Verse of the day: For all that was written once for our teaching was written, that by the patience and comfort of the scriptures we may have hope (Romans 15. 4).
How can we be filled with the Holy Ghost?How can we experience a pouring of the Holy Ghost into our church that fills us with indomitable joy and frees us and allows us to love those around us so authentically that they are earned for Christ?
- Answer: Meditate day and night on God’s incomparable promises.
- Which give hope.
- As the previous verse shows us.
- This is how Paul kept his heart full of hope.
- Joy.
- And love.
The full certainty of hope comes from meditation on the promises of God’s Word; and this does not contradict the prayer of eight later verses which says that the Holy Ghost gives us hope (Romans 15:13). This is because the Holy Ghost is the divine author of the scriptures; it is not contradictory that he fills us with hope by fulfilling us with his own promise.
Hope is not a vague emotion that arises from nowhere, like an upset stomach; hope is the confidence that the wonderful future promised by the Word of the Spirit will come true, so the way to be filled with the Spirit is to be filled with your Word. The way to have the power of the Spirit is to believe in the promises of His Word.
For it is the word of promise that fills us with hope, hope fills us with joy, and joy is poured out into the power and freedom to love our neighbor, and that is the fulness of the Holy Ghost.
Original: March 7?How can I be filled with the Spirit?© 2017 Faithful Ministérium. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br. Translation: Camila Rebeca Almeida. Ritica: Vinicius Musselman. Narration: Elalio Garofalo Neto.
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