“I AM”
The Bible tells us that The GodHead-Father, Son and The
Holy Spirit is self-existent.
God The Holy Spirit can
be referred to as “I Am”, just like God The Father and God The Son.
When you have encounter
with The Holy Spirit, you will experience a growing reality of His Presence.
Every Scripture, every encounter, and every revelation
makes our walk in The Spirit more complete.
The Holy Spirit is so real He can be resisted. Many
people think He is wind. But He isn’t. that’s just another in a long list of
descriptive symbols used to communicate The Spirit-oil, water, dove, cloud,
light, and so on. It certainly doesn’t mean that He looks like His symbols.
Wind is invisible to the eyes, but you cannot resist it.
The word: resist means to oppose. People do actually oppose The Holy Ghost-they
stop Him from working. Stephen in his speech to the Sanhendrin, quoted Moses
saying: “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always
resist The Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you” (Acts.7:51).
The words grief and grieved in the original Greek is
“loopa”. Here is what it means: to feel pain in body and mind. It means to
suffer mental and physical anguish.
The Holy Spirit is a Person, or Paul would not have said,
“Do not grieve The Holy Spirit” (Eph.4:30). He grieves and that goes much
deeper.
Not only that, but The Holy Spirit can be quenched. The
word means to put out. Paul warned the Church at Thessalonica “Do not quench
The Spirit” (I Thess. 5:19). You cannot quench the wind, but you can stop a person.
Many Christians do not realize that The Holy Spirit can
be vexed. Isaiah talked about the Lovingkindness of The Lord and His Mercy
toward Israel: “But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit; therefore He was
turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them” (Isa. 63:10 KJV).