Holy Spirit

Hey,

I know I have been away for a while, but I have been busy, which I am sure you all know the feeling of. Anyway, this Sunday just gone I went to my old Church ‘Knights Meadows’ for the first time since I have been back from Plymouth and this service was about the Holy Spirit and how we need to be renewed in it.

Psalm 117

“Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. For great is his love towards us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures for ever. Praise the Lord.”

Today Pat spoke about a programme they do called ‘Open the book’ where they go into a school and share the stories in the Bible. They would ask the children to get involved by making sounds that relate to the story in some way. For example, in this story; being the wind, fire crackling and being upset towards what the members of the class that are representing the disciples said.

For this service, the reading was told in a way that they would present towards the children when they go into a class at schools. The story of this service was ‘The Holy Spirit comes at Pentecost (Acts 2)’.

When reading this story, it also reminded me of a verse in the Bible;

John 15:26

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father – the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father – he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.”

I feel that the Advocate is the Holy Spirit that was sent from the Father to help us spread the word of the Lord and the truth about who he is and what he has done for us by sacrificing his life on the cross, so that our sins were washed away.

This story is about when the Holy Spirit came and filled the disciples so that they have the strength and words tell everyone about the Lord and if they say sorry their sin would be washed away. They therefore shared the word of the Lord with the help of the Holy Spirit, who was the helper Jesus promised.

At the end of the story reading they would reflect on the storying meaning and then prayer where they would ask the kids to say ‘Amen’ if they want to make it their prayer, but they would not force them to become Christians and share the belief in God: son, Father and Holy Spirit. We can’t make them Christian but we can teach them about the Lord.

The speaker this week was Roger who spoke about the Holy Spirit that was sent to empower us. He uses the example of a car to show this because when a car is empty it needs refilling with petrol as we need to be refilled with the Holy Spirit. However, it is not important when you are filled but what happens when you get up after being filled with the Holy Spirit.







Roger went on to talk about the fruit of the Holy Spirit which is Hope, Peace, Love. Love is the work of the Holy Spirit. He also spoke about how the Holy Spirit is a gift from God.

Galatians 5:22-23

“But the fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Against such things there is no law.”

I came across a new song ‘Send the Fire’ in this service which was specific to the meaning of the story which was about Pentecost.

I also was reintroduced to the song ‘For Power of your Love’ by Geoff Bullock, which I found really inspirational, about how God if lifting us up in his strength which allows us to have the strength to continue in the path that God has given us as well as the strength to complete the task set ahead for us whatever that may be.

Thanks for reading,

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Amy x