'Encouragement' Tagged Posts (Page 6)

Jesus’ intimacy with the Father in His prayer life was distinctively linked to the Holy Spirit, because He knew the Spirit’s activity was the key to God’s anointing and equipping for service in His kingdom. The first time we see this link between Jesus, His prayers, the Holy Spirit, and the closeness of Father and Son is His baptism in the Jordan River in Luke 3:21-22 “Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized,…

Hebrews 5:7 “In the days of His flesh [Jesus] offered up definite, special petitions (for that which He not only wanted but needed) and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was always able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence toward God (His godly fear, His piety, in that He shrank from the horrors of separation from the bright presence of the Father).” This passage in Hebrews tells us that in…