{"id":9052,"date":"2020-06-12T04:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2020-06-12T04:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:07:20","slug":"jesus-says-ill-send-another-just-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9052","title":{"rendered":"Jesus says, \u2018I\u2019ll send another just like me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Spirit is the one Jesus sent. The fruits of the work of Holy Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Galatians5%3A25\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Galatians 5:25<\/a>). If these fruits are evident then you can be confident that Holy Spirit dwells in, and is at work through, you. In last weeks Sunday message I walked through many points of understanding about Holy Spirit. Let me share a few more thoughts on Holy Spirit that I have extracted from Ps Bill Johnson\u2019s eCourse titled \u2018Keys for Walking in the Supernatural\u2019, as I find them helpful to keep in focus.<\/p>\n<p>He shares these thoughts in light of the Jesus baptism (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Luke3%3A21-22\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke 3:21-22<\/a>) and time in the desert (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Luke4%3A1-4\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke 4:1-4<\/a>). I invite you ponder these comments and claim these truths for yourself.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b><i>We were born for the impossible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you were born again, the spirit of resurrection took up residence inside your body and you now live under an open heaven. The Holy Spirit is in you, but He isn\u2019t meant to stay there. He is meant to flow <i>from <\/i>you in order to impact the course of history. You were created to hunger for the impossible becoming possible through the name of Jesus.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What qualifies you to do the impossible is not what you can do, but that you\u2019re willing to do it. The Holy Spirit breathes upon your willingness to obey. He\u2019s the one who empowers our words to make them eternally significant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>He\u2019s in me for my sake, but He\u2019s upon me for yours.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We know that Jesus lives <i>in <\/i>us and will never leave us, but He doesn\u2019t always rest <i>upon <\/i>us. When He rests upon us, it is for the purpose of significantly changing the environment we live in.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>When the Holy Spirit rests upon us like a dove perched on our shoulder, every step we take needs to be with the dove in mind. Every movement we make and every word we say must be conscious of the Spirit of God who has chosen to rest upon us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>We are meant to be a community of believers that attract people out of places of darkness into a place of refuge, health, safety, nourishment, and care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The words God gives us carry the DNA of God Himself. They carry His nature. God longs to reproduce His likeness, the reality of His thinking, His power, and His perspective into a group of people that have been created in His image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We have been placed in our city or in a particular situation as a light, but we need to keep in mind that the word of God established in our life attracts conflict. As soon as we are given a word, the enemy works to undermine the strength, beauty, and authority of that word. When a word is given, what the enemy wants to do is get you to question what God has said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Our responsibility is to protect that which God has said over us because we will encounter contradicting experiences of these words. We need to decide what we will feed our soul on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We have authority. We empower the lies of the enemy when we give attention to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>We must refuse to allow the question to undermine what God has said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We cannot afford to lose sight of what He has said, what He thinks, and what He has purposed to happen.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Every word that God promises you, He will fulfil, but some of what He says will not be fulfilled without our cooperation and obedience. We have a role to play.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We need to hear, do, pray, and protect all that God has said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>We owe Him a lifestyle of the miraculous because He made it possible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u2019s the only one who has the right to expect the impossible from our lives because He has created the context in which nothing is impossible for those who believe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We don\u2019t have the luxury to hear a word from God and walk away unchanged. We can\u2019t invite Him to speak and respond with disregard for what He has said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Spirit is the one Jesus sent. 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