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Today’s devotion is based on a plethora of verses that speak of how and what the Holy Spirit has spoken in New testament times. The apostle Paul is so clear in one Corinthians 12:3 that it is only by the Holy Spirit that one can say Jesus is Lord and anyone who speaks contrary to this is not speaking by the spirit of God. There is a helpful wisdom that we ought to…

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Gal 5:22-23 NIV What should the lives of those who are free in…

For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. Romans 8:16 NIV Paul has written in the previous verse that it is by God’s Holy Spirit, given to us by God when we became His children through faith in Christ, that we call out to God as “Abba” or…

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the…

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, Eph 5:18 Paul’s positive alternative to being drunk is to “be filled with the Spirit.” Just as drinking a great deal can cause a person to be controlled by wine, focusing on the Spirit can…

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. Luke 4:14 Jesus is the Man Who demonstrates to you and to me how we should live our lives, for His was a life that was attentive to the Holy Spirit and willingly obeyed God’s Word…

2 Thessalonians 2:13, NIV: But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. As Paul reflects on what God did in the Thessalonians’…

What does it mean to be led by the Spirit? In terms of particulars, that depends somewhat on which biblical passage one is examining. Some of the context of the Spirit’s leading in Galatians 5:18 is moral. Instead of our lives being circumscribed by written laws, God writes his law in our hearts.…

He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’ Just as the Old Testament prophets knew God well before they proclaimed him, our proclamation should flow from a…

26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I…