The power of God to be a witness

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

The Holy Spirit who is in us rises up from time to time to witness and to bring God's truth to others.  When this happens, this is the power of God.  The Holy Spirit never makes us speak.  We learn to yield to that which the Holy Spirit brings to our mind when we are speaking.  We can quench the Holy Spirit by holding back.  Paul says, "Quench not the Spirit."  (I Thess. 5:19)

 

But there are other spirits which we do not permit to speak through us, fleshly spirits and spirits of devils.  Knowing the difference between wrong spirits and the Spirit of God is critical for us.

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Holy Spirit had me read the following scripture to my mother who had enjoyed reading horoscopes all her life. After I read this scripture to my mother, she said, "Then I guess we'd better not do that anymore." She was born again when she agreed with that scripture.

 

Which of us would have ever read that scripture to a person thinking they would be born again by that scripture.

 

But the Holy Spirit knew!

 

Deuteronomy 18:9-14  When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

 

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

 

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

 

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

 

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

 

14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

 

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Acts 1:8 Jesus says:  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto ME ...

 

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All believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit:

 

Ephesians 1:13   In WHOM ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

 

Hebrews 1:1-2   God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by HIS Son, whom HE hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE made the worlds;

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The Holy Spirit searches the heart of God to show us the will of God for us:

 

I Corinthians 2:9-14    But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM.

 

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

 

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

 

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

 

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

 

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

 

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Works of the Holy Spirit:

 

Jesus says:

 

John 14:26   But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

 

John 16:13   Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

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James 1:5   If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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Romans 8:14    For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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How to recognize the ideas that are from God:

 

James 3:17    But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy

 

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