The Holy Spirit A Gift From God

 

How to Receive the Holy Spirit

Receiving the Holy Spirit is a powerful and life-changing experience. It is a gift from God that empowers us to live avictorious life and to be a witness for Christ. Here are some steps to help you receive the Holy Spirit:

1. Acknowledge the Gift of the Holy Spirit: Just as you accepted the gift of salvation by making Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, you can—and should—also accept the gift of the Holy Spirit. But first, you have to understand that He has been made available to you NOW. Jesus, as well as the Old Testament prophet Joel, told us this gift would be made available to us, and Peter confirmed this when it happened on the Day of Pentecost: Joel prophesied that God would pour out His Spirit upon all people (Joel 2:28). Before His death, Jesus told His disciples that He would ask the Father to give us an advocate who will never leave us, the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-17). Jesus goes on to tell them it is for their good that He is going away, saying, “Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you” (John 16:7, NIV1+,

FREE 70 Smoothie Recipes Downloadable Book

A few simple low-calorie smoothies, plus at the end of this blog is a free downloadable recipe book.

GREEN JUICES

Classic green juice

Ingredients:

1 small bunch of kale

1 handful of green grapes

1/4 English cucumber

1 frozen granny smith apple

This juice is full of iron and vitamin K - just the thing for drinking before your menstrual cycle.

Classic green juice 2

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups of shredded kale

2 ribs of celery with a few leaves

1 orange

1/2 cup chopped parsley

1/4 cup chopped mint

1 cup fresh or frozen mango

Classic green juice 3

Ingredients:

1/2 avocado

1/2 cucumber

1/2 lemon (peeled)

1/2 pear

1/2 cup loosely packed cilantro

small nub of grated ginger

1/2 cup coconut water

1 tbsp pea protein powder

water to thin

As a shot of protein to your green smoothie by mixing in a tablespoon of pea protein - it's mild in taste and the most beautiful color, plus it's great for vegetarians and fits into most green smoothie recipes

Super green veggie machine

Ingredients:

1 Granny Smith apple

juice of 1 lemon

1 cucumber (peeled or not, your choice)

4 leaves of red lettuce

1/4 cup fresh or frozen mango

1 cup ice

1 tsp barley grass powder

Look for barley grass powder in health food stores.  It's so simple to just throw in a spoon here and there and instantly up the vitamin and mineral content of any smoothie.  Plus, it's so green and lovely!

Classic Strawberry and Kiwi

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups granny smith apples frozen

1 frozen banana

1/2 cup frozen strawberries

1 tsp honey

1 frozen kiwi fruit

High fiber and full of vitamin C and plant phenols, this smoothie is great at warding off colds and flu.  Freeze slightly and take with you for sipping on during a gym session to keep you hydrated and refreshed.

Lemon Blueberry

Ingredients:

1 cup ice

1 cup blueberries

Juice of 1 lemon

You don't always need tons of ingredients to make a good smoothie.  If you're feeling fancy, a sprig of mint tops this smoothie nicely, but it's a winner just the way it is.

Chocolate Cherry Surprise

Ingredients:

1 cup frozen cherries

1/4 cup macadamia nut butter

1 tbsp Dutch process, high-quality cocoa powder

1/2 frozen banana

3/4 cup almond milk

This creamy, chocolatey smoothie is the smart way to get your coca fix.  Find good cocoa powder - which is very rich in antioxidants - and combine it with very ripe cherries and a bit of macadamia nut butter to add richness and a lovely velvet texture.  You could also substitute strawberries for cherries.

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You Version Bible App Daily Devotionals

I read a daily devotional from the You Version Bible app.  I have taken notes on the ones that really are inspirational and would love others to know how much God really loves them and is waiting for them to call upon his name.  Here are a few I would love to share with you.

DEVOTIONAL

The Father will Give You the Holy Spirit

Jesus knew firsthand the power associated with the Holy Spirit I'm not talking about atomic power or even explosions on the sun.  I'm talking about universe-creating power.  When God said, "Let there be"

(Gen, 1), He demonstrated a make-it-happen kind of power.  All that power dwelled in Jesus, ready to be unleashed with just a word.  It was limitless power, able to heal the sick, drive out devils, and calm storms.  It was the same power that raised the dead body of Jesus back to life.  In Greek, it is called dunamis power.  It's where we get the word dynamite.  The Holy Spirit was given to Jesus so He could accomplish every assignment given to Him.  For us to truly be Christ's followers and demonstrate the same works He did - and even greater works (John 14:12) - we must be empowered by the same Spirit.  It is impossible for us to walk in the same anointing Jesus had without it.  This is why Jesus insisted that the disciples not leave Jerusalem until they had received the promised Holy Spirit  (Acts 1:4).  Only after the Spirit came upon them would they receive dunamis power to take the gospel "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8, NLT).  Just as the Father gave the gift of the Spirit to the Son and to Jesus' disciples, He wants to give Him to us.  If my young son asked me if he could drive a brand-new Ferrari, I wouldn't grant that request.  There is so little experience on his part to go with so much power.  His maturity doesn't match the privilege.  Yet God knows exactly what He's doing and gives us the Holy Spirit to grow us up in God.  It is truly impossible to be a Christ follower without the Spirit, and the Father stands by, ready to give Him to all who ask (Luke 11:13).

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DEVOTIONAL

Sharing the Good News

The first words of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark are an announcement of the arrival of God's Kingdom.  And Jesus'last words to His disciples, starting in Mark 16:15, build upon His first announcement

The call Jesus left us with was to continue telling others the Gospel's good news.

This good news is that Jesus has brought the arrival of the Kingdom of God to earth and that through his death and resurrection, he has made a way for ALL people to have a new life in Him.

The task of evangelism - telling others about Jesus, was the first thing that Jesus asked His followers to do as He left earth.  Telling others about what Jesus has done for them is one of the most important things we can do with our time.  We have been given the greatest gift of all - eternal life with God.  But that gift is also freely available to the rest of the world.

So take some time today to pray for those in your life who do not know the hope that Jesus gives.  Pray for their salvation but also pray for opportunities to share your own faith story with them.

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Bible Verses on Love; God is Love

Prayer

God, I can not even conceive the expanse of Your love or the unique plan You have for my life.  Please fill me with Your wisdom and understanding.  Give me eyes to see people the way You see them - with love and compassion.  In Jesus' name, Amen.

"And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you"

1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Scriptures Throughout The Bible On LOVE

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

2 John 1:6

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:8

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

2 Thessalonians 3:5May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.


1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 Timothy 1:14

and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.

1 John 4:16

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

John 5:42

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

1 John 2:15

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

 1 John 2:5

but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

1John 4:21

And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

1 John 4:17

By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

Romans 1:7

to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.

John 15:12

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Ephesians 3:18

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

Ephesians 3:17

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Romans 5:8

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But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Colossians 3:14

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

2 Corinthians 13:14

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

2 Corinthians 5:14e love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

1 John 3:23

This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.

1 Peter 2:17

Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

1 Corinthians 8:3

but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Romans 9:13

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Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,

John 16:27

Verse Concepts

for the Father Himself loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.