At the time we are born again, God gives us HIS Spirit to live in us to teach us all things, to remind us of all Jesus has said to us, to guide us into all truth and to show us things to come. (Jn. 14:26 &16:13)
A mighty power of God lives in us.
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto HIM that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
* God brings thoughts to our minds by HIS Spirit to show us what to do.
* God speaks to us through dreams.
* God sometimes gives us an open vision.
* Angels are still used by God to deliver instructions.
* God gives us special gifts of the Holy Spirit to place us where HE wants us to serve HIM.
God has given the believer every advantage on this earth.
We grow and thrive through God.
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The Holy Spirit of Jesus lives in each believer and that Spirit searches the mind of God to show the believer the will of God in the issues pertaining to this present life.
II Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
I Corinthians 2
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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The Holy Spirit of Jesus dwells in us and is with us day and night. We are never left alone.
The Spirit teaches us all things, reminds us of all that
Jesus has said to us, guides us into all truth, and shows us things to come. (Jn. 14:26 & 16:13)
The Holy Spirit of Jesus speaks to us by bringing thoughts, concepts, ideas to our minds so we can know what to do in the specific issues of this present life.
And the Word of God also comes to us by dreams, visions, messages sent by angels.
Sometimes God just plants HIS will directly into our hearts as is described in the following scripture:
Hebrews 8 God says:
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.
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John 6 Jesus says:
35 And Jesus said unto them, I (The Word) am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I (The Word) will raise him up at the last day.
Jesus comes "with a shout" and the dead in Christ rise first. I Thessalonians 4:
Then they which are alive on the earth are changed into their spiritual bodies and arise to meet Jesus and the dead who have risen "in the air". And they are taken to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Revelation 21:1-5
The great tribulation from God comes to this earth to judge the wickedness of men. Revelation 8-16
Then the heavens and earth as we know it are destroyed by fire from God. II Peter 3:10-14
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But as long as God chooses to leave us on this present earth, HE guides us and teaches us by the Holy Spirit of Jesus who lives in us and we follow HIM.
We do not follow the ideas of man but we follow the Spirit of God and the Holy Scriptures.
Therefore we serve God by following HIS Spirit.
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Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom HE hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE made the worlds;
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.
The Word comes to us today and we follow The Word.
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The kingdom of Jesus is not of this world.
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
When we learn this principle, we stop focusing on this world and we wait patiently to be taken off this world by Jesus and be taken to the new heaven and new earth created for God's people, wherein dwells only righteousness.
Revelation 22 Jesus says:
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I (The Word) am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs,
13 I (The Word) am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs,
sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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