The Father's Promise

I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.’ Luke 24:49 It’s amazing that the Holy Spirit could get a name like “The Father’s Promise”. This means tha
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It or He?

While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’ Acts 13:2 Some, like the Jehovah’s Witnesses will teach that the Holy Spirit is nothing m
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The Spirit of God

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Gen 1:1 The Holy Spirit is all over the Bible. It’s

Compelling love

14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2 Cor 5:14

Love 'em like Jesus

We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 I read a Facebook post today where my friend was talking about God and stating that he’s much happier with a particular picture of God and not at all with another common picture held out by Christi
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Closer than a brother

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Prov 18:24 God continues to use imagery from our family setting to illustrate how much he loves us. Sometimes we think of God as being out ther
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Father God

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1 The fact that God is our Father and we are his sons and daughters is massive and significant. The Apostle John marvels at
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God is like a mother

14 But Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.’ 15 ‘Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Is 49:14-15. God is amazing

Laying hold of the kingdom

Jesus said to them,‘Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. Mat 21:31 ‘Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce
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