How Do We Know If We Have the Holy Spirit? CQ Podcast Highlight
What does God promise to give us when He gives us the holy spirit?
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So how do we know we've been given God's spirit? Do you have to speak in tongues and physically heal others in order to have proof?
No, absolutely not. When you look at the gift of speaking in tongues and the gift of healing, you see that they were for a time. How do we know that? Because the Apostle Paul said that plainly in 1 Corinthians. He said those are only for a time. That didn't mean the holy spirit stopped. It just meant those gifts stopped because now you had the word of God to replace it. So that's where we are working and focusing. We're looking at that more narrow focus of how the holy spirit works in us and what we are promised as a result of that.
How do these promises work, though? Are we given a free ticket to, let's just say, greatness, abundance, prosperity, happy times?
No.
No. We don't get that either. We can't heal, we can't speak in tongues, and we don't get abundance.
But, what we do get...here's what we do get. We get an assurance of God's providence in the midst of whatever chaos is in our lives. And I will tell you unequivocally, I will take any day, under any circumstance, an assurance of God's providence over anything else because that is the highest power that does exist.
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