In search of God

John 14:26, ‘But the Counselor, the holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you.’ The Holy Spirit reveals to us the truth about God, His immense and boundless love for us, His mercifulness and faithfulness, His divine justice and judgment and His sovereign will for us. He lives in us, ministering, convicting, guiding, leading admonishing, edifying as that still small voice within. The Holy Spirit speaks what He hears from the Father, guiding us into all truth and teaching us more about Jesus so that we may know Him more intimately, more deeply to enable us to place our trust and faith in Him. He gives us spiritual gifts to members of the church so that through men, the Son may be glorified and the Son may glorify the Father.

John 14:18, 19, ‘I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long the world will not see me any more, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live.’ After the resurrection, Jesus ascended into Heaven and is now seated at the right hand of God, waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool. But for those that are His, ingrafted in Him know that we are not alone but He is always with us in all our daily endeavor guiding us, leading us, ministering to us, reassuring us, preparing the path before us and we are always with him in heaven seated in Him at the right hand of God having the confidence to present our petitions to the Father in heaven. By faith, we are reborn into His likeness and just as He has overcome death by His resurrection, we are also like Him resurrected and with power over the sting of death that came because of sin because the full price for our sins has been paid at the cross by He who loves us, when He cried out ‘It is finished’ while H...

John 14:17, ‘…the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him for He lives with you and will be in you.’ When we accept Jesus Christ in our lives by faith, a wonderful miracle happens, God resurrects our spirit and comes fills us with His Spirit – the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, making His home with us and what a joy it is to have Him in and with you! For he will always live in us, never leaving nor forsaking us. Then you can have all the confidence to do everything according to His will with the knowledge that He who is in us is greater than those that are in the world. The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin so that we may repent of our sins and receive the forgiveness of God through Jesus Christ, of righteousness so that we may have the confidence to approach the throne of God through Christ who has clothed us with His righteousness and is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven interceding on our behalf and o...

James 4:7, ‘Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ The only way that you can effectively resist the devil is by submitting yourself to God in total obedience. When we submit ourselves to God, His Holy Spirit dwells in us, He ministers to us and teaches us the way to live pleasing God. His laws are then written in our hearts and therein lies our power to defeat and chase away the devil. He cannot and accuse and condemn us to guilt because we know that in Christ we are credited with righteousness and our sins are remembered no more. He cannot deceive us because we know what the will of God for our lives is. He cannot tempt us with sin because in Christ we are dead to sin and are no longer its slaves and we now have the power to overcome sin. Without the Holy Spirit, living in you, you will not have the power to overcome and resist the great tempter, deceiver and accuser that is the devil.

John 1:29-31, ‘The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, “Look, the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A Man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.’ Jesus was there from the beginning of time and through Him everything in the world was created. Yet this same God shed His divinity to come and partake in the earthly world living as man so that He might redeem us back to Himself. John the Baptist did not feel worthy to baptize Jesus knowing who He was but he had to do it to satisfy all the requirement of the Laws. John the Baptist was baptizing with water in order to reveal to Israel the meaning of the baptism of the Spirit that was to come through Jesus Christ. As the Lamb Jesus was sacrificed by His father at the cross, suffering death so that man could have the confidence to come to ...

1 Peter 1:8,9, ‘Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.’ All who believe in God do so in faith. We believe in faith that the bible is the word of God, a revelation of Christ to man, we believe in Jesus to be the Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is fully divine and came to earth to be the son of man. We believe that His crucifixion was by divine design to unite us to God. We believe that He was raised on the third day by God, and ascended to be seated at the right hand of the Father. In faith we believe that our sins are forgiven when we confess our sins to Christ, in faith we believe that we die in Christ at the cross to our sinful life and nature, and are resurrected in Him as new beings full of power and eternal life, in faith we believe we are seated in Him at heavenly places at th...

Man by nature is a sinful being and God is pure and when we accept God in our lives, it creates a conflict between what the Spirit of God in us wants us to do and what the sinful nature desires within us want us to do. The Spirit is antagonistic with our natural desires. Paul captured this well in his letter to the Galatians in Galatians 5:17, 'For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.' So what is the characteristics of both our sinful nature and the Spirit. Paul tells us this in Galatians 5:19-23, 'The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies and the like. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gent...

When one makes the decision to accept Jesus Christ as His Lord and that He died for your sake so that you may receive eternal life, there is usually an expectation of change. You cannot go to God and remain the same for before you were living in sin but now you pursue righteousness as shown in Romans 6:2, '...we died to sin; how can we live in it any longer.' These initial times are usually the challenging times in a christian's life. But God will never leave you alone during these time of great need. You join Christ by faith and then you begin to know Him by reading the Word as is written in the bible and through prayer and fellowship. When Jesus was leaving the disciples so that they start preaching of the gospel, he told them he would send them something to help them as shown in Luke 24:49, 'I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power on high.' The helper was the Holy Spirit as further evidence...