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    Experiencing the Spirit: Developing a Living Relationship with the Holy Spirit
    Experiencing the Spirit: Developing a Living Relationship with the Holy Spirit
    Experiencing the Spirit: Developing a Living Relationship with the Holy Spirit
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    Experiencing the Spirit: Developing a Living Relationship with the Holy Spirit

    By Robert Heidler and Chuck Pierce

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    The Christian life is not a set of rituals or teachings, but a relationship with God through His Holy Spirit. No matter how much you know about the Bible, no matter how strong your self-discipline, no matter how hard you try to serve and please God, if your relationship with the Holy Spirit is weak, the Christian life will not work for you. In Experiencing the Spirit, Heidler shows how God wants to unleash His power in your life, to bring you into dynamic, life-giving relationship with the Spirit of God. We were given the Holy Spirit to make the Christian life experiential, to make Jesus real in our lives. So stop struggling to survive from week to week and start living every minute in the power He has given you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 22, 1999
    ISBN9781441268297
    Experiencing the Spirit: Developing a Living Relationship with the Holy Spirit
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    Robert Heidler

    ROBERT HEIDLER, ThM, is senior pastor of the Glory of Zion Outreach Center in Denton, Texas. A graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, Heidler has ministered extensively in Russia and Eastern Europe. He serves on the boards of Shekinah Messianic Ministries and Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. He and his wife, Linda, have three children.

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      Exceptional teaching material, well laid out and easy to follow and apply.
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      Biblical advice given by a man who obviously has experienced the Holy Spirit deeply in his life. Practical and immediately applicable to your life. Powerful insights to develop daily experience with the Holy Spirit in us to lead and guide us and on us for service to others. Outstanding!

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    Experiencing the Spirit - Robert Heidler

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    WHO IS THIS HOLY SPIRIT?

    Those who regularly drove down Lattimore Street knew the pathetic sight of the old man all too well. His home was a jumble of cardboard cartons and trash stashed under the I-35 overpass. His transportation was a rusty grocery cart borrowed from a local market, with a right front wheel that wobbled as he coaxed it along the litter-strewn gutters.

    During the summer, he would panhandle under the hot Texas sun for loose change from drivers stopped at the red light at Industrial Boulevard. In the winter, it was easier to root through the filthy dumpsters behind the hotel for scraps of food.

    One bitter winter day, he didn’t make his usual rounds. At first no one noticed. Even if they had, it was far too miserable a day to brave the sleet and cold of a blue norther to go looking for a lonely old man.

    Two days later, someone found him. His frail body, wasted away by pneumonia, lay cold and dead in his cardboard home, surrounded by the crumpled newspapers he had burrowed into in a futile attempt to keep warm.

    When the county coroner did the autopsy, he was puzzled to find a safe-deposit box key tightly clasped in the old man’s right hand. At first he supposed the old man had just found it on the street, or perhaps even stolen it. An investigation revealed, however, that the deposit box had been issued in the old man’s name many years earlier.

    What the lawyers found in the box when they opened it two weeks later made a front page article in the city newspaper.

    In the box they found the deed to the old man’s mansion in Florida, now unoccupied for many years. There were stocks and bonds from an investment portfolio, untouched for more than a decade. They found his diploma from Harvard, a Rolex watch, stacks of crisp $100 bills, small plastic containers filled with gold coins and a diamond ring valued at several thousand dollars.

    The old man who had lived in such misery and squalor was, in reality, a very wealthy man. He possessed incredible resources, but had not made use of the resources he possessed.

    MAKING THE CHRISTIAN

    LIFE WORK

    That old man is a picture of much of the Church today. God has blessed every Christian with incredible resources. He has made us to be kings and priests (see Rev. 1:6, NKJV). He has given us every spiritual blessing (see Eph. 1:3), even granting us authority over all the forces of the enemy (see Luke 10:19). He has made His own omnipotent power available to us (see Eph. 1:19,20).

    The Bible is a guide to these resources—and how God intends for us to use them. In John 14:12, Jesus promised that if we believe in Him, we can do not only the same works that He did, but even greater ones. That’s power! In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul indicates that the power available to us is like the awesome power displayed at the resurrection of Jesus from the dead (see Eph. 1:19,20). This power will enable us to take the gospel message into all the world (see Acts 1:8), to see people delivered out of darkness into the kingdom of God.

    Most Christians, however, have little understanding of the incredible resources God has given us. Many of us instead live in spiritual poverty, living not as supernatural beings who are partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4, NKJV), but living as mere men (1 Cor. 3:3).

    Christians live from week to week, attending church services, holding Bible studies, going through the rituals we have been told are important to an effective Christian life. But all too often, it’s just a religious game. We don’t see the kind of results the New Testament Christians witnessed. We barely have enough power to sustain ourselves through the trials and pressures of daily life, much less reach a hurting

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