“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit…” —Acts 2.1-4
The Wonder Twins:
The Holy Spirit has the personality of a
“It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you…” —Acts 15.28
“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.” —Apostle Paul, Ephesians 4.30
“The Spirit gives…to each one, just as HE determines.” —Apostle Paul, 1st Corinthians 12.11
“The Spirit helps us in our weakness.” —Apostle Paul, Romans 8.26
The Holy Spirit is the 3rd
“Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.” —God, Genesis 1.26
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.” —John 1.1-3
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” —Genesis 1.1-2
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” —Jesus, Matthew 28.18-20
The Holy Spirit is Jesus’s promised
“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.” —Jesus, Acts 1.4-5
The Holy Spirit empowers believers to
“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” —Acts 1.8
Practices:
Prayer:
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and kindle in us the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and we shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy Your consolations. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Scripture:
Forgotten God Bible Reading Plan.
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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” —Luke 4.14, 18-19
“Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing…” —John 14.12a
“They will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” —John 14.12b
“New Testament scholars debate what exactly Jesus means here by ‘greater things than these.’ But on this they align: Whatever He means by ‘greater things,’ He doesn’t mean lesser things.” —John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way
“The Holy Spirit cares not at all whether we write Him into our creeds in the back of our hymnals; He waits for our emphasis. When He gets into the thinking of the teachers He will get into the expectation of the hearers. When the Holy Spirit ceases to be incidental and again becomes fundamental, the power of the Spirit will be asserted once more among the people called Christians.” —A.W. Tozer, God’s Pursuit of Man