“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
Isaiah 40:1 NLT
How do we abide? How do we patiently endure? What gives us the power to stay where we are while we wait for the promise from Heaven?
We need each other. We need the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is our Comforter. When we share what God is saying, it comforts God’s people.
We prophesy for edification, exhortation and consolation. Compassion is our motivation.
We build one another up in faith by sharing the rhema word of God to minister grace according to the need of the moment.
We encourage one another to persist and to be bold. God always knows what needs to be said. We can trust God. Who can counsel the Lord’s Spirit? Yet, He counsels us through our prophetic words to one another.
We compassionately console one another with what the Holy Spirit prompts us to say in the moment. I wish that we all would prophesy.
But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them.
1 Corinthians 14:3 NLT
We need the Holy Spirit to have the power to do what Jesus did. How can we speak in tongues and prophesy without it?
Special gifts and graces come alive within us when the power of God dwells within. The Holy Spirit is transferred through the laying on of hands of those who have it to the recipient. And yet, it is freely available to all who ask for it.
Ask, and you shall receive.
Father in Heaven, baptize us in the Holy Spirit and fire. In the Mighty Name of Jesus we pray for the glory of God to be revealed in Your Church today and forevermore. Amen.
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions until he reached Ephesus, on the coast, where he found several believers.
“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” he asked them.
“No,” they replied, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
“Then what baptism did you experience?” he asked.
And they replied, “The baptism of John.”
Paul said, “John’s baptism called for repentance from sin. But John himself told the people to believe in the one who would come later, meaning Jesus.”
As soon as they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Then when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other tongues and prophesied.
There were about twelve men in all.
Acts of the Apostles 19:1-7 NLT
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