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!

Embracing understanding with open arms...so all may become one.

We welcome and embrace you, loved ones,

throughout the world!

Hello and welcome....

 United Kingdom,

those in the area of the Phillipines, and Malaysian Island area of Java,

from the area of the Bahamas, and Canada!  

We miss you Angola Basin or Guinea Basin?!

Hey, USA, hi!  

My site map is not detailed, so, if I've missed someone, or misplaced someone,

let us hear from you via email!  Give me a shout out anyway! 

PRAY...for all in the world!

'You care for people and animals alike O LORD.' 

Psalm 36: 6b

   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 and Teacher.

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 teach, 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, 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 10, 2011

 1 Corinthians 13: 4 -7 

 Is This You?  

1 Corinthians

Love is patient and kind.  Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.  Love does not demand its own way.  Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.  Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 

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Thoughts.....

This brief 'Thought' is not about being lazy, or 'empty', or not being sincere, or heartfelt.  I don't want the thought lost in paragraphs of nuances and verbiage.  So, here it is:

Is this you?  Are you...

patient

kind

not jealous

not boastful

not proud

not rude

not demanding of your own way

not irritable

not recording when wronged 

never glad about injustice?

Do you....

rejoice whenever the truth wins out

never give up

never lose faith?

Are you....

always hopeful?

Do you....

endure through every circumstance?

If not, why not?  Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?  If yes, you need to step back and ask yourself this question:  If Jesus, who is Love, is in me, then why am I expressing myself this way?

If you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, consider doing so today.    

This week, look at who you are and how you are presenting yourself to others...and God.  As human beings AND as a Christian.  

Assess your daily actions.  Are you reacting instead of acting intently...with love, patience, kindness, etc.? 

What is your relationship with Jesus Christ?  Is he your Lord and Savior?  Or are you lord of your own life...and how's that going for you?

Are you and Jesus happy with your actions?  Unhappy?  Consider how he views your choices.

Pray.

Listen. 

Go forth in his name.

Amen.

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Let Us Pray

Lord, Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed.  There are so many days, Lord, that the worst gets the best of me.  I am deflated and overwhelmed.  I don't understand myself somedays or why I act the way I do.  I'm angry at how life is treating me, yet I don't always treat life or others well.  I don't know why that is, and maybe I don't need to know so much as I just need to make better choices.  Hang with people who know you...really know you...and act like you, so I can be reinforced to make better choices in how I act, how I live, how I treat others.  How I love you and show you.  Because if you are in others, when I treat them badly, I treat you badly, and perhaps I am suffering the consequences of not being fully loving.  You want me to prosper and have an abundant life.  I think I am worthy of only a  little because of who I thought I was/think I am, or how I was raised or treated....and it is this that angers me and makes me lash out.  I have been made to think I should live the life of a martyr and have nothing, and, it reflects on me being nothing....a no one...a non-entity.  How sad I am when I realize all of this.  But you, Lord, made me worthy by your love.  You died on a cross for me, so that I may have an abundant life now and eternally.  You died, so I might have forgiveness of my sins, if I but ask...and...go and sin no more.  Help me, Lord.  Help me live a life of love, patience, kindness and more.  Help me live my life so I can show others who you really are.  I've been saying you are in me, but you are really not, if I continue to act the way I have been acting.  And how can others then see who you are and why would they want to have you in their life?  You send me angels on earth to help me and I battle them.  Because I think that you have told me what I should do and who I should be, does not mean that you have.  ONLY if it aligns with your word, your love, can it be from you.  I must learn to assess all that I hear with your word and receive confirmation.  Just because a door opens, doesn't mean I should go through it.  I need to stop suffering....and causing more suffering for myself.  You want so much for me....a beautiful, peaceful, abundant life.  Help me to want that from you and for myself.  Help me realize that joy can know no bounds, if only I am a Christian in thought, word, and deed.  So the next time someone speaks to me, let me speak kindly in return.  Let me have patience and not be rude.  Let me love as you love.  And help me to realize that many people want what is best for me, and I do not have to keep abusing myself by settling for less than the very best, which is what you want to give me.  It is also what I should give others as well.  So onward and upward, Lord.  Lord, Lord, I AM worthy to receive you, please say the word, I will be healed, I am asking now.....forgive me, please.  God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, come into my heart with the fullness of your love.  Heal me in all the ways I need to be healed, mind, body, spirit and soul.  Holy Spirit, baptize me in the fullness of your love gifting me with all the things I need to be everything I can be for you, God, and Jesus, and to others, myself as well.  Thank you God, Jesus and Holy Spirit.  Help me.  Alleluia!  Amen.           

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More love.... 

  Benediction...Blessing

Let us hear from Paul as he prays:  

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.  Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT         

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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. 

It is not how we worship, but that we worship....the Trinity!   

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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 regularly to us or gifting us, so that we can further the work and carry out the will of the Father as proclaimed in Matthew 28:19-20 NLT

 to

 "Go and make disciples out of all the nations

baptizing 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

It is time to reach into the community and the world around you to see wherein lies the greatest need.  As you choose to focus on these areas, do so with a servant's heart.  Whether the need is for children, adults, or animals, or any cause in between that will help those in need, ask God how you can best serve his needs, what path you must take, and how long you should persevere.  Sometimes we are to be in the lives of others merely as stepping stones.  Sometimes we are to touch those lives forever.  Whatever journey you are called to take, whatever team you will be a member, know this:  God is with you always...even til the end of time.  He loves you, is grateful for you, and will help you along life's way, especially if you are helping others along theirs, persevering with a servant's heart. 

Please accept my sincerest thanks....and God's....and may God richly bless you!   

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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.

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    One last thing....

 Jesus' Prayer of Thanksgiving

'The Unforced Rhythms 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.

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