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Two things the Holy Spirit Gives
There must be two (2) major, unavoidable, and undeniable things that happen inside a man or women when the Holy Spirit is in control. These two (2) manifestations inside of your spirit, the real you, are these two gifts: Power and Change.
1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God consists of and is based on not talk but power (moral power and excellence of soul).
1) Power - Have you felt an internal Power Source?
The Holy Spirit gives power as the Lord Jesus Christ promised. Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth. The sins that use too so easily control you, now no longer have dominion. Through Christ abiding in you, we have an internal power source to conquer sin in our life. 1 Corinthians 10:13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted, tried, and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable, strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.
Through the internal Power of Christ in us we are now able to mortify and put to death our flesh or corrupt nature and all our members. Roman’s 8:13. For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you are habitually putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the evil deeds prompted by the body, you will really and genuinely live forever. Colossians 3:5 So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).
2) Change - Have you felt a change of nature within you?
When we are born again or born from above, you feel the divine nature of the Holy Spirit working in you awakening your spirit (the real you) from death to life. Our old sinful nature has suddenly been suppressed or supplanted by the divine nature of God. We are now able to love, praise, worship, and glorify God as He wishes. We realize that all our sins are erased and forgotten. Our first priority is love, to know, and to obey God. Our family, our house, our job, recreation, etc., is no longer number one in our lives. The Lord Jesus Christ is number one. We are alive to God in Christ Jesus for the first time and He introduces us to a whole new unseen spiritual world. The Holy Spirit enables us to understand the revealed truths from the Bible that were once foreign. A natural man can never understand God’s Word. Earthly things are of far less value. This change makes us immediately want everyone to feel and know the Love of God through the Lord Jesus Christ as we experience and receive His love day by day.
Lord Jesus, my heart is changed, I feel all new
My real commitment is only to You
Sincerely in Christ,
Clifford D. Tate, Sr.
Author, Silent Assassins of the Soul (not yet published; coming soon)
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