The Holy Spirit is not merely a mystical presence but the very breath, wisdom, and power of God working in and through believers. Isaiah 11:2 offers one of the clearest biblical outlines of the Holy Spirit's attributes, describing seven distinct manifestations—often called the seven powers or spirits of the Holy Spirit. These powers were fully embodied in Jesus Christ and are given to believers to live godly and victorious lives. Isaiah 11:2 (KJV) " And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. " Let’s look at each power in detail: 1. The Spirit of the Lord This is the foundational presence of the Holy Spirit—the sovereign power of God that rests upon a person for divine assignment. It represents God’s anointing, approval, and presence. ...
Marriage is the coming together of two mature minds that put aside all their differences and accept to genuinely love, respect, understand, tolerate, and support each other in holy matrimony. The need for marriage was to take away man’s loneliness by having help meet in his life in Genesis 2:18 until it was instituted by God in verse 24 , that a man will leave his father and mother to be joined with his wife to become one flesh . The words from this scripture that got my attention are: i. Leave For a man and a woman to be united in marriage, the man has to first work on himself because he is to be the head of his home and when the head becomes faulty, the whole body which is his home automatically becomes faulty. A man who is financially unstable and does not have a roof over his head, but depends on his parents to run his own home is not yet mature for marriage. The Bi...