Being Discipled by the Holy Spirit (eBook)

An Intensive, Transformational Approach to Walking in the Spirit

Mark Judy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3509-0925-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Your desire to have a deeper connection with the Holy Spirit is going to be fully answered within the pages of this book. It is God's fullest intention for you to have the fullest possible relationship with the Holy Spirit, in every sense of the word. It is God's unwavering intention for you to experience the fullest partnership and relationship with the Holy Spirit on a daily basis, in real time, and in living, experiential reality.

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Mark Judy believes that there isn't a more important subject for believers right now than that of truly growing in and experiencing spirit to spirit, heart to heart fellowship with the Lord. In communicating with many fellow believers over the last couple of years, he is convinced that this is a topic of utmost importance, as so many believers are truly hungry, even desperate, for a more intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit -and yet, for many different reasons, they feel blocked or hindered, and simply don't know what to do about it. "e;Being Discipled by the Holy Spirit"e; deals with this issue compassionately and scripturally, as well as offering some insights from the author's own 44 years of very personal experience from life and ministry. All true growth in any relationship is the result of ongoing communication, and the New Testament clearly paints a picture of the believers' relationship with the Holy Spirit as one of continual communication. Jesus Himself made it abundantly and irrefutably clear that the relationship the Holy Spirit would have with His Church was one of ongoing communication in various forms. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus emphatically exhorts and admonishes for every member of the Church to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking to the churches-and to underscore the absolute reverence due to the Holy Spirit from the Church through all generations, Jesus made it abundantly clear that those who speak against the Holy Spirit would never be forgiven for doing so. If that does not paint a picture of the supreme and indispensable role of the Holy Spirit within His own Church, nothing else will. We need to be seeing through the eyes of the Spirit like the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth never has before-And we cannot see through the eyes of the Spirit unless we are walking with the Spirit every single day, and hearing from Him in real time, every single day.

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CHAPTER 1

THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION: SPIRIT-LED SONS AND DAUGHTERS

Much of this book will include testimonials of things that I have learned by walking in the Holy Spirit; specific experiences that I learned from, because “….the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power” (1 Corinthians 4:20), so we must move beyond the theoretical, to the actual & experiential outworking of spiritual truths and concepts.

Part of this will simply be learning to practice walking in the Spirit; practice learning how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, and ALL of this requires an honest investment of an individual’s time.

It is not something anyone’s going to learn by reading a book—it will only be learned by giving of ourselves over to the Holy Spirit’s timetable, and trusting that He indeed Wants to lead us, guide us, and teach us.

Jesus went beyond simple teaching, where His disciples were concerned—He engaged them out in the real world, demonstrating the power and authority of the Kingdom, where they learned to participate with Him; so it will be with us and the Holy Spirit, in the very same way.

Just as there were almost no two situations alike as the disciples participated with Jesus, so it will be with the Holy Spirit—He will lead us out of our comfort zones mentally, spiritually, and physically, so we will need to be yielded and trusting continually. There is no way around it; all of us are heading into completely and totally unknown, uncharted territory that will most probably test us to our very limits mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and perhaps even physically.

That means that we must go through as much spiritual preparation and training through the Holy Spirit Now, while there is still time—and I personally don’t know where we are on the clock.

Now, I want to share something that will hopefully change for the better How you come to the Word of God.

In other words, your mindset as well as your heart attitude when you approach the Word of God—what is that mindset based on?

What I’m about to share with you now will totally change how you read your Bible—especially the New Testament—because it will change how you Read it, and it will change how it Speaks to you.

Here is what I mean.

The letters of the New Testament were exactly that—they were letters. They didn’t have numbered chapters and numbered verses so that people could intellectually dissect the different letters of the New Testament, as though we are analyzing them under a microscope.

The epistles were not written by some religious professor in a seminary somewhere, seated at his solid oak desk in his study.

These letters were written from the front lines of a spiritual battlefield, by an apostle who said, “to this very hour we hunger and thirst, and are naked and have no dwelling place of our own”!

Picture in your mind the movie Saving Private Ryan, and you’re on the front lines trying to write letters of encouragement and faith to your fellow soldiers in the other fox holes!

I’m speaking to so many of my brothers and sisters today, and many of you are in your own spiritual foxholes right now, facing different battles on enemy lines, and part of my job as God has designated it, is to do my part in helping you have clear communication lines with the Head of Command, the Holy Spirit—Because out here on the battlefield, His voice is all we’ve got, and if that communication gets cut off, we’re done.

Sunday school chitter chatter won’t cut it—we have to have clear lines of spiritual communication from the Spirit of Truth, Who was sent to lead us and guide us into all truth—He was sent to be our guide, our comforter, the one of whom it is written, “He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.” (Psalm 121:3). We serve and love a God Who is ever vigilant over each and every one of us.

Part of My job is to see to it that those who are feeling cut off from the ranks and isolated do not lose heart, but instead, are able to see these were personal letters, written by a Spirit-led, persecuted apostle to Spirit-filled, persecuted believers. He was writing letters of encouragement; he was writing letters to inspire their faith, to confirm and ground them in the spiritual realities of their faith.

Paul wasn’t sitting in a prison cell waiting to be executed, while writing to the Philippians “chapter 1 verse three”. When was the last time we wrote a letter to a loved one and divided our heartfelt personal letter into chapters and verses????

Such a thing would never occur to us. And yet, it was done to the very heartfelt, personal, Spirit-inspired letters of Paul to all the churches, and to every other book of the Bible that was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and written by men moved upon by the Holy Spirit...Very personal writings from a God who wants to reveal Himself to us, to mankind, and to reveal all that He has provided through His character, His nature, and the sacrifice of His only Son—but we have turned it into a book of chapters and verses to debate, critique, analyze, to subject it to our human reasoning faculties—but almost Never is it truly and honestly treated as something profoundly personal From a God Who Wants to Dwell with Men.

To the degree that we do Not approach the Word of God as a Living Word from the heart of God himself, to That degree we rob ourselves of its life-giving power.

I absolutely cannot stress that enough—the Word of God mixed with faith is what brings spiritual life.

The Word of God mixed with human reasoning profits nothing, just as Jesus said—“The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.” (John 6:63).

From Genesis to Revelation, the Word of God is a whole, complete, living thing—it is an extension of the very heart and life and nature of God Himself, and to the degree we comprehend that, and truly receive that into our hearts—to THAT degree, we will walk in the life and nature of God, as the apostle Peter said—“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence, that through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature”.

This is not a philosophical or intellectual exercise; this is drawing upon the very life and nature of God Himself through His Spirit-breathed Word, by the revelation of the Holy Spirit.

Just by way of stark contrast to drive this Truth home, NO ONE with just an intellectual grasp on Scripture EVER cast out a demon, but someone fasted & prayed up in the Holy Spirit DID.

THAT is THE Difference between a book with a nice leather cover, and a spiritual weapon that also gives Life.

I remember babysitting for a friend back in 1990 at a church in West Palm Beach Florida, and I used to take this little boy to the beach a lot. I always rode with my New Testament on the console of my car, and I remember this incident like it was yesterday. I was driving over a bridge going from the beach, and the little boy, out of nowhere, pointed at my little New Testament and said, “Kills bad spirits!” I was so amazed at his spontaneous & powerful perception!

I replied, “Yes, it DOES!”

He wasn’t even four years old, and he had more spiritual sense than most of the adult professing Christian population!!!

That is precisely the mindset and the state of heart we have to walk in 24 hours a day, seven days a week—if demons tremble at the name of Jesus and His Word, how dare we tolerate any man or woman who condescendingly treats it as anything less.

We have Christian television channels absolutely choking with a plethora of so-called Bible teachers who are as dead as the stage they stand on, with an audience full of people sitting there like a little mannequins receiving more mental input that they’ll never act upon in power, because it’s not being imparted with any power—it’s being imparted from a mind, an intellect.

In my younger days, I used to drive with a little pewter sword on my keychain, to remind me every time I looked at it that the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit, and it is alive and powerful.

If we do not look at the Word of God even subconsciously as a Living thing, it’s not doing us any good at all—it’s a paperweight sitting on a desk or a table.

And whatever we have to do to keep and maintain that mindset, is what we have to do—because we’ve never lived in a time like this before that demands such a state of...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3509-0925-8 / 9798350909258