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Paul instructs people to speak in turn, let others weigh what is said, and pursue the peace of the gathering.
Read: Use and Misuse of the Gift of Prophecy | Smith Wigglesworth Study Guide
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Paul describes the Spirit as God’s pledge as believers look forward to resurrection life.
Read: Clothed With the Spirit | Smith Wigglesworth Study Guide
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James says faith is visible in actions that respond to God and meet the needs of other people.
Read: Living Faith | Smith Wigglesworth Study Guide
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The sword guards the way to the tree of life after Adam and Eve are sent out of Eden.
Read: The Ministry of the Flaming Sword | Smith Wigglesworth Study Guide
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The olive leaf told Noah that the floodwaters had receded enough for a dove to find living vegetation. Read beside the dove at Jesus’ baptism, the scene offers a Biblical picture of life after judgment and a new beginning.
Read: What Does the Olive Leaf in Noah’s Story Mean?
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Jesus compares the work of the Holy Spirit in the new birth to wind in John 3:8. You hear the wind and see what it moves, while its source and course remain beyond your control. The Spirit gives new life from above.
Read: Why Did Jesus Compare Being Born of the Spirit to the Wind?
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Jesus offered the Samaritan woman a gift from God that would become a spring welling up to everlasting life. John 7 later identifies the living water Jesus promises to believers with the Holy Spirit.
Read: What Did Jesus Offer the Woman at the Well as Living Water?
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The risen Jesus breathed on the disciples as He sent them and told them to receive the Holy Ghost. The action recalls God giving life through breath and ties the Spirit to the disciples’ mission.
Read: Why Did Jesus Breathe on the Disciples in John 20:22?
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When Mary greeted Elizabeth, the baby in Elizabeth’s womb leaped and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. She blessed Mary and called her the mother of her Lord, recognizing what God was doing before Jesus’ birth.
Read: Why Was Elizabeth Filled With the Holy Spirit When Mary Arrived?
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Filled with the Holy Ghost after John’s birth, Zacharias praised God for visiting and redeeming His people. He spoke of God’s oath to Abraham and said his son would prepare the Lord’s way by pointing people toward forgiveness and peace.
Read: What Did Zacharias Prophesy When He Was Filled With the Holy Spirit?
Holy Spirit
Luke says the Holy Spirit was upon Simeon, revealed that he would see the Lord’s Christ, and led him into the temple. There he met Mary and Joseph with Jesus and recognized the child as God’s salvation.
Read: How Did the Holy Spirit Lead Simeon to See Jesus in the Temple?
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Pentecost and Babel can be read together as contrasting scenes of language and community. In Genesis, people build to make a name for themselves and their speech is confused. In Acts, the Spirit enables people from many lands to hear God’s works in their own languages.
Read: Did the Languages at Pentecost Reverse the Tower of Babel?
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The disciples stayed in Jerusalem as Jesus had commanded and devoted themselves to prayer together. The apostles, several women, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus’ brothers were among those Luke names.
Read: What Did the Disciples Do While Waiting for Pentecost?
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The Lord went before Israel in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. The signs gave direction and light on the journey out of Egypt. Later Scripture remembers that God also gave His good Spirit to instruct Israel.
Read: What Do the Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire Teach About God’s Presence?
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Moses’ staff was an ordinary object God used as a sign of His power. At Rephidim God told Moses to strike the rock. In a later wilderness crisis God told him to speak to the rock. Together the accounts show why a leader must pay attention to what God is saying now.
Read: What Does Moses’ Staff Teach About God’s Power and Obedience?
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The Spirit rested on Eldad and Medad while they were in Israel’s camp, and they prophesied there. Joshua wanted Moses to stop them. Moses answered that he wished all the Lord’s people would receive the Spirit and prophesy.
Read: Why Did Eldad and Medad Prophesy in the Camp?
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The Spirit of God came on Balaam as he looked out over Israel and spoke a blessing. Balak had hired him to curse the people. The episode shows that God could overrule the agenda of a king and make His blessing heard.
Read: Why Did the Spirit of God Come Upon Balaam?
Holy Spirit
In Judges 3 the Spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel, and he judged Israel and went to war. God delivered the people through him after they cried out in the distress their idolatry had brought.
Read: How Did the Holy Spirit Empower Othniel, Israel’s First Judge?
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Judges says the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah before he went to fight Ammon. The text then records his vow without saying the Spirit told him to make it. The sequence helps readers distinguish God’s empowering from a leader’s own promises.
Read: Did the Holy Spirit Tell Jephthah to Make His Vow?
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Samson’s uncut hair marked his lifelong consecration as a Nazirite. Judges repeatedly credits the Spirit of the Lord with empowering him. The haircut matters because it exposes the abandonment of his consecration and the departure of the Lord.
Read: Was Samson’s Strength in His Hair or in the Holy Spirit?
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God sent the prophet Samuel to Bethlehem to anoint David as Israel’s future king. Samuel poured oil from a horn in front of David’s brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. Years of service, danger, and waiting followed before David reigned over all Israel.
Read: Why Did the Prophet Samuel Anoint David, and What Happened Next?
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The Spirit of God came on Saul and his messengers while they pursued David. They prophesied instead of taking him. The encounter at Naioth shows God interrupting a king’s violence and protecting David at Samuel’s refuge.
Read: Why Did Saul Prophesy Before Samuel at Naioth?
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David danced before the Lord as the Ark of the Covenant entered Jerusalem. His joy followed a painful first attempt to move it and a second procession in which the Levites carried it as God had commanded.
Read: Why Did David Dance Before the Ark of the Covenant?
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God promised to meet Moses and speak from above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant. The mercy seat was the golden cover of the ark, with the cherubim facing toward it.
Read: What Was Between the Two Cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?Live online every Saturday
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