How have you viewed the promise of the Holy Spirit? I’m certain that I haven’t encountered enough teaching from the Bible even though I’ve encountered multiple viewpoints. I’m trying to learn more, especially from respected authors, current and classic. His presence is with me, in me, protecting me, providing the mercy and grace needed each day. The Spirit points to Jesus, and in essence is Jesus in me. The mystery of His presence, invisible, untouchable, can only be experienced by following the Way of Jesus.
“The Creator who breathed life into dust to create people filled with his Spirit is also the Re-Creator who breathes life into the lifeless, refilling people with his Spirit.” - Excerpt, The Familiar Stranger by Tyler Staton
“The Holy Spirit is not courage, or energy, or the personification of all good qualities, like Jack Frost is the personification of cold weather and Santa Claus the personification of wanting to give someone a tie. The Holy Spirit is not a personification of anything, but the Holy Spirit is a person just the same as you are a person. He has all the qualities of a person. The Holy Spirit has substance but not material substance. He has individuality. He is one being and not another. He has will and He has intelligence and He has feeling and He has knowledge, sympathy, and the ability to love and see and think and hear and speak and desire and grieve and rejoice. And Jesus said about the Holy Spirit, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me” (John 15:26” - A.W. Tozer
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