On April 6, a wonderful group of attendees gathered at Christus Victor, enjoyed a hot breakfast, and learned about:

• Who is the Holy Spirit?

• What does the Holy Spirit do?

• How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit?

It was an incredibly moving event, and we are so thankful to all who attended! Whether you attended or not, be moved by the Holy Spirit through the playlist below:

 Holy Spirit Spotify Playlist

Twenty Good Reasons to Praise God for the Holy Spirit

1. The Holy Spirit Comforts Us. Jesus called Him the comforter. (John 14:26) How wonderful that God loves us enough to send His Spirit to comfort us. “Walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied” - Acts 9:31

2. The Holy Spirit Holds Me Accountable. He convicts us of wrongdoing, but He doesn’t condemn us for it. There is a great difference. One leads to restoration, and the other leads to defeat. “When He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” - John 16:8

3. The Holy Spirit Enables Us To Obey God. It is impossible to obey God in all things without the enablement of the Holy Spirit. “We have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.” - Romans 7:6

4. The Holy Spirit Guides Us. We can’t get to where we need to go without the guidance of the Holy Spirit. “When He, the spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come” - John 16:13

5. The Holy Spirit Teaches Us. What the Holy Spirit teaches us is far beyond what we can learn from man. “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 things that I said to you.” - John 14:26

6. The Holy Spirit Gives Us Power. We are completely powerless in our lives without the Holy Spirit. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:13

7. The Holy Spirit Gives Us Spiritual Gifts. The gifts of the Spirit help us to live successfully and bear fruit for God’s kingdom. “God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will.” - Hebrews 2:4

8. The Holy Spirit Sanctifies Us. He clears the slate for us so we can always make a fresh start. “That I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:16

9. The Holy Spirit Helps Us to Pray. We cannot pray effectively without the enablement of the Holy Spirit. “For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” - Romans 8:26

10. The Holy Spirit Brings Us to Jesus. If we have made Jesus Lord over our lives, the Holy Spirit has brought us to this point and filled us with Himself. “Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” - 1 Corinthians 12:3

11. The Holy Spirit Makes Us Strong. He will give us added strength when we need it most. “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His Glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man.” - Ephesians 3:16

12. The Holy Spirit Raises Us From The Dead. That same spirit who raised Jesus from the dead will also raise us up to spend eternity with the Lord. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” - 1 Peter 3:18

13. The Holy Spirit Works Miracles. Because of the work the Holy Spirit in our lives, we can experience the miraculous. “In mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God…I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.” - Romans 15:19

14. The Holy Spirit Gives Us Words To Say. We can be led by the Spirit whenever we speak to anyone. “The Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” - Luke 12:12

15. The Holy Spirit Gives Renews Us. The ability to be renewed and revived comes entirely from the work of the Spirit in our lives. “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.” - Titus 3:5

16. The Holy Spirit Helps Us When We Are Weak. He enables us to do what we could not do on our own. “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.” - Romans 8:26

17. The Holy Spirit Gives Us Knowledge And Understanding. There are things that can only be known and understood by the power of the Holy Spirit. “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.” - Isaiah 11:2

18. The Holy Spirit Gives Us Revelation And Wisdom. The Holy Spirit reveals things to us and gives us wisdom without which we can’t survive. “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.” - Ephesians 1:17

19. The Holy Spirit Reveals The Things of God. The only way we can understand the things of God is by the power of the Holy Spirit. “God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.” - 1 Corinthians 2:10

20. The Holy Spirit Assures Us That We Are God’s Children. We need to know for certain that we are a beloved child of God because this will affect everything we do in life, and the Holy Spirit helps us to recognize that. “The spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.” - Romans 8:16