Prince - The Holy Spirit in you

DEREK PRINCE Scripture quotations marked (NAS) are from the NewAmerican Standard Bible, 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked (Niv) are from the Holy Bible, New International Version, 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU Derek Prince Ministries International 1800 East Associates Lane Charlotte, NC 28217 ISBN: 0-88368-238-9 Printed in the United States of America Copyright 1987 by Derek Prince Whitaker House 30 Hunt Valley Circle New Kensington, PA 15068 No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 / 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 Contents ................................................7 ................17 .........................25 ...................................35 ...............................43 ...................51 ..................................................59 .....................69 ............................79 ............89 Chapter OneBefore Pentecost1 hrough the Scriptures we receive Tknowledge we could receive in no other way.

One of the supremely important revelations of the Bible is the nature of God. The Bible unfolds a mystery that we could know through no other source. The mystery is that God is both one and yet more than one; three persons, yet one God. The three persons revealed in Scripture are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This book will deal with the Holy Spirit. One of the most profound and distinctive revelations of the whole Bible is that of the person and the work of the Holy Spirit.

The first thing we must understand is that the Holy Spirit is Himself a person, just as much as the Father and the Son. Because of human parallels, it is comparatively easy for us to realize that God the Father is a person and God the Son is a person, but it is not as easy to realize that the Holy Spirit is a person. Through the Holy Spirit, God knows The Holy Spirit in You everything, there is nothing hidden from God; and through the Holy Spirit, God is present everywhere at the same time. These two characteristics are represented by the theological terms omniscient and omnipresent, respectively. This is unfolded in various passages of Scripture. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.(NIV) God fills heaven and earth. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.(NIV) God fills heaven and earth.

There is no place where God is not. There is no place where things happen that God does not know about them. This is very beautifully unfolded in the opening verses of Psalm 139: 1O LORD, you have searched me and youknow me.2You know when I sit and when I rise; youperceive my thoughts from afar.3You discern my going out and my lyingBefore Pentecostdown; you are familiar with all my ways.4Before a word is on my tongueyou knowit completely, O LORD.5You hem me inbehind and before; youhave laid your hand upon me.6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain.7Where can I go from your Spirit? Wherecan I flee from your presence?8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if Imake my bed in the depths, you are there.9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settleon the far side of the sea,10even there your hand will guide me, yourright hand will hold me fast.11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide meand the light become night around me,"12even the darkness will not be dark to you;the night will shine like the day, for darkness isas light to you.(NIV) What beautiful language! What a wonderful unfolding of the greatness of the wisdom of God. God's presence permeates the entire universe. There is nowhere that you can go and The Holy Spirit in You be hidden from God. No distance can separate you from Him.

No darkness can hide you from Him. God is everywhere, throughout the entire universe. He knows all that is happening in every place. The key that unlocks the secret is in the seventh verse, where the psalmist says: "Wherecan I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from yourpresence?" This is a typical example of Hebrew poetry, where the two halves of the verse say essentially the same thing. God's presence throughout the universe is His Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit, God is present everywhere; and through the Holy Spirit, God knows all that is going on in the universe at any time.

The Holy Spirit has been active in the universe from creation onwards. The psalmist tells us about the actual process of creation: 6By the word of the LORD the heavens weremade, And by the breath of His mouth all theirhost.(Psalm 33:6 NAS) Where the English translation says "breath,"Before Pentecost the Hebrew says, literally, "spirit." That would change the reading to: "By the word of the LORD theheavens were made, and by the 'spirit' of His mouthall their host." In other words, the two great agents of creation which brought the whole universe into being were the Word of the Lord and the Spirit of the Lord, or the Holy Spirit. If we turn back to the verses at the beginning of the Bible which describe creation, we see this unfolded in greater detail. Genesis 1:2-3 reads: 2Now the earth was formless and empty,darkness was over the surface of the deep, andthe Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.3And God said, "Let there be light," andthere was light.(NIV) The presence of the Spirit of God was there in the formless darkness, in the void, in the waste. The word " hovering" suggests a bird. Many times in Scripture, the Holy Spirit is identified as being the heavenly dove.

Here we have heaven's dove, the Holy Spirit, hovering over the dark, formless waste of waters. Verse three says, "And God said, 'Let there beThe Holy Spirit in Youlight,' and there was light." Here again are the two agents of creation: the Spirit of God and the Word of God. When they are united, creation takes place. When the Spirit of God and the Word of God are there, then a new thingin this case, lightis created. Light comes into being, formed by the Spirit and by the Word of God. You can see that the Holy Spirit has been at work in the universe from creation onwards and has always been present everywhere in the universe.

In a sense, the Holy Spirit is the active, effective agent of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit inspired and empowered all the men of God in the Old Testament. The list is too long to give all the names, but we will consider several examples. The first one is Bezalel, the man who designed and created the ark and all the furniture for the tabernacle of Moses. The Lord is speaking in Exodus 31:2-3: 2See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the