SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING - Kenute P. Curry

SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING

Kenute P. Curry

Holy Spirit, God-given understanding is of the best kind. You cannot get anything better than that kind of illumination into your soul!

John 14:26

1. THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL ABIDE WITH US FOREVER (John 14:16). HE WILL TEACH US ALL THINGS, AND REMIND US OF EVERYTHING JESUS HAS TOLD US (John 14:26). THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WILL TESTIFY ABOUT JESUS (John 15:26). THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GUIDE US INTO ALL TRUTH; HE WILL DECLARE TO US WHAT IS TO COME (John 16:13). THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GLORIFY JESUS, IN THAT HE WILL TAKE WHAT IS HIS, AND IMPART IT TO US (John 16:14).

2. THE HOLY SPIRIT PROVIDES WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING, COUNSEL, STRENGTH, AND FEAR OF THE LORD (Isaiah 11:2).

Ephesians 4:30

3. WE RECEIVED UNDERSTANDING, TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, EXPLAINING SPIRITUAL THINGS TO SPIRITUAL PEOPLE (1 Corinthians 2:12-13).

4. THE SPIRIT IS ABLE TO PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE WISDOM THAT GOD MAKES KNOWN BY REVELATION, INSPIRATION, AND ILLUMINATION (1 Corinthians 2:9-10).

5. THE ANOINTINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT REMAINS IN US AND TEACHES US ABOUT ALL THINGS THAT ARE TRUE (1 John 2:27).

Proverbs 1:23

6. LISTEN CLOSELY TO WISDOM, DIRECT YOUR HEART AND LIFT YOUR VOICE TO UNDERSTANDING, CALL OUT TO INSIGHT, SEEK IT LIKE SILVER, AND SEARCH FOR IT LIKE HIDDEN TREASURE (Proverbs 2:1-6).

Psalm 119:73, 99; Proverbs 2:3-6; Ephesians 4:30; James 1:5; Ezekiel 36:27; 2 Timothy 2:7; 1 Peter 2:2

7. LUKE 2:47 – THIS SCENE TAKES PLACE AFTER THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL, IN THE TEMPLE COMPLEX. JESUS WAS SITTING AMONG THE TEACHERS, LISTENING TO THEM AND ASKING THEM QUESTIONS. LUKE 24:45 – THIS SCENE TOOK PLACE AFTER THE RESURRECTION, AND AFTER JESUS HAD APPEARED TO THE ELEVEN APOSTLES. HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES.

8. PAUL’S PRAYER IS FOR THE PERCEPTION OF OUR MINDS TO BE ENLIGHTENED, AS TO THE HOPE OF JESUS CALLING, AND THE GLORIOUS RICHES OF HIS INHERITANCE AMONG THE SAINTS.

Beloved, when we allow ourselves to be truly taught by the Holy Spirit, a treasure of resourceful spiritual riches opens up to us, and our spiritual life deepens ever so much more in Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

February 18^th 2014

©2014 Kenute P. Curry. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, by Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

JOHN MacARTHUR – The MacArthur Study Bible, New King James Version (Nashville, Tennessee:  Word Publishing, a division of Thomas Nelson Inc. 1997)

HCSB STUDY BIBLE – Holman Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, Tennessee: Holman Bible Publishers 2010)