Holy Spirit

Evening, February 20

Mt 4:1

… Though you become greatly sanctified by the Holy Ghost, expect that the great dog of hell will bark at you still. In the haunts of men we expect …

Evening, June 7

Rev 3:19

… This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in the soul. If our inner …

Evening, February 5

Mt 11:25

… has given, or to express assent to the great truths which God the Holy Ghost has opened to our understanding. What a privilege is intimate communion with the …

Evening, February 21

Ac 8:30

… As the Holy Ghost, the Author of the Scriptures is he who alone can enlighten us rightly to understand them, we should constantly ask his teaching, and his …

Evening, May 15

Heb 12:23

… Then my spirit shall have its last baptism in the Holy Spirit’s fire. Methinks I long to die to receive that last and final purification which shall …

Morning, April 20

Heb 2:14

… Ask grace from God the Holy Ghost, that by an intimate knowledge and a firm belief of thy Redeemer’s death, thou mayst be strengthened for that dread …

Evening, November 4

Ps 36:9

… Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel reveals himself within, the soul sees him not. If …

Morning, October 25

2Jn 2

… Those who feel the vital power of the gospel, and know the might of the Holy Ghost as he opens, applies, and seals the Lord’s Word, would …

Evening, August 25

Ac 8:37

… When the Holy Ghost has given you to feel the spirit of adoption, you may come to Christian ordinances without fear. The same rule holds good of the …

Evening, January 25

Ro 3:31

… he has a claim upon me, which I would not dispute.” May the Holy Ghost make your heart obedient to the constraining power of Christ’s love, that …

Morning, December 20

Je 31:3

… The Holy Spirit is often pleased, in a most gracious manner, to witness with our spirits of the love of Jesus. He takes of the things of Christ …

Evening, July 8

Ps 25:5

… for the good old ways of God’s own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits. “ For thou art the God …

Evening, September 8

Eph 1:19-20

… It is not the word preached, nor the word read in itself; all quickening power proceeds from the Holy Ghost. This power was irresistible . All the soldiers and …

Evening, June 5

1Jn 4:8

… set upon them, they feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them, and then by force of gratitude they love …

Evening, October 22

Jn 16:15

… Happy people who have the Holy Ghost to bring Jesus to them.

One Greater Than the Temple

Matthew 12:6

… In the perpetual baptism of the Holy Ghost the saints find power and life. So that everything which of old was regarded as a special token of God …

Consecration to God—Illustrated by Abraham’s Circumcision

Genesis 17:1-2

… All the called are justified, and all the justified are by a work of the Holy Ghost sanctified, and made meet to be afterwards glorified with Christ Jesus …

The Man Christ Jesus

Hebrews 7:4

… and then let us practically improve our consideration of how great this man is, trying to turn it to holy account as the Holy Ghost may enable us …

Your Own Salvation

Philippians 2:12

… Despise not what the Holy Ghost esteems, lest thou despise the Holy Ghost himself. The sacred Trinity think much of salvation; let us not neglect it. I beseech …

A Persuasive to Steadfastness

Hebrews 3:14

… So we are built into Christ by coherence and adhesion, joined to him, and made a spiritual house for the habitation of God by the Holy Ghost. We …

Consolation in Christ

Philippians 2:1

… Whatever the Holy Ghost may not be, he is evermore the Comforter to the Church; and this age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which …

The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet

Luke 1:46

… If we be partakers of the Holy Ghost, what more can we desire by way of favor from God, and what greater honor can be bestowed upon us …

Faith and Repentance Inseparable

Mark 1:15

… Such a persuasion you must labour to get rid of, for it came from Satan, and not from the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Ghost never did teach …

The Knowledge of Christ’s Love

… For to know the love of Christ, to taste its sweetness, to realize it personally, experimentally, and vitally, as shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost …

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… The solid truth of revelation, the doctrine of the Holy Ghost, a divine experience given to you by that Holy Ghost’all this is the treasure of the …

Watch-Night Service

Psalm 90:1-22

… Come, Holy Spirit! We can do nothing without thee. We solemnly invoke thee, great Spirit of God! thou who didst rest on Abraham, on Isaac, and on Jacob …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… Oh that the Holy Ghost may raise up from among us some master-fishers, who shall sail their boats in many a sea, and surround great shoals of …

The Sons of God

Romans 8:16

… But again, everything that is good in a Christian you know to be the work of God the Holy Ghost. When at any time then the Holy Spirit …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… Then by the assistance of the Holy Ghost did he open his mouth. Oh that we oftener sought the Lord in this style! Abraham may serve us as …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… In all that I have said I have given you another reason for seeking the aid of the Holy Spirit. If you do not understand a book by …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot do

… The Holy Ghost enters into us; we hear not his voice, we see not his light, we feel not his touch; yet he worketh an effectual work upon …

Divine and Human Ordination

… Every man who is rightly in the ministry must have been moved thereto of the Holy Ghost. He must feel an irresistible desire to spend his whole life …

God Justifieth the Ungodly

… See how this Scripture accepts the charge, and plainly states it! By the mouth of His servant Paul, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, He takes to …

God's Gentle Power

1 Kings 19:11-13

… But, brethren, beloved, the Holy Ghost also speaks to men without any means at all. With no outward agency whatever, the still small voice will come. Oh! how …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… When the Holy Ghost comes home to a man, God’s arrow goes into his heart: it does not graze his helmet, or make some little mark upon …

On the Choice of a Text

… The slavish habit of following the course of the sun and the revolution of the months, instead of waiting upon the Holy Spirit is, to my mind, quite …

Vile Ingratitude!

Ezekiel 16:1-2

… The centurion said he was not worthy that Christ should come under the roof of his house, and yet the Holy Spirit has not merely come under your …

By Grace Through Faith

… No man can say that Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost. "No man cometh unto me," saith Jesus, "except the Father which hath sent me …

Things That Accompany Salvation

Hebrews 6:9

… The great King, Immortal, invisible, the Divine person, called the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit: it is he that quickens the soul, or else it would lie dead …

Psalm 98

Psalm 98

… By his divine power he has sent forth the Holy Spirit doing marvels, and by that sacred energy his disciples have also wrought marvellous things and astonished all …