[W: #226] [W: #96] Fruit of the spirit

[Revelation]

For me it is mildness and self control...I'm an outspoken hothead...I mean redhead from birth...something I've had to work on all my life and I'm still working on...

count me in too, but God has been helping me in that.

 

[Overitall]

For me it is mildness and self control...I'm an outspoken hothead...I mean redhead from birth...something I've had to work on all my life and I'm still working on...

Two great attributes that we all should desire! Every time I SIT (or operate any of the other eight manifestations) I try to imagine fruit that is ripening in my life. One fruit -- long suffering -- is something I need more of in my old age. I still consider myself very patient as a result of cultivating the fruit through the manifestation of the spirit. But, alas, my retirement doesn't give me the same opportunities I once enjoyed.

 

[tosca1]

God made the human body to heal itself, but sometimes it needs some help. God gave us the holy spirit and the manifestation of healing as a help. Why would anyone refuse to offer healing.

James 5:14
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:”

When did God say this is no longer available? God doesn't want any of His children to suffer.

Our Baptist church prays for the sick (by name), who'd asked for prayers.
It is still being done.

When you carry out what Romans 10:9 and 10 says you are at that very moment baptized in the spirit.

Acts 1:5
""For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the holy spirit not many days hence.”

That day arrived on the day of Pentecost. There's no more waiting for it. Now it's just a matter of receiving what God made available.

YES.


Romans 10
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.





The baptism of the Holy Spirit may be defined as that work whereby the Spirit of God places the believer into union with Christ and into union with other believers in the body of Christ at the moment of salvation.


The baptism of the Holy Spirit was predicted by John the Baptist (Mark 1:8) and by Jesus before He ascended to heaven: “For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 1:5).
This promise was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1–4); for the first time, people were permanently indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and the church had begun.

First Corinthians 12:12–13 is the central passage in the Bible regarding the baptism of the Holy Spirit: “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—
and we were all given the one Spirit to drink” (1 Corinthians 12:13).


The following facts are necessary to help solidify our understanding of Spirit baptism:
First, 1 Corinthians 12:13 clearly states that all have been baptized, just as all been given the Spirit to drink (the indwelling of the Spirit).
Second, nowhere in Scripture are believers told to be baptized with, in or by the Spirit, or in any sense to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This indicates that all believers have had this experience.
Third, Ephesians 4:5 seems to refer to Spirit baptism. If this is the case, Spirit baptism is the reality for every believer, just as “one faith” and “one Father” are.

What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit? | GotQuestions.org

What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit? When / how are believers baptized in the Holy Spirit?

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....and, may I add - one Body (as in the church of Christ).