FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

by | Jan 7, 2014 | George Runyan

2 Corinthians 13:14 – The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. In ending his letter to the Corinthians, Paul includes the community of the Godhead. The grace of Jesus speaks of the one who is a...

I WOULD THAT ALL GOD’S PEOPLE WERE PROPHETS

by | Jan 6, 2014 | George Runyan

Numbers 11:29 – I would will that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them! God took of His Spirit which rested upon Moses and placed Him upon the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. Two of the...

THE SPIRIT WILL NOT CONVICT FOREVER

by | Jan 5, 2014 | George Runyan

Genesis 6:3 – Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever because he also is flesh; nevertheless, his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” This pronouncement of God is prior to the flood that destroyed all mankind except for Noah and his...

FLESH AND SPIRIT

by | Jan 4, 2014 | George Runyan

John 3:6 – That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Jesus explained to Nicodemus the two types of birth. One is a birth that is generated by the flesh or through the human reproductive process that God initiated at the...

BECOMING AWARE OF HIS PRESENCE

by | Jan 3, 2014 | George Runyan

John 3:5 – Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” The key to entering the kingdom of God is the Spirit of God. It is the Holy Spirit who carries the mandate to bring forth in the...