And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them
forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits.
Zerubbabel
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
Jesus
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the
Almighty hath given me life. Into thine hand I commit my spirit:
thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Zerubabbel
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no guile. The LORD is nigh unto
them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and
uphold me with thy free spirit.
Jesus
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
renewest the face of the earth.
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than
to divide the spoil with the proud. He that hath knowledge
spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent
spirit.
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all
the inward parts of the belly.
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and
knowledge, and joy. Better is the end of a thing than the
beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the
proud in spirit.
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And for a
spirit of judgment to him that sitteth
in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the
gate.
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,
and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. Until the spirit be
poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. O Lord,
by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of
my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
God
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
counsellor hath taught him? Behold my servant, whom I uphold;
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon
him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. For I will
pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry
ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon
thine offspring.
Jesus
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:
and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite
ones. So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and
his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come
in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him.
God
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My
spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of
thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the
LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Jesus
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me
to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty
for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be
glorified.
Zerubbabel
And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit
was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their
spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them:
for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of
a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from
his place. When they stood, these stood; and when they were
lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the
living creature was in them.
And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,
Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel:
for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of
them. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new
spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their
flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: A new heart also
will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give
you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them.
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley
which was full of bones.
God
I shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD
have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. Neither will I
hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit
upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Zerubabbel
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner
court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. And
it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh; and your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and
upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and
of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word
of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power,
but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jesus
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father
which speaketh in you.
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my
soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall
shew judgment to the Gentiles. But if I cast out devils by the
Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the
heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to
turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord.
Zerubbabel
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised.
Jesus
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank
thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them
unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask him?
Zerubabbel
But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that
they had seen a spirit.
Jesus
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have.
John
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending
from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him
not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said
unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and
remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy
Ghost.
Jesus
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. For he whom
God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the
Spirit by measure unto him.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and
they are life. Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
God
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will
pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my
handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they
shall prophesy: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the
letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Zerubbabel
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead
wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,
and not in the oldness of the letter. There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law of sin and death. That the righteousness of
the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again
to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but
the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God. But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you? But he that is joined unto the
Lord is one spirit. For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. But
the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another
faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the
same Spirit; But all these worketh that one and the selfsame
Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether
we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been
all made to drink into one Spirit. And so it is written, The
first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a
quickening spirit. Who hath also sealed us, and given the
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of
Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
tables of the heart. Who also hath made us able ministers of the
new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. Now the Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory
of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is
written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also
believe, and therefore speak. Now he that hath wrought us for
the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the
earnest of the Spirit.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God. For if he that cometh
preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye
receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another
gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that
was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil
the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one
to the other: so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not
under the law.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit. Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of
the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children
of disobedience:
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father. In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation
of God through the Spirit. Which in other ages was not made
known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy
apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That he would grant you,
according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with
might by his Spirit in the inner man; Endeavouring to keep the
unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in
one hope of your calling; And be renewed in the spirit of your
mind; And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are
sealed unto the day of redemption.
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the
Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to
speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all
things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for
whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints; For we are the
circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who
hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. Quench not the Spirit.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That ye be not soon shaken
in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by
letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the
believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in
faith, in purity. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. For the word of
God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And he that
keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And
hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath
given us.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And
every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already
is it in the world. And there are three that bear witness in
earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three
agree in one.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
great voice, as of a trumpet, And immediately I was in the
spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on
the throne. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labours; and their works do follow them.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.
And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Glimpses of God ® by Joyce C. Lock
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About the Author:
Joyce C. Lock founded and maintains the email ministries
"Heavenly Inspirations"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeavenlyInspirations/ and
"Share a Smile" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smilesharing/ .
She also has a published e-book, "The Difference",
which can be purchased here:
http://www.theeaglesgarden.com/