He is not here.  He is risen!

  Luke 24:6

Welcome

to the

Church of the Holy Spirit

Current Sunday Scriptures below!

Archived Scriptures in The Family Room!

 Who We Are 

The Church of the Holy Spirit is a Christian church.

We believe in God the Father, Jesus the Son

and

Holy Spirit the Comforter, Teacher and Healer.

We believe that God made the heavens and the earth,

 and gave all creatures His son, Jesus,

who died on the cross to forgive our sins

 and

to give us eternal life.

We believe Jesus went to heaven, he is now seated at God’s right hand,

 and

that God gave us Holy Spirit to comfort and guide us.

 

We believe the Bible is the inspired word of God.

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Who are God, Jesus and Holy Spirit?

God is our heavenly Father who created heaven and earth.  He gave us His Son, who died on a cross to allow our sins to be forgiven and give us eternal life becoming our Lord and Savior.  When Jesus died, Holy Spirit was made available to us to comfort, teach and guide us.

God in the beginning:  Genesis 1:1

Jesus:  Matthew 1, 2 & 3

Holy Spirit:  John 15:26

Are you one with God, Jesus and Holy Spirit?

 If you have not accepted the Trinity into your life and you would like to, pray this prayer or use your own words from your heart:

“Dear Heavenly Father God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, please forgive me of my sins known and unknown.  Please come into my life, heal me and make me whole.  Give me a new life in and with you.  I wish to receive all that you have to give.  Baptize me in the fullness of your Holy Spirit, so that I can learn all I can about you to love you, and others, as you love me.  So I can love myself.  Thank you for giving me this new life.  Please send other Christians to surround me to help me grow and be strong to defeat Satan and the things of the world.  Help me to be worthy of your love.  Thank you God, Jesus and Holy Spirit.  In Jesus name I pray by and with the power of the Holy Spirit to dear Heavenly Father God.  Amen.” 

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If you have prayed this prayer, please email us at TrinityMissions@msn.com, so we can agree with you in prayer, praise God, and uplift you with prayer support.  We are thrilled to welcome you into the family of believers and encourage you to find a church home nearby where you can study, grow and fellowship with others.  Someone may need your support as much as you need them.  We are commanded to come together in fellowship to worship His majesty.

If you choose to fellowship with us via the web, we are honored to welcome you to the Church of the Holy Spirit.  We pray you will be enriched and uplifted in the fullness of the Trinity to their glory.  Stay in touch and let us know how you are doing from time to time.  As the website grows, we will have a special page for this purpose, and, you will be able to list prayers for all to see, so that we may come together as a body of believers, for ‘wherever two or more shall gather, there will I be.’   Don’t forget to send prayers of thanksgiving, as well as petitions of tears.  

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You are who I call ‘The Promise Children’, as in Romans 9:25-26 NLT:

“Those who were not my people, I will now call my people.  And I will love those whom I did not love before.  And, once they were told, ‘You are not my people.’  But now he will say, ‘You are children of the living God.”

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“The Kingdom of God is near you now.”

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The Apostle Paul gave us a “Prayer for Spiritual Empowerment” in Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT.  It reads

“When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.  I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.  And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him.  May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it.  Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now glory be to God!  By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.  May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages.  Amen.”  

Jesus told us to remain in his love in John 15:9-13 NLT:

“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me.  Remain in my love.  When you obey me, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father and remain in his love.  I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy.  Yes, your joy will overflow!  I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you.  And here is how to measure it - the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends.” 

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April 12, 2009

Luke 24:6 

He Is Risen

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Luke

He is risen.  He is risen indeed! 

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Thoughts...

Jesus has been on a journey.  In the last week, he entered Jerusalem riding on a Donkey colt.  He was lied to and lied about.  He was betrayed.  He was mocked, spit on and beaten.  Some of his friends did not stay by his side to support him, uplift him or pray with him.  The people said he lied.  That he was not who he said he was.  He was not believed or trusted.  He was cast away and hung on a cross with nails.  He died on that cross.  His body was taken down and put into a tomb.  A rock closed the entrance.  

Some of his friends and family went to mourn him and view his body.  They went to him to apply balms to his now dead body.  But the body was not in the tomb.  The rock had been rolled away and he was gone! 

Later, a beloved follower, Mary Magdalene, turned around upon hearing the voice of who she thought was the gardener.  And it was Jesus!  Alive!  Yet, only in Spirit.  How could this be?  She went to embrace him and he told her she could not because he had not ascended to the Father in heaven.  Where had he been?

He had been in hell.  For three days.  She did not even recognize him.  Could it have been because of how living in hell can disfigure a person?  He appeared other times to the Disciples.  At first he was unrecognizable.  Still in spirit form.  He had only risen from the grave. 

And then he ascended into heaven as the Disciples watched.  

Why is all of this important?  

It's true.  It's factual.  It was witnessed by many people.  Written about by many people at different times.  But that is not the 'why'.  The 'why' is because all of this was done so that we might know Jesus as our LORD and SAVIOR.  The risen Lord.  

God sent his only begotten son to us so that we might believe in him and have faith.  He sent him to a cross to die so that our sins would be forgiven and that we might be given eternal life.  Yes, he knew his death on the cross was for the sins of people he had never met...before him and after him.  He knew he was the sacrificial lamb to offer eternal life to the world.  He knew and he obeyed his Father, God.  

And today, we celebrate his resurrection from hell.  His new life as spirit.  Soon, we will celebrate his ascension.  

All of this history, factual events that took place and were documented, was to bring us to not only today, but to heaven at the end of our days.  To an understanding...a knowing...that we can trust and believe in Jesus and make him Lord and Savior of our life.  He told the truth about who he was.  Prophecy was fulfilled.   History showed it came true.  It was meant to bring us to a point where we will want to stand with him and stand beside him, as he does for us.  It was intended for us to have a new life and an abundant life, sharing who he is, that he is, and how wonderful he is.  It is important that we believe, believe fully, and share all that we know about him to others to produce more fruit in the Kingdom of God.  It is paramount we give him the glory.  Glory of new lives pointing to the Trinity in heaven. 

Won't you consider giving your life to him today?  If you already know Jesus as Lord and Savior, renew your relationship with him today.  I am thrilled to be a member of the family.  I believe with all my heart that you, too, will find joy and solace, peace and hope being embraced by the one true God...the only one through whom you can have eternal life in heaven...Jesus.         

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Let Us Pray

Jesus, you are the risen Lord!  Come into our hearts today.  Forgive us of our sins.  Make us new creatures in you.  We praise you.  We worship you.  We give you thanks.  Let us never forget, and always recall, all you have done for us in your life, death, resurrection and ascension.  Let this day and every day hereafter be a remembrance for us as we take the food and drink...the bread and cup you offer as your body and blood....becoming one with you, forever obeying you and giving you thanks.  Praise you Almighty God, Jesus and Holy Spirit.  In the name of the Father, and the Son and Holy Spirit, I pray, amen.         

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Jesus Christ is risen today!

    Alleluia!      

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Scroll down to read Jesus' Prayer of Thanksgiving...'The Unforced Rythms of Grace'.

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Definition of a Christian:  Anyone who believes in God, Jesus and Holy Spirit, and accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior.  Regardless of church name or religious affiliation.  

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If you feel that the Church of the Holy Spirit has inspired or helped you, we'd like you to prayerfully consider tithing regulary to us or gifting us, so that we can further the work and carry out the will of the Father as proclaimed in Matthew 28:16 NLT

 to

 "Go and make disciples out of all the nations

baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you.  And be sure of this:

I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

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  Our Current Cause

 We have a family in crisis who could desperately use your prayers and support.  The Mom, a good Christian woman, is young still...she just turned 50, and she has 3 young children under 15.  She has just been diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer.  Her husband died 3 years ago from Cancer, and her Mother, who has her own health issues, is trying to care for her and her children and help her along life's way.  They do not have enough money to meet their everyday expenses right now.  But I am confident that, with your help, we can find some balance for them.  If this touches your heart, we hope you will pray earnestly for her to be healed, and pray for her family.  And, if you would, please send any amount of money you can to help them.  Please note 'Elizabeth and kids' in your note line on your check and we will see that all funds go directly to them.  Please consider reaching out to help them.  I know they will be sincerely grateful for anything you can do to help.  

Please accept our sincerest thanks....and may God bless you.

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Church of the Holy Spirit

and sent to

Church of the Holy Spirit

P.O. Box 86076

Tucson, Arizona

85754-6076

If you have any questions, we can be reached at:

1-866-402-GIFT

10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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As we grow, you will have options for allocating your gifts.

In the meantime, we hope you will trust us to direct them to where the need is the greatest.

We will be integrating Pay Pal soon for your convenience.

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    One last thing....

 Jesus' Prayer of Thanksgiving

'The Unforced Rythms of Grace'

 "Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer:  "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.  You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people.  Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work."

Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly.  "The Father has given me all these things to do and say.  This is a unique Father - Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge.  No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does.  But I'm not keeping it to myself; I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen."

"Are you tired?  Worn out?  Burned out on religion?  Come to me.  Get away with me and you'll recover your life.  I'll show you how to take a real rest.  Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it.  Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.  I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn how to live freely and lightly.

  Matthew 11:  25-30

  The Message

And the people said,

"Amen."

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I now write most prayers in the position of ' I ' (first person) because most people are sitting at their computer alone, not in groups, and it allows those reading and praying to personalize the prayer as coming from them going to God.  Variations may appear on holidays when families may wish to use the prayer provided.

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 Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996.  Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189.  All rights reserved.

Scriptures may be taken from the New Living Translations website.

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