“The gift of the Holy Ghost... quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates, and matures all the finetoned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form, and features. It tends to
Holy Spirit Assessment #3 Kayla Rodway Q1 - Five key theme: 1- Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Gifts are special divine empowerments given to us through the Holy Spirit. These Gifts however are not for our own personal benefit, instead the main purpose is to equip us to be able to serve and glorify the Lord while Jesus continues His ministry though us. When we use our Spiritual Gifts to glorify the Lord we are contributing to the overall heath and growth of the church. 1 Peter 4:10-11 shows us that
everything within our means to see that it is presented in a positive and successful manner. Leaving the disciple making process to chance, or to coincidental occurrence, is negligence at best. Reliance on the Holy Spirit in this process,
appearance on planet earth. God has used prophets and judges to express and communicate his message to His people who extended from the promise He made with Abraham. God saved his creation of humanity eternally from their sins when He sent His son Jesus as the messiah to earth. God has extended his doctrines of grace, love, mercy and forgiveness to all believers of His son and gospel. Jesus left behind the Holy Spirit as a guide to humanity to do the work of the Lord God. The doctrine of God
The Holy Ghost Who is the Holy Ghost? He is the third part of the Godhead trinity. He is known as a teacher, comforter, advocate, helper, power and so much more. The Holy Ghost should never be referred to as an ‘it’. He is a person that we should all come know. What is his purpose? He came to teach us about God and Jesus, he knows them best. He comforts, helps, guide, empowers, advocates, fills us, and so much more. In essence He equips us for the journey ahead. He will be the one that will help
of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age” God commands us Christians to go out into the world and share the gospel to all nations. Sharing the gospel is not easy! Luckily God has sent us help. John 16:13 says, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but
Introduction: As humans we are constantly seeking for ways to satisfy our needs. We look in different sources that will give us temporally satisfaction; however, we end up failing. As sons and daughter in Christ we tend to walk searching for other sources to satisfy us. We consider things we “wish” we had on a daily basis; by our way of thinking we are actually saying that Jesus is not enough to fulfill our every need. One thing that it is vital to keep in mind is that Christianity is not about
The Holy Spirit is another Comforter, Teacher, and Reminder. Before Christ went back to Heaven He said that He would not leave us without another Comforter, of which is the Holy Ghost. God the Holy Spirit, God the Father, and God the Son are a Trinity, in Heaven and on this earth. The Comforter indwells us and we are in God and in Jesus. We are in the Trinity. Talk about eternal security, how much more can one be secure than this? Being the Holy Spirit is our Teacher, and the Word of God says
of the Holy Spirit ‘because the Holy Spirit resides in the body which is the Church, in her Head and in her members” (no.159). Experiencing the Holy Spirit in one’s life may be difficult to comprehend if one has no concept of the Spirit’s existence, purpose and function. Therefore, it is important for one to gain a basic knowledge of the Holy Spirit and to understand the source from which the Holy Spirit comes. But who is this Holy Spirit? The Spirit is God the re-creator. The Holy Spirit is God
shows us the relationship He is making with his people and all that He has created. We see all that God has accomplished and what He has in mind for us when it comes to obeying Him. This Book opens my understanding into the major themes of the rest of the Bible by breaking ground into the important questions needing to be answered by discussing religious and chronological revelations. In Genesis we learn about the Trinity, nature of man, why there is sin, and why Jesus chose to die for us. All of