Allow me to Introduce you to the Holy Spirit.

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Let’s say you have been asked to introduce a very special guest speaker to a group of people. Though you have heard of this person for a long time, you suddenly realize that you really don't know very much about them. You know about the things they do, but you can't describe them as a person.
This is the way many Christians feel about the Holy Spirit. Jesus introduced the Holy Spirit to His disciples with these words:
John 16:13 ESV
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
The Scriptures reveal three basic truths about the Holy Spirit. When we learn and understand them, we will be able to "introduce Him" to others.
The Scriptures reveal three basic truths about the Holy Spirit. When we learn them, we will be able to "introduce Him" to others.

I. He is All-Powerful ()

We see the effect and the power of His presence at that mysterious and awesome moment of creation, when "the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths." This shapeless, purposeless blob of matter tumbled through space with no direction and no observable reason to exist.
The part of God's Person that the Bible identifies as the Holy Spirit arrived with no warning and began to do a wondrous thing. "And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." The original Hebrew word rachaph (Raw-khaf) translated hovering means "brooded," which describes the action of a mother bird sitting on her nest of eggs waiting for life to burst forth. We see reference to this use of rachaph in:
Deuteronomy 32:11 NIV
like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.
Deuteronomy 32:11 NIV
like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.
The Likewise, God the Holy Spirit drew life out of the chaotic earth and produced light and order.
Hovering has the nuance
The creative power of the Holy Spirit in bringing the physical world into existence was not God's ultimate concern. He knew that the man and woman He would create would sin and become morally corrupt and spiritually dead. In His love and mercy, God - through His Spirit - "hovers" over the lost person and brings life out of death.
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“Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without the wind, branches without sap, and like coals without fire, we are useless.”—Charles Spurgeon
Often times, when the Holy Spirit is upon us, we are given the power to do something a little out of our comfort zone. We may discover we have a new boldness to go up to someone and pray for them. We may have the strength to speak the truth when before we might have kept our mouth shut out of fear. The Holy Spirit washes over us with a super natural strength – maybe a physical strength like Samson had, or an internal strength to be courageous with words. We may receive a stronger back bone to stand up for what we believe in-figuratively and literally.
A few verses regarding power from the Holy Spirit are as follows:
“But, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” ()
“But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord,” ()
“…and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.” (1)
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