My Experience with the Holy Spirit: Seeing the Fire of the Holy Spirit

By patrick Usifo

Ready to encounter the Holy Spirit with a life-changing experience? Often at church services, hearing the same messages, but lacking the miracle-working power of our Lord Jesus in your life? Wondering if the same power of the HOLY SPIRIT is available today?  Are you hungry and thirsty for more of the Holy Spirit in your life? Are you intimate in your relationship with the Holy Spirit? Do you have a scriptural basis for the Person of the Holy Spirit?  Seeking for the same extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit to flow through you here and now? Be comforted, you can trade off your dry theology for a dynamic relationship with the Lord.  As in the day the author encountered the Spirit of God in a spectacular way. 
In my experience with the Holy Spirit, he has brilliantly blended spirituality with the application by investigating the manifestations of spiritual gifts. As a biblically rooted, pastorally sensitive, and well-informed introduction to some of the basics of Christian supernatural. Patrick has brought clarity to spiritual matters, as he edges believers towards experiencing discernment and doubters toward experiencing the Holy Spirit. Not just at church and special gatherings, but continuously. In the instances that believers are anxious to meet and experience the power of the living God. Most are fed up with a religion that only teaches ethics and moralizes. They want to move beyond the sterile rationalist expressions in the direction of experiencing the intimacy and immediacy that comes from the Holy Spirit. For which our generation and every generation dearly long. Realizing that real miracles of biblical magnitude can and do still happen, even in the lives of the unsure among us. In this practical book, Patrick writes the incredible biblical message of hope and transformation flowing out of a deep passion that will dramatically alter the lives of so many believers by showing the way to have an encounter with Christ Jesus. Evidently drawing from the period when the Holy Spirit ignited his heart.  Also, he uses his divine encounters as a powerful testimony to lead those whose heart stirs them to move beyond the trappings of religion to have consistent access and experience with the Presence of God.  Also, he desires to restore to the church the true knowledge of the often neglected and authentic personality of the Holy Spirit.   And empower those who have received Christ Jesus, to discover how the Holy Spirit become real in a very unusual way in their life.  
So you can encounter the supernatural and experience God in a fresh and new way.  As you read of his narrative in a series of visions and encounters, your life can be accelerated a thousand times through, understanding the mysterious personality and works of the Holy Spirit.
His purpose for this age.
Discovering your gifts and calling in the plan of God•Experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit in witnessing, teaching, trials, and weakness.
Getting immediate deliverance from false teachings. 
You need the Holy Spirit. Get ready to experience His presence and power like never before. 
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: patrick usifo
• Release date: Jan 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835362449

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Dedication

I dedicate this book.

Above all, to Abba Father and my beloved Lord, Jesus Christ, my Life, and Savior, with the greatest affection and indebtedness ever. By whose Spirit I was inspired to write In the Fire of His amazing Presence. And to the body of Christ, and all my spiritual fathers who had taught me to desire and pursue with love, the Person, gifts, fruit and the powerful workings of the Holy Spirit.

My loving family, Naya, Brian, and Paula.

The cherished memory of my father, Chief Samuel Usifo, elder brother Paul Usifo, John Ighodaro, Stella Ighodaro, and my bosom friends Samuel Uhumwango, Ehigiator Osas, who have passed on to the rest in glory.

To Uwubamwen Nosa, Idee Charles, Sunday, Natasha, Dennis, Gabriel, Austin, Osaro, and Grace my beloved sister and my readers.

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Table of Contents

Seeing the Fire of the Holy Spirit©2019 Patrick Usifo

Foreword

Preface

Chapter One

The Day the Vision Stood Still.

In the beginning, the Visions of Fire.

Chapter Two

The fire of the Holy Spirit, Greece 1932.

Holy Fire in Athens, 2010

The Fire is the Beauty of our Lord

Chapter Three

Lifting the Face of His Personality

Observing the Holy Spirit in the New Testament

Identifying the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament

Understanding the Names and Symbols of the Holy Spirit

Chapter Four

Knowing the Basics of Spiritual Gifts

Spiritual Gifts Defined.

Identifying Different Spiritual Gifts

Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Fruits

Chapter Five

Understanding the Essential Workings of Spiritual Gifts.

Discovering the Simplicity and Coherence in the gifts

Gifts or Manifestation, the Misconception?

The Church needs a Renewal Awakening.

Chapter Six

The Case for Real Miracles.

Spiritual gifts are the Manifestation of God’s Power

Beyond Miracles

Chapter Seven

Taking the Initiative to Renew your Spirit

There is Joy in Revival

Experiencing His Presence

Gratitude

Bibliography

About This author

Connect with Patrick Usifo

Foreword

Foreword

I am exceedingly delighted to write the first word to accompany this brilliantly unique book heralding the dawn of a new era in the present-day activities of our Lord. The world is witnessing multiple events beyond what mere human words can describe. All the known cultural languages are not strong enough to define the worldwide activities of the Holy Spirit with multiplied evidence issuing out of the spectacular miracles. Mostly ascribed to the supernatural works of our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished through the Holy Spirit in these last days of the church age.

Today, more people have a personal story to tell the world of their extraordinary encounters with the Holy Spirit. For that reason, it is necessary to make available to the general body of believers an exclusive volume that captures most of the events. That is where this book comes in as a masterpiece, patterned after, and positioned as one of a kind resources to the general body of Christ, endorsing the uncompromising truth instrumental in discerning the love and power of God.

Moreover, this book chronicles the spiritual journey of a brother and a true friend, whom I have known, before and after his conversion to the faith. Also, it traces the genesis of his extraordinary encounters with our Lord Jesus Christ and his experience with the Holy Spirit and the startling fire of God. In line with the present-day rediscovery of the reality of the fourth chapter of the letter of Paul to the Ephesian to our churches. Concerning the inevitable ministry of the apostles, prophets, pastors and teachers, evangelist with spiritual gifts needed in the church.

In this volume, he explores with theologically and spiritual soundness, his encounters in relation to the Father’s gifts to the believer, Son’s grant of eternal life and the Holy Spirit gift of power. With glowing passion, he intertwined the recurring spiritual events of his life, commenced, and influenced by the Holy Spirit, with the progressive details of the succeeding spiritual developments.

As a trumpet, he announced the presence and works of the Holy Spirit in this generation, combined with the process of the transformation of his life, and the reinvented spiritual landscape. Which gave birth to a fresh spiritual and moral impetus to his bold stand for Christ Jesus. He stated that God is again stirring up the church, His power is proceeding from glory to glory because the Lord of Glory has graciously granted more sustained visitation of the Holy Spirit to countless nations, individuals and the church. This can only be the reenactment of the acts of the Holy Spirit realigning with the historical realities in the Acts of the Apostles.

Additionally, Patrick is a person our Lord has spiritually and radically altered in the core of his inward life, yet humble without even boasting of the obvious traditional qualification. Furthermore, he has innovatively taken a giant leap forward, in bringing to light the qualities of a Spirit infused believer, acting as a catalyst to uplift others with a faith that answers with belief.

At the same time with insight speaking to some of the fundamental issues of our day through the manifold revelation of the Holy Spirit, demystifying the supernatural, cleverly unraveling the age-old question. Of the often misrepresented, misinterpreted, and misunderstood Person of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes relegated to the background in most of our contemporary churches.

His exposition also expresses the breadth of his knowledge of the Holy Spirit, facially revealing Him as a fascinating person, not as a doctrine. Also, going beyond the edges of knowledge in exploring the captivating fire of God. While relating a vivid spiritual encounter having the hallmarks of the authentic power of God. Bearing on the truth that needs reiterating, with the deepest respect, of the divine power of God conferred on the universal body of Christ.

Indeed, as he said, The time has come to demonstrate the powerful touch of the Spirit of God in our pulpit, synchronizing with the time to put more trust in our Lord than in the men with the sophisticated eloquences of the world. These he stated while advocating the emergence of preachers endorsed from above with spiritual fervor, who can handle the words of God, rather than the humanistic teachers without the Spirit.

More so, he is undeterred by the prevailing spiritual outlook of today, as a person with an experience who is never at the mercy of one with an argument. He is the author of several books, an evangelist, with deep humility and a true sense of purpose, clearly reflecting the thoughts of one who had sat at the feet of our Lord.

Therefore, I wholeheartedly invite you to a very challenging, engaging, and inspiring book that has enthused my spirit and penetrated my experiences. In addition, I would not hesitate to recommend to you This book of the moment that has changed and influenced my life.

I pray as this book goes out, that our heavenly Father will use it to increase the believer’s spiritual growth, blessing the readers with a confirmation. Reaching into the fullness of the stature of Christ, through the Holy Spirit unfolding the power of the kingdom of God to accentuate the believer’s gracious expectation. Also enlightening your spiritual eyes through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Elder Bestman. F Osagie,

CAC of God’s Mission, Union, New Jersey, USA

Preface

Preface

Open my ears that I may hear Voices of truth Thou sends clear; and while the wave notes fall on my ear, everything false will disappear. Silently now I wait for Thee, Ready, my God, Thy will to see, open my eyes, illumine me, Holy Spirit Divine!

The book in your hand is the narratives of my encounters with a real person. Substantially, He is the most important personality in all the universe. In fact, life would be meaningless and incomplete without His presence. He is the one who breathes life into all the visible and invisible world of God. His activities transcend time and all knowledge.

He is the Holy Spirit, the living God, the third person of the trinity, who is standing tall over the gateway of our faith. He does not speak of Himself, but of Christ, as Abraham Kuyper said "Leaving no footprints in the sand. One of whom a thousand sermons cannot describe, nor have enough words to tell of Him.

Because of His activities in this century, we are beginning to see Christianity in a new light, practically redefined in a new and living way, deviating from the restraints of the conservative mold. Today the genuineness of Christian supernaturalism is merging with new developments. News of breakthroughs is coming out from every corner of the world openly announcing and highlighting the relevance of the faith meeting the spiritual demands of all nations, and the individual needs of mankind.

In addition, the church of Christ is repositioning herself with believers growing bolder, finding new definitions for our faith, redefining the New Covenant as the opened page of a new book of life, the new wine in a new man, and the beginning of a new historical, and spiritual order in the Lord Jesus Christ. All indicative of the hidden but revealed plan and the purpose of God in saving the believer in Christ to live a robust, radiant, powerful and dynamic life of faith. Hence the Lord has given believers powerful tools to save and preserve every creature of God.

These last days had seen an increase in the activities of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Pentecost, robustly transforming lives, progressively revealing the glory of our Lord Jesus to humanity. By vividly capturing His involvement in the greatest spiritual revival of all time, since the inception of the church age. The inherent power of the church of Christ planted and administered by the living God, the Holy Spirit is dynamically moving unabated, as the same yesterday, today, and forever.

In this century alone, an unrecorded number of people are hearing the gospel preached to them according to the prophetic word for the end day’s move of the historic church. With many more converted, against all odds through ways unknown and unorthodox, triumphantly swept into the kingdom of God.

At the same time, over ninety percent of believers are living below normal Christian life, without the characteristics of power invincible, joy unspeakable, glory excelling, and peace beyond knowledge. Within her walls are those with serious scriptural illiteracy, proceeding without the significant knowledge of the Holy Spirit. Many more are spiritually worse off in the face of the weak level of our faith, identifying with the symptoms of willful neglect of the full supply of the power of God.

Consequently, creating the most disconcerting problem facing the existing church. Despite her size, activities, and accomplishments, she is fast becoming a monument, instead of the momentum of spirituality.

In addition, I have consistently watched these worrisome phenomena, the paleness of a human-inspire religion, despite having the spiritual atmosphere of Pentecost. Whereas countless numbers of churches have skillfully weaved a form of holistic religion, but denying the power of God, having drifted far from the original intention of the New Testament. Even those that have forgotten and left behind the power of the Holy Spirit of God into embracing a ridiculously organized spiritual structure.

Consequently, to decode the mystery of the Holy Spirit is the beginning of wisdom in the realm of the eternal power of God beyond all human comprehension. However, in today’s churches, this is an unrealistic concept wherein the fire has subsided, even disappeared, and the awe is gone. Several established churches in this quagmire out of pride have resorted to substituting theological ideas for an arresting encounter with our Lord God. Some also have devised forms of theological procedures in order to explain the absence of the fire. Others have even consigned it completely to the Old Testament era.

Many churches have embraced responsively the human-inspired religion bred out of intellectual theories, which cannot initiate and attract the miraculous visitation of the Holy Spirit. Some others have manipulated the unsustainable situation using the raps of hyper-dispensational technicalities to explain the unexplainable. Hence, to make room for the deficiencies, churches have resorted to programs, worldly music, and sweet-talking, orphaned of the essential power of God. Things that cannot make up for the glaring absence of the power of God, of the Holy Spirit, the provider of the enriching element of expectancy, admiration, and surprises to the believer.

Resulting in the prophetical foresight of AW. Tozer in his wake-up call to the church. Asserting in his book True Christian experience must always include a genuine encounter with God. Such that comes with the holy fire empowered by the Holy Spirit of God.