The Holy Spirit And Healing Anointing

I wanted to include the text of the verses in this lesson, but it made this teaching far too long -- over 8 pages. So I had to remove the text of the verses to shorten this lesson to an acceptable length. So I ended up listing some of the things the New Testament tells us about the Holy Spirit and supplying a reference verse. I encourage you to study this lesson by looking up the verses on your own -- I used the New King James Version (NKJV) when I researched this lesson. This list in this lesson is not comprehensive, but it will give you a feel for Who the Holy Spirit is. If you search Scripture, you could find out more things about the Holy Spirit than are listed in this lesson.

Here are some things the New Testament tells us about the Holy Spirit and how He operates in our lives today:

• The Holy Spirit fills and empowers Jesus' followers - Mark 1:8

• The Holy Spirit speaks through believers and gives us the right things to say at critical times, like when we are called before the authorities because of our faith - Matthew 10:19-20

• The Holy Spirit enables people to prophesy, or to speak God's words - Luke 1:67, Acts 21:11, 2 Peter 1:21

• The Holy Spirit rests upon devout godly men, giving them supernatural revelation and leading them - Luke 2:25, Luke 2:26, Luke 2:27, Ephesians 3:5

• God the Father gives the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him for The Holy Spirit's activity in their life - Luke 11:13

• The Holy Spirit is involved in giving us eternal life - John 3:5-6, John 6:63, Galatians 6:8

• The Holy Spirit enables us to worship God - John 4:23,24

• The Holy Spirit is truth - John 14:17

• The Holy Spirit helps us and teaches us - John 14:26

• The Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus - John 15:26

• The Holy Spirit leads and guides us - John 16:13, Romans 8:14, Galatians 5:18

• The Holy Spirit relays commandments from the ascended Jesus to God's people - Acts 1:2

• The Holy Spirit empowers us to be Jesus' witnesses - Acts 1:8

• The Holy Spirit empowers us to speak other languages that we have not studied and learned - Acts 2:4, 1 Corinthians 14:2

• The Holy Spirit is given as a gift to all who repent and believe in Jesus, and who are committed to obey Jesus - Acts 2:38, Acts 5:32

• The Holy Spirit sometimes gives preachers spontaneous sermons - Acts 4:8

• The Holy Spirit gives boldness in the face of persecution and resistance - Acts 4:31

• The Holy Spirit can tell when someone is lying - Acts 5:3

• The Holy Spirit sometimes executes judgment on God's disobedient people, like when He struck Ananias and Saphira dead for lying to Him - Acts 5:3-6

• The Holy Spirit gives wisdom - Acts 6:3, Acts 6:10, 1 Corinthians 2:6

• The Holy Spirit allows us to see in the spirit, or gives us the ability to discern spiritual things going on around us - Acts 7:55

• The Holy Spirit still does teletransportation (instantly relocating a person from one place to another for God's purposes). He did this with Philip - Acts 8:39

• The Holy Spirit empowers healing - Acts 9:17, Acts 10:38

• The Holy Spirit edifies and comforts God's people - Acts 9:31

• The Holy Spirit tells us things that will happen and gives us explicit directions - Acts 10:19, Acts 11:12, Acts 11:28, Acts 13:2

• The Holy Spirit causes people to be converted - Acts 11:24, Rev 22:17

• The Holy Spirit sends out evangelists and missionaries - Acts 13:4

• The Holy Spirit directs or calls our attention to things He wants to show us - Acts 13:9

• The Holy Spirit gives us a joy that is independent of our current circumstances - Acts 13:52, 1 Thessalonians 1:6

• The Holy Spirit directs us in ministry - Acts 16:6

• The Holy Spirit empowers us to love others - Romans 5:5

• The Holy Spirit sets us free from condemnation - Romans 8:1

• The Holy Spirit renews our minds and thinking patterns - Romans 8:5

• The Holy Spirit quickens our physical bodies - Romans 8:11

• The Holy Spirit draws us into deeper intimacy with God the Father - Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6

• The Holy Spirit assures us of our salvation - Romans 8:16, 2 Corinthians 1:22

• The Holy Spirit helps us pray - Romans 8:26, Romans 8:27

• The Holy Spirit gives us peace - Romans 8:27

• The Holy Spirit sanctifies us - Romans 15:16

• The Holy Spirit empowers us for mighty signs and wonders - Romans 15:19, 1 Corinthians 2:4, Galatians 3:5, 1 Thessalonians 1:5

• The Holy Spirit reveals the deep things of God to us - 1 Corinthians 2:10

• The Holy Spirit gives various spiritual gifts to the church - 1 Corinthians 12:4, 1 Corinthians 12:8-11

• The Holy Spirit gives us liberty and freedom - 2 Corinthians 3:17

• The Holy Spirit transforms us to be like Jesus - 2 Corinthians 3:18, Titus 3:5

• The Holy Spirit gives us faith - 2 Corinthians 4:13, Jude 1:20

• The Holy Spirit gives us the blessings of Abraham - Galatians 3:14

• The Holy Spirit causes us to bare fruit in our life - Galatians 5:22

• The Holy Spirit gives those who belong to Christ access to God the Father - Ephesians 2:18

• The Holy Spirit strengthens us - Ephesians 3:16

• The Holy Spirit gives us unity with one another - Ephesians 4:3

• The Holy Spirit has feelings and we can hurt His feelings by grieving Him (e.g., sin and disobedience) - Ephesians 4:30

• The Holy Spirit is not domineering -- He allows us to quench Him rather than forcing His way upon us - 1 Thessalonians 5:19

• The Holy Spirit empowers us to obey God - 1 Peter 1:22

• The Holy Spirit is God, a member of the Trinity - 1 John 5:7

While this is not an exhaustive list of the Holy Spirit's activity in our lives, it does give you a feel for Who He is. As you can see, He works closely with Jesus and He is involved in just about every area of our relationship with God.

His goal is to make us mature in Christ, to change our character and nature to be more like Jesus, to draw us into deeper intimacy with God and to empower us to live successful and victorious Christian lives. He is also the one who makes us an effective witness for Jesus and He is deeply involved in healing the sick.

If you want to see more of His anointing and power demonstrated in your life and ministry, then you need to enter into a personal relationship with Him. You need to learn how to work and cooperate with Him so that He will be pleased to anoint you and work through you to accomplish God's purposes. We will talk more about how to develop a quality personal relationship with Him in subsequent lessons.