THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD

Today’s blog is a little different. It starts with a quote from Andrew Murray followed by scripture on the Spirit of the Lord. I hope you take time to meditate on each verse.

“Just think of the names He bears: the Spirit of grace to reveal and impart all of grace there is in Jesus; the Spirit of faith to teach us to begin and go on and increase in ever believing; the Spirit of adoption and assurance who witnesses that we are God’s children and inspires the confiding and confident Abba, Father; the Spirit of truth to lead us into all truth and make each word of God ours in deed and in truth; the Spirit of prayer through whom we speak with the Father – prayer that must be heard; the Spirit of judgment and burning to search the heart and convince of sin; the Spirit of holiness to manifest and communicate the Father’s holy presence within us; the Spirit of power through whom we are strong to testify boldly and work effectually in the Father’s service; and the Spirit of glory, the pledge of our inheritance, the preparation and the foretaste of the glory to come.”

I. THE SPIRIT OF GRACE

Zech.12:10 – “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

II. THE SPIRIT OF FAITH

2 Cor.4:13 – And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,

III. THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION

Rom.8:15 – For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

IV. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Jn.15:26 – But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

V. THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER

Zech.12:10 – “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

VI. THE SPIRIT OF JUDGEMENT AND BURNING

Isa.4:4 – When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,

VII. THE SPIRIT OF POWER

2 Tim.1:6,7 – Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

VIII. THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS

Rom.1:4 – and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

IX. THE SPIRIT OF GLORY

1 Peter 4:14 – If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.