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Greetings,
I hope everyone is well. I am continuing to enjoy my time at home in Bellingham. I am finishing a few projects at home and enjoying my summer. I am working on a few video projects and also working around home a bit.
Holy Spirit is not merely a power of God. Holy Spirit is God. Our daily fellowship with Holy Spirit increases our daily connection with Jesus the Son. Our internal connection to Holy Spirit empowers our spirits to know that we are God’s sons and daughters. It is by this that we know God as our Father and our spirts cry out, “Abba, Father”. To develop this relationship, we must practice responding to Holy Spirit within us as our daily way of life.
John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jesus has now been glorified and He has given us Holy Spirit. If we seek to know God as Holy Spirit joined to our spirits from within, we must also partner with Holy Spirit to allow rivers of living (life-giving) water to flow from within us to our world. Life-giving water is the ability to give life to others. This is love. It is not a matter of releasing power. It is a matter of living in an intimate fellowship with Holy Spirit, and this is manifested through the fruit of life that comes to us and through us for the sake of our world. It is supernaturally powerful because Holy Spirit is God. It is a testimony of love by being loved by God from within. That testimony of being loved will empower us to love others in our world. The living water that flows from within us is experienced in the words, expressions, and actions of our lives. We are new creations in Christ, and it is the life of Holy Spirit within us that empowers our testimony to our world.
Ezekiel 1:24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings.
Jesus is in our lives by the testimony of Holy Spirit. He stands in the midst of our lives as both Lord and Christ. He is the Word, but we are His voice. His voice is the sound of many waters. That water is the life of Christ flowing from within each of us. He is in us, but we must make expressions that are responses to His presence within us. By this we see His presence upon us to our world. We become witnesses of Him, not merely witnesses for Him.
Revelation 1:13 …and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters…
When we know someone and we love them, we value who they are, and we respond to who they are. We invite them into our world, and we share our world with them. Holy Spirit is God in our lives, and we respond to Him because we are loved by Him. We find our identity in our Father, God. Because of this, we live to be expressions of Christ as part of the body of Christ joined to Jesus in every aspect of our lives through an intimate fellowship with Holy Spirit.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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