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The Witness of The Holy Spirit

The witness is two-fold:

He does what no person can do,
He opens heart, removes blindness & opens minds to understand,
He bears witness that a word is true, gives it a ring of authenticity so that power in witnessing rests with the Spirit, not with us.
The Holy Spirit will witness using words, simple as they may be, to open minds, to break through hard-hearts, to pierce and break down barriers and to open people up to the Word of God! Amen!

The Holy Spirit's Witness:
"For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." (1 Corinthians 2:10).

The things God wishes us to know have been revealed through His Spirit. These things have been written down for us to read and understand. Jesus, on the night of His betrayal, promised His apostles that He would send the Holy Spirit to them. The Spirit would guide them (the apostles) unto all truth (John 16:7-13). The Spirit would also bring to the apostles minds clearly and unerringly the things Jesus had taught them during His personal ministry (John 15:25,26). That would be three years of teaching, but thanks to this promise, we can be confident that the words of the New Testament are accurate.

It is the Holy Spirit of God that reveals the mind of God to us (1 Corinthians 2:10-13). We need to accept His word, which has been written down for us, and learn not to "exceed" or "go beyond" what "has been written" (1 Corinthians 4:6).

Also, we have assurance that we can read and understand the things revealed in the writings of the New Testament (Ephesians 3:1-5). Note especially verse four: "And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ."

The promise Jesus made to His apostles concerning the giving of the Holy Spirit to them was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost just over fifty days later. Get these points: The above cited passages show that the Spirit's witness is given in words. The message is from God. They have been written. We can understand the message (see also 1 John 4:1,6; 2 John 9; 1 Thessalonians 2:13 and 2 Timothy 3:16,17).

This means the witness of the Holy Spirit is not given in feelings or emotion; not in an overriding of our wills in a forced direct influence or control of our hearts, not in a special sign, or not in an intuition.

The Holy Spirit will help you in prayer when you don't know how to pray.

Romans 8:26-27
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. (NIV)

The Witness of The Holy Spirit

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