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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Twelve Ways The Holy Spirit Benefits You

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 7, 2004
    based on 26 ratings
     | 101,337 views

    O let God’s Spirit fill your soul And cast out every sin, Then shall you love both friend and foe And know His peace within

    Twelve Ways the Holy Spirit Benefits You (Rom 8:26,27) - "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express." Illustration: Henry Bosch tells a humorous story about a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Joel Pankow avatar

    The Holy Spirit Gives Us The Gift Of Goodness Series

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jul 15, 2004
    based on 34 ratings
     | 4,430 views

    A sermon on perceiving what is good and evil, and how that perception enables us to fulfill God’s call to "be good."

    July 18, 2004 Fruit of the SPIRIT is goodness. The fruit of the Spirit is goodness. This single statement of Scripture makes some people cringe today. Why? Because when you talk about the “Spirit”, “good”, and “evil” you are using spiritual terms. When President Bush used the term “axis of ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Kevin Cummins avatar

    Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit Series

    Contributed by Kevin Cummins on Aug 14, 2003
    based on 206 ratings
     | 55,029 views

    This statement shows the trust that Christ had for His Heavenly Father. Even today this statement has some powerful messages in it for our lives today.

    Today we come to the last statement of our series on the Seven Statements from the Cross. We’ve seen a wide array of theological truths that have the power to transform our lives. We’ve seen Christ asking the Father to forgive the very people who at the time were mocking him and had beat and ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How The Spirit Helps Us In Our Weakness

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 22, 2001
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,829 views

    How the Spirit Helps us In our Weakness

    Jan 4th Rom 8:26,27 Theme - The Spirit helps us in all our weakness. Why is it true that when we are weak then we are strong in Christ? Humility like darkness, tends to reveal more of the Spirit’s light. The Spirit of God has a way of taking our individual weaknesses and making us strong ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • David Fox avatar

    Biblical Word Pictures Of The Baptism In The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by David Fox on Nov 10, 2001
    based on 94 ratings
     | 4,577 views

    Biblical Word Pictures of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit

    Biblical Word Pictures of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit Acts 1:4-8 I. Note: Salvation must come before Spirit Baptism: Acts 1:4-8 (NIV) 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Michael Raisbeck avatar

    Holy Spirit Decision Analysis - Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Michael Raisbeck on Jul 29, 2003
    based on 29 ratings
     | 4,585 views

    Following a painful experience ( job loss ), God lead me into a difficult choice; this decision is reviewed in the light of scripture.

    The last message which I prepared for the PRAYER AND FASTING NETWORK was on "Is A Broken Relationship Hurting You? " ( see July, 2003 Issue ). This article was initiated by some words spoken by a man which I considered to be prophetic. A short time following at a different venue another man came ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Howard Strickland avatar

    10 Ways The Holyspirit Helps Us

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jan 21, 2006
    based on 34 ratings
     | 5,903 views

    The HolySpirit is alive, and He desires to help every believer who will acknowledge Him!

    10 Ways the Holy Spirit Helps Us Text: Acts 2:1-4, Acts 1:8 Charles Haden Spurgen pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in England in 1854 to 1891 his first Sunday he preached to 37 people, but soon after, they packed out that great church to over 5,000 weekly. He said, “you ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dave Bootsma avatar

    Conceived By The Holy Spirit, Born Of The Virgin Mary

    Contributed by Dave Bootsma on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 26 ratings
     | 8,171 views

    Why do we hold to the Virgin Birth and what difference does it make?

    In the TV show Thirtysomething Hope, a Christian, argues with her Jewish husband, Michael, about the holidays. Michael exploded…. “Do you really believe an angel appeared to some teenage girl who then got pregnant without ever having sex and traveled on horseback to Bethlehem where she spent the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Dan Cale avatar

    Six Signs Of Walking A Spirit Filled Life Series

    Contributed by Dan Cale on Feb 28, 2005
    based on 165 ratings
     | 28,860 views

    From Acts Chapter 2 this sermon looks at 6 characteristics of the early Christian Church as they walked in the fullness of the Spirit of God.

    Walking In The Spirit Pt 3 Six Signs of Spirit Filled Living Acts 2:37-47 This past two weeks we have been talking about Walking In The Spirit. Our Key Scriptures have been… We’ve talked about Power with a Purpose – Jesus said “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Joel Pankow avatar

    Mary's Response Reflects The Truest Christmas Spirit

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 23, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 7,973 views

    An indepth reflection on the first few verses of Mary’s Magnificat show the source of her joy prior to that First Christmas.

    December 25, 2004 Luke 1:46-48 Mary said: My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed. When the news media showed video tapes of people in Palestine ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Gregg Strawbridge avatar

    The Pre-Persecution: Withstanding Challenges To The Gospel By The Spirit Series

    Contributed by Gregg Strawbridge on Apr 13, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,375 views

    The Spirit fills His People to give a bold witness to Christ, in accordance with the promise (Acts 1:8_9; John 14_16, Comforter). In that the Spirit testifies to the uniqueness of Christ no other name! (John 14:6)

    INTRODUCTION: In the modern world is was the German Schleiermacher who first argued that because of the love of God and because heaven would be spoiled if its inhabitants knew of a place of eternal torment, that all individuals must ultimately be saved; Bruner, and Barth followed suit, as did Paul ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Timothy Peck avatar

    What Christians Think About The Holy Spirit Series

    Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 17, 2001
    based on 394 ratings
     | 33,204 views

    Four freedoms the Holy Spirit brings explained for people investigating the Christian faith.

    Robert Duvall wanted to make a movie called The Apostle back in 1983 (Newsweek 4/13/98, 60). He wanted to make The Apostle because he felt that the motion picture industry had mostly ignored the work of the Holy Spirit in American religion. According to Duvall, "Filmmakers hardly ever depict ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Eleven Beneficial Enabling Powers Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 14, 2005
    based on 165 ratings
     | 17,978 views

    Too many of us fail to appropriate the enabling power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, relationships and ministries to our own detriment. The following eleven descriptions give a brief over view of the ways the Holy Spirit empowers us to do exceedingly

    How The Holy Spirit Functions for Believers John 16:13-16 Too many of us fail to appropriate the enabling power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, relationships and ministries to our own detriment. The following eleven descriptions give a brief over view of the ways the Holy Spirit empowers ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Bob Marcaurelle avatar

    The Holy Spirit- God Touching You And Me

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Nov 19, 2005
    based on 20 ratings
     | 9,641 views

    The Holy Spitit is the encounter or touch we have from God the Father and God the Son.

    The Christian Faith (The Holy Spirit) Week 1 1. The Spirit’s Divine Personality Jn. 14:17-18 Copyright 2005 by Bob Marcaurelle GOD TOUCHING YOU AND ME “The wind blows where it want to; and you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is just ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Let The Spirit Of God Infuse You With Love

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 25, 2005
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,106 views

    If only we could make the world believe that we loved them, there would be fewer empty churches, and a smaller proportion of our population who never darken a church door. Let love replace duty in our church relations, and the world will soon be evangeliz

    Let the Spirit of God Infuse You With Love (I Cor 13:4-8) We all need a fresh infusion of God’s love for without it we become apathetic, angry and self-absorbed. We live in a world that is crying out for love, acceptance and any measure of kindness. Illustration: A Great Motivator Love reaches ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational