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They don’t bear lasting spiritual fruit because of all the busyness and distractions in their lives.
lame believer doesn’t deny the Holy Spirit, but he lives his life without relying on Him, and therefore, results are minimal.
If we don’t learn to walk in harmony with the Holy Spirit, the Christian life will become a difficult yoke and ministry will become a heavy burden.
The lame man in the Bible was sitting and begging instead of leaping and praising. He asked for alms, but what he really needed was healing.
Oh how I could relate to this man! I was a lame leader sitting at the gate, begging God for “alms.” The alms that I was chasing were miracles and Holy Spirit power.
He looked at me intently and declared, “I can’t give you power. You don’t need power. You just need to know the Holy Spirit personally and He will release His power.” In other words, we don’t need alms (miracles, manifestations, power)—we just need to walk in the power of the One we already have abiding in us.
But we can and must endeavor to get to know Him personally, more and more on a daily basis, by spending more time talking with Him and loving Him, living in harmony with Him, and listening for His quiet voice speaking into our spirits. That’s what started to happen to me. I turned my prayer from “God, give me Your power” to “Holy Spirit, I want to know You better.”
In the parable of the Prodigal Son, the youngest son demanded, “Give me what is mine,” and that led him away from his father. But after he was desperately broken, his prayer changed to, “Make me your servant” (Luke 15:11-32).
The lame man needed to get the miracle of walking, not the miracle of money. Yes, we do need revival in our churches, but what we need even more is for people to fall in love with the Holy Spirit.
I would like you to switch your focus from the power of God to the presence of the Holy Spirit. He is already in you. Now you need to walk in close harmony with the Spirit, always keeping your focus on Him alone.
AI Summary
Host the Holy Ghost by Vladimir Savchuk presents key insights from the Christian Mysticism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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