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What truly identifies the “spirit” of an individual? Is it the way someone acts, their heart, their mind, or a more divine related explanation? Whither Thou Goest, by Richard Selzer, is a story about a woman named Hannah whose husband is killed and she decides to donate his organs. At the beginning of the story she believes that there is no issue with donating her husband’s organs because she is convinced that his body has no sentimental link to who he was. However, as the story goes on, she begins to rethink this and believes that the only way to move on with her life is to hear her husband’s heartbeat.
The Holy Spirit is defined as “God’s power in action, his active force.” “The Spirit of God is like the wind it is invisible, immaterial and powerful;” (n.a., 2017) just as the Force
To understand or experience that spirit is to be truly alive. This spirit is what makes all things equal in the eyes of Mother Nature and what makes all things resemble God. True understanding of this concept cannot be done purely by intellect; “it must be experiential” as well in the form of “prayer, contemplation, and meditation.” Once action is taken to awake to this realization and “we become truly aware of our hearts, we feel comfort and release right away.” This must take place in order to become compassionate souls willing and able to produce real change for a better, happier existence for all transient beings.
The Holy Spirit is usually described as that voice within one’s self that tells them what is good and bad. God lead that man to run into Mr. Searcy where upon he would be introduced into batteries and get involved in the battery industry. While the Holy Spirit allowed him to find the talents and abilities he was equipped with to lead him to his destiny of creating a business that has done such amazing things not just for the customers but also the community. Upon thinking of how the trinity allowed him to achieve his purpose in this life he demonstrated the three primary virtues that all Christians should
The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. 3And He will delight in the fear of the LORD,
I chose Acts 8: 7-8 which says: 7 For in the case of many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice; and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.8 So there was much rejoicing in that city. After I carefully read through these verses, I understood that the apostles were casting demons out of the people. Demon possession is when an evil spirit inhabits a hapless victim.
As Screwtape advises his nephew, "When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them try to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by its success in producing the desired feeling, and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment" (Lewis, 16). The emotional rush that occurs when drawing near to the Holy Spirit is a feeling almost every Christian has experienced. New believers tend to use this feeling as their sole motivation for prayer, study, and worship.
I had just received the 7 special gifts of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, fortitude, counsel, piety and fear of the Lord, to support my mission and testimony. Although I am surrounded by the Holy Spirit every day, today was a day that I sealed the journey, through a mass with my classmates and a gathering with my loved ones. The Holy Spirit can be viewed by Catholics in many different ways. For example, the term “spirit” means breath, air, or wind.
He mentions “sin” and “righteousness” which are words for “right” and “wrong”—the subjects of every hearing and court case. Here Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will carry out a ministry of acting as the prosecuting attorney of the soul, convicting all unbelievers continually about the truth, using divine revelation in tandem with their ever-present conscience. This work of the Holy Spirit is non-stop, universal, real and efficacious. He makes sinners feel guilt. All humans feel guilt.
I believe there are two fillings of the Holy Spirit. The first one comes when one accepts Christ as their personal Savior. The second filling comes when one is baptized with the Holy Spirit and in Acts 2, it talks about the day of Pentecost. Also, in Acts 4:31, it talks about the apostles being filled a second time with the Holy Spirit and they received boldness from God. In Acts 9:17, it talks about Ananias laying hands on Saul (Paul) to receive his sight and to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
PERSPECTIVES ON SPIRIT BAPTISM The Reform position of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is possibly the most commonly held position in the American mid-west. Walter Kaiser is a brilliant theologian but very typical in his assessment of the Holy Spirit’s representation in the New Testament. Kaiser does a masterful job of presenting the theological and chronological exegesis of the Holy Spirit without jumping off the Calvinist cliff. He makes an excellent observation of seeing the Pauline letters as didactic and Lukan letters as narrative, but falls short of full scholarship by asserting that narrative passages could not be doctrinal in scope.
Specifically, through the Holy Spirit we are being regenerated from the inside out to live holy lives that honor and glorify God. No longer do we need to live holy lives to have access to God, but we live holy lives out of the access to God’s grace. In the words of Alexander, “To be holy is to live in a way that reflects the moral perfection of God; it is to live a life marked by love, purity, and righteousness, which are the three most important hallmarks of perfect
And with the power of the Holy Spirit transformation can begin to take place from one person, to one family, to one community at a
However, the Spirit of God cannot be boxed in. A few simple sentences cannot describe and define the work and effect of the Holy Spirit on us. John chapter 3, verse 34 describes the Holy Spirit as, ‘boundless is the gift God makes of His Spirit!’
He can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30), quenched (I Thessalonians 5:19), He speaks (Acts 8:29), and He intercedes for the Saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26). It would be unthinkable to equate all of these attributes to anyone or anything other than God. The only honest conclusion then is that the Holy Spirit is a person and is truly God.
