I believe in and serve the One True God; God the Father, God
the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is
three in one as I am mind, body, and spirit.
God is spoken of in the plural, as we and us, in the record of the
creation in Geneses. Jesus said in John
14 that He is in the Father and the Father is in Him. When we know Jesus we know the Father. In the same chapter of John, Jesus tells His
disciples that His body would be leaving them but He would not leave them alone
in the world. In verse 15 He says to his
disciples, “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and He will give
you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot accept Him because it
neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you
know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you……Because I live, you also
will live…….I am in my Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you”. In chapter 16 Jesus says, “Now I am going to
Him who sent me………But I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going
away. Unless I go away, the Counselor
will not come to you; But if I go, I
will send Him to you. I have much
more to say to you, more than you can now bear.
But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all
truth. He will not speak on His own; He
will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to Me by taking from what
is mine and making it known to you. All
that belongs to the Father is Mine. That
is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you”.
The Holy Spirit was given to the disciples after Jesus went
back to the Father. In that same way;
when we come to the Father by believing in His Son, He gives us His Holy Spirit
to dwell within us. The Holy Spirit
teaches us what the Father and Son want us to know. I have come to Faith in God through His Son,
Jesus, and they have given me their Holy Spirit. He is my teacher, comforter, and guide. He abides in me and I abide in Him. John 15:4-5 says, “Abide in Me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who
abides in Me and I in Him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do
nothing”.
As a believer, I know that the Holy Spirit lives within
me. He entered into my spirit the moment
I believed and received Christ as my Savior. The filling of His Spirit within
me is a continuous process. The amount
of His infilling increases as my faith grows and matures. He abides in me and I abide in Him. He fills me with Himself and the Gifts of the
Spirit as I study the Word and practice His presence. Thank you Lord, for the promise of your Holy
Spirit in my life.
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