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  How Can I Tell If the Holy Spirit Is Leading Me?

  Test a possible leading by Scripture, the character of Jesus, and the fruit it produces. Seek wise counsel and give yourself time to examine the decision. The Bible tells believers to test what they hear and hold fast to what is good.

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  What Is the Difference Between Grieving and Quenching the Holy Spirit?

  Ephesians 4 warns against grieving the Holy Spirit in a passage about speech, anger, and forgiveness. First Thessalonians 5 warns against quenching the Spirit in a passage that calls believers to receive prophetic words seriously and test what they hear.

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  What Is Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit in Mark 3?

  In Mark 3, Jesus warns about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit after scribes attribute His work to an unclean spirit. The warning concerns a grave rejection of what God is doing through Jesus. Mark explicitly tells readers what prompted it.

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  How Is the Holy Spirit Part of the Blessing of Abraham?

  Galatians 3:14 connects the blessing of Abraham reaching the Gentiles in Christ with receiving the promise of the Spirit through faith. Paul reads God's promise to bless the nations through Abraham in light of Christ's redeeming work.

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  What Does It Mean to Pray in the Spirit in Ephesians 6 and Jude?

  Praying in the Spirit means praying with the Holy Spirit's help and direction. Ephesians 6 connects it with alertness and prayer for other believers. Jude places it alongside building up faith, remaining in God's love, and looking for Christ's mercy.

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  What Does the Olive Leaf in Noah’s Story Mean?

  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.

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  Why Did Jesus Compare Being Born of the Spirit to the Wind?

  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.

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  What Did Jesus Offer the Woman at the Well as Living Water?

  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.

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  Why Did Jesus Breathe on the Disciples in John 20:22?

  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.

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  Why Was Elizabeth Filled With the Holy Spirit When Mary Arrived?

  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.

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  What Did Zacharias Prophesy When He Was Filled With the Holy Spirit?

  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.

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  How Did the Holy Spirit Lead Simeon to See Jesus in the Temple?

  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.

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  Did the Languages at Pentecost Reverse the Tower of Babel?

  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.

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  What Did the Disciples Do While Waiting for Pentecost?

  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.

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  What Do the Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire Teach About God’s Presence?

  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.

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  What Does Moses’ Staff Teach About God’s Power and Obedience?

  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.

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  Why Did Eldad and Medad Prophesy in the Camp?

  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.

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  Why Did the Spirit of God Come Upon Balaam?

  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.

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  How Did the Holy Spirit Empower Othniel, Israel’s First Judge?

  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.

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  Did the Holy Spirit Tell Jephthah to Make His Vow?

  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.

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  Was Samson’s Strength in His Hair or in the Holy Spirit?

  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.

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  Why Did the Prophet Samuel Anoint David, and What Happened Next?

  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.

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  Why Did Saul Prophesy Before Samuel at Naioth?

  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.

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  Why Did David Dance Before the Ark of the Covenant?

  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.