One of the foundational experiences of a Believer is to be Immersed {Baptized} in the Set-Apart {Holy} Spirit of the Almighty Creator, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
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Coming to Belief
The first step in the journey is to come to belief, a settled assurance that the Creator, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, is REAL and choosing to believe in Him and dedicating one’s life to Him. See the article “2021.04.03 The Essence of my Message to those who do NOT believe in the Creator” at https://www.eti-ministries.org/essence-of-message-do-not-believe-in-the-creator for a detailed discussion of evidence of the existence of the Creator and what to pray when one comes to Belief.
If you have now concluded that you DO believe that the Almighty Creator exists, I recommend that you pray along the following lines:
“Father, Yah, the Almighty Creator, I have previously believed that you do NOT exist. I now recognize that I was mistaken and I repent and ask you to forgive me.
I chose now to accept the reality of your existence and I ask you to help me to learn about you and come into relationship with you.
Show me what to read and listen to and what NOT to read and listen to.
Send people to me who can help me and keep people from me who will not help me.
I ask you to send your set-apart Spirit to live in me and help me to become a faithful servant.
“Amen”
That is the starting point of a life long journey with the Creator.
For a series of steps that can be taken on first Belief see “Critical Actions on First Belief” at https://www.eti-ministries.org/-critical-actions-on-first-belief-
Immersion in the Set-Apart Spirit
The next step, which can happen concurrently, is Immersion in the Set-Apart Spirit. This is a deep infilling with the Spirit of Yah which empowers and equips one to walk with Yah in Power and Authority.
The video "What Is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit?" on YouTube at https://youtu.be/v-UoN0WiwuE is a good overview of the Immersion in the Set-Apart Spirit and is strongly recommended.
Usual caveats – see “2023.04.11 Critical Caveats regarding Third Party Content” at https://www.eti-ministries.org/critical-caveats-re-third-party-content
See also "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit by John G Lake" on YouTube at https://youtu.be/c03jBuvKV1A Powerful account of the role of the Set Apart Spirit of Yah in the life of John G Lake -- worth listening to -- usual caveats -- especially regarding Spirit of Yah NOT Spirit of Jesus.
Appendix 1 contains a fairly detailed article “How to Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit” from www.DesiringGod.org
Appendix 2 “How to Feel the Holy Ghost’s Presence, According to the Bible” addresses the same topic. I must stress that, while this article makes repeated reference to Christianity, what we are discussing here is NOT exclusive to Christianity, it is available to ALL WHO BELIEVE no matter what your background.
I have stressed previously that I am NOT a Christian, I am a servant of the Most High Creator, Yah the Eternally Self Existing and I embrace ALL Believers irrespective of background as my brethren.
One can pray to receive the immersion of the Set-Apart Spirit but it is better to immerse in water and pray at the same time.
See “2009.09.01 - Immersion for cleansing and infilling with the set-apart Spirit of Yah” at https://www.eti-ministries.org/anointed-life/anointed-life-part-3/immersion for a detailed discussion of Immersion.
Triple Immersion
From experience I have found that Triple Immersion is the most powerful form of Immersion.
If you have access to a swimming pool or other body of clean water this is the preferred option. If you do NOT have access to a large body of water then immerse yourself in a bath tub filled as full as possible. You will probably have to immerse different parts of your body in a progression as, unless the bath is very large, or you are very small, you will NOT be able to fully immerse at one time.
Either way, immerse three times and pray as follows (one prayer with each immersion in sequence):
i. “Father as I immerse myself I ask you to forgive me of all my sin and cleanse me from all defilement associated with my sin”;
ii. “Father as I immerse myself I ask you to immerse me in Your set-apart {holy} Spirit and to fill me with Your Spirit”;
iii. “Father as I immerse myself I ask you to immerse me into your Kingdom”;
As always pray whatever else you feel led to pray.
See also “Immersion for cleansing and infilling with the set-apart Spirit of Yah” at https://www.eti-ministries.org/articles/article-view-page/articleid/217/2009-09-01-immersion-for-cleansing-and-infilling-with-the-set-apart-spirit-of-yah
In all the above you MAY have a dramatic experience and you may NOT experience anything.
If you do NOT experience anything KEEP praying for infilling with the Spirit of Yah, for example pray repeatedly “Father Yah I desire to know you the way Yahooshua knew you” – you could substitute for Yahooshua with any human being with a close relationship with Yah that you know of that you desire to be able to emulate.
See also “2014.11.01b Seven Components of Drawing Close to the Almighty Creator” at https://www.eti-ministries.org/seven-components-of-drawing-close for a detailed discussion on drawing close to the Almighty Creator, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
Conclusion
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May Father bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His Peace
May Yah judge me severely and correct me harshly and show me the level of my present deception and how to correct it with regard to everything that I write and publish
Warm regards and blessings,
Dr James A Robertson
Spokesman and Emissary of Yah
End Time Issue Ministries
13 May 2023
Appendix 1:
How to Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit from www.DesiringGod.org
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/how-to-receive-the-gift-of-the-holy-spirit
How to Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit
The two questions I want to try to answer today are: (1) What does it mean to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? (2) How do we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? Our focus will be on the book of Acts and on Luke’s intention as he wrote it.
1. What Is Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit?
One of the most widely used books in contemporary charismatic renewal is The Holy Spirit and You by Dennis and Rita Bennet, an Episcopal priest and his wife. On pages 64–65 the question is posed, “What if I don’t speak in tongues? Can I receive the Holy Spirit without speaking in tongues?” Answer:
“It comes with the package!” Speaking in tongues is not the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but it is what happens when and as you are baptized in the Spirit and it becomes an important resource to help you continue, as Paul says, to . . . “keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). You don’t have to speak in tongues in order to be saved. You don’t have to speak in tongues in order to have the Holy Spirit in you. You don’t have to speak in tongues to have times of feeling filled with the Holy Spirit, but if you want the free and full outpouring that is the baptism in the Holy Spirit, you must expect it to happen as in Scripture. . . . If you want to understand the New Testament you need the same experience that all its writers had.
They sum up the classical two-stage Pentecostal teaching:
The first experience of the Christian life, salvation, is the incoming of the Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ, to give us new life, God’s life, eternal life. The second experience is the receiving, or making welcome of the Holy Spirit so that Jesus can cause Him to pour out this new life from our spirits, to baptize our souls and bodies and then our world around, with his refreshing and renewing power. (275)
They call this “the scriptural pattern of the ‘doctrine of baptisms.’”
Tongues and Baptism in the Spirit in Acts
I have two things to say about this, one negative and one positive. I’ll take the negative first so I can end with the positive. The negative thing is that I think the Bennets are probably wrong in making tongues a necessary part of the baptism in the Spirit.
“A Christian without power is a Christian who needs a baptism in the Holy Spirit.”
Let’s walk with them through the book of Acts to see where they get their evidence. It begins in Acts 1:5 where Jesus says to his disciples, “John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Then in verse 8, he says, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses.” The fulfillment of these two promises came on the day of Pentecost.
Acts 2:2–4 says, “And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributed and resting on each one of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
The next time tongues is mentioned in Acts is when Peter went to preach at Cornelius’s house in Acts 10:44–46. “While Peter was still saying this the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God.”
The only other place tongues is referred to in Acts is 19:6. Paul finds in Ephesus some disciples of John the Baptist who had never heard of the Holy Spirit. Paul explains to them that John pointed people forward to Jesus, and so verse 5 says, “On hearing this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.” There is one other instance in chapter 8 where the apostles go to Samaria and lay their hands on some believers so that they can receive the Holy Spirit. Tongues is not mentioned, but since the language is the same as at Cornelius’s house (fallen Acts 8:16; fell Acts 10:44), it’s likely the Samaritans spoke in tongues, too.
Pentecostals argue that since baptism in the Spirit happened these four times with speaking in tongues, we should regard this as normative. First, the word of the gospel is received by faith. Christ comes into your life by the Spirit. Then, you are baptized in water. And, generally, following water-baptism at some later point, you pray for the baptism in the Spirit and are overwhelmed with a new fullness and freedom and power accompanied by speaking in tongues.
Tongues Are Not Necessary to Being Baptized in the Spirit
There are five reasons why I am not as confident as the Pentecostals are that speaking in tongues is a necessary part of being baptized in the Spirit:
1. It is not taught anywhere in the New Testament. It seems risky to me to say, since it happened this way four times it must happen this way all the time.
2. What Jesus does teach in Acts 1:5, 8 is that the experience of baptism in the Spirit will bring power to witness into the Christian life. In the terminology of Acts we could say, what a powerless Christian needs is a baptism in the Holy Spirit. And that’s a lot of us!
3. Acts records at least nine other conversion stories, but never again mentions a two-step sequence with tongues (Acts 8:36; 9:17–19; 13:12, 48; 14:1; 16:14; 17:4, 34). This shows how difficult it is to establish a norm from the way things happened back then.
4. It could be that there were special circumstances in Jerusalem, Samaria, Cornelius’s house, and Ephesus that made speaking in tongues especially helpful in communicating the truth that the Holy Spirit was creating a new unified body of Jew and Samaritan and Gentile.
5. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:30 that “not all speak in tongues” and the words he uses are for general tongues speaking, not merely for a special “gift of tongues” used in church. He seems to have in view the person who feels ostracized without tongues and says (verse 16), “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body.” Paul responds, “Not everybody speaks in tongues!”
For these five reasons I cannot say with the Pentecostals that no Christian has been baptized in the Holy Spirit unless he has spoken in tongues. It seems to me that Luke leaves wide open the possibility that the Holy Spirit might fall upon a person with revolutionizing power over sin and power for witnessing and power in worship and yet not with tongues. To say this person is not the beneficiary of Jesus’s promise to baptize us in the Holy Spirit goes beyond Scripture. “You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit . . . and you shall receive power” (Acts 1:5, 8). That is the biblical sign. (Whether or not a Christian should seek to speak in tongues is another issue that we are working on in the evening. See 1 Corinthians 14:5, 18, 39.)
Stressing the Experience of Baptism in the Spirit
Now the positive thing I want to say about the moderate Pentecostal teaching (represented by the Bennets) is that it is right to stress the experiential reality of receiving the Spirit. When you read the New Testament honestly, you can’t help but get the impression of a big difference from a lot of contemporary Christian experience. For them the Holy Spirit was a fact of experience. For many Christians today it is a fact of doctrine.
Surely the Charismatic renewal has something to teach us here. In sacramental churches the gift of the Holy Spirit is virtually equated with the event of water baptism. In Protestant evangelicalism it is equated with a subconscious work of God in regeneration which you only know you have because the Bible says you do if you believe. It is easy to imagine a spiritual counselor saying to a new convert today, “Don’t expect to notice any difference. Just believe you have received the Spirit.” But that is far from what we see in the New Testament. The Pentecostals are right to stress the experience of being baptized in the Spirit.
Four Reasons Why It Is Right to Do So
Here are four reasons from Acts:
1. Terminology: The very term “baptized in the Holy Spirit” (1:5; 11:16) implies an immersion in the life of the Spirit. “John immersed in water; you will be immersed in the Spirit.” If the Spirit overwhelms you like a baptism, you can’t imagine him merely sneaking in quietly while you are asleep and taking up inconspicuous residence. That may be the way it starts (Paul may have this early movement in mind in 1 Corinthians 12:13), but if it ends there, Jesus and Luke would not call it a baptism in the Spirit.
“Christianity is not merely an array of glorious ideas.”
2. Power, boldness, and confidence: Jesus says in Acts 1:5, 8 that baptism in the Spirit means, “You shall receive power . . . and you shall be my witnesses.” This is an experience of boldness and confidence and victory over sin. A Christian without power is a Christian who needs a baptism in the Holy Spirit. I am aware that in 1 Corinthians 12:13 Paul says that baptism in the Spirit is an act of God by which we become a part of the body of Christ at conversion, so that in his terminology all genuine converts have been baptized in the Spirit.
But we have done wrong in limiting Paul’s understanding of the baptism in the Holy Spirit to this initial, subconscious divine act in conversion and then forcing all of Luke’s theology in Acts into that little mold. There is no reason to think that even for Paul the baptism in the Holy Spirit was limited to the initial moment of conversion. And for sure in the book of Acts the baptism in the Holy Spirit is more than a subconscious divine act of regeneration — it is a conscious experience of power (Acts 1:8).
3. The testimony of acts: In fact, the third reason I think so is that, when you take your concordance and look up every text in Acts where the Holy Spirit works in believers, it is never subconscious. In Acts, the Holy Spirit is not a silent influence but an experienced power. Believers experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit. They didn’t just believe it happened because an apostle said so.
4. The consequence of faith: The fourth reason we should stress the experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit is that in Acts the apostles teach that it is a consequence of faith not a subconscious cause of faith. As a convinced Calvinist, I believe with all my heart that the grace of God precedes and enables saving faith. We do not initiate our salvation by believing. God initiates it by enabling us to believe (Ephesians 2:8–9; 2 Timothy 2:25; John 1:13).
But this regenerating work of God’s Spirit is not the limit of what Peter means by baptism in the Spirit. In Acts 11:15–17 Peter reports how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius just as on the disciples at Pentecost.
“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’ If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should withstand God?”
Notice that the gift of the Spirit, or baptism in the Spirit, is preceded by faith. The NASB correctly says in verse 17 that God gave the Holy Spirit after they believed. So the baptism of the Spirit (verse 16) or the receiving of the gift of the Spirit (verse 17) cannot be the same as the work of God before faith which enables faith (which Luke speaks of in Acts 2:39; 5:31; 16:14; 11:18; 15:10; 14:27). The baptism in the Spirit is an experience of the Spirit given after faith to faith.
Receiving the Spirit Is a Life-Changing Experience
This is why Paul can say in Acts 19:2 when he meets the confused disciples of John the Baptist, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” What would a contemporary Protestant evangelical say in response to that question? I think we would say something like, “I thought we automatically received the Holy Spirit when we believed. I don’t understand how you can even ask the question.” How could Paul ask that question? He could ask it, I think, because receiving the Holy Spirit is a real experience. There are marks of it in your life. And the best way to test the faith of these so-called disciples is to ask them about their experience of the Spirit.
“Heartfelt praise and worship is the mark of a real experience of the Holy Spirit.”
This is no different than what Paul said in Romans 8:14, “All who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God” (see 2 Corinthians 13:5 and 1 John 3:24; 4:12–13). I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.
So you see, the real issue the Charismatics raise for us is not the issue of tongues. In itself that is relatively unimportant. The really valuable contribution of the Charismatic renewal is their relentless emphasis on the truth that receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit is a real, life-changing experience. Christianity is not merely an array of glorious ideas. It is not merely the performance of rituals and sacraments. It is the life-changing experience of the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ the Lord of the universe.
Two Things That Characterize This Experience
We could talk for hours about what that experience is. In fact, most of my messages are just that — descriptions of the experience of the Spirit of God in the life of the believer. But I’ll mention two things from the book of Acts — things that mark the experience of being baptized in the Holy Spirit or of receiving the gift of the Spirit.
1. A heart of praise: One is a heart of praise. In Acts 10:46 the disciples knew the Holy Spirit had fallen because “they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling (or magnifying) God.” Speaking in tongues is one particular way of releasing the heart of praise. It may be present or may not. But one thing is sure: the heart in which the Holy Spirit has been poured out will stop magnifying self and start magnifying God. Heartfelt praise and worship is the mark of a real experience of the Holy Spirit.
2. Obedience: The other mark I’ll mention is obedience. In Acts 5:29 Peter and the apostles say to the Sadducees who had arrested them, “We must obey God rather than men.” Then in verse 32 he says, “We are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God gave to those who are obeying him.” (“Gave” is past tense; “obey” is present, ongoing tense.)
It is inevitable that when the object of your heart’s worship changes, your obedience changes. When Jesus baptizes you in the Holy Spirit, and infuses you with a new sense of the glory of God, you have a new desire and a new power (Acts 1:8) to obey. Whether or not you speak in tongues, these two things will be your experience if you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit — a new desire to magnify God in worship and a powerful disposition to obey God in everyday life.
2. How to Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit
I close by pointing you to Peter’s instructions for how to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:38–41:
1. The word of God must be heard. Peter has preached that in God’s plan Jesus was crucified, raised, and exalted as Lord over all the universe and that forgiveness of sin and spiritual renewal can be had from him. The Word has been heard.
2. The sovereign God must call men and women to himself, or they will never come. Verse 39 says, “The promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, everyone to whom the Lord our God calls to him.” No one comes to faith in Christ unless the Father draws him (John 6:44, 65). The preached word is heard with conviction and power only when the effectual call of God lays hold on the hearers.
3. We must “receive the word.” Verse 41: “So those who received his word were baptized.” Receiving the Word means that it becomes part of you so that you trust the Christ it presents. You trust his provision for your forgiveness. You trust his path for your life. You trust his power to help you obey. And you trust his promises for your future. And that radical commitment to Christ always involves repentance — a turning away from your own self-wrought provisions and paths and powers and promises. And when you really turn to Christ for new paths and new power, you open yourself to the Holy Spirit, because it is by his Spirit that Christ guides and empowers.
4. We must give an open expression of faith in the act of water baptism in obedience to Jesus Christ. Baptism was the universal experience of all Christians in the New Testament. There were no unbaptized Christians after Pentecost. Christ had commanded it (Matthew 28:18–20) and the church practiced it. So we do today.
Therefore, I invite you to experience the greatest thing in the world: Repent, trust Christ, open yourself to the power of his Spirit, be baptized in his name, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Appendix 2 -- How to Feel the Holy Ghost’s Presence, According to the Bible
https://www.wikihow.com/Receive-the-Holy-Spirit-(Per-the-Bible)
How to Feel the Holy Ghost’s Presence, According to the Bible
Feel the Holy Ghost move through you and receive the peace of the Lord
Co-authored by Dev Murphy, MA
If you're familiar with Christianity, you've probably heard of the Holy Spirit—but what is it, and how does it become a part of your life? Theologians have filled untold pages with their thoughts on the subject, but the simplest answer is that the Holy Spirit is the presence of God, and it was sent to guide us after Jesus ascended to heaven. You will access the Holy Spirit after you get saved and become a Christian. However, learning to recognize when the Spirit is moving in you can take a little practice. We’ve created a guide to receiving the Holy Spirit—check it out below!
Things You Should Know
- Ask for God’s forgiveness and accepting Jesus Christ as your savior.
- Pray for the Holy Spirit to come to you, and rely on the Spirit to guide your understanding of God.
- Practice embodying the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Becoming Saved
Ask for God's forgiveness for your sins. We all sin once in a while—it's part of human nature. 1 John 1:8 says, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." If you want to feel God's presence—the Holy Spirit—in your life, admit those sins to God, ask for His forgiveness, and repent, or commit to doing better in the future.[1]
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- It might not seem like a big deal to tell a white lie or to be envious of your neighbor's new car, but any and all sin creates a separation between you and God.
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Believe that Jesus died for your sins. Once you've acknowledged that you are a sinner, say a prayer confessing that Jesus is God and that you believe that He died to save all people from their sins. This is the prayer of salvation, and according to the Bible, it's the only way to get to heaven.[2]
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- John 3:16 describes the gift that God gave us: "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." This means that believing in Jesus is the path to spending your afterlife in heaven, according to the Christian faith.
- In John 7:37-39, Jesus says: "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." The "rivers of living water" he's referring to are the Holy Spirit.
Get baptized. A baptism is a spiritual ceremony where you'll be dipped under water and brought back up. It symbolizes the death of your old life and the rebirth of your new life in God. You don't have to be baptized to be saved and receive the Holy Spirit, but if you want to feel the fullness of the Holy Spirit in your life, follow this commandment of God.[3]
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- Even Jesus experienced the Holy Spirit moving in Him after baptism, as described in Matthew 3:16: "As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him."
Feeling the Holy Spirit's Presence
Continue asking for forgiveness when you sin. Unfortunately, becoming a Christian doesn't mean you'll be automatically perfect. You'll still make mistakes from time to time. It's important to recognize and acknowledge these mistakes and to ask forgiveness for them. Otherwise, the sins can separate you from God, and you won't be able to feel His Spirit moving in your life.[4]
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- The Bible explains this separation in Isaiah 59:2: "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear." You can't be close to God if you intentionally continue to sin.
- The presence of the Holy Spirit may help you have a better understanding of what the sins are in your life!
Pray for the Holy Spirit to come to you. The Holy Spirit can help guide you, strengthen you, and comfort you. It's already a part of you when you become a Christian, but you can still pray that God will help you to understand it and to feel and recognize its presence.[5]
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- For instance, the writer of Psalm prays in 51:11: "Do not cast from me your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me." Even holy men fear losing their closeness with God!
Look for guidance in the fruits of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 explains that the fruits of the Spirit are "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control." As you deepen your relationship with God, you should notice these qualities becoming more and more a part of your life.[6]
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Allow the Spirit to guide your understanding of God. Scholars dedicate their whole lives to trying to understand the nature of God, so don't worry if it seems like a lot to comprehend. Read your Bible and continue praying, and [the Holy Spirit lead you] and help you gradually know God more fully.[7]
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- Jesus describes the Holy Spirit in John 14:26: "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you." If you listen for the Holy Spirit's guidance, it will be easier to know what's right
Let the Holy Spirit speak to God for you. Sometimes, you have so much weighing on your heart that you don't know where to start praying. The Holy Spirit can help comfort you, and it can also talk to God on your behalf.[8]
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- Romans 8:26 describes this: "For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."
- For instance, if you're feeling consumed with grief, you might not know where to start praying. However, the presence of the Holy Spirit can communicate that pain to God for you
Know that it's okay if you don't speak in tongues. In Acts, the Bible describes the day of Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit manifested as flames and rushing wind, leading believers to speak in "other tongues." Some believers today may even have this experience when they feel the Holy Spirit touching them![9] However, the apostle Paul later indicates that this gift is not given to everyone, so don't worry if it's not a part of your relationship with God.
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- In 1 Corinthians 12:29-31, Paul writes: "Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have the gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts." God intends for us all to have different gifts!
- 1 Corinthians 14:2 explains the experience of speaking in tongues in a little more detail: "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit."
End Time Issue Ministry End Notes
The Almighty Creator Desires a DEEP Personal Relationship with YOU
If you die as an Unbeliever your spirit will live for a very long time as a disembodied Ancestor Spirit or Demon -- the Creator has said regarding Unbelievers "why would I want someone to spend Eternity with me when they do NOT Believe I exist?”
If you die as a Believer without any form of relationship with the Creator you will end up in the Outer Darkness – a cold, black, terrible place with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth (your teeth) – the trash heap of Heaven – Father has said concerning such Believers “why would I want someone to be close to me in Heaven, which inherently means I will give them great prestige and authority, if they do NOT have a deep personal relationship with me and have NOT proven to me that they can be trusted in this life?”
In stark contrast -- IF you make a real effort to seek relationship with the Almighty the rewards in the Life to Come are HUGE – a glorious resurrected body, great prestige, great authority and a permanent close relationship with the Creator AND with Yahooshua {who you may mistakenly know as Jesus}
To put this all in context the Almighty has said "I created Human beings, this planet and this universe for men and women to be my Friends, my companions, to explore and learn and develop together, my greatest grief is that almost NO person understands this let alone seeks such a relationship with me!“
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* Words in curly brackets {xxx} are words which are commonly used but technically incorrect. Some of these words are simply incorrect, others like “God”, “the LORD”, “Jesus” are abominations in the sight of the Almighty Creator which He has, in His mercy tolerated up to now but for which grace has now been withdrawn – see https://www.ETI-Ministries.org/essence-of-message-re-names
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Broadcast -- The Essence of my message for the Jews
I have now reached a point where Father has shown me that my understanding has matured and consolidated to a point where I can summarize ALL the key points that relate to my message as my message applies to Jews.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/theessenceofmymessageforthejews7061438746767806464
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0llrzeAyQo
Audio on DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3q7dht27ngo62m1/2023_05_12_The_Essence_of_my_message_for_the_Jews.mp3?dl=0
Back issues of broadcasts at:
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/relationship-with-creator/id1447290561
Audible https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Relationship-with-Creator-Podcast/B08JK2WLHN
Podchaser https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/relationship-with-creator-772533
See also:
The biggest error crippling Mature Anointed Believers see https://www.ETI-Ministries.org/biggest-error-crippling-mature-anointed-believers
YouTube Why Seek Relationship: https://youtu.be/bvSLs-T0Q0U
YouTube on Global Flood: http://www.YouTube.com/user/ProofOfGlobalFlood
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