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The Holy Spirit In The Life Of Faith
Here are two links to an audio version of a lecture given in January 1987:
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The Holy Spirit is the Breath of God. All Scripture is God-breathed. We experience the Breath of God upon our life when we listen attentively to the God-breathed Scriptures. Paul speaks, in 2 Timothy 3:15-17, of the relationship between the Breath of God (the Holy Spirit) and the God-breathed Word (the Holy Scriptures) – ‘the Holy Scriptures … are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work’.
1) The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God to make us wise.
The wisdom…
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In our own homes – let us rejoice in God’s wonderful love …
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Lord, what You have done for us – we could never have done for ourselves!
It’s so amazing what You have done for us.
We were making plans for ourselves – but our plans didn’t include You!
You came to us. You said to us, “I have a wonderful plan for your life.”
We look at the plans we had for ourselves, we look at the plan You have for us – and we say, ‘Your way is so much better than our own way.’
Your way is the way of blessing. It’s the way of giving glory to You.
Lord, where would be – if You had not come to us, if You had not led us into Your way, if You had not brought us into Your blessing?
You did not wait for us to start looking for You – You came looking for…
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Bible notes by G. Philip
For over forty years, Rev George Philip (11th November 1925 - 16th February 2019) taught God's Word, faithfully and fruitfully, in Sandyford-Henderson Memorial Church, Glasgow. Today, I attended a thanksgiving service, at which a good number of people gathered together to give thanks to God for George's ministry. Here's a link to his Bible reading …
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God loves us with a faithful love, an everlasting love, a love that will not let us go. — Learning From God’s Word
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Lord, there are two ways of looking at every situation.
Genesis 35:16-36:43 Lord, there are two ways of looking at every situation. There’s the way of faith – and there’s the way of unbelief. We can look up to You – and be lifted up by You. We can look at our circumstances and fail to see that You are there, waiting to lift us up, …
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Words of unbelief – and words of faith …
“Isn’t it enough that you (Moses) have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness?” (Numbers 16:13).
These are words of unbelief. The people couldn’t see past Moses – and that’s why they couldn’t see past the wilderness. When we can’t see past the preacher, we’ll end up being stuck in the wilderness.
“If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us” (Numbers 14:8).
These are words of faith. Joshua and Caleb were looking beyond the wilderness – because they were looking to the Lord.
Unbelief is all around us. Unbelief threatens to engulf us – and take over our whole way of thinking.
When unbelief seems to us to be so all-powerful, the voice of faith…
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Satan is very powerful … but God is in control!
Job 1:1-2:13 - Satan is very busy - ‘going to and fro on the earth...walking up and down on it’. Why is Satan ‘roaming through the earth’? - ‘Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour’ (1:7; 1 Peter 5:8). If, like Job, you ‘fear God and turn …
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God is in control! … (Luke 2-3).
Luke 2:1-20 - God is in control! Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Long before it happened, God had it planned (1-7; Micah 5:2-3). As we approach Christ's Return, God still has His plan. He is still in control. The birth of Christ is not merely an event from the past. It is also a message …
Uphill struggle or downward slope? … — Learning From God’s Word
Where I live in Colorado, when you drive up a mountain, one will often notice that at some points in the journey to the top, you might find you are going down for a bit (or still going up but moving apparently farther from the summit!). Kind of like walking with Jesus. But keep going! From Learning From God’s Word…………
Am I on the way up – or the way down? This question can be asked in terms of our social standing – upwardly mobile or downwardly mobile? Let’s think about this question in a different way: Are we moving up – towards the Lord? or Are we moving down – away from the Lord? […]
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