God regenerates us not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been...
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.” Luke 1:35 The late Dr. Adrian Rogers once challenged a large gathering with these words: “We have no right to be believed so long as we can be explained.” Most of our lives are...
O LORD JESUS, give me ears to hear. Fill me with thy Spirit that my abiding awareness of Him continually pushes itself to the forefront of my life. I am blind. Send Him that I might me see; that in my darkness He might say, ‘Let there be light’. Send Him as the...
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NKJV Abiding in Christ means living in unhindered fellowship with our Lord. Walking with Him, talking with Him,...
In the Old Testament the continued presence of The Holy Spirit depended on obedience by the individual. In the New Testament the indwelling of the Holy Spirit depended on the obedience of Christ.