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The Ministry Of The Holy Spirit
Contributed by Jeff Van Wyk on Feb 23, 2013 (message contributor)
Summary: 15 "E" words
The Ministry Of The Holy Spirit
Incorporates 15 ‘E’ words
The baptism in the Holy Spirit helps us in so many ways which ensures a successful and effective Christian walk.
1. Enablement
Ezekiel 36:33 - 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
2. Enjoyment
Ecclesiastes 8:15 – So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
3. Edification
1 Corinthians 14:26 - How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
4. Employment
1 Chronicles 9:33 - These are the singers, heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites, who lodged in the chambers, and were free from other duties; for they were employed in that work day and night.
5. Empowerment
Acts 1:8 - But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
6. Establishment
2 Thessalonians 3:3 - But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
7. Ease
Matthew 11:30 - For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
Hebrews 4:1 - Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
8. Encouragement
Deuteronomy 1:38 - Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
9. Elevation
Psalm 48:2 - Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
10. Escalation
Matthew 13:23 - But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
11.Endowment
Genesis 30:20 - And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun.
12. Excitement
Acts 3:7-8 - And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them-walking, leaping, and praising God.
13. Entrance
2 Peter 1:11 - For so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
14. Escape
Luke 21:36 - Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
15. Erase
Hebrews 10:17 - …then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”