All tagged holy spitit

Rebirth, and a Second Breath of Life

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Reborn

Have we allowed God to live with us? Is His Holy Spirit within us now, and does it repair and revive our brokenness? When we first believed, we were inclined to wear our faith like a new suit of clothes; we felt good in them, and wanted to wear them all the time, but was it anything more than just a garment... did it ever go any deeper than our skin? Well, I can promise you that when the Holy Spirit truly falls upon us, and we breathe Him deep into ourselves, that something remarkable is going to happen... our faith will suddenly well up from deep within us like a fresh spring, and the external faith that we once put on, and took off with ease, will become who we are and not simply our clothing.

Intellect, Spirit, Understanding God, and our Inheritance

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Understanding God

We are not meant to understand scripture with our intellect alone, but in a much deeper sense we are to engage God’s Word with our spirits. We can read that “God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son” (John 3:16), and understand that it was out of love that Jesus was sent to us, but until our spirit reveals to us the depth and breadth of that love, and who Jesus is, then we don’t truly grasp the deeper meaning of those Words. We can’t feel that love as it was given, and enter into it. We need the Holy Spirit’s help in gaining this level of wisdom, and receiving this revelation.