11.You have Holy Spirit or Elijah / Paul / any other Saint’s spirit

One Sunday Morning, the Holy spirit woke me and made me to attend a English service in an Assembly nearby my residential area. I was there by 8:35 AM, and the worship service has already started. The assembly was full and no place to sit. However one of the members of the church made a boy to sit near a lady and offered me a chair to sit.

After the Song worship the coordinator read certain announcements and in the due course announced to welcome “Visitors”. I thought it was their church practice to call the first time comers as visitors. So I woke up and the coordinator thanked the people for visiting and carried on with other announcements. In the announcements, he read a commendation letter from a Congregation from a different town to take a new member into their Church, signed by the elders of the Church. This was new to me and I have never seen such need for commendation letter in my 20 years of Christian life.

The song worship, the Lord’s table and the word ministry was completed and as per the leading of Holy Spirit I walked out waiting for none. While walking out I noticed that the service timings as mentioned as 8:45 AM and not prior. So I was a bit surprised as to how the service has started early.

The next Sunday also the LORD led me to the same assembly. This time I went by 8:20 itself and found that the service has not started. I was preparing for the worship in spirit and one of the elders approached me and started asking about my details about the last church I went and asked for a similar commendation letter. I answered the truth that I don’t go a specific Church and also stated that I have been given Abraham’s spirit and Elijah’s spirit. For this he said, oh! We also have the same spirit and said that if I continue to come to the church I should fill up a form and meet the elders. Then he said, this is not the time to discuss this since the time was up for the worship to start. Soon the song worship started. After the worship, I waited in the place where the LORD wanted me to wait. This elder did not turn up but another member introduced himself and spoke to me for a short duration, during which I shared my short testimony with him and the concise details of the ministry I do. He took my phone number and said that we’ll catch up later and then I left.

I have a reason to share this incident. When I was meditating on the title given, I was reminded of this recent incident and I don’t remember anywhere that I have Abraham’s spirit and Elijah’s spirit. I have been called as Abraham by the LORD. But I have never used the word Abraham’s spirit before. So it was surprising for me to hear me speak in such manner. Then I realized, it was not me, but the Holy Spirit speaking.

So what is this all about? Such titles always create a ripple among Christians. So I first hesitated to write. But here am obeying to the LORD and writing.

Abraham Spirit

I don’t know a person termed to have Abraham’s spirit in the scripture. However Abraham has been termed as Friend of LORD. See Isaiah 41:8

Elijah’s Spirit.

John the Baptist was told to have Elijah’s Spirit. Luke 1:17 says “He shall go forth with Elijah’s Spirit”

Also when Mary went to meet Elizabeth, it is told that John was filled with Holy Spirit.

So did John had 2 spirits? Elijah’s spirit and Holy Spirit?

Lets see Elijah’s Spirit when Elijah lived.

We see Obadiah stating to Elijah when Elijah asked him to be messenger to meet Ahab. “The Holy Spirit may take you somewhere else” read 1 Kings 18: 7-12.

It was with the power of Holy Spirit Elijah performed great things.

In this neither the prophet nor the saint has any credit. All blessings, honor, power and strength shall be ascribed only to the LORD god Almighty. This is the hidden secret. Your life may be similar to that of a saint who lived. But it is the Holy Spirit who should be in you and lead you. So in a way, telling that I have Abraham’s spirit, Paul’s spirit etc., is not proper, unless the LORD speaks.

May the Holy spirit teach and lead you into all truth. Amen.

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