Leaping for Joy

 

For the last several days, I have been lamenting on how I am unable to share my Bible thoughts with my fellow parishioners on the Bible app, and thinking about how the Lord used my frustration to pursue and open up the access to my blog posts that I haven’t had for years. But still, I was very sad that they did not want to hear the words I read and how that gives me life and excitement in Christ.

I wondered why they were unable to experience the value I wanted to share. It was then that I realized they believe in the Holy Ghost only as an entity, just part of God Himself without being baptized in the Holy Spirit, speaking with a Heavenly language and the power that comes with that. I have grown to love them, and realized they are very devout, but they cannot experience what I have without being soaked in the Spirit… not just water.

John 3:3 “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:5 “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” This means to SEE the Kingdom, one must be born again, but to ENTER it, one has to be baptized in water and the Spirit.

Luke 24:49

And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

This is the power we get from God that not only taps into His power to live above sin, but it opens His word that brings the Bible to life in that you can see how it applies to your life.  

Not only that, but because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, when you hear or read something that God has given someone else, the Holy Spirit inside you recognizes it and something inside leaps for joy at that recognition, like John the Baptist leapt in his mother’s womb when Jesus (also unborn) came near.

Luke 1:41

And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

This is the scripture God gave me this morning.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.