Power of the Holy Spirit

Have you ever spent time thinking about the Holy Spirit? Have you thought about what it would be like to prophecy? Would you be willing to share some of the Spirit? What if you didn’t share it, you wouldn’t be able to keep it? Would you strive to share only the minimum to keep as much as you could?

We don’t often think about the Holy Spirit. Many may even be unsure whether the Holy Spirit is in them. If we knew how important he was to us, we probably wouldn’t want to share any of him. In our culture of everything being about me, we would want to hold all of him to ourselves. 

But that wasn’t the attitude of Moses. Moses had been given a strong portion of the Spirit. Yet, when God shared his Spirit with seventy others, Moses was not the least bit upset. Quite the contrary. I’m sure Moses was singing praises to God for sharing his Spirit with the others. We are told they all prophesied. Though we don’t know what they prophesied, we can be sure it was exactly what God wanted them to prophecy.

We often think of prophecy as telling the future. Though it can be that that is not what the word means. Prophecy is speaking the Word of God. Sometimes, the message is foretelling the future. Most of the time, it is simply proclaiming what God has already said. It may mean that we are proclaiming it to someone who hasn’t heard it before. It is also what a preacher should be doing on Sunday morning. Each one of us can prophecy.

I pray we all learn more about the Holy Spirit. I pray we understand the importance of having the Holy Spirit. I pray each one of us proclaim the Word of God with the power of the Holy Spirit. Know the Holy Spirit. Know the importance of the Holy Spirit. Proclaim God’s Word with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Number 11:24-25 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and placed them all around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders, and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.