More than the Scriptures are needed to bring a sinner out of darkness into God’s marvelous light—namely, the Person and work of the Holy Spirit. It is only as He applies the Word—that the conscience is pierced, the heart searched, and the will moved. Perhaps someone retorts, “But did not Christ say in John 6:63 ‘the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life,’ and does not that prove the very words of Scripture are life-giving?” Ah, go back to the first part of that very verse, “It is the Spirit who gives life”! We must not separate the Spirit from the Word—He is the Divine.
Holy Spirit
Reinhard Bonnke
We don’t need to ask for ‘more’ of the Holy Spirit to appear, it’s like saying “I want more of George to be in front of me,” when George is standing right there. The Holy Spirit comes as a whole person and not as a partial one. It’s our eyes that need to be opened to see His entirety. Pray that your eyes are opened.
R. C. Sproul
This writer cannot understand why anybody would attach any great significance to Christianity at all once it’s been stripped of its supernatural elements.
Francis Chan
The Holy Spirit is a person. He is not an indistinct power or thing. I often hear people refer to the Holy Spirit as an “it”, as if the Spirit is a thing or force that we can control or use this distinction may seem subtle or trivial, but it’s actually a very serious misunderstanding of the Spirit and His role in our lives.
Edward Hays
Since it [Advent] comes at winter time, fire is a fitting sign to help us celebrate Advent… If Christ is to come more fully into our lives this Christmas, if God is to become really incarnate for us, then fire will have to be present in our prayer. Our worship and devotion will have to stoke the kind of fire in our souls that can truly change our hearts. Ours is a great responsibility not to waste this Advent time.
Basil
[The Holy Spirit] is present as a whole to each and wholly present everywhere. He is portioned out impassably and participated in as a whole. He is like a sunbeam whose grace is present to the one who enjoys him as if he were present to such a one alone, and still he illuminates land and sea and is mixed with the air. Just so, indeed, the Spirit is present to each one who is fit to receive him, as if he were present to him alone, and still he sends out his grace that is complete and sufficient for all.
Basil
What does the Spirit do? His works are ineffable in majesty, and innumerable in quantity. How can we even ponder what extends beyond the ages? What did He do before creation began? How great are the graces He showered on creation? What power will He wield in the age to come? He existed; He pre-existed; He co-existed with the Father and the Son before the ages. Even if you can imagine anything beyond the ages, you will discover that the Spirit is even further beyond.
A.W. Tozer
To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us. and if persisted in to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
Katherine Walden
The Holy Spirit is not a voidless energy, He is a person who would love you to get to know Him.
The personhood of Holy Spirit indwelling within the heart of a believer brings comfort, direction, and correction and releases His fiery supernatural energy to accomplish His works on Earth.
Ian Nicholson
The church has been gathering to say “Come, Holy Spirit”, and in His grace, He has come. But perhaps the tables are turning. Perhaps it is now the Holy Spirit’s turn, and He is saying to us, “Come, holy people.” Perhaps the Holy Spirit is waiting for us to attend His meetings in some surprising places.