Pat Robertson - The Power of the Holy Spirit in You: Understanding the Miraculous Power of God

Pat Robertson

The Power of the Holy Spirit in You

Understading the Miraculous Power of God

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I n the Book of Genesis, the first chapter of the Bible, we read these words: In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:12, AMPC). So, in the beginning of time, before the earth had been formed, not only was Elohim (God) present, but also someone called in Hebrew Ruach Elohim (the Spirit of God). Then, Scripture tells us that the Spirit of God was brooding over the waters. The image here is of a mother hen covering her babies. It is safe to say that the Spirit of God was present at the very creation of the world, and that the Spirit of God is distinct from God the Father. Otherwise, why would it be necessary to speak of God as one being and the Spirit of God as another being?

But then something else is revealed. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light (Genesis 1:3). So a third factor is introduced to us: the Word of God. In the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, we see God, the Spirit of God, and the Word of God. We will learn later that Jesus Christ is known as the Word of God. There are three distinct beings: God, the Spirit of God, and the Word of God.

The Gospel of John gives us further understanding about the second person of the Godhead, the Word. Johns gospel says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:13 NIV). The Greek preposition dia is used at this point and can be translated as by or through. However, three of the best translations translate it as through, and therefore, for the purposes of this manuscript, I will be using the translation of dia as through. The Creative Mind (the Father) expressed Himself through the Word (the Son), but the active power to effectuate the Fathers command comes by the Spirit of God.

What do we learn from this biblical beginning? Father God appears as the creative mind, and He expresses Himself with His word. Would that not be adequate to achieve what is necessary? Apparently not. I dont want to read too much into the early narrative, but it does seem that the effective power to activate Gods will and spoken word throughout His creation comes through the Spirit of God.

This book is about the Holy Spirit, and throughout the Bible, the Holy Spirit is the power which activates the will of God and the Word of God throughout His creation, and certainly to those of us made in His image.

We can fast-forward now to the beginning of the ministry of Jesus Christ when, as a young man of thirty, He submitted Himself to the ritual of baptism at the hand of a fiery preacher known as John the Baptist. At that moment, Scripture tells us that a dove (the symbol of the Holy Spirit) descended from Heaven and sat upon Jesus, and a voice from Heaventhe voice of God the Fathersaid, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17 NKJV). Here again is the Trinity of GodFather, Son, and Holy Spiritthe Father, the creative mind of the Trinity; the Son, the expression of God or the Word of God; and the Holy Spirit, the activating power of God throughout His creation.

We have learned that God the Father is God, God the Son is God, and God the Holy Spirit is also God. And yet together, they are one.

People have laughed at this concept, have been confused by it, and have brought forth heresy to explain it. The Islamic faith, in fact, refers to Christians as polytheists, which to its adherents is a gross error. They say, We serve one god, who is Allah. I wonder who Allah is. The flags of Algeria, Libya, Turkey, and Pakistan, for example, have the crescent moon on them. For a time, I considered the possibility that Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, was indeed the Allah that is worshipped by the Islamic people. However, the weight of scholarship swings in another direction. Was Allah a derivation of an Arabic term much like the Hebrew El, or did it partake of the Phoenician name for lord, which was Baal? The best scholarship I have been able to find indicates that Allah is in truth a derivation of Baal. Whatever the origin of Allah, I want to say emphatically that Christians and Jews do not worship Allah, but the Covenant God of the Hebrews who is identified by the tetragrammaton