries known at that time! And at that time there were 20 Ukrainian Christian readers...tragically, now they are being destroyed - incredible! Obviously, we must pray for them, to be sure and certainly ask the Holy Spirit to rescue His people world-wide!
I heard at that time from an unknown blog reader who wrote to me declaring: "Well said, my brother.
Please pray for me that through the strength of the Holy Spirit I have received; I can better serve the Lord. Thank you for your prayers. May our Lord Jesus truly bless you and your family!" And you, Godly reader, can be empowered with the same Holy Spirit's strength IF...!
Now, let us concentrate on the crucial/critical aspects of our precious Holy Spirit Who has baptized us! One can actually begin to learn/live in Genesis in the Bible - please be so very careful as to the Bible from which you read/study...so crucial in that you could well being deceived, tragically! How so, you might ask? Keep in mind that Satan has his deceptive "bible" on the shelves in Christian Book stores world-wide...truly, for I had such an experience in my early Christian life and into the trash it went!
Consider this...for just WHO is providing us with incredible wisdom, empowerment, gifts, fruit of the Spirit, of our sanctifier - the One who separates us "from the sinful setting for a secular purpose" (The New Unger's Bible Dictionary). Thankfully, our Lord God Almighty has for all those believers who SEEK (again with the incredible wisdom from the Holy Spirit) to be spirit-filled and this is what we will focus on! Hopefully, by now many, many of you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit and indeed, are beginning to benefit from all that which He is providing and empowering you in accomplishing the works of the Holy Spirit- thankfully and it began when Jesus was to leave the earth after the 40 days with the 12 disciples who were then baptized in the Holy Spirit. Tragically, the majority of Christians and their churches throughout the world have no idea of Who the Holy Spirit is and His powerful Godly significance...for tragically, they stop with Jesus. And just who is responsible for such? Satan!
Consider Romans 8:14-17: "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors - not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God!" Consider just who are you, a believer who wishes to be those who live in the flesh or those who are sons of God?
I would, also, encourage you to read the "Spiritual Gifts" Romans 12:1-8.
Consider what is written in Ephesians 4:30: "...and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption! Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as the Holy Spirit forgave you." Praise God to be sure! In the flesh, we as humans give a large breath thinking that is impossible! Please keep in mind that we are NOT by ourselves in that the Holy Spirit is providing each of us who so desire, thankfully, and keep in mind what is written in Genesis 22:14 - Jehovah-Jireh "The Lord will provide!!" Always keep in mind He means what He declares!
It is crucial for us go back again to Genesis 1:1...which is the "In the beginning," the Bible's opening verse (Kingdom Dynamics 1:1- New Spirit-Filled Life Bible NKJV). Many believers look at verse 1 as just "GOD" - wrong - for "God" is Himself, Savior Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit - All in One!
In Zechariah chapter 4, we are told "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts." This is in reference to the fact that Zerubbabel was the governor and responsible for building the temple project, not by the flesh, but by "My Spirit!" (New Spirit-Filled Life Bible) And thankfully, this truly applies to us...obviously, however, there are tasks that indeed we truly need to accomplish in the flesh...such as "brushing our teeth!"
And how does a born-again Christian become Spirit-filled? All one must do is ask the Holy Spirit to baptize you!
For example...years ago, I thankfully was given a book entitled The Holy Spirit and You written by Dennis and Rita Bennett. Dennis was an Episcopalian priest in Fairfax, Virginia and we had the blessing of hearing him teach. Both he and his wife were baptized with the Holy Spirit and the Episcopalian Church fired him for doing so!
Back to my book experience, I must believe the Holy Spirit provided such an incredible experience for me truly! I finished reading the book and sat there to absorb what I had read! It wasn't long before I asked the Holy Spirit to baptize me, and He did so! Consider Acts 1:8:
"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost (Spirit)
is come upon you; and ye shall be witnessed unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth."
Consider this "The baptism in the Holy Spirit is the outflow of the power of God the Holy Spirit
from where He dwells within the believer - in the Spirit- to inundate, or baptize, the outer man, soul, and body. It is a release of the Spirit. When this takes place, then the Holy Spirit can pour from the believer
into the world like 'rivers of living water,' as Jesus promised" (John 7:38 and page 7 of The Holy Spirit and You)
As I had done so, a new unknown language came to my mouth. This is called "speaking in tongues!" I took the book to my wife and shared what had happened and her reaction was "you now have the gift of speaking in tongues" and have been doing so since! She had been talking in her tongue for some time. The next morning, I was on the way to the elementary school where I was principal and suddenly, the Holy Spirit visited with me with such incredible peace, and I begin singing in my "tongue." I never sang in the car before...such a blessing! I could have "flown" to school! Praise God and thank You Holy Spirit. Talking about "peace" - for some time, as we prepare to pray in the evening, the Holy Spirit brings such peace to both of us just before we pray! Such a blessing, to be sure, for we sleep with such peace...keep in mind Exodus 14:14:
"The Lord will fight for you: you need only be still"!
Are you ready to ask the Holy Spirit to baptize you - simple as that
and you will truly become an empowered child of the living God and
your life will be blessed like never before as will others. Truly!
Be Glorified, Lord God Almighty, Be Glorified
To be continued...
