Terry Marr Ministries

Experiences May Vary
Allow me to share my experiences with Holy Spirit in the hopes of bringing clarity to those of you who may relate. I was told by "so called religious scholars" that unless my experience with Holy Spirit matched that of Acts Chapter 2, it wasn't authentic. The truth is I knew Him before I knew my parents. My first memories were of Him. He told me who I was. People (including Family and friends) often were concerned that I spent so much time alone but I wasn't. He was there. I fit in with him when I couldn't relate with anyone else. For the longest time I shared things with neighbors, family members, teachers, strangers, Pastors and others that I heard from Holy Spirit. Even my Mother assumed it was all make believe until at the age of three I told her to answer the phone because Grandma was calling with bad news and needed help. From that moment on she instructed me to funnel all the things I received from Holy Spirit through her. This went on until I graduated from High-school. Because of lack of knowledge I was forced to seek the pentecostal experience of Acts 2 by many religious scholars but I had already received "the ear to hear and the language of God's Holy Spirit" from birth. Read Psalms 22:9

The Holy Spirit Experience
In the Bible we read about the Person and Power of the third Person of the God Head known as Holy Spirit. In the book of John, Jesus says, " If you love me, I will ask the Father, and He will give you an advocate who will never leave you. His name is Holy Spirit, who leads you into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. (Jesus says this because he knew his time to be crucified for the sins of man was near and the disciples would scatter because of fear. He, also, knew without His physical presence the disciples would be tempted to give up, therefore, Father God had already prepared the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Jesus) to step in after the resurrection on the day of Pentecost. (Read Acts Chapter 2). That rushing, mighty wind that appeared and fell upon the believer that day was the Spirit of Jesus sent from God to assist the disciples in carrying out their assignments and God ordained callings. The Bible says as "Spirit" "Jesus was able to descend and now ascend higher than all heavens, so he might fill the entire universe with himself." Now as believers we can hear and obey.

Brothers and Sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, "Abba, Father." For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And since we are his childen, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory. But if we must also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. But with eagar hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. (Romans Ch 8)

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