Knowing The Holy Spirit Part 1

We will never have enough of the Holy Spirit. The more you get of Him, the more you want! He creates an unquenchable thirst for more of Himself, Jesus, and the Father! It takes God to know, understand and reveal God to man, and the person of the Holy Spirit is our greatest friend and teacher!

12 Scriptural Points to help us know the Person of the Holy Spirit.

1. The Holy Spirit was sent by the Father to take the place of Jesus on earth. (John 16:7,15)

“It is to your advantage that I go away… Everything that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Holy Spirit will receive something from me and show it to you. ”

2. The promise, (John 16:13, 14).

But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own. He will speak only what he hears. And he will tell you what is still going to happen. "He will bring me glory by receiving something from me and showing it to you.

3. He speaks (Acts 8:29) (to Phillip)

The Holy Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot. Stay near it."

4. He strives. [Genesis 6:3)

Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not struggle with man forever. He will die. He will have only 120 years to live until I judge him."

5. He cannot be lied against (Acts 5:3)

Then Peter said, "Ananias, why did you let Satan fill your heart? He made you lie to the Holy Spirit.

6. He can be grieved. (Ephesians 4:30)

Do not make God's Holy Spirit sad. He marked you with a seal for the day when God will set you completely free.

7. He cannot be sinned against. (Mark 3:29)

But anyone who speaks evil things against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. His guilt will last forever."

8. He searches all things. (I Corinthians 2:10, 11)

But God has shown it to us through his Spirit. The Spirit understands all things. He understands even the deep things of God. 11 Who can know the thoughts of another person? Only a person's own spirit can know them. In the same way, only the Spirit of God knows God's thoughts.

9. He makes intercession for us. (Romans 8:26)

In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. We don't know what we should pray for. But the Spirit himself prays for us. He prays with groans too deep for words.

10. He distributes gifts. (I Corinthians 2:11)

Who can know the thoughts of another person? Only a person's own spirit can know them. In the same way, only the Spirit of God knows God's thoughts

11. He is called the Counselor. (John 15:26)

"I will send the Friend to you from the Father. He is the Spirit of truth, who comes out from the Father. When the Friend comes to help you, he will give witness about me.

12. He is called the Comforter or Helper. (John 14:26)

But the Father will send the Friend in my name to help you. The Friend is the Holy Spirit. He will teach you all things. He will remind you of everything I have said to you.

Spiritual Bread

(Isa 33:22)
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.
(John 8 :12)
Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life."

Prayer:
Amen Lord! I agree with your words and accept that you are my Judge and King. Jesus, thank you that you are the light of the world and the light of life of whoever follows You. Make me one of them by your power and Grace, In Your Holy Name. Amen!

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
(1Cor 16:13)

Prayer:
Amen Lord! I agree with your words and ask for your power to enable me to stand firm in the faith and be strong. Thank you in Jesus Name.

"The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light." But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
(Matt 6:22-23)

Prayer:
Amen Lord! I agree with your words that our eye is the lamp of the body and we must be very careful in what we see with our eyes.
Give me wisdom to see the right things and not looking at the evil things. In Jesus Name I give thanks.

You can work miracles

You can work miracles!

1 Corinthians 12:10 (to another performance of miracles …. )

It describes one of the gifts of the Spirit as being the "working of miracles.”

The word "working" means the operation of or the doing of.

The Lord makes it clear in His Word that His people who believe will work miracles. If you are a believer, that means you! The Holy Spirit is within you and in Him are His gifts. The power to work miracles is in you right now if Jesus is your Savior and Lord.

In Acts 1:8 (But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you),

The scripture teaches us that we receive POWER (Greek: dunamis – the miracle working power of God) when the Holy Spirit comes upon us. This power has been given to you and me by God's Spirit so that we might do the works of the Kingdom.

In Matthew 10, (Jesus ¹ called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits ² so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness)

When Jesus commissioned His disciples to preach the good news of the Kingdom, He anointed them with power to do the works of the Kingdom. We are filled with this same power and have been given the same mandate.

John 14:12 (I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.)

It reveals to us that the same works Jesus did we will do also. That means that we, as part of His Body in the earth will perform miracles, signs and wonders in Christ's name.

In John 20:21, (So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”)

Jesus said that as the Father sent Him, so also we are sent.

The world and even all creation is waiting for the manifestation of Christ through His church

(Romans 8:19-21 8:19 For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope 8:21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.).

Prayer: Amen Lord! Thank you for the miracles working power is in us who believe. Glory to God!

Notes are taken from Extreme Prophetic Minsitry part of the April Devotion teaching.

Prophetic Message by Susan Cummings

Every Time I Move
by Susan Cummings

Every time I move, I require absolute obedience, in order for you to
move as I move. I am continually working and moving and bringing My
People into those things that I have ordained. But most of My People
will not obey. I am not going to continue to be moving on behalf of
those who will not fully follow Me.

My People continually resist Me, oppose Me, argue with Me, criticize My
Works, and ridicule My Power. MY PEOPLE do this! I am Holy and My Glory
is Holy, and no more will My Glory be given to those who would trample
it in their hearts and through their mouths. No More! No More!

It is out of your absolute love for Me, that you will obey Me and follow
Me. Much of My House does not love Me, nor desire Me above their own
things or lives. If they did, then My House would be known for it's love
and for it's prayer, and for it's radiance of My Glory and My Person
from within and from without.

Every time I move on behalf of My People, and bring them deliverance and
freedom and provision, they then turn their backs on Me and go about
their earthly business, while My Will is left on the wayside. They only
wanted what came from My Hand, but they truly did not desire Me or to be
yoked with Me to fulfill My Will, or to change their evil ways. No more!
No More!

What I bring forth within My House will remove all who do not truly walk
with Me, nor humble themselves before Me, or who do not reverence My
Presence. For I will separate from that which is not Mine, nor Holy. I
am not a God that will be taken for granted, nor will I be dictated to,
or be controlled by evil men and women.

I am shaking everything loose that has been hidden amongst the ranks,
and only the Holy will stand through it all. What I have begun, will not
be stopped till I have accomplished My Transformation. The next wave has
now begun, but where will the wicked men run?

I desire Truth in the inward parts of men, not lies and hardness of
hearts.

What men have covered up, will I uncover.

What men have exalted, I will bring down.

What men have said was My Presence, will I show forth as their works of
sin.

What men have done to My Lambs, I will surely and speedily repay.

Every time I move, it is to draw My People unto Myself, and to reveal
Myself unto them, to set them free, and to heal them, and to show forth
My Love unto them. My Kingdom is to be fruitful and multiply and to
advance into the hearts of every man on the earth. I am to be lifted up
amongst all men, and then I will draw all men unto Myself. But I am not
being fully lifted up.

Men have lifted themselves up into My Place.

I am not to be used for building man made kingdoms, nor am I to be
prostituted upon wicked men's flesh, nor are My Lambs to be stripped
bare and beaten and used up as slaves till they die off. I have seen
this in My House and I will no longer allow Mine to be denied their God.
No more! No more!

I am coming to bring them to Myself. I will remove them from the chains
of men suddenly, and place them where they can grow and mature. I will
sweep through, and call Mine out, then the destruction will come, to
those who do not follow Me. Take heed to My Voice. Take care to your
souls. Remove all that binds you and come unto Me. For I am moving
amongst you!

Every time I move, I unroll more of My Plans concerning men, but few
truly see and reverence Me in the midst of that time of change. Most
criticize, complain, and mock My Hand. Few fear Me, and truly know what
I am doing in that time. But those few will I use to shake the church
and to reveal who I truly am! Then all men will fear Me. But then, it
will be too late for them.

Wind upon wind, upon wind, upon wind will blow upon the false house till
it falls in utter ruin. The natural winds that come, you will see
raging, are the sign of the wave that has come. Will men see, or will
they still close their hearts in this new day? The winds will surely
tell, and men will mourn those that fell. But I will set Mine free from
their prison cell.

Every time I move, I AM seen.

-Susan Cummings
3-4-07 1:05 pm

Amen Lord! Thank you for the comfirmation thru this prophetic message that we are to be fruitful and multiply in God's kingdom.

Pressing Into His Hem

Pressing into His Hem

"God has further places for us to go, places unknown to us now, but found in His Presence."

The place of God's purpose is birthed solely out of personal desperation and pursuit. Revelation doesn't come from hands being laid on us, or sitting under someone else's anointing, which is simply insight and wisdom. Revelation comes from pressing through into God ourselves. It is there that we attract His attention. God isn't looking at the coattails of others to find the sons that will release the Kingdom. He is looking at those who have pressed through to grab His hem for that destiny!

"And a woman who had a hemorrhage (KJV "an issue") for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, came up behind Him, and touched the fringe of His cloak; and immediately her hemorrhage stopped. And Jesus said, 'Who is the one who touched Me?' And while they were all denying it, Peter said, 'Master, the multitudes are crowding and pressing upon You.' But Jesus said, 'Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.'

And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed. And He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.'" (Luke 8:43-48)

The issues of our hearts will never be resolved by inheritance; they will only be resolved by passionate pursuit of Him. It's not the anointing of men that we should seek and it's not by adhering to the principles of those who pressed through themselves--it is by our own pressing that we touch Him. My heart is not to follow after the anointings of God on men; my heart is to follow the anointing of God that flows from Him. I don't want the coattails of position, but rather, I want the hem that is His!

When we enter into a realm of simply being given an inheritance without ever pressing through ourselves, we don't understand that it is His Presence alone that gives revelation. It is His Presence alone that releases the purposes of God through our lives. It is His Presence alone that heals and delivers and saves. Everything else is simply an echo of what another man or woman heard--it is simply the articulation and reformulation of what has already been pressed into by others.

God has further places for us to go, places unknown to us now, but found in His Presence.

"And wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and entreating Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured." (Mark 6:56)

Heavenly Warehouses

Recently, I was caught up in His Presence and was taken to a place that He indicated was "His Warehouses." Inside each of these beautiful buildings were things I had never perceived before--things unheard of, things unseen--and there was an atmosphere of "newness" in each of these buildings. I realized there was so much more that I needed to explore--things I didn't need to read about in books by others who had been there, things I didn't need to hear about in a conference by those who had experienced them, and things that I didn't need to watch happen to others. But rather things I pressed into on my own with Him--the Lover of my soul!

The coattails are the trains of men; the hem is the train of God! It is this we contend for. It is there that the issues of our hearts are healed, restored, resolved, and undone!

Danny Steyne
Mountain of Worship
www.mountainofworship.com