- Devotional Messages

Mighty God, come to us through your Holy Spirit, filling us with peace. Give us a love for all and a desire to serve, humility of mind and gentleness of soul. Nurture your grace in our hearts. Come through your holy Spirit, setting us on fire with love for you. Fill us with a burning desire to work for your kingdom, and cleanse us of all that is impure and unworthy in our lives. Kindle a flame of faith in our hearts. Come to us through your Holy Spirit, breathing new life into our souls. Fill us with energy and enthusiasm in the service of Christ, and sweep away all in our lives that keeps us from living as your people. Instil a sense of expectation in our heart. Mighty God, forgive us that we so easily limit the Spirit, receiving its blessing for ourselves but failing to pass it on to others. Forgive us that we so readily quench the Spirit, resisting that which challenges and disturbs. Forgive us that we are so often closed to the movement of your Spirit, shutting it out by the narrowness of our vision. Come as the dove, the fire, and the wind, opening our lives to the peace, the power and the inspiration you would give us. Open our lives and touch our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

The Gospel According to John Chapter 16 Verses 5-15

“But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going, Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you. But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, the I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me. Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged. There is so much I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now. When the Spirit comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me”.

Hymn by Daniel Iverson 1935, 1963 Birdwing Music/EMI Christian Music Publishing/Copy Care

Hymn 613

Spirit of the living God,

fall afresh on me;

Spirit of the living God,

fall afresh on me;

break me, melt me,

mould me, fill me;

Spirit of the living God,

fall afresh on me.

Blessing

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all now and evermore, Amen.