God’s Special Squad (Healing and the Holy Spirit)

By Chima Ugochukwu

Walking With the Holy Spirit And Connecting To His Healing Power

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ralf Fletcher
• Release date: Jan 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215249406

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WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

TEXTS: John 16:5-13; John 15:26; John 14:16-18, 26

INTRODUCTION:

•Come with me on a journey as we discover the reason for our powerlessness and prayerlessness.

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

•The Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity.

•He is God’s executive agent in the world.

He is the Spirit of God.

The Spirit of Jesus

He is also called the Spirit of truth.

He is the Holy Spirit of God.

•The comforter, in fact, another comforter.

•Like Jesus, to help and strengthen them in difficult situations.

He is here to exalt Jesus.

•He is here to continue the work Jesus started.

•The depth of your relationship with the Holy Spirit, determines the level of your knowledge of God.

•He is the greatest teacher of mysteries.

•The Holy Spirit is the source of extra-ordinary gifts and power of God.

•Holy Spirit!!! The giver of spiritual graces.

•The most awesome personality.

•He is the regenerating power of God.

•He is the sanctifying power of God.

•If you understand the works of the Holy Spirit, you will pay any price to have a relationship with Him.

•When you are weak and under attack, if you have a relationship with Him, he can mobilize people across states and nations to pray for you.

•How wonderful if you can be humble enough and make Him your senior partner in life.

•Without the Holy Spirit, you need to know, your prayer life will be limited and lacking in power.

•If you allow Him, He will guide you in the critical and delicate decision of life.

•We must learn to wait on His presence after prayer to speak.

•Oh! God, take away our impatience.

•The Holy Spirit is a person we must learn to spend time with. Spending some time with Him shows that we recognize His person.

•Failure to give Him time shows disrespect.

•If we recognize He is a person, He expects us to talk to Him and also expect His reply.

•When two people are in love, they talk to each other often.They made regular phone calls to each other and share text messages.

Those who are in love with the Holy Spirit speak to Him;

They give Him thanks.

They worship and fellowship with Him.

In fact, they show Him by actions that they cannot do without Him.

•The Holy Spirit is the most wonderful person of the Trinity.

•The Holy Spirit is the most precious and special person of the trinity.

•Thus, should be our closest, most personal and intimate friend.

Good Morning Holy Spirit. Let’s work together and I will be your vessel. Paul Yonggi Cho.

It’s been a wonderful day working with you, Holy Spirit cover my family and me with your divine protection as we rest through the night. Paul Yonggi Cho.

CHAPTER TWO

WHY WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT

•Without the Holy Spirit, you will be fruitless as a Christian.

•Without the Holy Spirit as a Christian, you will be powerless.

•Without the Holy Spirit as a Christian, you will be defeated.

•Trying to live as a Christian without the Holy Spirit will always end in frustration.

•We need the Holy Spirit because He is every Christians key to the supernatural living (Acts 1:8).

•He is the Lord of Harvest. We cannot work without Him.

•He empowers Christians to be proof producers.

•The Holy Spirit is the force behind all the signs and wonders of the church.

•We need Him.

•A church or Christian without the Holy Spirit has died before they died.

•With the Holy Spirit, you don’t have to struggle in this life like others.

•The Holy Spirit enables you as a Christian to enjoy the hidden virtues of God.

•The Holy Spirit beautifies Christians and Christianity. We need Him.

•He is the transforming power of God.

•The Holy Spirit is our divine Helper.

•He is our guide and instructor.

•He is the Spirit of truth.

•He guides us into all truth.

•He is our divine teacher.

•He bring all things to our remembrance (John 14:26, John 16:13).

•He is the quickening/reviving Spirit (Romans 8:11)

•The force of God that turns ordinary men into extra-ordinary people (1 Sam. 10:6)

•The Holy Spirit is the key to Divine boldness e.g. remember the lying Peter after Pentecost. (Acts 2: ; Acts 4:10, 19).

•After the Pentecost, the Holy Spirit delivered the Apostle from their hiding place in the upper room.

•The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is an initiation into divine power and authority.

•Remember also that He is the fire of God.

•The spirit of Judgment and of Burning (Isaiah 4:4).

•It is this fire that Elijah called down.

•It is this fire in us that consumes that make the enemy fear us.

You need the fire.

•Jesus has promised to baptize us with Holy Ghost and fire. Are you ready for it?

Ezekiel 37:4-10 and Romans 8:11

•The Holy Spirit is the resurrection power of God. It gives life to the lifeless.

CHAPTER THREE

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON

•The Church was born on the day of Pentecost, with mighty signs and wonders.

•It was with great manifestations that attracted attention.

•That is the plan of God for the Church. It must live and swim in the supernatural.

•We cannot do without a strong relationship with the Holy Spirit. Why?

•God cannot do anything on planet earth without passing through the Holy Spirit.

•Thus, the Church or Christianity without the Holy Spirit is a body without the life of God.

•In our study today, I want to share with you, the fact that the Holy Spirit is a person.

•In the Godhead, there are 3 persons; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Each of them have distinct characteristics.

•However they are one.

It is a mystery.

•In the same vein, the Holy Spirit as a divine personality have distinct characteristics.

•The Holy Spirit is a spirit personality with a spiritual body (1 Cor. 15:44).

•As a person, He has all the characteristics/attributes of a person.

•In fact, going through the scriptures you notice personal pronouns (He, Him, I, etc) used in describing the Holy Spirit because He is a person.

•In John 16:5-15, alone you will see 13 of these personal pronouns.

•Thus, you see that the Holy Spirit is a person.

•He is not just a force, wind or fire – He is a divine personality.

•As a Divine Person, we must learn to recognize and appreciate His presence.

•As a Divine Person, we must learn to praise and worship Him.

•We must seek His love and intimate friendship.

•As a Divine Person, we must seek the honor and partnership of the Holy Spirit.

•The Holy Spirit is a Person because He has distinct attributes that can only be found in a person.

•The wind, the fire or a force cannot speak, act, think etc. but the Holy Spirit as a divine person can feel, act, think, speak and be spoken to.

•Thus, the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person. Let’s see scriptural evidences.

1.He speaks- Rev. 2:7; 1 Tim 4:1

2.He has knowledge - 1 Cor. 2:10-12

3.He knows things - 1 Cor. 2:10-12

4.He helps/assists - Rom. 8:26; John 14:26, John 15:26

5.He guides us - John 16:13, Rom. 8:14

6.He teaches us - John 14:26

7.He has intelligence- Neh. 9:20

8.He has will - 1 Cor. 12:11

9.He prays for us - Rom. 8:26

10.He searches - Rom 8:27

11.He has mind - Rom. 8:27

12.He has capacity for love - Rom. 15:30

13.He can be grieved - Isa. 63:10; Eph. 4:30

14.He has power - Acts 1:8

15.He can strive - Gen. 6:3

16.He calls people to ministry - Acts 13:2

17.He comforts believers - Acts 9:31

18.He sanctifies - Rom. 15:16

19.He bears witness - Rom. 8:16; John 15:26

20.He can command/forbids you - Acts 16:6-7.

•In conclusion, you need to know also that for you to enjoy the sweet and intimate relationship of the Holy Spirit, you must;

1.Avoid sin; spiritual and physical {I Cor. 15:33; Prov. 13:20}.

2.Bad company can quench the Spirit.

3.Avoid talking too much.

4.Avoid eating too much.

5.Avoid jesting.

6.Obey His instructions.

7.Learn to recognize His presence always.

CHAPTER FOUR

THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

(PART 1)

WHO IS A PERSON?

•A person is a living personality with such attributes as wisdom, knowledge, emotions, intellect, personal will, individuality, ability to speak, hear, love, be grieved, resisted and ignored.

•Incidentally, the Holy Spirit has all these attributes, just like the Father and the Son.

•Reading through the Bible, you discover that masculine pronouns are used in describing the infinite and gracious Holy Spirit.

John 15:26

John 16:7-8, 13-14.

•To help you understand the personality of the Holy Spirit, you need to know that there are two types of personality.

I Corinthians 15:44

Physical body

Spiritual body

•The Holy Spirit has a Spiritual body.

•Even God is a Spirit.

THE ATTRIBUTES OF A PERSON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT:

1.He has a will {I Corinthians 12:11}

The Holy Spirit has the personal ability or power to decide or determine what should be done.

As a divine person and God’s executive agent on earth, the

Holy Spirit has the sovereign authority to decide who is qualified to be given which gift or divine assignment.

Acts 20:28

It is the sovereign power of the Holy Spirit to appoint leaders over the church of God on earth. It is part of the exercise of his will as a divine personality.

2.He has emotions {Romans 8:27}

3.He has a mind.

4.To have emotions shows that the Holy Spirit has a heart, as