So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
(Luke 4: 19-21)
The Holy Spirit came to give continuation to the work of the Lord Jesus through his servants.
The reason the Lord Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit is because we have the power to do what the Lord Jesus did and even greater. The moment that he comes upon us, we receive anointing and authority to:
1.Preach the Gospel: For all those who are far from God, for whoever has not received His grace, as rich as he may be, is still poor before God, Gospel means “Good news” and it is the responsibility of those who will receive the Holy Spirit to those who suffer.
2. To proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed: Those who are captives and oppressed by sicknesses, by suffering, by addictions, by sins. We have the anointing to determine that they be delivered, authority to speak straight to the sickness and determine that it leaves the persons life, to order the spirit that causes suffering in that persons life to leave her life once and for all.
3.To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord: The acceptable year of the Lord is not a period of 12 months; it is the era that we are living, that whoever, no matter what he has done, when he seeks God and surrenders his life to Him, will be accepted. Those who have received the Holy Spirit when he proclaims, he talks about Gods mercy, the person is blessed, because God Himself is talking through him, and the person who is listening understands that he is accepted, and all his past is erased.
This is what is determined for those who receive the Holy Spirit, those who are sensitive to those who are suffering and in pain; they exercise their spiritual authority to fulfill this determination.
But many servants of God are worried about their own life, than the life of those who are suffering, they became indifferent to the suffering of those around them, they looked at their uniform as a burden and not an armor, they don’t hear the voice of God when He tells them to wake up in the middle of the night to pray for the church, for his family and those who suffer.
We should analyze that even though this world is controlled by science, it is not capable of holding the glory of God, because He truly is infinite, and even though He still chooses us, as small as we are to make us His home.
And what have you done with this great power that lives in you?
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