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Receiving The Holy Spirit How do I receive the Holy Spirit? The kingdom of God is within. The Holy Spirit lives in the kingdom of God. To receive the Holy Spirit is not so much a matter of opening your mouth and pouring in water from outside of you. Receiving the Holy Spirit is a matter of opening your heart to what is already within you. However, opening your heart to the Holy Spirit, love of God, manifestation of Christ, and/or the power of God within you is no easy matter. This question about receiving the Holy Spirit is sometimes asked by persons who may not want to work too hard to receive the Spirit. Too many people want the easy road to receiving the Spirit. To really have the deep love, care, compassion, and energy of the Holy Spirit alive and living in you, requires work on your part. When we ask how to receive the Holy Spirit, the question implies all we have to do is just believe the Holy Spirit exists and we do not have to do any asking, seeking, or knocking. This idea of not doing the hard work of asking, seeking, and knocking to receive the Holy Spirit is a passive approach to our faith. In addition, the question about receiving the Holy Spirit can also be done in a kind of passive, lukewarm, hands off, "objective thought" perspective. What God wants are people pounding on His spiritual door seeking His truth. When you go to God with enough fervor, God is good and opens the door to His heart. If these words have been a blessing to you please forward them to a friend. These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
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International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.
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Scripture quotations marked (RSV) are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, Revised
Standard Version of the Bible, Copyright © 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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by Patrick Kelly, All rights reserved.
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Shepherd's Care
Ministries author and webmaster, Rev. Patrick Kelly, is affiliated through
ministerial ordination with Church of God Ministries, Anderson IN 46018
