SEVEN: Share/Seek; Encourage; Verily Verify the Victory; Evaluate NOW (Note On WORD)
SPIRIT: (Holy) Spirit's Special Purpose - Instills (His Presence/WORD), Reminds/Revives (us), Inspires (God's) TRUTH (Within us)...
Job 33:4 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."The Spirit of God Has Made me, And The Breath Of The Almighty Gives me LIFE."....
Have you ever Pondered about God's Holy Spirit? I mean, when we consider God's Holy Trinity (God The Father, God's Only Son, our Lord Jesus, and His Holy Spirit) - The Holy Spirit, at times, seems to be The One in the background, working behind, in and through the Scenes of our lives. Now that is NOT in anyway to minimize or trivialize His Workings and His Part of The Holy Trinity.....
Check out our Lord Jesus' Response to Nicodemus.....
John 3:1-8 (ESV)...."Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, 'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.' Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. ' Nicodemus said to him, 'How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?' Jesus answered, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.'”
As I've been mulling Jesus' Response, it strikes me that what I'm reading here is man's wisdom being placed side-by-side with God's TRUTH and REALITY. You could also say we are in some ways comparing man's earthly nature With God's Righteous and Eternal Nature. Which, as we drill further Really Becomes a Question of FAITH and TRUST. Which do we have FAITH and TRUST In.....man's wisdom and nature OR God's TRUTH and NATURE of GRACE?
Our Lord Jesus went on to Share His Promise with His Disciples, as well as with us....,
John 16:7-8, 13-14 (ESV)....."Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you."
Now THAT's a Promise we can all be Encouraged by.
And This Promise even comes with a God The Father Backed Guarantee!
Ephesians 1:11-14 (ESV)...."In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory."....
Flat-out, Team, it doesn't get much better than that.....
So, when we Ponder His Holy Spirit.....Perhaps His Own Inspired WORD to Paul, as Paul Records in 1 Corinthians 2:7-16 (ESV), will also Provide us a Bit More Solid Train-of-Thought....
"But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ."
I would offer up today this Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise - May we Be Open to God The Father, His Holy Son, our Lord Jesus and His Holy Spirit Working In, Around and Through us....
Psalm 34:1-4, 6-8 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Will Bless You O Lord At All Times. Your Praise, Lord Jesus, Shall Continually Be In our mouths. Holy Spirit, May our Souls makes its Boast In You and You Alone, O Lord. Father God, May our Witness of Your GRACE in our LIVES Be Uplifting and A Joyous Noise that the humble Hear And Are GLAD Because Of You. Oh, Fellow Household of His HOPE, Join Together and Magnify the Lord as one. Let us Exalt His Holy Name together! Lord Jesus, Thank You, for we Sought You, O Lord, And You Have Answered us. Holy Spirit, Thank You, for By God's GRACE and POWER, You Have Delivered us From ALL our fears. Father God, we are poor men and we Cry Out To You, O Lord. Thank You, Father God, for In Your Mercy You Heard us and Sent Your Son, our Lord Jesus, as Your Yeshua, Your Salvation, and You Saved us out of ALL our self-inflicted troubles. Lord Jesus, Open our Inner Eyes That we May See Your Angel, The Angel Of The Lord Encamped Around us who Faithfully Esteem, Adore and Revere Your Holy Name. Holy Spirit, May we Taste And See That You, O Lord, Indeed Are GOOD! Father God, Help us Ever Remember: "Blessed is the man who Takes Refuge In YOU!"
Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj
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