Holy Spirit Alphabet Vol. 3 Guide to Love, Miracles & More

HOLY SPIRIT ALPHABET VOL. 3
Written and edited by Glenn Pease
CONTENTS
LOVE OF SPIRIT
MIND
MIRACLES
NAMES OF THE SPIRIT
OIL
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LOVE OF SPIRIT
by Pastor Jack Hyles
The Holy Spirit loves. Romans 15:30, "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord
Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in
your prayers to God for me."
It is very interesting that we tell our Heavenly Father that we love Him, and we tell
the Lord Jesus that we love Him. We sing, "My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art
mine. For Thee all the follies of sin I resign." Isn't it amazing then that we never tell
the Holy Spirit that we love Him? We rejoice that God the Father loves us. We sing,
"O Love that wilt not let me go." We sing, "The love of God is greater far than
tongue or pen can ever tell." We think of Jesus loving us. We sing, "Jesus loves me,
this I know." We sing, "I am so glad that Jesus loves me." Yet, we never seem to
dwell upon the fact that the Holy Spirit loves us too! He is as much a person as is

God the Father and God the Son.
Why then do we not dwell on His love? We praise the Father. We sometimes say,
"Praise God!" and "Praise the Lord." We praise Jesus, and yet, did you ever hear
anybody say, "Praise the Holy Spirit"? Isn't He deserving of our praise? We thank
the Father for what He does for us. We thank Jesus for what He does for us. Why
not thank the Holy Spirit? Oh, beloved, realize that He lives! He is a person like God
the Father is a person, like God the Son is a person. He wants to be accepted as
such. Begin a new day in your life by pausing now to love Him, to praise Him, to
praise Him even as you would praise the Father and the Son.
Love is a Spirit
We had a prayer request from a young girl that impacted my heart. Her request was
for us to pray that her mother would tell her she loved her. I thought how tragic,
how sad, and how typical of so many hurting people in the world today. This is
especially common in the more modernized countries of the world. It seems that the
more developed a nation is the more focused the people become on the cares of this
world and the less time they have for love. When visiting some squatters in a
Philippine garbage dump I observed that they were surprisingly much happier than
very wealthy people in the US were. They did not have much, but they had love, and
that is the most important thing of all that we can ever have or achieve.
God has created every human being in His image, which means that we are created
to love. We are created to need love and we are created to give love. Most people do
not know what love is. As people become more “world focused” they seem to
develop a distorted view about what love is.
The Bible tells us that “God is Love”, and the Bible also says that God is Spirit, that
means true Love is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit. But of course there are counterfeit
forms of what people call love.
The fruits of the Holy Spirit describe true Love. (Galatians 5:22-25) But the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, {23}
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. {24} And those who are
Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. {25} If we live in the
Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. The first fruit of the Spirit is Love and all of the
other fruits are characteristics of Love.

Love is more than a feeling, it is more than an experience, it is the manifested
presence of God, the glory of God. Remember God is Love, so when you experience
true Love you are experiencing God’s glorious presence. Notice the second fruit is
joy, love is the ultimate joy that can be experienced. (Psalms 16:11) You will show
me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are
pleasures forevermore.
The third fruit listed is peace. Just as fear is a spirit, so also Love is a Spirit of power
and peace. (2 Timothy 1:7) For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power
and of love and of a sound mind. (Ephesians 6:23) Peace to the brethren, and love
with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 13:11)
Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind,
live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
The other six fruits of the Spirit all have to do with actions of Love and the power of
Love. All of the fruits of the Spirit are the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, which is
the manifestation of God’s love in our own life.
Moses asked God to show him His glory. When God revealed His glory to Moses He
also revealed His character, His Love. (Exodus 33:18-19) And he said, “Please, show
me Your glory.” {19} Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you,
and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
(Exodus 34:6) And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the
LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and
truth, The word merciful in verse 6 means, “to be full of compassion”. We know that
God is Love and that He is full of compassion. This revelation of who God is, also
reveals who Love is, and what the glory of God is. The glory of God is the
manifestation and revelation of His Love to man.
The Bible is very clear that we are to love God more than our own life and to love
people as we love our selves. (Matthew 22:37-40) Jesus said to him, ” ‘You shall love
the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
{38} “This is the first and great commandment. {39} “And the second is like it: ‘You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ {40} “On these two commandments hang all
the Law and the Prophets.” Love is the summary of all that God wants from us, and
all that God wants us to be. The whole Bible is God’s communication to man to tell
us about the God who is Love, and what Love is and is not.
When we love God we will obey His commandments. (1 John 5:3) For this is the love
of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not
burdensome. When we love God His commandments are not a burden to us they are

a joy. This kind of love is not natural, it is not from us, it is a gift from God called
the Holy Spirit. God’s Holy Spirit in us causes us to not only want to obey God but
also to delight in doing so from our very heart. David wrote many times verses such
as this, (Psalms 40:8) I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within
my heart.”
Jesus commands us to live in His love, which is demonstrated by obedience to Him
on the outside, and on the inside we are full of joy. (John 15:9-14) “As the Father
loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. {10} “If you keep My
commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s
commandments and abide in His love. {11} “These things I have spoken to you, that
My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. {12} “This is My
commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. {13} “Greater love
has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. {14} “You are My
friends if you do whatever I command you.
There is only one thing that you have which you can give to God that will glorify
Him, that is your life. But when you give yourself fully to Him, seeking to know Him
and do His will with your whole heart, mind, soul, and strength; then He will glorify
you. As we come to know and experience the revelation of God’s Love by looking
unto Him we are transformed from glory to glory. (2 Corinthians 3:18) But we all,
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the
Lord.
Paul tells us that through knowing Christ’s Love that we can be filled with all the
fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-21) For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, {15} from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named, {16} that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, {17} that Christ may
dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, {18}
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and
depth and height; {19} to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you
may be filled with all the fullness of God. {20} Now to Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that
works in us, {21} to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations,
forever and ever. Amen.
In verse 19 the passage reads “to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge”,
which seems to be a contradiction, but there are two different words used in the
original Greek. The first word “to know”, means an intimate knowing, to perceive,
to feel, to experience, the word is even used in the way that a man knows a woman.

This is a heart-felt intimate knowledge. The second word “which passes knowledge”
means head knowledge, or science. God’s Love is beyond human understanding, it is
only spiritually discerned because it is the manifested presence of the Holy Spirit.
In verse 18 the phrase “may be able to comprehend” is interesting, the word
comprehend is the Greek word katalambano, which means to take eagerly, seize,
possess, apprehend, attain, come upon, find, obtain, perceive, overtake. We are to
eagerly seek and possess with all the saints what is the width and length and depth
and height of knowing the love of Christ which is beyond head-knowledge; that you
may be filled with all the fullness of God.
(1 John 4:19) We love Him because He first loved us. Notice in the passage above,
Ephesians 3:14-21, the progression of events. First Paul prays that according to the
riches of His glory, the glory of God is God’s Love revealed to man. This must take
place first because God’s Love must be revealed to us first so that we can love Him.
Second is the work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Love, strengthened with might
through His Spirit in the inner man. Then we are able to receive Christ into our
hearts through faith, which grows out of Love. Faith comes from Love, and grows as
the heart-knowledge of God’s Love grows.
As we grow in intimate knowledge of the Love of Christ we are filled with all the
fullness of God. Because Christ is the greatest revelation of God’s Love, and the
greatest manifestation of God’s glory to man. (2 Corinthians 4:6-7) For it is the God
who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. {7} But we
have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God
and not of us.
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:12-
19) No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and
His love has been perfected in us. {13} By this we know that we abide in Him, and
He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. {14} And we have seen and testify
that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. {15} Whoever confesses that
Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. {16} And we have known
and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love
abides in God, and God in him. {17} Love has been perfected among us in this: that
we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this
world. {18} There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear
involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. {19} We love
Him because He first loved us. (Mark 12:30) ‘And you shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your
strength.’ This is the first commandment.

For many people the world is a dark, lonely, and loveless place. As Christians we
have the answers people are longing for. We must let the glory of God’s Love shine
through us to bring light, and love to hurting people. (Isaiah 60:1-2) Arise, shine;
For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. {2} For
behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the
LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. (Matthew 5:14-16)
“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. {15}
“Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives
light to all who are in the house. {16} “Let your light so shine before men, that they
may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Love is the highest calling and the greatest relationship with God. (Colossians 3:14)
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. (Ephesians
5:1-2) Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. {2} And walk in love, as
Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God
for a sweet-smelling aroma. (Jude 1:20-21 NKJV) But you, beloved, building
yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, {21} keep
yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto
eternal life.
Be Love – Like Your Father in Heaven
When you are less than love you are less than your potential
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love,
and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is
perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because
as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts
out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in
love. (1 John 4:16-18)
A few days ago, I was driving home on the highway that goes by our house. I entered
the highway and began approaching a car that was traveling in the left lane. I knew
the left lane would end soon and the car would be forced to merge right, into my
lane. I backed off and gave him space to safely change lanes. The same thing
happened again later further up the highway and I again backed off and made space
for the same car. When we approached the tollgate, I once again let the other car go
before me. At that moment, the tollgate opened a second lane for people to pay their
toll. I was in perfect position to enter the newly opened lane. I passed a long line of
cars in the other lane that were waiting to pay the toll. I quickly went through the
tollbooth and continued without any waiting.

Do I believe that Lord was rewarding me for being my brother’s keeper? Yes, I have
seen things like that happen many times. However, I have not always been that nice.
There have been times in the past when I was in a hurry and I would pass many cars
on the highway, thinking that I will get there sooner. When I came to the tollgate, I
entered a long line and had to wait. Then the tollgate would open another lane and I
watched as all the cars I passed earlier go by me while I am stuck in line. I have also
seen the same thing happen to other people many times. The Lord is speaking to us
every day and in many ways. Every day there are situations when we must choose to
love or not; love is a decision.
However, just because you are trying to do the right thing does not mean everything
is always wonderful; remember Job. Sometimes when I do the right things, I still
end up waiting in a long line. However, at those times, I have the joy and peace from
God for doing the right things and I am patient because I know that time is in God’s
hands. I know I can trust Him and I wonder if maybe he is delaying me to keep me
from being in an accident up ahead.
As I look back over this last year, I can see that the Lord has been teaching me many
things but it is all about one subject, love. I feel like I have been in an intense school
of love and I know this is true for the body of Christ everywhere. This school of love
will continue for believers into the new year and may be even more intense. We are
maturing into His image as a son or daughter. God is love and the goal is that we
each become love, like our Father. Faith works by love, when our love is perfected,
we will also have great faith.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and
hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do
good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute
you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on
the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust….Therefore
you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:43-48
NKJV)
When you understand that the end goal is to become love it helps you see what God
is trying to teach you through life circumstances. Wherever you are and whatever
position you find yourself in the goal is the same; that you would learn to love God
with all your heart and love the people around you as yourself. The goal is, as He is
so are we in this world; to be love.
Love is obeying God, what may be love for one person may not be for another. We
each have a unique position in the body of Christ. Commands are given from the
love command center, the throne of God, through the Holy Spirit to us. We also have

the written word of God, the Bible tells us what love is and what it is not. True love
always agrees with God’s word. Jesus says, “If you keep My commandments, you
will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in
His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and
that your joy may be full.” (John 15:10-11 NKJV) The fruit of love is always joy and
peace in the presence of God. God can only dwell in an environment of love. Love
creates a home for God to live in. When we obey, we are walking with God in love.
The ways of God are the ways of love.
And what does the LORD require of you, but to do justice, to love loving kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God! (Micah 6:8 ONM)
The greatest love includes sacrifice. The greatest symbol of love is Jesus on the cross
paying for your sins. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have
loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his
friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. (John 15:12-14
NKJV)
When we choose to obey God, even when we do not want to we are sacrificing our
lives for Him. With God, the reward is always so much greater than the sacrifice.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set
before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2 NIV)
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has
loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-
smelling aroma. (Ephesians 5:1-2 NKJV)
When we forgive people who hurt us or offend us we are making a sacrifice of love.
Forgiveness requires us to reject our pride and embrace humility; a dying to
yourself decision. However, God gives grace to the humble and that is when you will
experience His life, His love flowing into you. Therefore you must immediately put
on, as chosen and beloved saints of God, hearts, inner thoughts of compassion,
generosity, humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with one another and forgiving
each other if any would have a complaint against someone: just as also the Lord
forgave you, so also you must forgive: and upon all of these, love, which is a bond of
perfection. And the peace of the Messiah must continually rule in your hearts, into
which peace you were also called in one body: and you must constantly be grateful.
(Colossians 3:12-15 ONM)
If you are born-again you already have love inside you. Love is a decision. You must
release love and let it touch someone. Even if you do not feel like it, say a kind word
to someone who is difficult to love in your life. Give to someone in need. When you

begin to make the sacrifice of love, you will begin to experience the joy of love. I
mentioned in an earlier message about how the Hebrew word for righteousness has
the meaning of “actions of loving kindness”. I pray that this New Year will be a
season where you come into an increased awareness of the love God has for you; and
may you live in the manifest presence of His love. May it be that as He is, so are You
in this world. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for
us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in
him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of
judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears
is not perfected in love. (1 John 4:16-18)
Be Love – Bible Verses
Matthew 5:43-48 NKJV “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ (44) But I say to you, love your
enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for
those who spitefully use you and persecute you, (45) that you may be sons of your
Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends
rain on the just and on the unjust. (46) For if you love those who love you, what
reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? (47) And if you greet
your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors
do so? (48) Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 19:20-22 NKJV The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept
from my youth. What do I still lack?” (21) Jesus said to him, “If you want to be
perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow Me.” (22) But when the young man heard that saying, he
went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the
second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets
hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40 NIV)
And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest. And
he said, The kings of the Gentiles are lords over them, and those who have authority
are given names of honour. But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let
him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant. (Luke 22:24-26
BBE)

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are
tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we
know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come,
then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away
childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know
in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope,
love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1st Corinthians 13:8-13 NKJV)
John 17:22-26 NKJV And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they
may be one just as We are one: (23) I in them, and You in Me; that they may be
made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have
loved them as You have loved Me. (24) “Father, I desire that they also whom You
gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You
have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. (25) O
righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these
have known that You sent Me. (26) And I have declared to them Your name, and
will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in
them.”
Ephesians 1:2-4 NKJV Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. (3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, (4) just as
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before Him in love,
John 15:9-14 NKJV “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My
love. (10) If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have
kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. (11) “These things I have
spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. (12)
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. (13)
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. (14)
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
John 15:16-17 NKJV You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you
that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever
you ask the Father in My name He may give you. (17) These things I command
you, that you love one another.
1 Corinthians 13:3-8 NKJV (3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
(4) Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is

not puffed up; (5) does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,
thinks no evil; (6) does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; (7) bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (8) Love never
fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues,
they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
1 Corinthians 13:11-13 NKJV (11) When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away
childish things. (12) For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I
know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (13) And now abide
faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Colossians 3:12-15 NKJV (12) Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put
on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; (13) bearing with
one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another;
even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. (14) But above all these things put
on love, which is the bond of perfection. (15) And let the peace of God rule in your
hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
1 John 4:6-13 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God
does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (7)
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born
of God and knows God. (8) He who does not love does not know God, for God is
love. (9) In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His
only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. (10) In this is
love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins. (11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another. (12) No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides
in us, and His love has been perfected in us. (13) By this we know that we abide in
Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 John 4:14-21 NKJV And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son
as Savior of the world. (15) Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God
abides in him, and he in God. (16) And we have known and believed the love that
God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in
him. (17) Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in
the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (18) There is no fear
in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who
fears has not been made perfect in love. (19) We love Him because He first loved
us. (20) If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who
does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not
seen? (21) And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must

love his brother also.
Fountain of Love ! Thyself true God !
Who through eternal days
From Father and from Son hast flow'd
In uncreated ways!
O Majesty unspeakable!
Person all Divine !
How in the Threefold Majesty
Doth Thy Procession shine!
Proceeding, yet of equal age
With Those Whose love Thou art
Proceeding, yet distinct, from Those
From Whom Thou seem'st to part.
An undivided Nature shared
With Father and with Son;
A Person by Thyself; with Them
Thy simple essence One.
Bond art Thou of the other Twain!
Omnipotent and free!
The consummating Love of God!

The Limit of the Three !
Thou art a Sea without a shore;
Awful, immense Thou art,
A Sea which can contract itself
Within my narrow heart.
And yet Thou art a Haven, too,
Out on the shoreless sea,
A Harbour that can hold full well
Shipwreck' d Humanity.
Thou art an unborn Breath outbreathed
On angels and on men,
Subduing all things to Thyself,
We know not how or when.
O Light ! O Love ! O very God !
I dare not longer gaze
Upon Thy wondrous attributes
And their mysterious ways.
F. W. FABER.
John Owen

The third general work of the Holy Spirit is to “…pour the love of God into our
hearts” (Rom 5:5)
That it is the love of God to us and not our love to God which is here meant is clear
from the context. The love of God is either the love of his purpose to do us good or
the love of acceptance and approval by him. Both these are called the love of God in
Scripture. Now, how can these be poured into our hearts? This can be done only by
giving us a spiritual understanding of them. God pours the Holy Spirit abundantly
on us and he pours out the love of God into our hearts. That is, the Holy Spirit so
persuades us that God loves us that our souls are filled with joy and comfort. This is
his work and he does it effectively. To persuade a poor, sinful soul that God in Jesus
Christ loves him, delights in him, is well pleased with him and only has thoughts of
kindness towards him is an inexpressible mercy. This is the special work of the Holy
Spirit and by this special work we have communion with the Father in his love,
which is poured into our hearts. So not only do we rejoice in and glorify the Holy
Spirit who does this work, but in the Father also, whose love it is. It is the same in
respect of the Son, in taking the things of Christ and showing them to us. What we
have of heaven in this world lies in this work of the Holy Spirit.
Horatius Bonar
The Gospel of the Holy Spirit's Love
Does the Holy Spirit love us?
There can be but one answer to this question. Yes! He does.
As truly as the Father loves us, as truly as the Son loves us, so truly does the
Spirit love us. The grace or free love which a sinner needs, and which has been
revealed and sealed to us through the Seed of the woman, the "Word made flesh,"
belongs equally to Father, Son, and Spirit. That love which we believe to be in God
must be the same in each Person of the Godhead, else the Godhead would be
divided; one Person at variance with the others, or, at least, less loving than the
others: which is impossible.
Twice over it is written, God is love (1 John 4:8,16); and this applies to each Person
of the Godhead. The Father is love; the Son is love; the Spirit is love. The Trinity is
a Trinity of Love.
When it is said, "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24), the words refer to each Person. If we
lose sight of the love of one, we shall lose sight of the love of all. That which is the
glory of Jehovah, is the glory of each of the three Persons. Let us beware of
misrepresenting the Trinity by believing in unequal love, a love that is not equally
large and free in each.
When it is said, "God is light" (1 John 1:5), we know that these words are true of

the
whole three Persons; not merely of the Father or of the Son. The Father is light; the
Son is light; the Spirit is light. As of light, so of love; and he who would doubt that
the Spirit is love, must needs also doubt that the Spirit is light. That which is written
of God, is written of the Spirit of God. That "name" which God has proclaimed as
His, belongs to the Spirit as certainly as to the Father and the Son,- "The Lord God,
merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping
mercy for thousands" (Exo 34:6). Shall we rob the Holy Spirit of that blessed name?
His personality claims it; and the gracious characteristics which go to make up the
name, are as much those of the Spirit as those of the Father and the Son. The
personality of the Spirit requires that what is thus written of one should be
applicable to all. We are wont to say of the three Persons, "They are one God, the
same in substance, equal in power and glory." If so, then the love which we affirm
of the whole we must affirm of each. They must be equal in love, as well as in
"power and glory."
Horatius Bonar
The ways of the Spirit are the ways of love. His manifold dealings with the sons
of men, in "opening hearts" (Acts 16:14), teaching, sanctifying, chastening, are the
dealings of love,-love which many waters cannot quench, and which the floods
cannot drown. The faintest touch of His hand is the touch of love. The gentlest
whisper of His voice is the whisper of love. All His dealings from day to day,
whether of cheer or of chastisement, whether of warning or of welcome, are those
of love. In a thousand ways He beckons us to come to the Cross; He draws us,
unconsciously and imperceptibly, but irresistibly, away from sin and self to God and
heaven. He has not, indeed, human tears to shed, like the son of God when he wept
over Jerusalem; but not the less are His yearnings true and tender, and all His ways
toward us are ways of unutterable compassion (see Gen 6:3; Psalm 51:11,12; Isa
55:8). He is "very pitiful, and of tender mercy."
The works of the Spirit are the works of love. When He "garnished the
heavens" (Job 26:13), it was the work of love. When he moved upon the face of the
deep (Gen 1:2), it was in love. When He came upon holy men of old, it was in love.
When He wrote the Scriptures, it was in love,-love to us. When He anointed Jesus of
Nazareth to preach the gospel to the poor, it was in love to us. When He fulfills His
office of "guiding into all truth," it is in love. When He opens eyes and hearts, it is in
love. When He chastens, it is in love. When He comforts, it is in love. When He
sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts, it is in love. When He, as one with the
Father and the Son, wrote the seven epistles of the Revelation, it was in love,-as
the close of each of them shows: "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says unto the churches" (Rev 2:7). His works in the soul of man, in regenerating,
upholding, and perfecting, are the works of love,-love like that of Christ, "that
passes knowledge": love to the chief of sinners; love to those who have vexed and

resisted and quenched Him; love which says, "How shall I give you up, Ephraim?
how shall I deliver you, Israel?" (Hosea 11:8).
The words of the Spirit are the words of love. That which we call "the word of
God" is specially the Spirit's word: and it overflows with love; love which, while it
condemns the sin, presents pardon to the sinner; love which, while it spreads out
before us "the exceeding sinfulness of sin," proclaims aloud, to the guiltiest of the
guilty, free forgiveness and "deliverance from the wrath to come." The gospel of
Christ contains in it the good news of the Spirit's love. "He shall baptize you with
the
Holy Spirit" (Matt 3:11) are the words in which is described the fitting out of men
for preaching the good news; and in this baptism we have the manifestation of the
Spirit's love. He baptizes because He loves. He sends out men to tell of His love;
and the baptism with which He baptizes them is to fit them for this message of love.
By this baptism the words of love are put into their lips; and these words are truly
those of the Spirit Himself, from whatever lips they may come, by whatever pen
they may be written down. They are the words of sincerity and truth. He means
what He says when He sends out His servants with the language of love upon their
tongues.
Hear some of His words of grace,-grace as boundless and as suitable as
that of the Father and the Son; grace which has lost none of its largeness
or freeness by the lapse of ages or the desperate resistance of human
hearts: "Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; who
redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving-kindness and
tender mercies" (Psalm 103:3,4); "O Lord, I will praise you: though You were angry
with me, Your anger is turned away" (Isa 12:1); "Seek you the Lord while He may
be found" (Isa 55:6); "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isa 1:18); "As I live,
says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked" (Eze 33:11); "I
drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love" (Hosea 11:4); "Who is a God
like unto You, that pardons iniquity" (Micah 7:18); "The Lord is good; a
stronghold in the day of trouble" (Nahum 1:7); "How great is His goodness" (Zech
9:17). These are the Spirit's own words; and He writes them as the witness for God,
the revealer of the divine character, the Unfolder of the love of Father, Son, and
Spirit. They are the words of the Spirit, spoken before the Son of God came into the
world to reveal and to embody in Himself the love of God to man. The New
Testament is yet more abundant in its utterances of love: and in every one of them
the Spirit has His part: until all is summed up in the wondrous words which time
cannot weaken, and which long use cannot make stale: "The Spirit and the bride
say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely" (Rev 22:17).
LOVE BY WITNESS LEE
Another attribute of the Spirit is love. Romans 15:30 speaks of the love of the Spirit;

Galatians 5:22 indicates that love is the fruit of the Spirit; and Colossians 1:8
mentions the believers’ love in the Spirit. The love which is an attribute, or
excellency, of the Spirit is the nature of God’s essence. This love is the essence of
God’s being, the very substance of the divine life.
Love is necessary for human life. In order to live as human beings, we must have
love. Without love the situation in society and in our families would be pitiful. Love
is needed even the more for the Christian life and the church life. Apart from the
divine love, we cannot live together as members of Christ. Therefore, the Lord Jesus
charged us to love one another (John 13:34-35). If we do not love one another with
the divine love, we cannot have the church life. But through the love that is an
attribute of the Spirit we can love others. Through the enjoyment of this love we are
able to love anyone, even those who hate us and persecute us. The divine love, the
love of the Spirit, cannot be exhausted by any kind of situation.
It is necessary for us to differentiate our natural, human love from the love that is
the fruit of the Spirit. Before we received the divine life and were saved, we had
some capacity to love. But our natural virtue of love does not contain anything of
God, whereas the love that is the fruit of the Spirit is filled with a spiritual substance
which is divine. We should remember that genuine love is the fruit of the Spirit. The
substance, the element, of this love is the Spirit. Therefore, the difference between
our natural human love and the love that is the fruit of the Spirit is that our natural
love does not contain anything of the Spirit, whereas the love of the Spirit is full of
the substance and element of the Spirit. What we need in the church life is a love full
of the substance of the Spirit.
Only one kind of love is genuine, and that is the love that is the issue of the
dispensing of the Triune God. Because the Spirit has the attribute of love, the more
we are under His dispensing, the more genuine love we have. Actually, the more the
Spirit is dispensed into us, the more we become love in the sense of being constituted
of the divine love. Then we shall have the love that is the expression of the Spirit,
and we shall respond to others with this love.
LOVE OF THE SPIRIT
ROM 5:5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured
out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Amplified: Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has
been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.
(Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: and hope does not prove an illusion, because the love of God has been
poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given unto us.

(Westminster Press)
NLT: And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God
loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. (NLT
- Tyndale House)
Send us, Lord, the Comforter,
Pledge and Witness of Thy Love,
Dwelling with Thy people here,
Leading them to joys above.
Till we reach the promised rest.
Till Thy face unveiled we see,
Of this blessed hope possest,
Teach us, Lord, to live to Thee.
His Love within us shed abroad,
Life’s ever-springing well ;
Till God in us, and we in God,
In love eternal dwell*
Thou who didst our fathers guide,
With their children still abide ;
Grant us pardon, grant us peace,
Till our earthly wanderings cease.
To the Father praises sing,
Praise to Christ our risen King,

Praise to Thee, the Lord of Love,
Blessed Spirit, Holy Dove.
Thou Comforter from age to age
Of all the weary, all who weep ;
Whose peace within us true and deep
Is earnest of our heritage :
Hearken, my spirit cries to Thee,
Spirit of Love, O love Thou me !
THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT I SING.
Romans xv. 30.
John Ryland, D.D., 1753-1825: a distinguished Baptist minister, and author
of 99 hymns. This was written in 1796.
THE Love of the Spirit I sing,
By whom is redemption applied ;
Who sinners to Jesus can bring,
And make them His mystical bride.
Tis He circumcises their hearts,
Their callousness kindly removes,

Light, life, and affection imparts
To those that so freely He loves.
He opens the eyes of the blind,
The beauties of Jesus to view ;
He changes the bent of the mind,
The glory of God to pursue.
The stubbornest will He can bow,
The foes that dwell in us restrain ;
And none can be trodden so low,
But He can revive them again.
His blest renovation begun,
He dwells in the hearts of His saints ;
Abandons His temple to none,
Nor e’er of His calling repents.
COME, Holy Ghost, Creator, come,
Inspire the souls of Thine,
Till every heart which Thou hast made
Is filled with Grace divine.
Thou art the Comforter, the Gift
Of God, and Fire of Love ;

The everlasting Spring of joy,
And Unction from above.
BLEST Spirit, one with God above,
Thou Source of life and holy love,
O cheer us with Thy sacred beams,
Refresh us with Thy plenteous streams.
O may our lips confess Thy Name,
Our holy lives Thy power proclaim :
With love divine our hearts inspire,
And fill us with Thy holy fire.
O holy Father, holy Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
Thy grace devoutly we implore ;
Thy Name be praised for evermore.
HOLY Spirit, who art One
With God the Father, God the Son ;
For the dear sake of Him who died,
Let not my prayer be turned aside,
But answer it, O Holy Dove,
By breathing o’er my soul His Love.

HOLY Spirit, Lord of grace,
Eternal Source of Love,
Inflame, we pray, our inmost hearts
With fire from Heaven above.
As Thou dost join with holiest bonds
The Father and the Son,
So fill Thy saints with mutual love
And link their hearts in one.
To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Holy Ghost,
Eternal glory be from man,
And from the angel-host.
Nicholas Von Hope, 1539.
O Holy Ghost, Thou Fire of Love !
Enkindle with Thy flame my will ;
Come with Thy strength, Lord, from above,
Help me Thy bidding to fulfil :

Forgive that I so oft have done
What I as sinful ought to shun :
Let me with pure and quenchless fire
Thy favor and Thyself desire.
CREATOR Spirit, Holy Dove,
Visit Thy people from above ;
Fill them with graces, and restore
Thy creatures as they were before.
For Comforter is Thy sweet name,
A Gift which from the Highest came ;
A ghostly Ointment from above,
A living Fount, a Fire of Love.
Our minds enlighten, and inspire
Our souls with love’s celestial fire ;
And since Thou know’st how frail we be,
Confirm and make us strong in Thee.
Come, Thou Lord of love and power,
On my heart Thy graces shower ;

Work in me a new creation,
Make my heart Thy habitation.
All love is Thine, O Spirit !
Thou hatest enmity ;
Thou lovest peace and friendship,
All strife wouldst have us flee.
FERVENCY OF DEVOTION DESIRED.
COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers ;
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.
Look, how we grovel here below,
Fond of these trifling toys :
Our souls can neither fly nor go
To reach eternal joys.
In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise ;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,

And our devotion dies.
Dear Lord ! and shall we ever lie
At this poor dying rate ?
Our love so faint, so cold to Thee,
And Thine to us so great?
Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers,
Come, shed abroad a Saviour’s Love,
And that shall kindle ours.
SPIRIT of Truth, descend,
And with Thy Church abide,
Our Guardian to the end,
Our sure unerring Guide :
Us into the whole counsel lead
Of God revealed below,
And teach us all the truth we need
To Life Eternal know.
Whate’er Thou hear’st above
To us with power impart,

And shed abroad the love
Of Jesus in our heart :
KINDLER of seraphic fire
Glowing in Thy hosts above,
Giver of the pure desire,
Spirit of celestial Love,
Heavenly love to us impart,
Comfort every drooping heart.
If Thou hast a token given,
If our want of love we feel,
Bless us with that taste of heaven,
Pardon on our conscience seal ;
GREAT Spirit of Immortal Love,
Vouchsafe our frozen hearts to move ;
With ardor strong these breasts inflame
To all that own a Saviour’s name.
Still let the heavenly fire endure

Fervent and vigorous, true and pure ;
Let every heart and every hand
Join in the dear fraternal band.
Celestial Dove, descend and bring
The smiling blessings on Thy wing ;
And make us taste those sweets below
Which in the blissful mansions grow.
Come, Sacred Spirit, from above,
And fill the coldest heart with love :
Soften to flesh the rugged stone,
And let Thy godlike power be known.
Come from the blissful realms above ;
Our longing breasts inspire
With Thy soft flames of heavenly Love,
And fan the sacred fire.
COME, Holy Spirit, now descend,
And shower from above
Upon my dry and withered soul
Thy everlasting Love.

GRACIOUS Spirit, Dove divine!
Let Thy light within me shine :
All my guilty fears remove,
Fill me full of heaven and love.
Come, Thou sweetest, purest Dove !
Blow up all the fire of love :
Love victorious may we feel,
Love that conquers party zeal :
Love that frees from vile restraint,
Kindly smiles on every saint,
ETERNAL Spirit, let me know
The Love of Christ to me ;
Its conquering, quickening power bestow,
To set my spirit free.
I long to know its depth and height,
To scan its breadth and length,
Drink in its ocean of delight,

And triumph in its strength.
It is Thine office to reveal
The Saviour’s wondrous Love ;
O set upon my heart Thy seal,
And bless me from above.
Ah, sweet Consoler ! though we cannot
Love Thee as Thou lovest us,
Yet if Thou deign’st our hearts to kindle,
They will not be always thus.
With hearts so vile how dare we venture,
Holy Ghost, to love Thee so?
And how canst Thou with such compassion
Bear so long with things so low?
GRACIOUS Spirit, Holy Ghost,
Taught by Thee, we covet most
Of Thy gifts at Pentecost
Holy, heavenly Love.
Faith, that mountains could remove,

Tongues of earth or Heaven above,
Knowledge — all things — empty prove
Without heavenly Love.
Though I as a martyr bleed,
Give my goods the poor to feed,
All is vain, if Love I need ;
Therefore, give me Love.
Love is kind and suffers long,
Love is meek, and thinks no wrong.
Love than death itself more strong ;
Therefore, give us Love.
Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day ;
Love will ever with us stay ;
Faith will vanish into sight ;
Hope be emptied in delight ;
Love in Heaven will shine more bright ;

Faith and Hope and Love we see
Joining hand in hand agree ;
But the greatest of the three,
And the best, is Love.
From the overshadowing
Of Thy gold and silver wing
Shed on us, who to Thee sing,
Holy, heavenly Love.
1 Come, Holy Spirit, come;
Let Thy bright beams arise,
Dispel the darkness from our minds,
And open all our eyes.
2 Revive our drooping faith,
Our doubts and fears remove,
And kindle in our breasts the flame
Of never-dying love.
3 Convince us of our sin,
Then lead to Jesus’ blood,
And to our wondering view reveal
The secret love of God.
4 ‘Tis Thine to cleanse the heart,
To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life in every part<
And new-create the whole.
5 Dwell therefore in our hearts,
Our minds from bondage free;
Then we shall know, and praise, and love
The Father, Son and Thee!
And here is another powerful Holy Spirit Hymn:-
1 Holy Spirit, lead us now

Boldly to the throne of grace;
While our heads in prayer we bow,
Let Thy presence fill this place:
Holy Spirit, Heavenly Guide,
Lead us to the crucified!
2 This is now our time of need,
This is now the day of grace;
Now our souls with manna feed
Ere we leave this sacred place:
Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove,
Lead us to the feast of love!
3 At the blessed mercy-seat
Peace and joy are freely given;
While we wait at Jesus’ feet,
Make this place the gate of heaven:
Holy Spirit, Heavenly Friend
Now upon our hearts descend!
4 Weak and sinful though we be,
Jesus’ blood can cleanse from sin;
At the fountain full and free
Wash and make us pure within;
Holy Spirit, Cleansing fire,
Burn up every base desire!
Geoffrey
M.
MIND
JACK HYLES
Romans 8:5-7, "For they that re after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;
but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally
minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. But the carnal
mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be."

Philippians 2:5, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
It is amazing and sad the way many people seek the leadership of God. An
entire future is often based on something like opening the Bible and pointing to
a verse. One man moved to the East because he pointed one day to the
Scripture concerning the wise men which says, "We have seen His star in the
east." Another went south because he saw the Scripture in Daniel, "The king of
the south." Then there is the old story about the young man who went off to
college to study to preach. He was asked why he was going to preach and he
said, "God called me." "What evidence do you have of that call?" he was asked.
"Well, I was out plowing," he said, "and I saw letters written ten across the sky-
GPC. I thought that must mean "Go preach Christ." Someone who heard him
preach a while later thought it meant "Go plow corn."
It is often difficult to find the will of God for one's life and to be sure that one
is following the leadership of the Holy Spirit. One of the great secrets to being
sensitive and knowledgeable concerning the will of God is to be spiritually
minded. It is true that sometimes God gives wonderful revelations of His will.
Such as the case when I became Pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Hammond, Indiana, and such was the case when I became Pastor of the Grange
Hall Baptist Church of Marshall, Texas. However, I was just assure that God had
led me to the Marris Chapel Baptist Church near Bogata, Texas; to the
Southside Baptist Church of Henderson, Texas; and the Miller Road Baptist of
Garland, Texas. However, the will of God was revealed to me in more quiet and
subtle way when I accepted these three pastorates. More often than not, God
uses our minds and leads then to make the right decisions. For example, I
receive many times more speaking engagements than I can accept. I lay the
engagements before me and ask the Holy Spirit to control my mind as I decide
which ones to accept.
Sometimes God reveals in a spectacular way which sermon I am to preach, but
most of the time I ask him to control my mind as I seek the sermon He would
have brought for a specific occasion.
If a decision must be made with which there is a deadline, I tell the Lord that if
He will reveal to me in a special way what He wants me to do, I will do it.
However, if when the deadline comes He has not made such a revelation, I then
ask him to control my mind as I make the decision, and I believe that He does.
Hence, I believe the decision is of Him.
Sometimes, the Spirit leads His people in an obvious way as in Acts 8: 29, "Then
the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to his chariot." Most of the
time, however, it is more like Acts 15:28, "For it seemed good to the Holy
Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary
things." Notice especially the words, "It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to
us."
A spiritually-minded person asking God to control his mind will come nearer
finding the will of God and doing it than one who asks for a so-called "fleece."
Entire lives have been changed by someone saying, "God, if You want me to do

so-and-so, let there be three people from the east side of the auditorium saved
tonight." This is dangerous and not nearly as spiritual as the decision made by
one whose mind is that mind of Christ and who walks in the Spirit asking God to
reveal to him His will, and who, if there is no definite revelation, gives his
mind to the Holy Spirit in surrender, believing that the Holy Spirit will control
his mind and he makes his decision.
`Tis blessed to read Revelation 1:10, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and
heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet." Notice the words, "I was in
the Spirit." This is the way to be in the will go God, letting the Holy Spirit
control the mind, always willing to follow a definite revelation, and yet always
believing that the Holy Spirit will so control the mind that the decision will be
His decision.
I counsel well over 150 people a week. Before a series of counseling sessions, I
always kneel and say, "Holy Spirit, control my mind as I give advice to these Thy
children today."
The staff members of the First Baptist Church of Hammond have often heard
me pray, "Holy Spirit, control our minds and our thinking, and give us wisdom as
we make the decisions that we face."
There are several things that should be done before making a decision in the
Spirit.
1. One must lose his own will. I remember years ago when I was considering
coming to Hammond, I called my dear old pastor, J.C. Sisemore, and asked his
counsel. He said, "Son, the first thing you must do is lose your own will. You
cannot make an intelligent, spiritual decision as long ass you have a desire in
the matter."
2. One should read the Bible excessively while seeking the will of God. Psalms
119:105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
3. One should spend much time alone pleading with God to reveal to him His
will.
4. When the believer is saturated by the Word and walking with God and has
lost his own will and no definite revelation of God's will has come, he should
then, at the deadline, believe that God is leading him, surrendering his mind to
the Holy Spirit, asking the Holy Spirit to make his decision for him and control
his mind.
5. Then, in faith, he should make the decision; and once it is made, never
doubt!
When a young man who plans to enter the ministry graduates from Hyles-
Anderson College, he immediately begins to pray about where he should go. I
advise him to ask God to lead him definitely to a place. Then I suggest that he
set a reasonable deadline (perhaps 4-6 months) during which time he is to pray,
live in the Word, and ask God to reveal His definite will. I often suggest to such
a man that once the deadline has come, he should claim the mind of the Spirit,

choose a place in faith and start a church. (There are more things involved
than this, and this explanation is an oversimplified one.)
Note Psalms 37:4, "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the
desires of thine heart." Compare that with John 15:7, "If ye abide in Me, and My
words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
God is saying that there is a way He can trust us and give us what we want. It is
possible for the child of God to walk in the Spirit, delighting himself in the
Lord, abiding in His Word and in the Person of Christ so that he will become so
in tune with God's wants that God can trust him to ask what he wants. God, in
such cases, almost gives power of attorney or a blank check, for He comes to
believe that some of His children are spiritually minded enough so that He can
usually trust their decisions.
I often pray this prayer, "Holy Spirit, control my mind when I an choosing a
route to work in the morning, or choosing an object to purchase, or choosing a
seat on an airplane."
Oh, to be spiritually minded and to so walk in the Spirit until my wishes will be
His wishes, my desires His desires, that my mind will be conformed to His!
MIRACLES
DANIEL STEELE
MIRACLES OF THE HOLY GHOST.
THE question is often asked, What are “ the greater
works ” which believers in Christ shall do ? This
marvellous promise is found in His consolatory
address a few days before His death. The chief topic
of encouragement, comfort and hope is the Paraclete
whom the risen Lord will bestow. His works will be
more wonderful than the physical miracles of Jesus
Christ. This is declared in John xiv. 12-17. I quote
Dr. Campbell’s version, which is remarkable chiefly

for its punctuation. It must be borne in mind that
there is no punctuation in the original. “ Verily, verily,
I say unto you”—a formula “in which the Son of
God speaks out of His coequality with the Father ”
(Stier)—“ He who believeth on me, shall himself do
such works as I do; nay, even greater than these shall
he do; because I go to my Father, and will do whatso¬
ever ye shall ask in my name. That the Father may
be glorified in the Son, whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name, I will do.” It is worthy of note that this doing
greater works, this survival of the supernatural from age
to age, is not the exclusive prerogative of the apostles,
but it belongs, to every one, however humble, who be¬
lieves on Christ. Again, our greater works are done
by the glorified Jesus on the throne above in response
IOO
THE GOSPEL OF THE COMFORTER.
to our faith. In the same breath He declares that He
will do the greater works which we shall do. This

paradox He explains in His next utterance: “ If ye
love me, keep my commandments; and I will entreat
the Father, and he will give you another Monitor to
continue with you forever, even the Spirit of truth.”
This “ Helper, Advocate ; Greek, Paraclete ” (Revised
Version, margin) will be the divine agent sent down
from heaven to do these greater miracles through be¬
lievers in Christ. This brings us to “ the miracles of
the Holy Ghost ” which in the Old Testament are
physical, as when Ezekiel says, “ The Spirit lifted me
up and took me away.” .The same manifestation of
supernatural physical power by the Holy Ghost was
experienced by Philip : V The Spirit of the Lord caught
away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more.” But
the promise under discussion does not relate to mira¬
cles in the realm of matter, but rather to those in the
province of mind, in the re-creation of the human soul,
called figuratively birth from above, or the new birth,
the resurrection of a dead soul, the new creation. This
spiritual miracle is greater than any physical miracle
wrought by Christ before He burst asunder the gates
of death by His inherent power to take again the life
which He had laid down, for the following reasons:
i. Physical miracles were temporal in their effects.

Those raised from sickness died of disease in a few
years. The multitudes fed by miracle hungered again
in a few hours. The eyes into which Jesus by a word
let in the light were soon darkened again by the shad¬
ows of the tomb. The tongue of the dumb loosened
by the Son of man was soon silenced by the touch of
death. But miracles wrought in the transfiguration of
the soul are enduring unto eternal life. “ He that be-
lieveth on the Son hath eternal life ” within the grasp of
his free agency. Jesus healed the body for time, the
Spirit heals the soul for eternity. “ A healed leper
may appear to be a greater miracle than a renewed
soul, but in reality, in comparison, he is hardly a miracle
at all! ” (Joseph Parker.)
2. The results of spiritual miracles are far more
valuable. Mind is far superior to matter. Hence “ to
minister to a mind diseased and pluck from the mem¬
ory a rooted sorrow ” is an achievement in a higher
realm and of immensely greater value. For this reason
Christ Himself did not place a primary emphasis on
physical wonders as His credentials, and they are
scarcely so much as referred to in the apostolic writ¬
ings. Peter, who had seen them all, mentions them
only once, and then only to Christ’s murderers in

Jerusalem, who were incapable of appreciating any
higher proof of His Messiahship : “ Jesus of Nazareth,
a man approved of God among you by miracles and
wonders and signs.” St. Paul magnifies those spiritual
marvels which God wrought by the Holy Spirit in the
regeneration and sanctification of souls. In his estima¬
tion “ the shining in our hearts to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ ” was a greater act than the Fiat lux which
illumined the first day of creation (II Cor. iv. 6).
3. To transform a spirit from death to life, from sin
to holiness, requires a higher power than any change
wrought in matter. Spirit is a self-determining person¬
ality which may successfully withstand omnipotence, or
rather, physical omnipotence is inapplicable to the pro¬
duction of spiritual effects. Sin cannot be crushed out
of a soul with an almighty trip hammer. God can
transform inert matter as He may will, but He is power¬
less to regenerate a stubborn human will; but in the
presence of a consenting will He displays to the aston¬
ished universe “ the exceeding greatness of his power
to usward who believe.” Hence the age of the most
notable miracles is now in the very zenith of its glory.
They are visible in every land where the gospel is

preached in faith. Boston has just witnessed the
transformation of a burglar and drunkard into a mis¬
sionary on the Congo. Recovered from the slums and
converted in the Kneeland Street Rescue Mission, he
immediately wrote to the governor of Maryland, the
scene of his crimes, offering at his request to appear
in court, testify against himself, and be sentenced to
the penitentiary. In the absence of such a request he
volunteered to go to a deadly clime to preach Christ
mighty to save. “ When the proud Brahman has re¬
ceived the truth as it is in Jesus, and extended the right
hand of Christian fellowship to the meanest member of
the lowest caste whom he has met at the Lord’s Sup¬
per, a greater miracle has been wrought than in the
healing of the lame or the raising of the dead.” To
put God’s law “ in the inward parts ” of a tribe of
thieves in India, as the Holy Spirit has done through
Bishop J. M. Thoburn, transforming them into sons of
God, “ is more than to fill the firmament with stars.”
“ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, ...
and it shall be unto Jehovah for an everlasting miracle
that shall not be cut off.” Spiritual miracles, in the
regeneration of depraved and wicked men, are the
standing proof of the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Re¬
generation, crowned with the entire sanctification of a

soul once dead in sin, loving what God hates and hat¬
ing what God loves, is the supreme miracle of the Holy
Ghost vividly portrayed by Paul: “ Fornicators, idol¬
aters, adulterers, effeminate [catamites], nor abusers
of themselves with mankind [sodomites], nor thieves
[robbers, Conybeare and Howson], nor covetous [wan¬
tons, Conybeare and Howson], nor drunkards, nor re-
vilers, shall inherit the kingdom of God ” (I Cor. vi. 9,
10). What a rogues’ gallery is this ! as vile a gang of
criminals as ever broke jail. What can the Holy Spirit
do with these but to abandon them forever? But, hold !
let us read further: “And such were some of you;
but ye washed yourselves [Revised Version, margin],
but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by THE Spirit of
our God.” The^ Paraclete has transformed them all
into a company of saints bearing the image of Christ
and candidates for promotion to thrones beside the
archangels. Bad men have been transformed into good
men standing in the same shoes.
MYSTERY
spurgeon " Notice, also, that the Spirit of God is as mysterious in His coming into human hearts
as He was in His working in the old creation. I said before that we cannot explain how the Spirit

of God brooded over the face of the waters. Some try to fetch a meaning out of the Hebrew
word, but I believe it helps them very little. It is one of the deep mysteries of Scripture. Ever
must the contact of the Spirit with materialism remain a marvel—and can we ever tell how the
Spirit of God comes and deals with sinful men? We know that our Savior, Himself, said to
Nicodemus, “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell
from where it came and where it goes: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.” But mysterious
as it is, it is real—as those who have experienced it know—and as those may see who will watch
the effects which the Spirit produces upon the hearts of men.
Harry Ironside wrote, "The Holy Spirit is God's gift. Our
blessed Lord is no longer here on earth, but the Holy
Spirit is. Who is there who understands the Spirit of God?
I myself, one of the weakest and poorest of all God's servants,
have preached hundreds of sermons on the Holy Spirit, but
I have never been able to explain Him. I have never been
able to exhaust the truth in regard to Him. The Holy Spirit
of God is the unspeakable gift."
N.
NAMES OF THE SPIRIT
What names and titles does the Bible use for the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is mentioned by many names in the Bible, usually in reference to a
particular role or function. The following is a listing of the biblical names of the Holy
Spirit and where they are found in the Bible (from Torrey's New Topical Textbook):
1. Spirit of glory (1 Peter 4:14)
2. Lord, The (1 Thessalonians 3:5)
3. God (Acts 5:3-4)
4. Spirit of revelation (Ephesians 1:17)
5. Spirit of the Son (Galatians 4:6)
6. Spirit of God (Genesis 1:2; 1 Corinthians 2:11; Job 33:4)
7. Eternal Spirit (Hebrews 9:14)

8. Spirit of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2; Acts 5:9)
9. Spirit of wisdom (Isaiah 11:2; Ephesians 1:17)
10. Spirit of counsel (Isaiah 11:2)
11. Spirit of might (Isaiah 11:2)
12. Spirit of understanding (Isaiah 11:2)
13. Spirit of knowledge (Isaiah 11:2)
14. Spirit of the fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2)
15. Spirit of judgment (Isaiah 4:4; 28:6)
16. Spirit of burning (Isaiah 4:4)
17. Spirit of the Lord God (Isaiah 61:1)
18. Breath of the Almighty (Job 33:4)
19. Comforter (John 14:16, 26; 15:26)
20. Spirit of truth (John 14:17; 15:26)
21. Power of the Highest (Luke 1:35)
22. Spirit of the Father (Matthew 10:20)
23. Spirit, The (Matthew 4:1; John 3:6; 1 Timothy 4:1)
24. Good Spirit (Nehemiah 9:20; Psalms 143:10)
25. Holy Spirit (Psalm 51:11; Luke 11:13; Ephesians 1:13; 4:30)
26. Free Spirit (Psalm 51:12)
27. Spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10)
28. Seven Spirits of God (Revelation 1:4)
29. Spirit of holiness (Romans 1:4)
30. Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15)
31. Spirit of life (Romans 8:2; Revelation 11:11)
32. Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9; 1 Peter 1:11)
33. Spirit of grace (Zechariah 12:10; Hebrews 10:29)
In addition to these names, many references are made to the Holy Spirit, with some
scholars counting as many as 126 different labels.
One special name used by Jesus in reference to the Holy Spirit is "Helper." Four times in
John's Gospel, Jesus calls the Spirit our "Helper" (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7). In Isaiah
11:2, the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Counsel. In this role, the Holy Spirit gives His
wisdom to us when we seek God's will for our lives.
As we study the names of the Holy Spirit, we can better know the One who indwells
believers and empowers them to live out the teachings of God's Word.

O.
OIL
PERCY GUTTERIDGE
I want to share about the Holy Spirit, but not in a technical, theological, ecclesiastical
way. I’d very much rather take it in the way the Bible teaches, looking back to see how
the Lord has spoken to us in the Scriptures. You see, God has made a very simple way of
teaching us in the Bible. He has given us various types. And God’s great scheme and idea
is that we should learn the greatness of our God; that we should learn the purposes of our
God; that we should learn the ways of our God; and especially that we should learn the
offices of the Persons of the Trinity. For the Persons of the Trinity share their sovereign
work; and in Their sovereign will They each have a portion, each Their own works.
For example, the Father is the one who originates. He’s the Fount of Deity. The Father is
the one who decides. The Father is the one who wills. The Father is the one who has
decided what to do.
Now the one who knows the Father’s mind, the one who is in the bosom of the Father, is
the Logos, the Son of God. What the Father has decided to do, the Son knows. That’s the
mind of the Father. He knows the mind of God. And then He expresses the mind of God.
He expresses the mind of God in words, which initiate action. So, God has a mind to do
something. The Son knows it, so He expresses it. For example, the Father had decided on
creation. So the Son expressed creation, in the words, “Let there be,” and there was. “
‘Let there be light:’ and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). “‘Let the dry land appear;’ and it
was so” (Genesis 1:9). But you see, He is only expressing the Father’s mind. He is the
Logos, and in Greek, logos means an expressed thought. It means a thought expressed in
words. In other words, if I can put it more clearly, the thought of the mind is there first;
then that thought is made vocal in words. That is why the Son is called “the Word of
God.”
Who decides, then, what to do with God’s great prescience? The Son does—He who is in
the bosom of the Father, who knows the Father’s mind and expresses it. Then, who
performs it? The Holy Spirit. He’s the great performer. He’s the great worker. He does it.
That is why in scripture you will find the Holy Spirit is referred to as the “Spirit of
Creation.” That is why you’ll find in the Psalms that the Holy Spirit has performed it
(Psalm 104:30). That is why in the creed3 we quite correctly say, “I believe in the Holy

Ghost, the Lord and giver of life.” And yet, the Son is the life. “I am the Way, and the
Truth, and the Life.” But the Father is original life; the Son is the expression of that life;
and the Holy Spirit is the performer of that life.
Now, as we’ve said, Jesus Christ is the life. So, how can you have the life too? “I am
come that ye might have life,” Jesus said (John 10:10). How can you have it? Only by
receiving the Holy Spirit. Life is a gift. But the gift is not an imaginary life. The gift is
not something that is not real. The gift is life. But the Holy Spirit is life. So when the
Lord Jesus gives you life, He gives you eternal life, a life you never had before,
completely, in reality—not in the imagination. It is a life you could not have unless the
Lord Jesus gave it to you. And what He gives you is the Lord and Giver of Life: the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes within to stay. That is why you enter into a new birth. You
are born of God. You have entered a new life. “I am come that ye might have life and
might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). The Lord Jesus says, “I am the Way, and
the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6). And He is the only Way. And the only Truth. And the
only Life.
That just gives you a little idea of the sovereign work of the Most High—how the great
Trinity divides up the mighty work that is to be done through all the universes. And this
has been the Divine order through all eternity. The Father has ever expressed Himself
through the Son, the only-begotten Son. He is always the Son in the sense of expressing
the Father and being identical in nature with the Father. At the same time, the great work
of God has always been performed by the Holy Spirit. And it’s instantaneous. There is no
time lag, no interval. There is no time during which the Son finds out what the mind of
the Father is. There is no time lag when the Holy Spirit waits and performs the will of the
Father by reason of the word of the Son. It’s all instantaneous, and it’s been going on
forever and ever. There was never, ever a time when the Father did not operate through
the Son. There never, ever was a time when the Son did not perform by the Holy Spirit.
There has never been any but Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: eternally distinct Persons
inseparably joined in the Trinity—one God. Forever. He is not God “in the past and the
present and the future,” for with God there is no past and no future. He is the “I AM.” It
is only time which has past, and present, and future. God is not in time. He is in eternity
—the Eternal One.
Now it’s impossible for us to understand the mighty work of the Holy Spirit unless God
puts it for us in very simple language, in a very simple way. Some of you have dipped
into theology and found it awfully dry. I was a bit into theology; and if you have a
peculiar type of mind, a little like mine, you like theology. You understand it. You have an
interest in philosophical subjects. To use an old term, you have an interest in metaphysics.
But, God hasn’t left it for a few who are interested in dipping into things of the mind to
understand the work of the Holy Spirit. God has said that “wayfaring men, though fools,
shall not err” in the strait and narrow and holy way (Isaiah 35:8). So God has brought it

down so that the very simplest ones, we who are children—open hearted, open minded—
can understand. This is why He has given us various and wonderful types of the Holy
Spirit throughout the Scriptures. And these types are varied, because they manifest to us
the offices and worth of that most blessed person, the Holy Spirit.
This is what I want to leave with you: the various types of the Holy Spirit in Scripture.
You will find that these types give you a full body of divinity concerning the Holy Spirit.
They touch on all His most important offices and His works. But you don’t have to think
theologically. It’s not philosophical at all. It’s very much more interesting than that!
Replenishing Oil
So I want to start by considering the Holy Spirit as oil, because that’s one of the most
wonderful ways in which the Holy Ghost is manifested and brought before us in Scripture
—as oil. We have read in Matthew 25 the parable of the wise virgins, and we’ve seen that
it all centers around oil. Wise virgins had oil in their vessels, and oil in their lamps.
Unwise virgins had oil in their lamps, but none in their vessels. They all were waiting and
waiting for the coming of the bridegroom. They were going to join in the marriage feast.
Because the wise virgins had made provision so that they should have oil until their
beloved came, they were watching when he came, and they went into the feast. Now it is
not because the others had no oil that they did not go into the feast. It was because they
were not watching. But why were they not watching? It was because they had not made a
provision for more oil. In other words, it is possible to receive the Holy Spirit, to have oil
in the lamp, but not have oil in the vessel; which means you have not made provision to
have as much of the Holy Spirit as you can.
Some people only want the Holy Spirit so that they may speak in tongues. Well, I
suppose they will; and it’s a very gracious exercise, not to be despised, if God has given
you that blessed gift. No gift of the Holy Spirit is to be despised. The word is quite clear
on this: “Forbid not to speak in tongues” (1 Corinthians 14:39). But if that’s all you want,
you are an unwise virgin. I’ve heard extreme Pentecostals say that if you don’t speak in
tongues, you won’t be taken up when the Lord comes. Nonsense! “By their fruits ye shall
know them” (Matthew 7:20), not by their gifts. No, the wise virgins may or may not have
spoken in tongues. That’s not the point. The point is that the wise virgins wanted as much
of the work of the Holy Spirit to be performed in their lives as they could get. But not so
the unwise virgins. They wanted enough of the Holy Spirit to take them to heaven, to take
them as far as the grave, to last them just for this life, and give them salvation. And they
were not lost, not cast out into outer darkness; but they were shut out of the marriage
feast. They were all Christians, because all of the Lord Jesus’ children are pure virgins. I
don’t say they all had pure hearts. But I do say they were all pure in the sense of having
given themselves to the Lord.

Ah, but there were those who wanted as much oil as they could get! In other words, they
could be taken as examples of Paul’s exhortation: “Be being filled with the Holy Spirit”
(Ephesians 5:18). Let there be a constant succession of fillings. To have a constant
succession of fillings (now we are coming down to the practical) means that you must
have a reserve of oil to keep your lamp filled. That is what we are talking about.
What is the lamp? The lamp is you. What is the oil? It is the Holy Ghost in you. What is
the light? It is the light of the wick; and that is your testimony—not what you say, but
what you are. Oh, I wish people could realize that our testimony is not what we say, but
what we are. Then what we say matches up with what we are, so it’s all one. That’s a true
testimony. That’s a blessing—a blessing to many. The wise virgins have made provision
to keep on being filled with the Holy Ghost, and not content themselves with just one
filling in the past. If I could have approached one of those unwise virgins, I could have
said, “Do you believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost?” She’d have said, “Oh, yes. I
have had the baptism.” But if I’d have gone to one of the wise virgins and said, “Do you
believe in the Holy Ghost?” the wise virgin would have responded, “Oh, yes, I do. I am in
the baptism.”
What a difference! Too many people have had it. But they don’t have it now. The wise
virgins were in it. It’s not what you had in the past, it’s what you are now. Oh, that we
might realize the solemn words of God to “keep on being filled with the Holy Ghost,” to
keep on looking to the Lord to keep us filled, that our lamp might be filled with Him, the
Holy Spirit, who alone can keep our testimony alive, who alone can keep our lamp from a
smoky wick because the oil’s gone dry. Have you met Christians who once were baptized
in the Holy Spirit, but who have gone dry? Aren’t they a reproach? You know how
unpleasant it was—some of you older ones, you ancient believers like me—do you
remember when we had oil lamps? And do you remember what happened when you
forgot to fill up your lamp with oil, and the wick began to burn red and smoky while you
were in another room? When you came in, you found a whole room filled with a horrible
blue-black smoke, and it clung to everything. It was stifling. In our home, Mother would
put a cloth over her mouth and run and open all the windows, and ask Father why he
hadn’t filled the lamp up with oil.
And that’s how Christians are who do not have a reserve of oil—they once had it, but it’s
gone out. It would be better that they never had it, because people remember their
testimony, but also see how they are living now. Isn’t it a dishonor when people who once
were baptized in the Holy Ghost have gotten into sin, and now are manifesting just the
opposite of holiness? Doesn’t it make a stench come on the work of God?
So let’s look more closely at this oil, the olive oil. The unwise virgins took no oil with
them. How foolish they were! I want to tell you what the oil does. Then you’ll know
something of the work of the Holy Spirit. Later on we’ll go on to other types of the Holy

Spirit, like fire and dew and rain, and wind (the breath of God). But oil is the most
important one.
Now, olive trees produce berries. When they’re crushed, out comes that golden olive oil
about which God speaks so much in the Scripture. An olive tree is one of the hardiest of
trees. You can treat it shockingly. It can go through drought, and look completely dead.
But pour water on it, and it begins to grow again. “Through the scent of water” (Job 14:9)
it will flourish. Do you know, if you took an olive tree and cut off all its branches and
roots, so all that is left is the burl, you could plant it somewhere else and water it, and it
would start growing all over again! Amazing, isn’t it? But that’s an olive tree—so
tenacious of life. No wonder, after the universal deluge, the very first leaf that was seen
was an olive leaf. Because, if you just plant the odd branch of an olive tree, it will grow if
you water it. So there was a torn up branch that had been covered over in silt, and sand,
and gravel, and then washed down a little bit; and it starting growing, as it naturally
would. So the Holy Ghost, in the type of olive oil, represents life. After the flood, an olive
tree produced an olive leaf which the dove brought to Noah, which meant that God had
proclaimed peace on earth. We still use the olive leaf—even in secular circumstances—as
a sign of peace. That’s the wonderful olive tree that we’re talking about now, this most
blessed tree of life.
Now, what are the qualities, what are the properties, of the oil produced by the olive tree?
I’m not going to go into it chemically or technically. I’m going to go into it from a
spiritual way, a Bible way. What blessings did the foolish virgins forgo by not having
enough of this golden olive oil?
Light
What purpose does oil serve? First of all, we use oil for light. as in the parable we’re
considering. The Lord gives us a word from John’s first epistle: “If we walk in the light
even has He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If we walk in the light. If you
are not walking in the light, then the blood of the Lord Jesus is not cleansing you from all
sin. You can’t claim justification unless you are walking in the light. There are those
people who claim justification because they have been taught that you just have to claim
it and it is yours. No, it is not yours just because you claim it. It’s only yours when you
claim it and you are walking in the light.
So what does that mean? Walking in the light simply means you are doing what you
know you ought to do to please God. You are attempting to please Him. And in the very
attempt, God will give you help and strength, for all His commandments are His
enabling. When He says, “Thou shalt,” He not only means you ought to, He also means,
“I will see to it that strength is given you to do it. And you shall do it.” Isn’t that

comforting? All of those “thou shalt’s” used to frighten me at one time. I thought, ”Why,
I can’t.” And then the Lord made it so clear that when He says to me, ”I shall do it,” it
means not only that I ought to do it, but also that He’ll help me to do it, so I can do it. I
say, friends, isn’t that wonderful? Isn’t it comforting? He’s a very comforting God.
So olive oil is used for light. That was the oil the children of Israel used in their simple
little lamps—olive oil. We’ve pointed out that you are the lamp. And at this marriage
feast in Matthew 25, light was the most important thing. The wise virgins had made
provision to keep on walking in the light. The others had made provision only to walk in
light for a minimum time; but the wise virgins made provision to walk in the light
always. That’s why they had a reserve of oil.
What do you want to do? Have you made provision to always walk in the light? Are you
only walking in the light that you’ve had up to a certain period of your life when God met
with you and saved you? Or have you the inner Holy Ghost-given intention to walk in the
light continually, whatever happens? If you do intend to keep on walking in the Light,
you’ll get into some strange circumstances, but you’ll keep the anointing of your God
upon you. And that’s the most important thing in this world.
Are you prepared to walk in the light as God reveals it? If so, you will experience Bible
sanctification, God’s cleansing. For that sanctification is only conditional upon walking
in the light. You’ll find it’s true. If you walk in the light, you’ll have fellowship with your
Beloved. The wise virgins walked in the light. Having oil kept them walking in the light,
so they walked right into the marriage feast and had fellowship in a way that’s
indescribable. Similarly, we don’t yet know the glory that’s going to be revealed in us.
We only get little hints in the Holy Spirit, and it’s more than we can express. But there’s
going to be that fullness of joy, lasting forever, in the marriage feast. Isn’t that worth
going to?
Would you like to go there? Would you like to be a wise virgin? Then you shall, if you
make provision by asking God’s grace that you may ever walk in the light and do what
He wants you to do. You say, ”What might that mean for me?” It might mean that you
have to give up that worldly young man that you are courting at present. It does not mean
that you leave your worldly husband. The marriage vow is “for better or for worse.” If it
turns out for the worse, well, you made that commitment. And you forget that he’s
probably thinking he’s got the worst anyway! But before you’re married, you must
remember the commandment of your God: “Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers” (2
Corinthians 6:14). Now that’s only one illustration of what the Lord may require you to
do. But that’s walking in the light. Oh, you may have heartache at giving up what does
not please your Beloved; but you’ll have peace, and the blessing of the comfort of
knowing you’ve pleased Him. And how much nearer you’ll draw to Him, because by
walking in the light you have fellowship with God. I’m not going to say that God will

give you a better young man if you give up the one you know is displeasing to Him. He
might do that, but I have no right to speak on my Father’s behalf. But this I say: If I were
you, I’d rather end up with a polly parrot and a Siamese cat, than end up with a husband
who is against God and His will. It’s not the worst possible thing to be single. It’s far
worse to be tied to a man who’s got the atmosphere of hell around him. Don’t forget that
word; it may be specially for you.
Power
We’ve reflected on how oil is employed for light. We also use oil for power. One of the
fundamental sources of power, of energy, in the world is oil. What does God say about oil
for power? “Ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” What about
oil for energy? You will see the energy of God in you when the Holy Spirit is come upon
you and in you, as the Lord Jesus promised. When you need power, He is there in you
when you have received the Holy Spirit. And don’t just imagine you’ve received the Holy
Spirit. It’s a very definite experience when He comes in. He doesn’t come in because
your father and mother, when you were a little tiny child, asked that He might come in.
He comes in when you come to the Lord Jesus. “If any man asks, I will give,” said Jesus,
“when you come to Me.” When you come to the Lord Jesus, who alone is the baptizer in
the Holy Ghost, and you ask for that definite experience, He’s delighted to give you the
Holy Spirit. He denies no one. You might be the wickedest person around, but He’ll give
you the Holy Spirit just the same, when you ask Him. How do I know? That’s exactly
what He said to the woman at the well, who was an immoral woman. She was living with
a man who wasn’t her husband, and she had already had five husbands and had
discharged them one by one…or poisoned them by her bad cooking. We don’t know what
happened. But she was living with one who wasn’t her husband. And the Lord said to her,
“If you knew the gift of God and who says to you ‘give me to drink,’ you would have
asked Him, and he would have given you living water.” Jesus was referring to the Holy
Spirit.
The same Jesus still baptizes in the Holy Ghost. “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” That’s how
He is given. Then power will come into your powerless life. Power for what? Power for
service? Yes, that’s important; but it’s not the most important. As old William Booth put
it, it is power “to ever do the right…power to walk the world in white—Send the fire!”4
It’s power to do the right. Power to keep from sinning. Power to have victory over
temptation. You have often thought that power for victory over temptation came by
crying out to Jesus, and then each time—externally—He would give you power. But it
hasn’t worked, has it? You’ve been heartsick and distressed. No, what you need is inner
power, the power of the Holy Ghost in you; and then when the enemy comes in like a
flood, the Spirit of the Lord in you will raise a standard against him (Isaiah 59:19). You
need the Holy Spirit as an indwelling Person. He gives us power over indwelling sin.

The Holy Spirit also gives us power to do His service. That power brings in those
glorious gifts of the Holy Spirit, given individually by the Holy Spirit—not by the Christ,
nor by the Father. The Father will give you natural gifts. Every one of you have natural
gifts. God gives the natural gift of being able to sing, for instance. Some have the natural
gift of having a voice that they desire to be trained to lead God’s congregation in song. To
be able, under God, to bring an anointing on the singing—oh, what a responsibility that is
to be a worship leader, or a choir director, or a choir member, because you can deaden the
worship of the congregation, or you can raise it up to heavenly heights. But that’s a
natural gift, the gift of music. I can’t play a note. When I get to heaven and I’m given a
harp, I’ll say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to play it”; and they’ll say, “Well, try a
trumpet.” And I’ll say, “Being English, I never learned to blow my own horn. I’m not
American.” So I should be lost on that account. But I guess there’s eternity to learn, and
after I’ve been in heaven for the equivalent of a million eons you’ll find me in a corner
actually playing an instrument (probably a mouth organ).
But you see, I don’t have that natural gift. I love music. I sense immediately if you strike
a false note. Yet I cannot play. Other people can just go and get marvelous music out of
those black and white keys. I look at them with astonishment. Musical talent is a gift, a
natural gift, given by the Father.
Gifts in the Body of Christ, on the other hand—ministerial gifts, apostle, prophet,
evangelist, pastor, teacher—are given by the Son. According to your natural gifts, He will
call you in the Body so that you will have a gift to use in the Body. It might even be in
church government. We need good church secretaries, or church treasurers. Your
ministerial gift might be a gift of helps. We need good sisters and brothers to visit the
sick. What a comfort and blessing they are when God has chosen them! So there are gifts
in the Body, the Church, given by the Son, according to the gifts of the Father.
Then where do the Holy Ghost’s gifts come in? The Holy Ghost comes in to assist you
with supernatural gifts to enable you to carry out the gifts of the Lord Jesus to the Body.
Oh, what a blessing when the pastor has the supernatural gift of discernment of spirits
and a word of knowledge and a word of wisdom! “Supernatural” does not mean that he is
a wise man or a knowledgeable man. It does not mean, for example, if I have the gift of a
word of knowledge that I am a walking Encyclopedia Britannica. Not at all. But it does
mean that when it’s necessary in order to fulfill my ministry, perhaps when you come to
me for counsel, God will reveal to me things about you that you know I don’t know. And
I didn’t know, until God revealed them. It’s a bit frightening, isn’t it? But I can’t do it
unless He gives the gift. It’s only done to help you. It really comforts you to find that God
is so interested in you that He has given your counselor knowledge about you that he
couldn’t possibly know, and that you thought no one knew. But God knows. And for your
help, He’ll reveal it to the one who’s counseling you, when that one is fulfilling his
ministry as a God-called pastor, a God-called counselor, moving in the gifts of the Spirit.

What about the gift of the word of wisdom? It comes in to tell you what to do under the
circumstances.
All these gifts, yes, even that gift of tongues that some of you get so upset about, are most
precious gifts of the Holy Spirit. God gives the gift of tongues to individuals to assist
them in praising God, and very occasionally that gift can be used to convey a message to
the church. In these cases, God always gives an interpreter who interprets that strange
message given in a tongue that no one understands. But more often God uses prophesy,
which is a message to the church in our own native tongue. So, all these gifts, including
the power gifts—healings, miracles—are still extant today, still working, because what
the Lord Jesus did in the beginning, He does today, yesterday, and forever. When He
started His church, He did it in the way He wanted it to be carried on.
Dear brothers and sisters, some of you are heartsick and weary. Let me say, “You’ve gone
dry.” You don’t have the experience that you once had. You look back to the time when
you were fervent for God under the anointing of the Spirit, and it’s gone. You’ve gone
into all sorts of worldly ways. But now God is drawing you back and you’re responding,
yet you feel so terribly dry. Satan has tempted you to believe that all God’s work in you is
in the past, and what God has done once, He’ll never do again with you; you have failed
Him. That is a lie! True, your wick is smoking now. True, you’re dry. True, you’re
embarrassed by your life. But God has promised that “the smoking flax He will not
quench” (Isaiah 42:3). A little bunch of flax was the wick that was put in the narrow part
of the the old lamps; and God will not quench that wick. The smoking flax He will not
quench. So what will He do? He’ll fill you up with oil again, so you can go on shining for
Jesus. And because of your unhappy experience, you’re going to shine all the better,
because now you will not go back from your Beloved again, for you know the cost of
going back. You’re going to be a better Christian than ever you were before. Isn’t that
comforting? The smoking flax He’ll not quench, but rather pour new oil into you.
Peace
Have you ever heard of what oil does on the ocean? If a merchant vessel has gotten into
distress because of a great storm or hurricane, and has been greatly battered about, it will
send out an SOS, and a ship will come speeding to its rescue. All the lifeboats have been
washed away, all the deck has been swept clean by the waves, and the ship is listing. The
cargo has shifted, and the ship has sprung a leak. How can the rescue ship get those men
off? The waves are still mountainous and washing over the deck.
But an oil tanker arrives, and as it does, it dare not come alongside and lower its boats,
because the sea is too rough. The boats would be dashed against the merchant ship and
smashed. So what do the rescuers do? They let out a flood of oil on the water, and it
temporarily calms the seas. Then they launch the boats, and in the short time before that

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