MFM DEVOTIONAL 9TH DECEMBER, 2021 - WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? (II)

Mountain Top Life DAILY DEVOTION

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? (II)

9^TH DECEMBER, 2021

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Acts 24; Acts 25; Acts 26

FIRE SCRIPTURE: John.15:16-26

16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 

19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 

20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 

21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 

23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 

24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 

25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

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.

MEMORY VERSE: ” But the comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said into you. ” – John 14:26

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:

The work of the Holy Spirit is to impart life to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ and to guide us into the truth.

PRAISE WORSHIP: Take a worship song as led by the Holy Spirit.

PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY:
YOU WILL ENCOUNTER THE HOLY SPIRIT IN A NEW WAY AND BECOME A NEW PERSON TO THE GLORY OF GOD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

THE MESSAGE:

Our devotional today is the continuation of who the Holy Spirit is. Yesterday we learnt that Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead and that He is a person and not a thing or an ordinary influence. The Holy Spirit is also the believer’s sanctifier. The Bible says you are sanctified and justified by the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 6:11). The Holy Spirit is the one that makes you to be closer to Christ (2 Cor. 3:18).

The glory that the Holy Spirit imparts into you is more excellent and lasts longer. As your knowledge deepens, the Holy Spirit will help you to change and become Christ-like. The Holy Spirit is the One that will help you to do the will of the Father. In Acts 8:29, Philip found the Ethiopian eunuch and through the leading of the Holy Spirit, he was able to convert the man to Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit is the giver of gifts. Ask Him to baptise you with His gifts (1 Cor. 12:4-11). He will give you hope (Rom. 15:13). He will guide you in prayer so that you will not pray amiss (Rom 8:26). When you don’t know the right words to pray, the Holy Spirit prays with you and for you and God will answer. Ask the Holy Spirit to plead for you according to the will of God. Bring your requests to God; trust that He will always do what is best.

The Acts of Apostles is replete with the wonderful works of the Holy Spirit through chosen vessels of God. It was the Holy Spirit that enabled Stephen to do great wonders and miracles among the people (Acts 6:8). The same Holy Spirit empowered Philip to preach Christ, win souls and perform miracles in Samaria, so much that there was great joy in the city (Acts 8: 5-8).

It was the Holy Spirit that made the shadow of Peter so anointed that it ministered healing to the sick (Acts 5:15-16) and the apron from the body of Apostle Paul also administered healing (Acts 19:11-12 ). Beloved, the same Holy Spirit is willing to overshadow you and turn you to a new man or woman. Are you ready and willing?

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. Holy Spirit, arise for my help, in the name of Jesus Christ.
2. Holy Spirit, teach my inner ear to hear Your still small voice, in the name of Jesus Christ.
3. Holy Spirit, help me to draw close to God whenever the enemy has taken me away from His presence, in the name of Jesus Christ.

EVENING

4. Holy Spirit, give me deep revelation into the word of God, in the name of Jesus Christ.
5. Holy Spirit, open my eyes to see whatever God is showing me, in the name of Jesus Christ.
6. Holy Spirit, give me strength to stand in Christ till I breathe my last breath on earth, in the name of Jesus Christ.
7. Holy Spirit, show me the way of truth and help me not to depart from it, in the name of Jesus Christ .

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, MOUNTAIN OF FIRE and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)