Lesson 7

If we want to be humble before God, we must always possess these various attitudes:

The Holy Spirit is a gift given to all believers who believe in God through Jesus.

The six conditions that must be met before we can receive and manifest the fullness of the Holy Spirit are as follow:

When a person is filled with the Holy Spirit, he will glorify Jesus (John 16:13-14)

As sons of God, we are to led and empowered by the Holy Spirit in all that we think, do or say. we are no longer to be led by the flesh, by our old nature.
We are to follow after the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-18; Romans 8:5).

As we totally depended on the leading, the power and the love of the Holy Spirit, the life of God flows into us and through us (Romans 8:1-2, 13).
In this way, we can always demonstrate and share the life of God with others.

If we do not depend on the love, power and leading of the Holy Spirit to help us, and instead live our lives as we please, then we will grieve the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is made sad by our wrong attitude, and the Holy Spirit is not able to help us in any way (Ephesians 4:30-32; Mark 16:20; 1 John 5:7).

The Holy Spirit has been sent by God the Father and God the Son to help us in many areas of life and ministry.

These areas include the following:

The Holy Spirit has been sent by God the Father and God the son into our lives so that we may glorify Jesus (John 16:13-14).

The Holy Spirit helps us not only to praise Jesus, but also to pray for our own needs and for the need of others.

God communicates with us through His Holy Spirit who lives in us (John 16:13-15).
He will speak to us and lead us by His Holy Spirit (Acts8:29; 10:19-20; 11:12; 13:1-2; 16:6-10).
He will give us the words to speak in every situation by His Holy Spirit who lives in us (Romans 8:14, 16; Luke 12:11-12; Matthew 10:19-20).

Every believer can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Jesus.
Our Lord wants to lead us in specific directions by the leading of His Holy Spirit.
It is our duty to train ourselves to wait on God and hear His voice as He leads us in specific ways by His Spirit (John 10:14-16; 27).

By our own strength we do not have the power to love God and obey Him.
By our own strength we do not have the power to love others.
We are able to love God and man only because God has first loved us and He has poured out His love in our hearts by His Holy Spirit.

We love because He first loved us.
(1 John 4:19)

God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
(Romans 5:5)

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
(2 Timothy 1:7)

True love can only flow through our lives to love God only when we consciously allow the love of God to flow through us to love God in return.
True love can only flow through our lives to love others only when we consciously allow the love and compassion of God to flow through us to love others.

We must therefore always yield to love of the Holy Spirit in us, and allow Him to love God and man through us.
It is the love that comes from the Holy Spirit in us that will help us to live a life of love - a life that is pleasing to God.

Our own natural love is selfish and self-seeking.
It is not consistent; it changes with the circumstance.

God's love is sacrificial love - agape love.
God's love is all-powerful.
God's love endures forever.
God's love never fails.

And all of God's love is available through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
Yield therefore everyday to the love of the Holy Spirit in you.
Let His compassion flow through you in every situation to touch others.
Let the love of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, direct your life as He directed Paul's life (2 Corinthians 5:14).

For the love of Christ compels us. 
(2 Corinthians 5:14)

All of God's inheritance for us in Christ Jesus are given through His promises.
The Holy Spirit helps us to posses our inheritance in two main ways.

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.
(John 16:13-14)

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of WISDOM AND REVELATION, so that you may know Him better.
(Ephesians 1:18)

We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may UNDERSTAND what God has freely given us.
(1 Corinthians 2:12)

E.g., only the Holy Spirit can reveal to you that "By the wounds of Jesus, you have been healed" (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:23).

Many people have read these verses many times, but their minds are not enlightened. They have closed their spirit to the further revelation of God's Word through the Holy Spirit.

Some of these people even have good Bible School training; however, they have learnt to trust more in their own scholarship and learning than in the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit never speaks to closed minds.

"Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness." After they prayer, the place where they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly.
(Acts 4:29,31)

Jesus has given us His Spirit to help us to bear witness to Him in power (Acts 1:8).
It is the Holy Spirit that will confirm God's Word with signs and wonders following.
It is the power of the Holy Spirit that will be released to help us bear witness to God's Word when we preach God's Word and act on it in ministry.

Jesus said: "But you will receive POWER when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
(Acts 1:8)

Then the disciples went out the preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and CONFIRMED His Word by the SIGNS which accompanied it.
(Mark 16:20)

There are three witnesses: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and these three agree.
(1 John 5:8)

Every believer serving God must thus be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit whenever he preaches the Word of God, and whenever He blesses others in the Name of Jesus, whether to heal, to deliver, or to establish other aspects of God's kingdom on this earth.

In their ministry, Jesus and Paul declared their dependence on the Holy Spirit in establishing the kingdom of God on this earth.

Jesus said:
"But it I drive our demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you."
(Matthew 12:28)

Paul said:
"I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said or done - by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
(Romans 15:18-19)

We as followers of Jesus are also likewise to depend on the Holy Spirit for His power to establish God's kingdom on this earth in every aspect of our life and ministry.
In the same way that God the Father has sent Jesus, so our Lord Jesus has sent us, to serve God in the power of the Holy Spirit (John 20:21-22).

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that He breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
(John 20:21-22)

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PRAYER

DECLARATION & PROCLAMATIONS

Proclaim and declare these confessions as often as you can, for as you do so, you establish the kingdom of God in your lives, in your family, in your church, in the nations, and in this earth. (Matthew 16:19; 18:18; John 14:13-14; Mark 11:23-24)

Study the following passage on the leading of the Holy Spirit in the ministry of our Lord Jesus, Paul, and the early Church, with focus on these three areas: the transforming love of the Holy Spirit; the blessings of God through the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit.

1. JESUS: Matthew 12:28; Luke 4:14; 4:18-19; 10:21;

2. PAUL and DISCIPLES; Matthew 10:20; Luke 12:12; John 14:26; 15:26; 16:7-15; 20:21-22; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4; 2:14-41; 4:8; 4:31; 4:1-31; Acts 8:29-39; 9:17-31; 10:19; 11:12; 11:27-30; Acts 13:2,4,9,52; Acts 16:6-10; Acts 20:28;

3. Romans 5:5; 8:1-27; 14:17; 15:13, 16, 19, 30

4. 1 Corinthians 2:4-14; 12:1-31; 14:1-40; 2 Corinthians 3:17-18;

5. Galatians 5:16-26.