DAY 15- Wow! We are 15 days into our journey, can you believe it? It is going by so fast. There have been so many wonderful stories shared and so many more to come.
Zechariah: We have enjoyed being with you over these last 15 days. We hope you have been as blessed as we have. We look forward and are thankful for each new day the Lord gives us to share of His amazing grace and love.
Yesterday we shared of the great news that spread throughout Judea . Our son’s name and my restored speech! Upon my ability to speak again I became filled with the Holy Spirit. There is so much importance in the Holy Spirit that I find it necessary to share with you just how He works.
In the book of John 14:10 “The words I say are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me." Jesus was saying when I speak it is the words of my Father in me not my own. And just as you and I speak on behalf of our Father it is not our words but the words of our Father that lives within us.
In Jeremiah 1:9 "Then the Lord touched my mouth and said, "See, I have put my words in your mouth!" It is the Spirit that allows the Word of God to be in us.
When my wife was greeted by Mary she was filled with the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit that gave her the words to speak to Mary. It was the Holy Spirit who would fill our son John even before his birth, and it would be the Holy Spirit that would speak through him in the wilderness.
And the day I regained my speech I was filled with the Holy Spirit and began praising God. I say all this in hopes that tomorrow as I share the words of praise with you that you will understand it is the words of my Father in me. It is all about Him, it is by His power alone that any of us can share the Good News. The most important of all, the conception of Jesus was from the Holy Spirit.
I want to close today with this scripture for you to think about until we meet again. It is from the book of John "If you love me obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him. But you do, because he lives with you now and later will be in you." John 14:15
