Kindle Notes & Highlights
How can the Spirit of God wrest order out of chaos? By hovering. This is the Spirit’s first activity in the Bible.
A piling up of years doesn’t transform us into sages; the steady cultivation of God’s Spirit-breath throughout a lifetime of virtue and learning does.
a few words, held back cautiously, then spoken carefully is inspiration. A lesson hard learned, held deep within, then divulged in a whisper—this too is the sound of Spirit-breath.
Stop, breathe, count to three…
then speak the trutb in love.
Every misdirected impulse tamed is evidence of God’s Spirit-breath in us.
Reframe! Focus on the small victories IOT build muscle memory toward maturity
Let prayer today be for you a deep sigh, a contented breath.
Simeon is inspired, in other words, because he is vigilant, because he is regular in devotion, and because he has studied the poignant prophecies of Isaiah, which he now sees taking shape in a very young Galilean boy who will be a light to the nations. A clear model for receiving the Spirit’s guidance rises from regular devotion to learning.
There can be no Spirit-inspired worship that is untruthful, no truthful worship that is void of Spirit.
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what most people need is more modest, more essential: to be bandaged, restored, treated with dignity, led with equity. Offer people that and watch for new growth,
Inspired leaders don’t need to be conspicuous to be effective.
Where there’s revolution—transformation—there’s almost always opposition.
Debate, zētēsis in Greek, is not argument for argument’s sake, but the intense investigation of a particular question.
The you in this question is plural and should be translated by the southern expression y’all. “Don’t y’all know y’all are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in y’all?”
a unified temple filled with one Spirit, which is exactly what they are—or at least ought to be.
Amen!
The Spirit is about transformation.
The outpouring of the Spirit is torrential and overpowering.
The prophetic promise of the outpouring of the Spirit breaks every artificial boundary, every self-imposed border, every pretense to privilege.
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The Spirit will bear witness to the good news—the gospel—of Jesus.
There is peace and joy and community in the Holy Spirit.
