WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. I know many of you have had these kinds of experiences with the Holy Spirit. Do you feel that way right now? When God formed man, He formed him perfectly. Feeling the Holy Spirit: Blessing and Awareness There are similarities between how people experience feelings in relation to the Holy Spirit and how they experience them in human relationships. Pentateuch The third way God can communicate directly to you coming from the above verse from Joel is by prophecy. On the Day of Pentecost, Acts 2:2 says, And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Today I want us to look at the comparison of wind to the Holy Spirit in this verse to see what we can learn about why the Spirit came in this manner on the Day of Pentecost and what this means to you and me. Therefore Gods Spirit can be described as Gods stormy wind or Gods fierce breathing. Here is the specific verse where this piece of revelation is being given to us by the Lord: The first verse is telling us that the Holy Spirit Himself bears witness in our human spirit that we are children of God. We are able to see and feel the wind. Another tell that the Holy Spirit will give you so you know that the vision is coming in directly from Him, is that He will give you a good, inner witness that it is coming directly from Him, which is the first way I gave you above on how He will communicate something to you. The Wind Is Unexplainable Wind cannot be explained. Again, you will have to learn through a process of trial and error when a vision is coming in from your own natural imagination or when it is coming in direct from the Holy Spirit. Talent vs. Faithfulness: What is God Looking For? *[If you started reading this from your email, begin reading here.]. A true, inner witness from the Holy Spirit will come out of your spirit it will not come out of your head, your imagination, or your emotions. For example, if there were no winds, exploration never would have occurred. In this same mysterious way so is the way of everyone who is born by wind, breath, and Spirit. We also need the wind of God to transform our lives. The lyrical words and vibrant pictures will make you want to slow down and explore all the windy-day adventures of a boy and his grandma. Wisdom Literature And one of the ways that He will let us know not to move in a certain direction is by giving us that check in our spirits. Energy is produced by wind and when the Holy Spirit moves in this manner, He supplies supernatural energy. WebThe wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 20:22 Verse Concepts And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. However, these closed visions can come in on much smaller matters as well. When you get a real strong leading to do something specific, it will feel like God has His big hand on the small of your back pushing you forward. When it is translated breath it has the idea of someone in passion or violently exerting himself in heavy breathing. Wind is essential for progress to be made. Some people will use the slang expression that something reallyjumpedat them when they first heard it. The next way that the Holy Spirit will communicate knowledge to you is sometimes by giving you a direct verse from Scripture. Emotions can and will deceive us, and we can work ourselves up into an emotional frenzy that is purely from the flesh and not of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes these dreams will need some kind of interpretation and you will need to carefully examine the dream to see exactly what God is trying to convey to you. General Epistles There will be no inner witness to move forward. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. So many times I do everything that needs to be done organizationally, but life and power remain missing. And then all of a sudden it will come in very quickly and very suddenly. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Your partnership makes all we do possible. If this realm is just too scary for some of you, or you would prefer to stay away from it at this time, the Holy Spirit will respect your thoughts and wishes on this, and He will not try and push Himself or His ways on you. That is why it is so vitally important that each Christian learn how to pick up these kinds of inner warnings from the Holy Spirit so you can keep yourself from being seriously injured, if not possibly killed. In other words, you can receive a dream direct from the Holy Spirit. If you do, then the Holy Spirit can bring back up to your remembrance certain Scripture verses when you may need them because you have already done your part by getting the Bible versesin you.. The next way that the Holy Spirit can use to communicate something specific to you coming from the above verse from Joel is in your dreams. Feeling the Holy Spirit: Blessing and Awareness There are similarities between how people experience feelings in relation to the Holy Spirit and how they experience them in human relationships. It had no shape at all and no life, but it appeared as the power the Father and the Son used to carry out Their purposes in this creation. The New Testament Electrical sparks would spit fiercely into the air from where electrical lines had been severed, so we would drive around them or look for alternative routes until electric crews arrived to repair the fallen lines. Just think how essential wind has been to the very development of civilization. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. The earth would be stagnant, stinking from pollution and from the normal decaying process that is occurring on the planet. For example, sometimes, a persons love for their family and friends consists of strong emotions. Sometimes we would see huge trees that the wind had ripped up from their roots. The Wind Is Unexplainable Wind cannot be explained. The gift of prophecyis when you receive a direct word from the Lord. But this is where each Christian has to make their own choice as to whether or not they want to tread into these kinds of deeper waters with the Lord. Without wind, we would be hundreds of years behind where we presently are in history. But please note, that could all change in the coming years as more of that verse from Joel starts to come to pass. The Bible says that He was involved in creating the heavens and the earth. - John 3:8 Breath is also a Biblical symbol of the Holy Spirit. You can also have words from preachers jump at you. If you will notice, on most of the dreams you will have during the night, you will either have no memory of any of these dreams when you wake up, or if by chance you do remember one of them as you wake up, that dream will then fade away from you within the first 1-3 hours. We cannot see Him, but we can feel the effects of His presence and His power. In the same manner, when the Holy Spirit works His powerful will in the lives of people we too can see the results. Here Gods Spirit is compared with the wind. I always get these God-dreams close to when I am getting ready to wake up. We cannot see Him, but we can feel the effects of His presence and His power. For example, sometimes, a persons love for their family and friends consists of strong emotions. The word sound in this verse is the Greek word echos. The fact that the wind could not be seen but could be felt and the added fact that it was so unpredictable made me want to stay on the porch so I could feel the wind in action. Can you think of a time when you did everything naturally that could be done, but you still lacked the power to do the work of the ministry? Luke-Acts I personally have only had about 10 dreams from the Lord over a 20 year period. Wind is a good word to describe the power of the Holy Spirit. Johannine Writings What you dont know is that your dog has just knocked them underneath your bed. Historical Books Other people call this inner knowing anillumination, anenlightenment. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The lyrical words and vibrant pictures will make you want to slow down and explore all the windy-day adventures of a boy and his grandma. The Spirit, like the wind, moves wherever He wants and is, at times, unpredictable. For one thing, the wind is invisible. WebWind can damage soil through erosion. When the Holy Spirit communicates something directly to you through this inner witness, it will be a knowing without any shadow of a doubt. Email / username or password was incorrect! Consider the great ships of the past that had no mechanical or nuclear energy to drive them, yet they glided across oceans with ease as their great sails caught the winds. In the same way the Holy Spirit does what He wills. Again, being able to pick up these kinds of leadings from the Holy Spirit is something that you will learn through a process of trial and error with Him. Whenever the Holy Spirit quickens something like this to you, this means you are to grab a hold of it and examine it to see exactly what the message is that He is trying to convey to you. When it comes to feeling the presence of the Holy Spirit, there are many ways to do it. Now I will take you into the 8 different ways the Holy Spirit will use to supernaturally communicate to us in this life. This can manifest in a variety of ways, such as peace about a decision, a sense of urgency about a particular And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Jesus said that he would be with us always, so we can If yes, what are you going to do about it after reading todays. To think that we are able to receive the Holy Spirit in our human spirits at the moment of our conversions to Jesus and then to add this kind of icing to the entire cake where the Holy Spirit can literally supernaturally communicate to all of us in these different ways it just does not get any better than this! Mankind has difficulty controlling or harnessing the wind; God Almighty controls and channels wind, an invisible medium, making it an ideal symbol for God's Holy Spirit, having both powerful and gentle propertiesas a still small voice of a gentle breeze. WebThe wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 20:22 Verse Concepts And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. What the Holy Spirit will do is transmit the interpretation of that verse through the inner knowing. The New Testament Likewise, the work of the Holy Spirit, who is God, cannot be explained. You will feel the wind at your back to move in that certain direction. It is now up to each Christian as to whether or not they will want to learn how to do all of this with the Holy Spirit. At the sound of those sirens, I remember my mother commanding me to get off the porch and into the house to seek shelter. God was always supernaturally communicating to His people back in both the OT and NT. I cannot tell you how many times He has personally done this to me over the years. : Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You (Zondervan, 2014). Who can explain the wind? Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. The Holy Spirit will also show you how to discern when it really is Him communicating to you as versus when it is just your own emotions or imagination talking to you. When you really cut into this word as it is being used in the first verse above, another word for the inner witness would be that it is aninner knowing. Although one cannot see the wind, the results can be seen and felt. Luke-Acts However, if God does not want you to move in that certain direction, then you will feel or sense no leading at all from the Holy Spirit. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point After you start to receive these kinds of inner knowings from the Holy Spirit, you will soon learn how to discern when one is really coming in from Him, or when one is just coming in from your own natural imagination and emotions. I remember a girl I used to work with saved herself quite a bit of trouble as a result of heeding that check in her spirit when she was on vacation one day up in Canada. Each of these symbols of the wind serve to highlight various aspects of the work of God the Holy Spirit. In addition to the Holy Spirit leading you to go in a certain direction, He can also do just the exact opposite. Cookie Notice: Every word that you receive in the prophecy will be direct words from the Lord. If the Holy Spirit is going to be our personal Guide and Teacher in this life, then not only can He teach us everything we will need to know in this life so we can fully complete our divine destiny in the Lord, but He can also teach us how to hear directly from Himself in these different ways as well. But there are several men in the body who are considered somewhat experts in this area. Then the Lord causes the four winds to breathe life into the dead body. Just as you can hear the wind but cant tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you cant explain how people are born of the Spirit. All of a sudden you receive supernatural illumination, supernatural enlightenment on what a Scripture verse may mean. Emotions can and will deceive us, and we can work ourselves up into an emotional frenzy that is purely from the flesh and not of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will transmit the knowledge He wants you to have on something as astrong, inner knowing. In this caption, I will discuss the different kinds of visions you can receive from the Holy Spirit. We can thus fully trust Him to handle all of us in this supernatural realm. God was either giving me a heads up on what was getting ready to come my way, or He was giving me a dream to help me solve a particular problem or issue I was dealing with at the time. The next three ways the Holy Spirit will communicate to you visions, dreams, and prophecies are all coming from this one verse out of Joel. We do not know where it comes from or where it is going. Other people will use the termsunctionorprompting.. For instance, many people will get a check in their spirit when they are about ready to board a plane that is going to crash. These leadings from the Holy Spirit can be anything from a very gentle nudging to something that could be much stronger. If the Holy Spirit wants to tell you where they are located at since He is called the Helper in the Bible, He can either give you an inner knowing, an inner witness to look underneath your bed, or He could give you an actual closed vision, with the vision showing you that the keys are lying right underneath your bed. Wind, or breath, speaks of life. Some of the prophets in the OT also received these kinds of heavy, open visions. When you receive one of these for the first time, you will know that it has come directly from the Holy Spirit due to thestrength and conviction of it. You can either learn how to do all of this with the Holy Spirit, or you can choose to let this supernatural realm go and just stay on the path that you are already walking on if you have never had any of this kind of activity before with the Holy Spirit. She said she had a strong check in her spirit not to board that train. We read of the prophet Isaiah asking the following question. In other words, the Holy Spirit is confirming in our spirits that we are saved and that we are now children of God. You have all heard of the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. Acts 2:2 goes on to say, Suddenly there came a sound. This phrase there came is a translation of the word ginomai, which in this case describes something very similar to the Greek word aphno something that happens unexpectedly or that catches one off-guard. Again, this is another one that you will learn through a process of trial and error with Him. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Without this life, I can only do what human power can do, but when the Spirit blows His divine wind upon me, suddenly I am empowered to do what I could have never done before. Thank you for registering. However, if God does not want you to move in that certain direction, then you will feel or sense no leading at all from the Holy Spirit. . It is invisible. Again, I know some people freak out once you attempt to step into this kind of supernatural realm with the Holy Spirit. The word wind itself comes from pnoe, which describes wind so loud that one may be tempted to cover his ears from the overpowering noise of it. When you really study each of the 8 ways that the Holy Spirit will use to communicate to us in this life, every single one of these ways is a supernatural type of communication. If you put that kind of special request before God, then He will take you very seriously and He will then very gradually lead you into this realm and from there, the Holy Spirit will start to move in some of these different areas for you. Notice that visions, dreams, and prophecies are all directly connected to the Holy Spirit Himself. But for the most part, they are very rare, and most Christians will never receive these kinds of open visions from the Holy Spirit. It is one thing to know that God and Jesus are up in heaven, but it is quite another thing to realize that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit can all supernaturally communicate to any one of us at any time They should want to do so. Feeling the Holy Spirit: Blessing and Awareness There are similarities between how people experience feelings in relation to the Holy Spirit and how they experience them in human relationships. We do not understand where it comes from or where it goes. Likewise, the work of the Holy Spirit, who is God, cannot be explained. In certain contexts the word can be translated as wind while at other times the word is translated spirit. The context must decide. WebThe wind can be powerful and the Holy Spirit is certainly powerful. And if there is a particular Scripture verse that will answer a problem you may dealing with, then there is a very good chance that is how the Holy Spirit will help you solve the problem by giving you the actual Scripture verse that will solve the problem. When you feel their touch and hear their voices you know they are real, but you dont understand how they flow and move over the earth. Hence, this sound thundered like the roaring of a sea or a mighty wind that swept downward very loudly and violently. Then you will know that I, the. I personally like the term,inner knowing,to best describe how the Holy Spirit supernaturally communicates to us in this life. Gods form is not physical like ours. King Nebuchadnezzar was given dreams on end time events, but he needed Daniel to interpret those dreams for him. I am sure you have all heard many people say, I had a good witness on that pastors preaching today. 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