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Being Anointed and Taught by the Holy Spirit of God. 1 John 2:20-21

We have perfectly powerful guidance in Scripture and the Holy Spirit.

The pairing of God’s written word and the very God who authored the word have the power to lead us into a life of all wisdom, understanding, and revelation.

But we must choose to live this life in light of eternity.

We must choose success in heaven over success in the world’s eyes.

Scripture and the teaching of the Holy Spirit only have power in our lives if we follow their leadership and principles.

Choose today to be a doer of the word instead of a hearer only and discover freeing and empowering wisdom that has the power to transform your life.

1 John 2:20-21 Amplified Bible

20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One [you have been set apart, specially gifted and prepared by the Holy Spirit], and all of you know [the truth because He teaches us, illuminates our minds, and guards us from error]. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie [nothing false, no deception] is of the truth.

The Word of God for the Children of God.

Adeste Fideles! Laeti Triumphantes! Venite Adoremus! Dominum.

Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Amen.

As believers in God and our Savior Jesus, we have been given the Holy Spirit as an Advocate, Helper, Intercessor, Teacher, Friend, and Seal for the promised inheritance of eternal life with God.

His living presence, guidance, and wisdom ministering, working in and within our lives, are our greatest gifts while here on earth.

Through Holy Spirit, we have access, we have a direct line, and an unbreakable connection with our heavenly Father.

Through him we receive spiritual gifts to empower us.

And through him we are able to bear the incredible fruit of abundant life.

In our response to these gifts of presence, and purpose, open your heart and mind to all the Holy Spirit would give you, show you, and lead you to this week.

God’s Holy Fire: ‘The Promised Coming’

John 14:26-27 The Message

25-27 “I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left—feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.

We have in the Holy Spirit the same Teacher who faithfully breathed the perfect and practical words of Scripture to imperfect men across thousands of years.

And Jesus said in John 14:26, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” 

Not only did the Holy Spirit teach the disciples, but he also longs to teach us.

He longs to reveal to us the depths of God so that we might learn what it is to be a true follower of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Holy Spirit longs to show us the wisdom of God, reveal His Ways, His Truths, His Life, so that we might live and minister to and into the Kingdom of God as men and women empowered and inspired by God rather than nearly complete fools who only seek and find their knowledge only in the matters of the world.

Let us take a few steps back into His Humility, let’s open our minds and hearts to receive the wisdom that can only come from God himself in the Holy Spirit.

Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 2:10, “These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” 

The Holy Spirit who dwells within us searches the depths of God and longs to reveal to us the ways of our heavenly Father.

He longs to teach us what it is to be a lover of God in a world set in opposition to the ways of God.

He longs to reveal to us the greater wisdom of God’s plans above our own and show us the folly, Psalm 14:1 foolishness, that comes from living for the world.

Being Taught by the Holy Spirit

1 John 2:20-21 The Message

20-21 But you belong. The Holy One anointed you, and you all know it. I haven’t been writing this to tell you something you don’t know, but to confirm the truth you do know, and to remind you that the truth doesn’t breed lies.

The Holy Spirit desires to be your Teacher today.

The questions before you and me today are:

Are you and I willing to be his diligent and disciplined student?

Are you and I willing to submit our submit and surrender our understanding to the Holy Spirit, to live and move and minister and build in light of his teaching?

Are you and I willing to appear foolish for God at times when the world doesn’t understand the wisdom of God, to speak, teach above that misunderstanding?

Are you and I willing to live wholeheartedly and steadfastly unashamed for the gospel, the pleasure of our heavenly Father over the fleeting opinions of man?

If we will surrender ourselves to the humility of Jesus, open our heart and mind today to being taught only by the Spirit, will we discover, explore a wealth of truth having the power to set us free from the bonds and burdens of this world?

The undefinable measure of truth coming from diligently studying Scripture will begin to change your life as the Holy Spirit reveals to us how these words written thousands of years ago are entirely 100% applicable to your life today.

Receiving the teaching of the Holy Spirit is as simple as submitting our lives to Him one day at a time, making time to listen to Him, study the word with Him.

As important, helpful, as gifted and inspired as they are, we don’t all have to be pastors, ministers, theologians, or scholars to understand what the Bible says, to speak, to teach, to live, what the Word of God for His Children means .

The Holy Spirit will be our teacher the way he was for the disciples.

He will teach us how Scripture applies to our life, guide us into the way of truth.

It’s incredibly important that we make time to study Scripture, but it’s equally important we all read the Bible along with the Spirit instead of apart from him.

The Bible is an immensely comprehensive, thoroughly practical message meant to greatly impact the lives of those who read it under the influence of the Spirit.

It’s a manual for living life in the abundance of relationship with God, not a book to be read apart from the reality of God’s nearness.

Scripture is meant to guide us into direct connection, direct communication with our heavenly Father, not substitute real, direct relationship with him.

Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” 

Trust in the leading, ministering and teaching of the Holy Spirit today.

Lean into and upon His wisdom instead of your own.

Acknowledge the reality of his nearness in your life.

And discover knowledge that has the power to fill you with abundant life.

In the name of God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,  

Let us Pray,    

Guided Prayer:

1. Meditate on the Holy Spirit’s desire to be your teacher.

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” John 14:26

“But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.” 1 John 2:20

2. Choose to be a student of the Holy Spirit. 

Choose to follow what He reveals to you to be wisdom over the ways of the world.

Choose His opinion over man’s.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

“But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.” 1 John 2:27

3. Spend time studying Scripture with the Holy Spirit. 

Pray and ask the Spirit to reveal to you what wisdom He wants to show you.

Ask Him to show you the meaning of the words you are reading.

Allow Him to apply Scripture directly to your life.

“These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:10

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” James 1:5

We have perfectly powerful guidance in Scripture and the Holy Spirit.

The pairing of God’s written and living word and the very God who authored the word have the ultimate power to lead, guide and direct and move each of us into a life of all wisdom, understanding, and revelation.

But we must choose to live this life in light of eternity.

We must choose success in heaven over success in the world’s eyes.

Scripture and the teaching of the Holy Spirit only have power in our lives if we follow their leadership and principles.

Choose today to be a doer of the word instead of a hearer only and discover freeing and empowering wisdom that has the power to transform your life.

O Father, I join my heart with the words of your servant David, who said: “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Please transform my thinking and my living by your Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen. 

Adeste Fideles! Laeti Triumphantes! Venite Adoremus! Dominum.

Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Amen.

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Help Me to Trust in You, O’ Lord! Be Thou My Wisdom! |Proverbs 3:5–6|

Trust. It can’t be half-hearted. Either it is a full trust, or it is ‘trust’ clouded with suspicion and doubt. So, as we face the everyday challenges of life, or as we look for answers to deep and difficult problems, let’s put our full trust in the LORD.

Pray! Let’s ask for his wisdom and guidance as we make our choices. Let’s give him praise for the good in our life and seek his blessing for the long days ahead. Why? Because he longs to bless us with a wise life, both now, and forevermore.

Proverbs 3:5-8 New Revised Standard Version

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not rely on your own insight.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
    fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
8 It will be a healing for your flesh
    and a refreshment for your body.

The Word of God for the Children of God. Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Alleluia! Amen.

Faith ….

Hope ….

Love ….

And the Greatest of these is …..

Resigning yourself into God’s care is an act of faith. It’s easy for Christians to say in a hopeful general way, “The Lord’s will be done,” but it’s another matter entirely for us to resign ourselves into the Lord’s loving hands about a specific circumstance which we have no answer. In the Bible when someone approached this walk of self-resignation, it was done with great seriousness of thought.

And the Greatest of these is …… TRUST?

Can there be faith, hope and love absent a maximum measure of genuine trust?

Merely saying the words, “I trust the Lord completely,” isn’t sufficient to prove that we possess a total 100% ‘genuine’ trust in him. It must be a free and willing surrender. Consider Egypt’s Pharaoh: Only when he could not hold out against God’s plagues any longer did, finally resigns to let Israel take their wilderness journey toward the Promised Land (see Exodus 12:29-32).

Likewise, many people living in these higher than high -risk contemporary of times has said, “I give in, I commit, I trust,” only after they have seen no other way out of their situations. But true resignation, the kind that pleases God, is done willingly to His Standard, prior to our coming to our wit’s end. We are to act in covenant with the Lord, giving him a blank check and letting him fill it in.

God cannot and will not accept no less than our all. If we resign our lives to him only half-heartedly, with any kind of reservation, we are as guilty as Ananias and Sapphira. They pretended to give their all to the Lord, but in reality, they held back a part and they paid with their lives (see Acts 5:1-11). There can be no deals or restrictions placed on our Lord. Contrast Acts 2:43-47 with 5:1-11!

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

“Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him” (Psalm 62:8).

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Although the psalmists say we’re to trust in God at all times, our pride always makes us want to keep control of our lives. It is surprising how stubborn and fleeting and woefully willful each one of us can be. Our surrender to him — in our thoughts, our actions, our desires — is by nature a daily, ongoing work.

We are repeatedly reminded, (gently, not so gently) “The just shall live by his faith” (Habakkuk 2:4). How reassuring to know that as we reach to him in faith, our Master will carry us through all hardships and natural impossibilities. How reassuring to know, to experience, as we stretch our finite hopes heavenward, it is our resurrected Savior Jesus who rose from the grave – turned our dying hope unto an ever-lasting and ever-living hope for a prosperous and blessed future.

We often get too easily wrapped up in the pursuit of happiness. It’s easy to think that if we could just do or be better that we would have it made. So, we work, and we work, trying to get more friends, or improve our grades to get into a better college. We do things like getting a job after school so we can get a car. We believe if we can do enough, be enough or have enough, we will be happy.

The problem with our doing more, with our being more, or our having more is that these things are empty. There’s no number of good grades that will truly make us happy in the long run. No number of friends, or money will complete us. We can try and work to fill our life with stuff, still feel impossibly empty.

Today’s Bible verse addresses these issues.

The last part of this verse from Proverbs 3 talks about not depending on our own understanding. What that means is do not depend too heavily on what we think seems good. Don’t depend on what we see on TV or what we hear in the halls at school from our friends to tell us what will make us all 1000% happy.

True happiness comes from a relationship of maturing trust with Jesus Christ.

When you let 100% of Jesus into your life, He will show you how He sees you.

It’s when you get to know and trust Jesus, you will find true happiness. If you want to be happy and live your life to the fullest, you need to choose to do what this verse says. You need to trust the Lord with all your heart. This isn’t always easy, it is not always supposed to be easy, but if you’ll spend some time getting to know God, you will see trusting in Him brings you true maturing happiness.

So, choose today to trust in the Lord. Don’t get caught up in all the things of life and let them steal your happiness. Trust in God and look to Him for answers.

Psalm 27

Triumphant Song of Confidence

Of David.

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold[a] of my life;
    of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When evildoers assail me
    to devour my flesh—
my adversaries and foes—
    they shall stumble and fall.

3 Though an army encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear;
though war rise up against me,
    yet I will be confident.

4 One thing I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
to live in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
    and to inquire in his temple.

5 For he will hide me in his shelter
    in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
    he will set me high on a rock.

6 Now my head is lifted up
    above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
    sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud,
    be gracious to me and answer me!
8 “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!”
    Your face, Lord, do I seek. (Psalm 27:1-8 NRSV)

In the name of God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,

Let us Pray,

O Lord my God, my eternal Father, thank you that you are my ever-present help in times of trouble. Help me to trust in what is unseen. Remind me of the truth of your power, that you surround me, and that you are fighting for me. Give me favor and breakthrough in my life. You are the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, my Savior. To you be all measures of honor and glory forever and ever.  Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.

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