My beloved child…your life in God consists of waiting upon Me with child-like trust and dependence, for Me to reveal to you My plans, purposes, will, and a deeper revelation of Who I am, so you may then respond, with unquestioning child-like obedience, to every leading and prompting of My Holy Spirit, cooperating with the Power of His enabling grace Who works in you both to will and to do. [Father God…John 12:24-26]
** **, greatly beloved, this is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees and be careful to keep My laws. You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God. The Day of Pentecost was the beginning of God’s New Covenant, and the fulfillment of My promise of the Eternal Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, given as My Eternal Gift and made continually available to you. My children are continually being led by My indwelling Holy Spirit; that is what characterizes you as My child and bears witness to that fact.
I am going to send you what My Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with Power from on High. [Luke 24:49]
Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift My Father promised, which you have heard Me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. You will receive Power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the Earth. [Acts 1:4, 5, 7-8]
This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on My servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. [Acts 2:15-18]
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts…extraordinary powers distinguishing certain Christians, due to the power of divine grace operating in their souls by the Holy Spirit… but the same Holy Spirit is the One Who gives them. And there are distinctive varieties of service and ministration, but it is the same Lord Who is served. And there are different abilities to perform service, but the same God Who inspires and gives ability to all for their particular service. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Holy Spirit…the evidence, the spiritual illumination of the Spirit…for the good and profit of all. All these gifts, achievements, and abilities are inspired and brought to pass by one and the same Holy Spirit, Who apportions to each person individually exactly as He determines. [1 Cor 12:4-11]
- To one is given in and through the Holy Spirit the power to speak a message of wisdom,
- And to another the power to express a word of knowledge and understanding according to the same Holy Spirit;
- To another wonder-working faith by the same Holy Spirit;
- To another the extraordinary powers of healing by the one Spirit;
- To another the working of miracles;
- To another prophetic insight (the gift of interpreting the Divine will and purpose);
- To another the ability to discern and distinguish between the utterances of true spirits and false ones;
- To another various kinds of unknown tongues;
- To another the ability to interpret such tongues.
Then he said to me, This addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees, is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts. [Zech 4:6]
But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. [Matt 10:19-20]
But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. [Luke 21:14-15]
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a Spirit of Power, of love and of self-discipline. [2 Tim 1:6-7]
Abba Father…this is surely the blessed life of deep and intimate personal relationship with You: my waiting upon God…watching and waiting, looking off unto You and listening for Your voice…with an unwavering child-like trust and an unreserved child-like dependence, with a joyful expectation and an excited anticipation…for You to reveal Yourself to me ever more deeply and intimately, and Your plans, Your purposes, Your will for me…SO I MAY THEN RESPOND, with an unquestioning child-like obedience, to every leading and prompting of the Holy Spirit, cooperating with the Power of His enabling grace Who works in me both to will and to do.
Friends, brothers and sisters…
There is one absolutely necessary preparation for every living soul on the face of this Earth, for the soon coming and imminent return of Jesus Christ…the one preparation that will irrevocably determine in which neighborhood you will spend all eternity, whether in Heaven or in Hell. You must be a born-again child of God. I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s Kingdom. I tell you the truth, no one can ever enter the Kingdom of God unless you are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at My saying you must be born again. [Jesus…John 3:3-7]
If you have never been born again,
or you are not sure whether you have been born again,
or you have been living your life as a lukewarm Christian and would now like to recommit your life and enter into a deep and intimate relationship with Christ Jesus in preparation for the soon coming marriage supper of the Lamb…
then I counsel you to get alone with God, read the solemn marriage vows you must make to become the bride of Christ and thereby be born-again, [https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/21/bride-of-christ/], and with sincerity of heart from within the depths of your being, acknowledge before God, “I DO.”
Blessed Spirit (Puritan Prayer):
