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A time for groaning?

On 29/05/202027/05/2020 By balaamIn God, God blogsLeave a comment

The coming of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit has the power to change your life. It is the Holy Spirit's job to produce Christ-like character in you. This process of changing us to be more like Jesus is called sanctification. You can't reproduce the character of Jesus on your own or by your own …

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Baptised and filled with the Spirit: Part 2 Filled

On 01/05/202027/04/2020 By balaamIn God, God blogsLeave a comment

As they said in the 1960s, "Keep on keeping on." In the world but not of it It takes time to acclimatise to a foreign country. Not only time, but it is difficult too. There are immigrant communities in the UK and British ex-pat communities in other countries, ghettos where people try to continue living …

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Roles of the Holy Spirit 6: Guide

On 29/11/201909/02/2020 By balaamIn God, God blogsLeave a comment

Roles of the Holy Spirit 6: Guide The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. — Mark1:12 ESVUK And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour …

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Roles of the Spirit 5: Prayer

On 22/11/201930/11/2019 By balaamIn God, God blogsLeave a comment

Roles of the Spirit 5: Prayer And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”  — Galatians 4:6 ESVUK Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings …

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Roles of the Spirit 4: Regeneration

On 15/11/201930/11/2019 By balaamIn God, God blogsLeave a comment

Roles of the Spirit 4: Regeneration And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.  -Ezekiel 37:14 ESVUK It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh …

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Roles of the Spirit 3: Companion

On 08/11/201930/11/2019 By balaamIn Arthritis, God, God blogsLeave a comment

Roles of the Spirit 3: Companion ...even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. John 14:17 ESVUK When I was looking for a free image to illustrate the Holy Spirit as a companion I did …

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Roles of the Spirit 2: Teacher

On 01/11/201930/11/2019 By balaamIn church, God, God blogsLeave a comment

Roles of the Spirit 2: Teacher But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him. John 14:26 ESVUK And he …

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Roles of the Spirit 1: Comforter

On 25/10/201930/11/2019 By balaamIn church, God, God blogs1 Comment

Roles of the Spirit 1: Comforter or Helper And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will …

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Symbols of the Holy Spirit 4: Fire

On 06/09/201927/09/2019 By balaamIn God, God blogs, Uncategorized2 Comments

Symbols of the Holy Spirit 4: Fire This blog has been published out of sequence because the planned blog, about the Holy Spirit as a mighty wind coincided with the landfall of Hurricane Dorian. Please pray for the people of the Bahamas and Florida and those in the hurricane's path. You can donate to the …

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Matthew’s Passion: Go

On 25/04/201916/04/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Matthew's Passion: Go Easter: 3 Matthew 28:16-20 One of my least favourite verses of any hymn is the verse usually sung last in Amazing Grace, it does not sit well with the rest of the hymn. That verse goes... When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining like the sun, We've no less days …

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