Jesus promised His disciples that in Hisabsence, the Holy Spirit "will teach you all things and will remind you of every-thing I have said to you" (John 14:26). Through the Holy Spirit, all of us shouldexperience feelings and thoughts from God. - P164
Therefore, we need to exercise discernment and make sure that when we openour minds and hearts, the leadings we receive are from the Holy Spirit. - P164
Many Christians err on the side of caution. They reject, ignore, or repress feel-ings and ideas that may be from God. - P164
However, when the HolySpirit seeks to influence them more directly and personally through impressions,
visions, and prophecies, they get uncomfortable and stifle Him (1 Thess. 5:19).
As a result, their relationship with God becomes overly cerebral and abstract. - P164
As the HolySpirit enables us to sense God‘s heart for us, we should have moments when wesay, "I believe this thought or feeling is from God." - P165
22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. - P44
natural humans are dead in sin,
and in Jesus Christ, they are made alive. But this is just the beginning. - P46
Once everything comes under Christ‘s supreme reign, He willplace them under God‘s authority forever. In short, just as all thingscame from God, all things will be perfected and return to God. - P46
for the unfathomably great things God has in store for us! - P46
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