A diamond can be cut to have many facets.
The facet catches the light from within and without of the diamond and it sparkles. The Lordship of the Holy Spirit has many facets which capture the light of the Spirit’s ministry.
The first contact we have with the Holy Spirit is when he is reaching out to people, for many it’s when we are faced with life changing events that happen in our life, and these can prepare us for when the time when the Holy Spirit acts in conjunction with God and the word Jesus, on a person’s faith in him as a result we come to know God.
Jesus said he would send the Comforter into the world
Jesus said, “ I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him or knows him, you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you” John 14: 15 – 17.
Jesus had only been with his disciples for a short time, but the Holy Spirit would be with them forever. Where Jesus was seen and heard and people followed him , the Holy Spirit cannot be seen or heard by the majority of people, those who turn to Jesus come to know the reality of the Holy Spirit and his ministry.
At Pentecost the promise of the Holy Spirit’s coming was realised. “Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit.” Acts 2: 33.
The great exchange.
Jesus said to his disciples that he was leaving them and he would send the Holy Spirit to comfort them, to teach them, also bring his words to their remembrance. The Holy Spirit would give them guidance, revelation and administrate the wealth of Jesus and Father God.
He is the Spirit of truth, he will act on the truth of Jesus’ words, “All that the Father has is mine, therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you.” John 16: 15. Paul writing to the Ephesians pointed to the wealth of Jesus.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.”
“That in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 1: 3. 2: 7 Matthew 19: 29.
Jesus had total faith in the Holy Spirit to continue his work with his disciples. Just as God had faith in Jesus to complete the task he had called him to do: to redeem humanity from unbelief and the devil’s power over death to give us eternal life and become children of God. John 17: 4. Hebrews 2: 14.
The Holy Spirit will convict people of sin in the light of God’s righteousness according to Christ’s gospel, love fulfils the law of Christ. God’s love forgiving us our sins making peace with God. Those who believe are justified through faith in Jesus. Romans 5: 1 “Therefore we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
The Holy Spirit will be made known to us by his presence within.
Jesus’ baptism the Holy Spirit descended upon him in the form of a dove, the Spirit could relate to Jesus because of being from the same Spirit of God.
The Holy Spirit revealed to John the Baptist that Jesus was the Lamb of God. The nature of Jesus was that of a lamb, which speaks in Biblical terms of gentleness, purity and selflessness.
For us to have the nature of the lamb of God it’s necessary to acknowledge God being the Father of Jesus, and Jesus’ selfless act of dying for our sin, and being able to redeem us through the purity of his blood
For those who ask Jesus into their life, they will be guided into all truth by the Holy Spirit.
It may take time in study and prayer before we realise that a great exchange took place when Jesus left the Holy Spirit in his place. Ask the Holy Spirit to come into your life and he will reveal the truth about God and Jesus’ birth, his ministry, his death on the cross, his resurrection, and ascension and his own coming into the world and his ministry to reveal and glorify Jesus. Jesus has total victory over the principalities and powers that are at work in the world and in the heavenly places . The Holy Spirit working with us and in us will apply the Lord’s victory.
The Holy Spirit bearing the sword.
“Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” The Holy Spirit looks at the thoughts and intentions of the heart of every person. The word of God is what he stands by, “For the word of God is living and active sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4: 12,13. Ephesians 6: 17.
Jesus in the temptations in the wilderness was tempted by the devil. The devil’s intentions by using the word of God was to try and penetrate the Spirit of Jesus. If he had succeeded the devil would have compromised the Word of God and power in the Word and Spirit of Jesus.
Jesus fasting and praying in the Spirit was able to withstand the devils attempts and he emerged out of the wilderness in the power of the Holy Spirit. Luke 4: 14.
The Lord Holy Spirit will help and guide us in applying Jesus’ victory.
The Holy Spirit is God’s personal representative on the earth, the Lordship of Jesus is worked out by the Lordship of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit dwells with us, among the Lord’s people. He is serving, ministering to our needs bringing contentment, peace, acknowledging our part in serving the Lord.
The Holy Spirit’s ministry among us
Praying in the Spirit we bring our concerns before the Lord. Recently in my prayers I’ve been asking and seeking to know more about the ministry of the Holy Spirit the Lord had answered my request.
At the end of May we were on holiday for a week at Scargill the Christian Community and Conference Centre, Kettlewell, Yorkshire. On the Wednesday during the night I awoke to find my thoughts were asking to know more about the Holy Spirit’s ministry? Then in the Spirit I saw the Spirit in the form of a butterfly gently moving from room to room ministering to the people in the rooms and then he came to me in our room, I experienced my spirit reaching out to meet the Holy Spirit. It was a pleasant experience.
In the morning when I thought about what had taken place, I questioned, “The Holy Spirit in the form of a butterfly?”
I attended the 8.00 Morning Prayer in the chapel the talk focused on the Holy Spirit, the lady speaking referred to the Holy Spirit’s unusual activity, he works in a variety of ways: he ministers through music, people seeing something of God in nature.
Her talk pointed to what I had experienced that night and after the service I shared it with her and she recognised a butterfly in the resurrection of Jesus. The metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly is a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. During the process of transformation, the chrysalis experiences darkness and constriction inside the cocoon. It emerges from the darkness a butterfly.
After the metamorphosis of Jesus which had taken place, in the tomb, the transforming of the appearance of Jesus meant that his disciples didn’t recognise him, it was seeing the marks of the crucifixion in his resurrected body that convinced them.
The Holy Spirit glorifies God and Jesus.
We are familiar with the butterfly silently fluttering its’ wings moving from flower to flower. In the same way I saw in the Spirit the gentle, peaceful way he moved from room to room. Ministering to the restless heart of the day’s activities, quietening the soul and strengthening the weak and feeble heart and perhaps stirring, motivating the passive into action.
I’ve been blessed, comforted by this experience and I’ve been able to put the Lordship of the Holy Spirit in his rightful place. I understand more deeply about his ministry.
Prayer
Lord Jesus,
By faith I invite the person of the Holy Spirit to bring the fullness of his entire person and my Lord’s work into all areas of my being. I ask the Holy Spirit to fill my mind, my will and my emotions with his control. I choose for him to bring all parts of my being into wholeness and submission to the Lordship of Christ. I give my body in all of its parts and appetites to the Holy Spirit’s control and transformation. I desire that he enable my spirit to be in fellowship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit throughout this day. I offer up this prayer to the heavenly Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ with thanksgiving. Amen.
Study from Bible and YouTube Derek Prince ‘The Ministries of the Holy Spirit’