Dear friends..
I would like to explain about the Holy spirit, what I knew..If there is any mistakes please forgive with Christ Love.
( 1) we should repent and Baptised....
Act 2;37-38 is the end of peter's talk on the day of pentecost, and it gives the response of the people to his message. Therefore we have the promise ; "you will receive the gift of the Holy spirit". We also have two conditions clearly started; "repent and be baptized." To repent means to turn sincerely from all sinfulness and rebellion and sub mit oujrselves without reservation to God and to His requirements. To be baptizaed is to go through an ordinance of a sacrament by which each of us in personally and visibly indentified with Jesus Christ to the world in His death, burial and resurrection. So thre are two basic, primary requirements for receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit ; we must repent, and we must be baptized..
(2) Ask God..
in Luke 11;9-13, Jesus says
"so I say to you; Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Here is a simple condition but a very important one . Jesus says the Fathr will give the Holy Spirit to His children if we ask Him for the Holy Spirit. I have heard Christian say. I don't need to ask for the holy spirit." i must tell you that is not scriptural. Jesus was speaking to His disciples and He said, " your father will give you the Holy Spirit if you ask for it. Elsewhere Jesus said He would go to the father to send the HOly Spirit to His disiciples. My feeling is that if Jesus had to ask the Father , it will not do us any harm to ask as well. This , then third condition; to risk
(3) Be Thirsty: In John 7;37-39, we have more simple conditions stated;
"On the last and greatest dsay of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voicce, " if a man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture had said, streams of living water flow from within Him," By this he meant theSpirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
The author of the gospel makes it very clear that in this passage Jesus was talking about believers receiving the Holy Spirit. With that in mind, let us look at what Jesus said. "If a man in thirsty, let him come to me and drink". These are three simple but practical requirements.
The first is we must be thirsty. God does not force His blessings on people who fel they do not need them. many people never receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit because they are not really thirsty. If you think you have all you need already , why should God bother you with more? Very probably, you are not making the best use of what you already have. you would be under greater condemnation if God gave you more.
That is an essential condition-- to be thirsty. To be thirsty means you have recognized you need more thanyou already have. As a matter of fact, thirst is one of the strongest desires in the human body. When a person is really thirsty, they do not care about eating or anything else. All they want is a drink. i spent three years in deserts in North Africa, and I have a pretty good picture of what it means to be thirsty. When a man is thirst, he does not bargain or talk or discuss; he just goes to where the water is. That is what Jesus was saying; you must be thirsty.
(4) Come to Jesus
"Then , if you are thirst, He said" come to me..." so the second condition is to come to Jesus . Jesus is the Baptiser in the HOly Spirit. If you want the baptism, you must come to othe One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit. No human being baptizes in the HOly Spirit, only Jesus..
(5) Drink " Then He said you must drink. This is so smple some people leave it out. But drinking is receiving something within you by a decision of you will and a physical response. It is also part of receiving the HOly Spirit. Thirsting, coming to Jesus and drinking are all essential. Just being totally passive and saying, " Well if God want to do it, let Him do it!" is not drinking. Drinking is actively receiving within you.
(6) Yield " we want to consider two more relevant facts concerning our physical bodies whicjh were touched on in earlier sections, First our bodies are destined by God to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. I corinthians 6;19 says.."Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, who you hve received from God"
second we are required to offer or yield to God the parts of our bodies as instrument for His service. This is our responsibility. Roman 6;13 states "Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him (God) as instruments of righteousness.
We have a rewsonsisbility straight from the scripture to offer, yhield, or dedicate the various memebers of our physical bodies to God for His service. One member particulrly needs God's control; the tongue. Jemes says very simple in his epistle; " but no man can tame(control) the tongue..james 3;8"
We need help from God to control all the members of our bodies, but we need special help with our tongues. When the Holy Spirit comes in His fullness,. the first member that He affects, takes control of, and utilizes for God's glory is the tongue. you will find, if you care to check, taht every time the New Testament speaks of people being filled with the HOly Spirit or full of the Holy Spirit, the first immediate result is some utterance that comes out of their mouths. They speak they prophesy, they praise, they sing , they speak in tongues- but always the mouth is engaged. When you come to Jesus and Drink, the final result will be an overflow, and it will be out of your mouth. This principle is stated by Jesus very clearly in Mathew 12;34"For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks" When your heart is filled to overflowing, the overflow will take place through your mouth in speech. God wants you not to have just enough. He wants you to have an overflow. Remeber He said, " out of his inner being will flow rivers of living, That is the ultimate purpose of God. God"S Requirements .. The following are the sesven conditions that I have found in the Bible for receiving the fullness of the HOly Spirit..( 1. Repent ..2. Be baptized, 3. Ask God. 4. Be thirsty 5. Come to Jesus ; He is the Baptizer
6. Drink -- receive within yourself. 7. Present your body as a temple for the HOly Spirit and your members as instruments of righteousness. ) Perhaps you are left wondering how you can do all this. I want to help you by sharing a pattern prayer that includes the things I have been explaining to you. Read it over, and , if it is your prayer, pray it aloud to the Lord.
lord jesus I'm thirsty for the fullness of your Holy Spirit. I present my body to you as a temple and my members as instruments of righteousness, especially my tongue, the member I cannot tame. Fill me, I pray, and let your Holy Spirit flow through my lips in rivers of praise and worship. Amen! If you prayed that prayer sincerely, it has been heard, and the results are on the way. you may be quite surprised at the fullness of what you will receive.
friends If you feel any wrong in my opinion about Holy spirit..please suggest me with Christ Love..yours loving friend..
David karan..
