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[navygoat1998]

http://georgeowood.com/why-we-need-the-holy-spirit/


A very good article written by George O Wood - General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God.

Why We Need the Holy Spirit

My Pentecostal experience has taught me there is great value in waiting in the Spirit’s presence. The Christian life is not simply intellectual, theological or mind-oriented. It reaches those deeper parts of us that relate to the mystery of the heart in adoration to God. The Spirit reaches into areas of our life where we know what God’s will is but are not doing it.

And the Spirit forms the character of Christ in us as we allow Him to do so. The Spirit wants to reach into the complacency of our life, where we would be satisfied to live as we are now living. He wants to come upon us and make us earnest about the work of God, make us want God’s will and purpose to be done in and through us.

God would have His Spirit call us out of a life of spiritual complacency to one of deep surrender. Through the Spirit, we can have the joy of hearing from God like we have never heard from Him before. The Spirit is with us at the crossroads of life, as we make the most critical decisions. We need the Spirit of God in an increasingly deeper measure. He wants to open up avenues of worship and of vision to us. May each of us cry out, “Spirit of God, I need You! I can never do this on my own. I can’t live the Christian life on my own. I can’t know what Your will is on my own. I need You, Holy Spirit.”

[KeptByTheWord]

I was touched with the eloquence of the thought expressed in this post!

I was reading in Job this morning, and this particular passage is one of my favorite scriptures of all in the Word, and I thought of your post, and wanted to mention it.

Job 42:1-5
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

I think this is a most powerful scripture because Job had gone through so much, and had so many questions for the Lord, but then when the Lord began to speak to him, it was like Job all of a sudden got a revelation of just WHO he was speaking with. He was speaking of his eye seeing, and understanding just HOW marvelous, wonderful, and mighty the Lord was, and he had nothing left to say, but to ask for the Lord to forgive him. It was a powerful moment in his life, changed his life forever from that point on!

There is something about our spiritual eyes beginning to see and understand the Lord, and who He is, that causes all of our questions, problems, desires, thoughts, ideas, concerns... etc... to disappear, and we fall on our faces in worship, because our flesh cannot stand in the presence of the Almighty.

[pilgram]

Awesome. Great job! Want to read more stuff like this on this forum. So glad Jesus started dealing with me and I left the sports forums I used to post on.

[houston]

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 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. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.