Quickie on the Holy Spirit.

Ok, This really is not Mary. This is Robert, a friend type person.

Let me start by saying that the few post that I have read are awesome and true! I am over filled with joy when I come here, knowing that the people that wrote those(Wrote them with God's help) are the same little people that I know and love.

I was reading the post below about obedience and noticed it went off into a bit of a discussion. The question that came up was "Does God Talk To Us?". Hmm... Does He..? I sure hope so, because if He doesn't then I have been listening to the wrong voices.

Lets start out by figuring out what the Holy Spirit is. John 14:16 calls the Holy Spirit "The Comforter" and that He will abide with us forever.

"John 14:16:And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter , that he may abide with you for ever;(KJV)"

Notice it says "another" comforter, I believe that the Holy Spirit is to us(Believers) what Jesus was to the Disciples in the Gospels.

Just like Jesus revealed things to His disciples, the Holy Spirit will do the same for us. My reasoning for this? Well, Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will reveal the things of Him.

"John 16:13-14
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.(KJV)"

"John 14:26
26 But the Comforter , which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.(KJV)"

So, The Holy Spirit reveals the things of Jesus to true believers. What ever Jesus has spoken, He will bring to our remembrance, what ever Jesus will speak He will speak them to us. Jesus loved us so much that when He died He prayed to the Father to send us another like Him, But rather then being a sort of flesh and bones it was to be a "Spirit", a Spirit that would dwell in us, Forever.

Below is just a quick personal rant...

A quick thought just came to mind while John(John) was praying. Why should we pray to God expecting him to listen and at the same time, not expect him to answer, to speak?

Nowhere in scripture did believers stop receiving the Holy Spirit when we got the Completed works. Nowhere in scripture does God change the role of the Holy Spirit, it has been and still is revealing the things of Jesus. But, on the other side, the Holy Spirit also convicts us, We can grieve Him and since He lives in us we sense that feeling, Is that why Christians feel guilty when they do something against God's Word?

The Holy Spirit is a very important figure, would we all not agree? To say that God doesn't speak to us would be saying we don't need the Holy Spirit. Mary just provoked a wonderful though.

The Holy Spirit is our Comforter! He comforts us with the words of Christ, and Jesus and God are One.

John 15:26
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:(KJV)

John 14:17-18
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.(KJV)

John 16:8
8 And when he(The Holy Spirit) is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:(KJV)

John 16:15
15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.(KJV)

OBEDIENCE

Obedience is something that everyone has a problem with no matter who you are. The only way you could obey all the time is if you were perfect, and guess what your not. It is definitely something that I really struggle with. It dose not matter if we do what people tell us to that is not obedience. Well that is part of it, but the main thing is our attitude when we do it.
Let’s use a classic. Your Mom asks you to take out the garbage. You do it but all the way down you car length long driveway you are mumbling ‘cause you were right in the middle of reading this great book, or you were right in the middle of trying to get away from Cross (that is his name right) in Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Well anyway you were not happy about having to take the garbage out. I think The BIBLE says somewhere to “do all with a joyful spirit” I am not sure though I could not find it.
Your attitude is not the only thing, there is also how long it takes you to respond. If I said “Hold on a sec I am right in the middle of gettin’ away from Cross,” to my Dad he would say something like “I am going to cross you if you do not take the garbage out.
Now here is the part that actually matters when you disobey anyone you are disobeying GOD. Something that is even worse then that is disobeying GOD directly if HE is telling you to go talk to that strange lookin’ being that is standing in the corner with a shotgun you best do it. I personally disobey GOD directly almost every time he tells me to do anything like that. It is not a geed thing but I do have a big problem with obedience.

O-B-E-D-I-E-N-C-E obedience is the very best way to show that you beveave........OK I will stop singing now.

Trusting

Why do we insist on doubting God? It's not like He's ever betrayed our trust, or failed to come through for us, so why do we expect Him to?
Because we are sad little creatures who cannot fully fathom how HUGE our God is!
But He still loves us! And that my dear ones, is just another thing we will never really understand. Why God loves a wretched sinner like me is incomprehensible.

I was always able to make it make sense, but using the excuse that God loves me because He's in me, and He has every right to love Himself.
But I was conveniently forgettting a key concept to the Christian walk.
Rom 5:8
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Meaning Christ died for me, because God loves me, even before I was washed in the blood.
In a way I've always known that, but it washed over me anew recently, and I think it's a good concept to be reminded of.

I have a tendency to want to fix things, or at least help, especially where people are involved. I don't always get to do anything! Sometimes I just have to step back & trust God to handle whatever the situation is, because it is often beyond my control. And besides, He created the world, isn't He likely to know how to take care of it better than you or I?!

God bless you, as He blesses me through you!

HE is AWESOME!!!

The AWESOMITY of THE FATHER SON AND HOLLY SPIRIT, or THE TRINITY, is abundantly awesome. Just look at the world around you it is amazing and it is still not perfect. I do not know about all of you but I know what it is like to see some of the ugliness of this world. I lived in Las Vegas, NV other then all the filth and sin there is there, the dirt that surrounds Vegas called the desert can be quite perty at times, but there is a considerably large amount of it that is quite dull and bland at times. Just imagine standing and looking out over a big chunk of land that all you can see is dirt and some ugly cacti which is not always ugly when in bloom it is not ugly at all but quite the opposite, but just imagin that it is ugly when you are lookin' at it. Well then I moved to Washington where there is nothing but GREENNESS the best natural color on earth there are wield animals that are not donkeys or ugly li'l hairs. My mom said she was driving to work and on her way there she saw a herd of elk I do not know about you but I have not seen many elk. The trees and the mountains here are amazingly beautifully and GOD created them all.

HE is AWESOME!!!!

The reason I am stressing THE FATHER SON AND HOLLY SPIRIT is 'cause there are a lot of people that believe in a "part of GOD" or "a god" but do not believe in CHRIST or the HOLLY SPIRIT, I do not want people thinking that is me or any of y'all.