God’s Empowering Presence

The Holy Spirit

Is God Himself

ACTS 2:1-3 (NIV)

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 (TEV)

All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.

ACTS 17:27b-28a (NCV)

He is not far from any of us: We live in him. We walk in him. We are in him.

The Holy Spirit

Is God Himself

Is God’s Presence

1 CORINTHIANS 3:16 (NIV)

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

EXODUS 33:3 (NIV)

Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.

EXODUS 33:15-16 (NIV)

Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?"

EXODUS 33:18 (NLT)

Moses responded, "Then show me your glorious presence."

EXODUS 34:5-7 (NIV)

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.

EXODUS 34:5-7 (NIV)

Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."

EXODUS 34:10 (NIV)

Then the Lord said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world.

1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-17 (NIV)

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

The Holy Spirit

Is God Himself

Is God’s Presence

Is God’s Empowering Presence

GALATIANS 3:5 (NLT)

I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.

COLOSSIANS 1:11 (NLT)

We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father.

The Holy Spirit

Is God Himself

Is God’s Presence

Is God’s Empowering Presence

God’s Empowering Presence