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In this episode of NAR to Christ, Dawn Hill responds to excerpts from Angela Scafidi's interview with James Goll. She considers how practices such as reading recurring numbers as messages from God and claims about releasing the Holy Spirit can be presented in Christian language. Drawing on her years in the New Apostolic Reformation, Dawn explains why Christians must test spiritual claims by Scripture and rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ. For more from Dawn, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/dawn-hill/

This sermon examines Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3, emphasizing the necessity of knowing the love of Christ to be filled with the fullness of God. The speaker highlights the internal spiritual warfare between the 'old man' and the 'new man,' arguing that believers must mortify their sinful nature through the power of the Holy Spirit. It critiques modern Christianity for abandoning high standards of holiness and obedience, urging believers to pursue perfection as commanded in Matthew 5:48. The message concludes with a call to trust in God's limitless power to strengthen believers and guide them toward spiritual maturity, rejecting the philosophy of existentialism in favor of biblical submission.

In Romans 8:28–29, Paul connects God's promise to work all things for the good of His people with His purpose to conform them to the image of His Son. Dave Jenkins opens this passage and 2 Corinthians 3:18 to explain how the Holy Spirit transforms believers as they pursue holiness in dependence on God's grace. In this episode of Contending for the Word Q&A, Dave considers how God uses His Word, the local church, difficult relationships, and trials to make His people more like Christ. He encourages believers who are discouraged by slow growth to keep looking to Christ, confessing sin, and trusting God to finish His work. Explore more from Contending for the Word Q&A https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-qa/

How Can We Have Confidence in Our Salvation? | Hebrews 10:15-22 Not all confidence is created equal. False confidence is brash and boastful; true confidence is secure and peaceful — like a daughter jumping off the couch into her father's arms, knowing he will catch her. How can we know the confidence we have before God is true and not false? Hebrews 10 gives us a sure sign: when God saves us, the Holy Spirit writes His laws on our hearts and minds, so that we are deeply grieved over our sin and truly desire righteousness. Yet our confidence is grounded not in our own sincerity, but in Jesus alone. Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, through the new and living way He opened for us, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, we can draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith — washed clean, truly redeemed, deeply loved, and warmly welcomed. Hebrews, Day 34 — a devotional study through the book of Hebrews with Pastor Jason Van Bemmel of Forest Hill Presbyterian Church.

Chapel | November 12th, 2026 | Alton Beal | A Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit | I Thessalonians 5:19

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In Section 1 of Part III of A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards establishes that truly gracious affections stem exclusively from a supernatural, divine influence wherein the Holy Spirit dwells in the believer as an abiding, internal principle of new spiritual life. Unlike common natural operations of the Spirit—which merely heighten existing human faculties, conscience, or imagination without altering the heart's fundamental nature—true grace imparts a completely new spiritual sense or taste, enabling the soul to perceive and delight in the moral beauty and holiness of God. Consequently, Edwards dismantles common emotional counterfeits, proving that dramatic mental imagery, physical visions, voices, sudden impressions of Scripture, or emotional surges indicating personal favor are merely natural or imaginative phenomena that carry no inherent spiritual virtue or divine origin.

In Chapter 1, John Owen establishes that while the Holy Spirit carries out general works of grace like regeneration and sanctification in all believers, He also provides specific, vital aid tailored directly to the duty of prayer. Recognizing prayer—encompassing meditation, petition, praise, and thanksgiving—as a universal religious duty rooted in natural law and confirmed by Scripture, Owen argues that true spiritual life and acceptable worship are impossible without it. Despite Scripture giving more explicit emphasis to the Spirit's role in prayer than in almost any other duty, Owen highlights a sharp contemporary division between those who mock Spirit-led prayer as a worthless human trick and believers who cherish it as their highest privilege and source of strength. Ultimately, he frames the Holy Spirit's direct operation in prayer as the central hinge of Christian worship and sets out his two core objectives for the book: to prove from the New Covenant that this special work of the Spirit is promised to believers, and to explain the precise manner in which the Holy Spirit operates when we pray.

This sermon examines Luke 11, focusing on the disciples' request for Jesus to teach them how to pray and the subsequent instruction on the nature of persistent prayer. The teaching highlights the contrast between the disciples' initial self-centered joy in spiritual power and the need to recognize their dependence on God, emphasizing that prayer is a regular, everyday discipline rather than a response solely to crisis. By analyzing the Lord's Prayer, the message underscores the transcendence of God as the Father in heaven and the importance of aligning human will with God's preceptive will. The parable of the persistent friend serves as a central illustration, demonstrating that God values the steadfastness of the believer's faith. Ultimately, the sermon assures the audience that God, who is good, generously gives the Holy Spirit to those who ask, seek, and knock, inviting them to trust in His provision and guidance.