The Spirit of Truth

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:25:41 +0100

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

The Spirit of Truth (which is the Comforter) imbues men with the knowledge of truth. The Spirit of Truth causes an atmosphere of distrust inside a person because it is in opposition to our old nature. It wars against everything that we thought to be truth. As it permeates through out our entire being it causes us to be riddled with doubt and touches us in the deepest core of our pride. Unless the Spirit of Truth can enter these core areas of our soul we will stay in a state of confusion and be held captive by indifference to God. The Holy Spirit is a gentleman and will not penetrate our imprisonments like a piercing bullet through our lives causing us to die to our old selves. Instead it is more like a steeping process that is a continual wearing away of our pride, we finally feel safe enough to give in and know the Truth and at that point the Truth can set us free. One of the constants in a believers life is that the Comforter aka the Spirit of Truth will never leave us and will always come along side us. God's truth hurts our old nature when it is presented but the outcome is always sweet when we are delivered.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

If You Spot It, You Got It

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:16:51 +0100

I first heard this cliché back in the mid 1980's. It spoke volumes inside my spirit but I didn't know what. When I point my finger at someone else, I have three pointing back at me. After a painful week with a co-worker, and hours talking it out with a good friend, this cliché became real in my mind. Jesus spoke about taking the beam out of our eye before taking the twig out of someone else's eye (Mat 7:3-5). I have tried to live my life according to these words, but more so now that I minister healing and deliverance to others. Several years ago while teaching through Romans I came upon some verses that cemented it in my heart.

(Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.)
God has given us a wonderful gift to be able to measure ourselves in our walk as Christians. If we listen to what comes out of our mouths about others we can know what the Lord wants take out of us.
(1 Cor 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.)

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The Spirit of Truth

If You Spot It, You Got It