In this passage of scripture Paul was preaching to the people of Athens and he recognized that they were very religious in every way but they didn’t know God. The work of the Holy Spirit is just as real today as it was in the book of Acts. My message to you today is no different than Paul’s was to his congregation of believers in the book of Acts. Do you know God? We may proceed with all our traditions and religious practices but if we do not know our Father we are struggling through life on our own strength.
Our hearts and minds need to be touched by the Power of God. So many lives are broken, relationships damaged and despair is a guest in so many homes. There are prodigals wandering in the wilderness that God desires to bring home to their rightful place with the Father. Just like the people of Athens we must get to know the God we worship. We need an intimate relationship with our Father through the power of his Holy Spirit dwelling in us and working through us for the extension of God’s Kingdom.
The Holy Spirit is like the air we breathe to the Christian Church. We must realize the presence of the Holy Spirit surrounding and enveloping us is just as crucial to our Christian walk as the air we breathe. Just as we cannot survive without air we cannot live empowered Christian lives without the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit deepens our faith, motivates our mission and demonstrates God’s plan for his people to know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Breathe on me
As humans, we long to be recognized. When what we are doing is ignored or looked over, it is difficult to find the will power to keep going. Without the Holy Spirit’s daily guidance, it is easy to lose passion for doing what is right.
The spirit will help the righteous in times of weaknesses. God shall be the righteous’ protector.
The various gifts of the Holy Spirit as listed in Scripture are conveyed according to the will of the Holy Spirit to every man for the eventual purpose of the edification and building up the church body.
In all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth’’ (Acts 1:8). “I have told you this while I am still with you. The helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you” (John 14:26). “I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear. When however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God.
“The Spirit of God is moving among his people. We have entered a new era of the Healing Gospel of Jesus Christ that begs to be heard. Across the land there are Christian Bodies, here and there, who have been stirred to return to it. But, their number is still small. One by one, however, God’s spirit is moving where hearts are open to the Spirit’s leading.” (p.
“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free” (U.S. President Barack Obama, 2013). As early as 1924 our country has debated the idea of gays. In 1969 The Stonewall riots sparked the gay rights movement. In previous weeks debates continue involving the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016. However, our nation has fought for the ability to be equal, to embrace differences, and to build upon different ideas and cultures. Although, prejudice and discrimination still lerk among the hearts of Americans who will argue negative consequences involving the ability of same-sex marriage; yet embracing same-sex marriage supports financially, will support children involved, and
Explain the role of the army and its use for political purposes during this period.
In this paper, I will review Robert Gromacki’s book The Holy Spirit: Who He is, What He Does I will detail what I feel the book is about. I will emphasize various points given by the author that stood out to me. Finally, I will give my personal evaluation of the book.
Macbeth The English singer-songwriter, Eric Burdon once said, “Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other”. This perfectly connects with both life and literature.
What’s the Sacrament that is essential for a Catholic to spiritually become a adult? One of the last steps after the Sacrament of Baptism in the Catholic faith is the Sacrament of Confirmation. Confirmation is the Sacrament in which Catholics receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. This enables individuals to profess and confess their faiths as strong Christians, and soldiers of Jesus Christ. Confirmation is the Sacrament by which God strengthens an individual 's faith through the Holy Spirit. It sends Catholics out as witnesses of Jesus, and it seals their membership in the Catholic Church with the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (Ellis and Ramsey 2005). Catholics originally received these gifts at Baptism, and they unwrap them at Confirmation. Two gifts of the Holy Spirit that Catholics unwrap at Confirmation are fortitude and understanding. For instance, young Catholics can use fortitude to resist temptation from doing drugs because it will cause harm to their bodies. Young Catholics can also use the gift of understanding to see how God is there for them during difficult situations and that he is working in each of their lives. At confirmation, individuals chose a saint whom they want to be named after.
The book is neither meant to be a theological treatise nor an academic exposition but a toolkit to unleash human potentials; a resource for intervention in dealing with human life hurts and as a channel of Gods healing and liberation through Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit plays a very vital role in the lives of each and every believer; He can strengthen us with a strength that we cannot even begin to muster up in ourselves. He can bring us joy that we cannot even begin to find in the things of this world. He can bring peace to our lives more than anything that we can ever find on this earth. “The Holy Spirit which is primarily an energizing process, is also a revealing, refining, consuming, illuminating process, and one by which we are made to glow with love to God, and love to man, and love to souls.”
The work of the Holy Spirit provides great strength for the classical method. No matter how the apologist presents the arguments for theism, the aim of the unbeliever is to refute and deny the truth like the postmodernist for example. Thus, the Holy Spirit remains the prime factor for the deliverance of such
The Bible talks about several roles that the Holy Spirit plays in the lives of people today. The first thing that the Holy Spirit does is he provides conviction of sin to all people. John 16:8 said, “And when he comes, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment”. Also, the Holy Spirit works in several ways for many believers that follow Christ. One of the roles that He works is to serve as a comforter and a helper in our daily life. In John 14:16-17 this means that there is someone that is helping us and guiding us and encouraging us during difficult time of
As described in CCC 1832, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They belong in their fullness to Christ, Son of David. They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations. Each one person is entrusted with a particular gift from the Holy Spirit, which he needs to live throughout his or her life. For the moral life of Christians is sustained by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These are permanent dispositions which make man docile in following the promptings of the Holy Spirit.