Friday, October 29, 2010
The Holy Spirit In Any Language
In Spanish He is called, del Espíritu Santo. In French He is called du Saint-Esprit. While in Italian He is Spirito Santo, and in German He is referred to as des heiligen Geistes. In the Book of Acts in English, He is the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost.
In the book of Acts when Peter encountered a group of persons who were mocking those who had been filled with the Holy Ghost, he said: "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." —Acts 2:38b. His message was clear, and it was indeed for all men and women who desired salvation.
In Ephesians 5:18-21, Paul continued the message of the way the Holy Spirit should impact a Christians live life when he spoke to a group of Spirit Filled Christians who did not know their own power. He told them: " ...be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" Ephesians 5:18-19.
In German that Paul's message is read as : Und berauschet euch nicht mit Wein, was eine Liederlichkeit ist, sondern werdet voll Geistes, —und redet miteinander in Psalmen und Lobgesängen und geistlichen Liedern und singet und spielet dem Herrn in eurem Herzen und saget allezeit Gott, dem Vater, Dank für alles, in dem Namen unsres Herrn Jesus Christus, und seid dabei einander untertan in der Furcht Christi. —Epheser 5:18-21
While in Spanish Paul's message is: "No os embriaguéis con vino, en lo cual hay disolución; antes bien sed llenos del Espíritu, hablando entre vosotros con salmos, con himnos y cánticos espirituales, cantando y alabando al Señor en vuestros corazones; dando siempre gracias por todo al Dios y Padre, en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Someteos unos a otros en el temor de Dios". —Efesios 5:18-21
No matter what the language is, or who the people are, the message from above is clear, Christians must ,"BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD", or SEI VOM GEIST GOTTES ERFUELLT or SED LLENOS DEL ESPIRITU DE DIOS. And subsequently, "......after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me. —Acts 1:8a
May GOD richly bless you all and may you all remember to: :Praise the Lord always and be filled with His Spirit!!!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
That Burning Feeling Within
In the song, “You Must Be Born Again,” the words speak about being empowered by the Holy Ghost when they say “you have that burning churning ”1. Other persons baptized by the power of the Holy Ghost2 have experienced sensations that they described differently.
C.G. Bevington - who traveled the American Deep South during the 1920’s and 30’s, talked about praying for three hours under a tree until he “was lifted up onto a plane he had never visited before. He continued to express that experience by adding, “ I became very happy and rose from under that tree most wonderfully blessed. I believe I was regenerated then, but not yet knowing what regeneration was and being so young, Satan kept me from realizing that this was conversion,3”
Charles Finney described his experience differently. He says: 4 ‘…the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love; for I could not express it in any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings.’
‘No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in heart. I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I should say, I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart.’
Corrie Ten Boom relied heavily on the scriptures to talk about and to document her Holy Ghost experiences. First of all, she relied on Acts 1:8 where after his death and resurrection, Jesus told the disciples,” You will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” In her book, Corrie Ten Boom, Her Life, Her Faith, 5 the author goes on to add that, Corrie stated that she knew that she had received that same power. Corrie words were, “some people call it the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Others call it the second blessing, I don’t try to give it a name. It was a new the beginning of a new spiritual blessing that brought me into a deeper experience with the Lord and a greater sense of His abiding presence.”
After I was first baptized in the Holy Ghost, a joyous abiding oneness with the Spirit of God is also what I felt. It was as though I suddenly came alive with the Holy Ghost presence and power from within my physical and spiritual being. The realization which hit me at that moment was awesome. This was many, many years ago, but I remember it as though it happened only yesterday. I felt the intimate presence of God’s power from within. It was a joyous, indescribably happy experience! God’s powerful Holy Ghost seemed to convey the thought that, “I am glad to abide with you”. Or even more poignantly He seemed to say “I’m happy to have you! “I am happy here with you!” I do not describe my Holy Ghost experience as a “burning churning within“. My experience was rather a wonderfully bubbly, exuberant presence from within. But it has all boiled down to what Corrie Ten Boom experienced as a wonderful “ spiritual blessing that has brought me into a deeper experience with the Lord, and a greater sense of His abiding presence“.7
1. Gospel Song Lyrics; "You Must Be Born Again."
2. KJV Bible, Acts 1:8
3. P. 13, Remarkable Miracles I Have Seen. C.G. Bevington. Bridge Publishing, Inc. South Plainfield, NJ 07080, 1992.
4. P 55, “Charles Grandison Finney: The Powerful Life”, They Found The Secret, V. Raymond Edmond, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan, 49506, 1975.
5. Corrie Ten Boom, Her Life, Her Faith. Carole C. Carlson, Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1983.
6. Ibid p. 171.
7. Ibid p. 171.
C.G. Bevington - who traveled the American Deep South during the 1920’s and 30’s, talked about praying for three hours under a tree until he “was lifted up onto a plane he had never visited before. He continued to express that experience by adding, “ I became very happy and rose from under that tree most wonderfully blessed. I believe I was regenerated then, but not yet knowing what regeneration was and being so young, Satan kept me from realizing that this was conversion,3”
Charles Finney described his experience differently. He says: 4 ‘…the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love; for I could not express it in any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings.’
‘No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in heart. I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I should say, I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart.’
Corrie Ten Boom relied heavily on the scriptures to talk about and to document her Holy Ghost experiences. First of all, she relied on Acts 1:8 where after his death and resurrection, Jesus told the disciples,” You will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” In her book, Corrie Ten Boom, Her Life, Her Faith, 5 the author goes on to add that, Corrie stated that she knew that she had received that same power. Corrie words were, “some people call it the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Others call it the second blessing, I don’t try to give it a name. It was a new the beginning of a new spiritual blessing that brought me into a deeper experience with the Lord and a greater sense of His abiding presence.”
After I was first baptized in the Holy Ghost, a joyous abiding oneness with the Spirit of God is also what I felt. It was as though I suddenly came alive with the Holy Ghost presence and power from within my physical and spiritual being. The realization which hit me at that moment was awesome. This was many, many years ago, but I remember it as though it happened only yesterday. I felt the intimate presence of God’s power from within. It was a joyous, indescribably happy experience! God’s powerful Holy Ghost seemed to convey the thought that, “I am glad to abide with you”. Or even more poignantly He seemed to say “I’m happy to have you! “I am happy here with you!” I do not describe my Holy Ghost experience as a “burning churning within“. My experience was rather a wonderfully bubbly, exuberant presence from within. But it has all boiled down to what Corrie Ten Boom experienced as a wonderful “ spiritual blessing that has brought me into a deeper experience with the Lord, and a greater sense of His abiding presence“.7
1. Gospel Song Lyrics; "You Must Be Born Again."
2. KJV Bible, Acts 1:8
3. P. 13, Remarkable Miracles I Have Seen. C.G. Bevington. Bridge Publishing, Inc. South Plainfield, NJ 07080, 1992.
4. P 55, “Charles Grandison Finney: The Powerful Life”, They Found The Secret, V. Raymond Edmond, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan, 49506, 1975.
5. Corrie Ten Boom, Her Life, Her Faith. Carole C. Carlson, Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1983.
6. Ibid p. 171.
7. Ibid p. 171.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Coming Move Of Holy Ghost
Many prophetic pronouncements today speak of a coming move of the Holy Ghost. In a prophecy by
Douglas B. Clark, the speaker says, "God is raising up visionaries who see by the Spirit the potential for what He is about to do. These spiritual entrepreneurs will flow with the Spirit and hear the voice of God with great clarity. They will be sensitive to the needs of the people in a way like we have never seen before."
God's Precious Holy Spirit- the Holy Ghost is invisible to the natural man but when a man has discernment, he clearly sees the results of God's activity on the earth. In Romans 1:20 (KJV), the apostle Paul states: "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and godhead; so that they are without excuse."
The natural, man wants to give excuses. That man wants to continue in blindness following the dictates of man made science and vain philosophies. The natural man also likes to discredit and to deny the things of God. But the apostle Paul states that the things of God are clearly seen. Just as the man who sees a burnt building would say, "there was a fire in this place," so men and women who see an outpouring of the Holy Ghost shall surely be able to say, "there was a Holy Ghost fire in this place". The difference is that whereas the man made fire results in destruction and ruin, the fire that results from the move of the Holy Ghost leaves people changed. Men, women and even little children are changed through repentance and salvation. They are changed through healing miracles, and they are delivered from all manner of oppressing forces including depression, demon possession, penury as well as deliverance from a multitude of societal ills including, social diseases and social ostracism with the end result being their subsequent testimonies of renewal and the awesome power of God!
Douglas B. Clark, the speaker says, "God is raising up visionaries who see by the Spirit the potential for what He is about to do. These spiritual entrepreneurs will flow with the Spirit and hear the voice of God with great clarity. They will be sensitive to the needs of the people in a way like we have never seen before."
God's Precious Holy Spirit- the Holy Ghost is invisible to the natural man but when a man has discernment, he clearly sees the results of God's activity on the earth. In Romans 1:20 (KJV), the apostle Paul states: "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and godhead; so that they are without excuse."
The natural, man wants to give excuses. That man wants to continue in blindness following the dictates of man made science and vain philosophies. The natural man also likes to discredit and to deny the things of God. But the apostle Paul states that the things of God are clearly seen. Just as the man who sees a burnt building would say, "there was a fire in this place," so men and women who see an outpouring of the Holy Ghost shall surely be able to say, "there was a Holy Ghost fire in this place". The difference is that whereas the man made fire results in destruction and ruin, the fire that results from the move of the Holy Ghost leaves people changed. Men, women and even little children are changed through repentance and salvation. They are changed through healing miracles, and they are delivered from all manner of oppressing forces including depression, demon possession, penury as well as deliverance from a multitude of societal ills including, social diseases and social ostracism with the end result being their subsequent testimonies of renewal and the awesome power of God!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Dumitru Duduman - A Holy Ghost Filled Prophet Of GOD
Born in Romania in 1932, Dumitru Duduman was brought up "..in a Christian home..""in the knowledge of God"1. After entering into his teenage years, however, Dumitru rejected God and signed up for Marine School to become a Marine Officer. Then, when he became an officer under a communist government, Duduman also became a persecutor of believers in Jesus Christ working zealously to confiscate Bibles on the Black Sea.
Duduman increased in rebelliousness and hostility towards the things of God seizing Bibles and arresting missionaries until one day he heard from heaven. God spoke to him in power, asking him not to destroy, but to help Christians unload the Bibles that they had brought to Constina, Romania. Subsequently, Dumitru obeyed the voice of God and helped believers who brought Bibles into Romania. But he did not fully come to the Lord until years later when he was touched by the ministry of the Holy Ghost through song and was then saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.2
As a new believer. Dumitru continued to grow in the power and the knowledge of the Almighty. Initially, being led through the Holy Spirit to preach, later on, he was led to smuggle Bibles into Russia. He grew Spiritually and in the power of the Almighty until God's Holy Spirit began to lead him into far-reaching tasks and difficult challenges. Finally in 1984, the Lord lead Dumitru to total dependence upon Him by asking him to take his entire family and to travel to an unknown lands.3
A highpoint of this time and of the Holy Spirit's leading in Dumitru’s life came when he was led to travel to the United States of America. In America, Dumitru had no personal contacts, no Christian or church contacts or friends, no money and no knowledge of the language. Dumitru was heartbroken and distraught.4 He had married and had a wife and children. He had obeyed the voice of God and he had been led by the Holy Ghost to smuggle Bibles and had suffered persecutions, tortures and severe beatings at the hand of his enemies. But, with great fear and trepidation he obeyed the leading of the Lord. He gathered up his meager possessions with his wife and his children and traveled thousands of miles to a land he did not know.
Shortly after arriving in the United States, Dumitru was destitute. On the evening of his greatest fear coupled with great feelings of subjection and abandonment, he sat homeless, penniless and alone and cried out to the Almighty asking, " Why did you bring me to this place to die, I could have died in Romania where my family has a home!"5
The Almighty spoke to Duduman's through his tears, answering his questions and pointing out the reasons why he was sent to America, and the answers were not pretty. But God, in His love for all people assured Duduman that he had a word through him for America. God honored His words to Duduman and sent him across America, to prophesy. Duduman traveled across American as well as to other lands and even back to his homeland in Romania. He spent his last day on earth on May 5, 1997, but his prophetic warnings to America can be seen on various internet sites and are recorded in his book"6. Dumitru Duduman was saved, a Prophet of God, filled with the Holy Ghost and he was used by the Almighty to bring a powerful message to America.
1 Hand Of Help Ministries
2 Ibid.
3 Dumitru Duduman's comments, Prophecy Club Gathering, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Dumitru Duduman. ThroughThe Fire Without Burning, A True Story Of A Pastor Facing Communist Persecution. Hand Of Help Inc. 1992
Duduman increased in rebelliousness and hostility towards the things of God seizing Bibles and arresting missionaries until one day he heard from heaven. God spoke to him in power, asking him not to destroy, but to help Christians unload the Bibles that they had brought to Constina, Romania. Subsequently, Dumitru obeyed the voice of God and helped believers who brought Bibles into Romania. But he did not fully come to the Lord until years later when he was touched by the ministry of the Holy Ghost through song and was then saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.2
As a new believer. Dumitru continued to grow in the power and the knowledge of the Almighty. Initially, being led through the Holy Spirit to preach, later on, he was led to smuggle Bibles into Russia. He grew Spiritually and in the power of the Almighty until God's Holy Spirit began to lead him into far-reaching tasks and difficult challenges. Finally in 1984, the Lord lead Dumitru to total dependence upon Him by asking him to take his entire family and to travel to an unknown lands.3
A highpoint of this time and of the Holy Spirit's leading in Dumitru’s life came when he was led to travel to the United States of America. In America, Dumitru had no personal contacts, no Christian or church contacts or friends, no money and no knowledge of the language. Dumitru was heartbroken and distraught.4 He had married and had a wife and children. He had obeyed the voice of God and he had been led by the Holy Ghost to smuggle Bibles and had suffered persecutions, tortures and severe beatings at the hand of his enemies. But, with great fear and trepidation he obeyed the leading of the Lord. He gathered up his meager possessions with his wife and his children and traveled thousands of miles to a land he did not know.
Shortly after arriving in the United States, Dumitru was destitute. On the evening of his greatest fear coupled with great feelings of subjection and abandonment, he sat homeless, penniless and alone and cried out to the Almighty asking, " Why did you bring me to this place to die, I could have died in Romania where my family has a home!"5
The Almighty spoke to Duduman's through his tears, answering his questions and pointing out the reasons why he was sent to America, and the answers were not pretty. But God, in His love for all people assured Duduman that he had a word through him for America. God honored His words to Duduman and sent him across America, to prophesy. Duduman traveled across American as well as to other lands and even back to his homeland in Romania. He spent his last day on earth on May 5, 1997, but his prophetic warnings to America can be seen on various internet sites and are recorded in his book"6. Dumitru Duduman was saved, a Prophet of God, filled with the Holy Ghost and he was used by the Almighty to bring a powerful message to America.
1 Hand Of Help Ministries
2 Ibid.
3 Dumitru Duduman's comments, Prophecy Club Gathering, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Dumitru Duduman. ThroughThe Fire Without Burning, A True Story Of A Pastor Facing Communist Persecution. Hand Of Help Inc. 1992
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