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Had a conversation recently that captured my attention. It was conveyed to me that "leaders" from  a church were choosing not to give people the Holy Spirit.
It was in their estimation the people were not ready for the supernatural!
After I heard this, I was appalled. 
So who decides who hears of the Holy Spirit and those who do not? For Jesus certainly was raised from the dead and the Holy Spirit was the force and the life. Amen!

For God said in the beginning, Genesis 1:1-5...stated the Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the deep.
1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Then we were given this: John 1:1-5

1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 

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Yes, Jesus is, was, and is to come the Word and He was in the beginning as well!

That which is of God, is the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God and it is spiritual. So what are these "leaders" breathing out. Is it just another religion, without life?  It is certain to not have the Holy Spirit.

Some people genuinely look for an outward method to reach a body of believer's. Without the Spirit of God one will dwell in spiritual death.

In remembering a long ago teaching by Spurgeon, in "The Form of Godliness Without the Power " sermon stated" the raw material of a devil is an angel bereft of holiness." He went on to state that the inward life must be touched by God or else you have a decay into a foul thing.

But seriously in this case, who decides what a people should be taught? 

Jesus said this:

John 14:23-31

23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me. 

25 "These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You have heard Me say to you, 'I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.   NKJV

He said: "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you."

Are you getting power infused into you each Saturday or Sunday of your church meeting or you going home, dry, empty, and depressed?

So it is important to know the Holy Spirit and know He will speak what the Father has given through Jesus our Redeemer!

What good is "my word or any man's word" when it is God's Word that prevails! What good is that praise and worship when it is just "you or just any man/woman singing a song" without the Holy Spirit giving the worship. Now in the "secret place" at home that is wonderful. What great opportunities to give God all our time, our effort to worship that pleases Him. But to the one who shows up on the weekend to give a Generic word for a group of people is not life for anyone. God's Word is to be a now Word in the now moment of time. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that brings us that which is life to help us, heal us, make us whole!

Will the word spoken be of power of the Holy Spirit? Will that which is spoken really bring a strength to us for the day of sickness or in the hour of a possible death? Are we looking at wells without so much as a drop of water in them?

In the relating of God and of Jesus the Redeemer, is the word given that brings a drop of comfort for the weary and the heavy-laden. Or is it possible, some just go the way, "to look good", sing what they love to sing and they look good singing, and then bring a word but it lacks the life of God in it?

Anyone carrying a false ministry in the guise of true godliness will fail. I am thinking of Ehud!

For it is true false men will do serious injury to a true godliness.

Judges 3:12-4:3

12 Once again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. 13 Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.  14 The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years. 

15 Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer-Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. 16 Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. 17 He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 18 After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way the men who had carried it. 19 At the idols near Gilgal he himself turned back and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." 

The king said, "Quiet!" And all his attendants left him. 

20 Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his summer palace and said, "I have a message from God for you." As the king rose from his seat, 21 Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's belly. 22 Even the handle sank in after the blade, which came out his back. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. 23 Then Ehud went out to the porch; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them. 

24 After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, "He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the house." 25 They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead. 

26 While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah. 27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them. 

28 "Follow me," he ordered, "for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands." So they followed him down and, taking possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab, they allowed no one to cross over. 29 At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not a man escaped. 30 That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years. 

31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel. 

Judges 4 ..............4:1 After Ehud died, the Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the LORD. 2 So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help. NIV

You can see from this passage, that Ehud, had come with a pretended message from God in verse 20 of Judges 3! Yes, this Ehud came with a message he said that was from God.
So too, men and women within those walls of a church can come and with their dagger sharpened on both edges, they strike vital godliness in its very heart. Much damage will be done to the body of believer's. Yes, this type of godliness is certainly devoid of power. It will destroy. It will bring something to nothing.

Remember we have looked at the Fig Tree in the previous blogs of this year. We have looked at it and found out why it had no fruit on it. And when passing by that fig tree, which was so early with its leaves but so empty of fruit, He saw the likeness of the one who is the vainglorious. Oh, they profess it, but they truly lack the real power.  Looks good on the outside, but provides no real fruit, it is the fruitless, and  it will be carried into eternity which most likely will not be with God.

Seek to pray to enter the place God has called you to in worship with others. It will be heaven on earth. You will know the Holy Spirit is alive in that place. You will be revived, strengthened and given an armory of words to fight the enemy. You will stand tall in the Word of God and will out wit the enemy on every turn. You can stand knowing God is with you. But if you enter a place and there is no fruit of the Holy Spirit, there is no wind of His gentleness to blow across any chaos in you and will not line up into God's peace and unity, then leave that place. For the benefits of God are good, and He is faithful to stay with us and not forsake us. He will lead us to green pastures, led by still waters, and be consumed in His peace for His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all generations. Don't settle for generic when you can have His power! Amen.



In the days ahead  watch for"Never a Quickening" is published in this blog. It will cover in more detail of the "pretender", one who is long on lingering but not the waiting on God. He looks for his own benefits in his giving. (What will I get for my giving? What benefits me when I help or give another is what he or she asks themselves) Yikes!

Notice: 

The Voice of Prayer  has two new teaching published:
Meekness: Not Weakness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckFuD-ZaDxE


Christmas Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXnnlvjAVA


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