JESUS NOTE
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit
A "JESUS NOTE" is encouragement for you as if Jesus Christ Himself was speaking. You'll find both Scripture and a message about that Scripture. These "Jesus Notes" are meant to give you insight into His Heart, how He thinks, and how He feels about you. Let this encouragement begin to dwell deep within you!
“…And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you…
All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you…
When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me…But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. …and he will tell you what is yet to come.”
JOHN 14:16-18, 25-26 … JOHN 16:13 (NIV)
If you have been feeling that God is some inanimate higher power, far removed from your daily life and daily decisions, you could not be more mistaken.
Sometimes in today’s world you might hear the word “supernatural” to describe some unusual event or spiritual happening. Usually it has the connotation of describing something beyond the realm of people’s understanding; something just too deep, too complex, too far removed from everyday life, or just too unbelievable.
What I urgently want to share with you, however, is that the sending of the Holy Spirit to you, which I have guaranteed and promised to do, is the most normal and usual action I take! Indeed the Holy Spirit living in you is meant to be a supernatural gift, but given to you in a natural way. And this gift is for everyone, not just some; commonplace, not rare; everyday, rather than once or twice in a lifetime! A gift not earned, but a gift given freely to you!
Now that you have read that I have promised to send the Holy Spirit to live in you, and that this is as natural as sunrise and sunset, what is the role of the Spirit? What does it mean to you to be “spirit-filled”?
Notice the word “truth” repeated in the above Scripture. What the Holy Spirit does is simple: guiding you into habits of clear thinking, a growing ability to discern correctly, a practice of making the right decisions, a leading into God’s ways rather than our own ways. The Spirit is ready to help you with relationships, with career, with how to pay the bills! And if you do stumble, you’ll have help getting you back on the right path.
You will have peace in your desert time, joy when your world seems overcast, comfort in your trials, forgiveness when you can’t forgive on your own, hope when life seems so barren, and most important, a new ease and ability to pray and know my heart and my voice. You are never again meant to feel alone and orphaned; and all of this is very normal and natural in my plan for your particular blessings.
Let me fill you today with the fullness of the Spirit, whom I promised to send to you; it’s time for you to grow and blossom! Just ask!
I really like you, and I really love you!
At the end of various readings in Comfort.Guide, we will have a "Pause", "Reflect" and "Receive" section. The purpose of this exercise is to help you better understand and to personally absorb the encouragement Comfort.Guide offers. If you would like, visit the "HOW TO USE" page for a review of "Pause, Reflect and Receive".
PAUSE … Invite Him to be with you; let Him quiet you with His Love.
REFLECT… What is God saying to you?
1) Why would Jesus want to send the Holy Spirit to us?
2) At what times, in which circumstances, would we benefit from having the Holy Spirit in our lives?
3) Is the Spirit meant for just some people, or for you too?
RECEIVE … When Jesus makes a promise, you can go to the bank with it! So ..... don't delay; just ask to be filled with all of the Holy Spirit! The result will be an openness and desire to hear God's voice above all other voices, and the peace that will follow!
Click HERE to go to the next part of "O" - Open to Hearing God
All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you…
When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me…But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. …and he will tell you what is yet to come.”
JOHN 14:16-18, 25-26 … JOHN 16:13 (NIV)
If you have been feeling that God is some inanimate higher power, far removed from your daily life and daily decisions, you could not be more mistaken.
Sometimes in today’s world you might hear the word “supernatural” to describe some unusual event or spiritual happening. Usually it has the connotation of describing something beyond the realm of people’s understanding; something just too deep, too complex, too far removed from everyday life, or just too unbelievable.
What I urgently want to share with you, however, is that the sending of the Holy Spirit to you, which I have guaranteed and promised to do, is the most normal and usual action I take! Indeed the Holy Spirit living in you is meant to be a supernatural gift, but given to you in a natural way. And this gift is for everyone, not just some; commonplace, not rare; everyday, rather than once or twice in a lifetime! A gift not earned, but a gift given freely to you!
Now that you have read that I have promised to send the Holy Spirit to live in you, and that this is as natural as sunrise and sunset, what is the role of the Spirit? What does it mean to you to be “spirit-filled”?
Notice the word “truth” repeated in the above Scripture. What the Holy Spirit does is simple: guiding you into habits of clear thinking, a growing ability to discern correctly, a practice of making the right decisions, a leading into God’s ways rather than our own ways. The Spirit is ready to help you with relationships, with career, with how to pay the bills! And if you do stumble, you’ll have help getting you back on the right path.
You will have peace in your desert time, joy when your world seems overcast, comfort in your trials, forgiveness when you can’t forgive on your own, hope when life seems so barren, and most important, a new ease and ability to pray and know my heart and my voice. You are never again meant to feel alone and orphaned; and all of this is very normal and natural in my plan for your particular blessings.
Let me fill you today with the fullness of the Spirit, whom I promised to send to you; it’s time for you to grow and blossom! Just ask!
I really like you, and I really love you!
At the end of various readings in Comfort.Guide, we will have a "Pause", "Reflect" and "Receive" section. The purpose of this exercise is to help you better understand and to personally absorb the encouragement Comfort.Guide offers. If you would like, visit the "HOW TO USE" page for a review of "Pause, Reflect and Receive".
PAUSE … Invite Him to be with you; let Him quiet you with His Love.
REFLECT… What is God saying to you?
1) Why would Jesus want to send the Holy Spirit to us?
2) At what times, in which circumstances, would we benefit from having the Holy Spirit in our lives?
3) Is the Spirit meant for just some people, or for you too?
RECEIVE … When Jesus makes a promise, you can go to the bank with it! So ..... don't delay; just ask to be filled with all of the Holy Spirit! The result will be an openness and desire to hear God's voice above all other voices, and the peace that will follow!
Click HERE to go to the next part of "O" - Open to Hearing God