Today are we in POSITION to RECEIVE POWER FROM ON HIGH?
Here is the POSITION, we must be ABIDING in HIM to receive from Him. It is a LINGERING in His presence.
Acts 1
14They... devoted themselves steadfastly to prayer, [waiting together] with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
In Luke 24:
Yeshua opened the disciples minds so they could understand the Scriptures. Are you OPENED to Him today?
44Then He said to them, This is what I told you while I was still with you: everything which is written concerning Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.
45Then He [thoroughly] opened up their minds to understand the Scriptures,
46And said to them, Thus it is written that the Christ (the Messiah) should suffer and on the third day rise from (among) the dead,
47And that repentance [with a view to and as the condition of] forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48You are witnesses of these things.
Yeshua said, I am sending you the POWER TO DO THESE THINGS. But remain in Jerusalem until you get the POWER.
49And behold, I will send forth upon you what My Father has promised; but remain in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power from on high.
50Then He conducted them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up His hands, He invoked a blessing on them.
51And it occurred that while He was blessing them, He parted from them and was taken up into heaven.
52And they, worshiping Him, went back to Jerusalem with great joy;
53And they were continually in the temple celebrating with praises and blessing and extolling God. Amen (so be it).
Yeshua had told them many times that He would send the COUNSELOR to teach them ALL things and will remind them of all Yeshua Had taught them.
The Spirit of Truth and your Counselor
John 14
16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever--
17The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.
Again in the same chapter, the Comforter, and Counselor.
26But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.
27Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
28You heard Me tell you, I am going away and I am coming [back] to you. If you [really] loved Me, you would have been glad, because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater and mightier than I am.
John 16:7 says unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you, But if I go, I will send Him to you. (Holy Spirit is not an IT).
John 16:13 When the Spirit of TRUTH comes, He will guide you into all truth.
Did you know the disciples were BREATHED on by Yeshua and He said "receive the HOLY SPIRIT, before Yeshua went back to heaven? John 20:21-23
Today we would call this surrendering our lives to the Lord.
But why did Yeshua still tell them that they had to go and wait in Jerusalem for the PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT, when He had already breathed the Spirit onto them? We will know in a moment.
Acts 1:5 For John the Immerser baptized with water unto repentance, But in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. And earlier John the Immerser also said there was one coming after him who would immerse with the HOLY SPIRIT and with FIRE.
They would receive POWER for ministry.
Acts 1:8 says,
8But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.
Now the POWER of the SPIRIT fell on Shavu'ot/Pentecost, the anniversary of Moses bringing the Law to the Israelites.
Act 2
1AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,
2When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
3And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.
4And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].
Here is the POSITION, we must be ABIDING in HIM to receive from Him. It is a LINGERING in His presence.
Acts 1
14They... devoted themselves steadfastly to prayer, [waiting together] with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
In Luke 24:
Yeshua opened the disciples minds so they could understand the Scriptures. Are you OPENED to Him today?
44Then He said to them, This is what I told you while I was still with you: everything which is written concerning Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.
45Then He [thoroughly] opened up their minds to understand the Scriptures,
46And said to them, Thus it is written that the Christ (the Messiah) should suffer and on the third day rise from (among) the dead,
47And that repentance [with a view to and as the condition of] forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48You are witnesses of these things.
Yeshua said, I am sending you the POWER TO DO THESE THINGS. But remain in Jerusalem until you get the POWER.
49And behold, I will send forth upon you what My Father has promised; but remain in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power from on high.
50Then He conducted them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up His hands, He invoked a blessing on them.
51And it occurred that while He was blessing them, He parted from them and was taken up into heaven.
52And they, worshiping Him, went back to Jerusalem with great joy;
53And they were continually in the temple celebrating with praises and blessing and extolling God. Amen (so be it).
Yeshua had told them many times that He would send the COUNSELOR to teach them ALL things and will remind them of all Yeshua Had taught them.
The Spirit of Truth and your Counselor
John 14
16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever--
17The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.
Again in the same chapter, the Comforter, and Counselor.
26But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.
27Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
28You heard Me tell you, I am going away and I am coming [back] to you. If you [really] loved Me, you would have been glad, because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater and mightier than I am.
John 16:7 says unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you, But if I go, I will send Him to you. (Holy Spirit is not an IT).
John 16:13 When the Spirit of TRUTH comes, He will guide you into all truth.
Did you know the disciples were BREATHED on by Yeshua and He said "receive the HOLY SPIRIT, before Yeshua went back to heaven? John 20:21-23
Today we would call this surrendering our lives to the Lord.
But why did Yeshua still tell them that they had to go and wait in Jerusalem for the PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT, when He had already breathed the Spirit onto them? We will know in a moment.
Acts 1:5 For John the Immerser baptized with water unto repentance, But in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. And earlier John the Immerser also said there was one coming after him who would immerse with the HOLY SPIRIT and with FIRE.
They would receive POWER for ministry.
Acts 1:8 says,
8But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.
Now the POWER of the SPIRIT fell on Shavu'ot/Pentecost, the anniversary of Moses bringing the Law to the Israelites.
Act 2
1AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,
2When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
3And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.
4And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].
2 comments:
God spiritually married Israel on Mt. Sinai, the first Shavu'ot.
Ruth and Boaz got married on Shavu'ot.
Traditionally Jewish weddings were on Wednesday.
This Shavu'ot/Pentecost falls on this Wednesday!!!
God is saying--It want to be married to you.
The Harvest will be the greatest in all of history-since the beginning of time.
Whoever is thirsty let him come and drink of the water of LIFE freely. Whoever wishes let them come and drink of the water that Yeshua gives so that you will never thirst again.
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