The Word of the Lord
December 14th
The Holy Spirit In Your Life
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.”
1 John 5:7
Daily Devotional
December 14th
God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit make up what’s known as the Trinity. This is at the heart of the Christian faith. The Holy Spirit isn’t a thing, but God’s Spirit.
The story’s told of a young boy who asked his father, “How can I believe in the Holy Spirit when I’ve never seen Him?” His father, an electrician, took the boy to a power plant and showed him the generators. “This is where the power comes from to heat our stove and to give us light. We can’t see the power, but it’s in that machine and in the power lines.” Then he asked his son, “Do you believe in electricity?”
When the boy answered yes, his father asked why. The boy answered right: Everyone believes in electricity because they see what it can do. Likewise, though we cannot see the Holy Spirit, believers in Christ know the results of His power in their lives. Surrendering our lives to the Lord Jesus opens up the power source.
When you yearn for God and desire His truth, that is the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. It is never a question of how much we have the Spirit, but how much He has of us.
Exodus 34:6-7
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
King James Version (KJV)
Publisher
Public Domain
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Lakeland First Baptist seeks to glorify God by encouraging all people into a relationship with Jesus Christ, discipling them in spiritual growth, and equipping them to make disciples of the nations.
























