Receive The Holy Spirit

 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit” - John 20:22.

           Jesus having given His peace and purpose after the resurrection to His disciples, breathed on them to receive His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit empowered the disciples to do the will of God with power. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth - Acts 1:8.

                  The Holy Spirit is a gift to be received from God. God will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him and obey Him. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! - Luke 11:13. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him - Acts 5:32.

                God gives us the Holy Spirit without measure. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit - John 3:34. I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions - Joel 2:28. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God - 1 Corinthians 2:12.                                           

PRAYER: Dear Lord, We thank You for Your gift of the Holy Spirit to us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.