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    Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit's Work in You
    Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit's Work in You
    Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit's Work in You
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    Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit's Work in You

    By Fuchsia Pickett, ThD., D.D.

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    "I would like to present my Friend and Teacher as He has revealed Himself through the Scriptures to me personally."

    Dr. Fuchsia Pickett reveals the character of the Holy Spirit in understandable language. He is the:
    • Inspiration that comes to your mind so you can see the truth.
    • Person who knows the things of God and reveals them to you.
    • Infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal Third Person of the Triune Godhead.
    • One who has come to unveil the Christ who lives in your heart.
    He is here to take possession of you and to work out God's plan and predestined will in you, for you, and through you until you become a praise to the glory of the Father Himself. Learn to acknowledge the Person of the Holy Spirit and thank Him for His love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharisma House
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781599798301
    Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit's Work in You

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      "Anyone who knows God the Father and God the Son without having a true understanding of God the Holy Spirit has not attained the Christian conception of God, nor has he [she] come to the fullness of Christian experience." (Fuchsia T. Pickett, "Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit")

      This is the first book that I have ever read by this author. I am always interested in getting more knowledge on the Person of the Holy Spirit and have a desire to have a more intimate relationship with Him, so I gave this book a shot.

      Before I begin a book, I usually scan the table of contents and that was no different with this book. At first, I was a little off-put by some of the names of the chapters and wondering if I was going to be exposed to some bad teaching. Here are the chapters in this book on Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit:

      1. Relationship with a Divine Personality

      2. Emotional Responses of the Holy Spirit

      3. Emblems Reveal the Holy Spirit's Character

      4. Sevenfold Power of the Holy Spirit. The Omnipotence of God Revealed

      5. Seven Moods of the Holy Spirit, Part II God's Desire for Mankind Realized

      I think what put me off (which later I repented and changed my mind about) was when the author talks about the emotional responses and moods of the Holy Spirit, but then it started to click for me as I read further: The Holy Spirit does have emotional responses and moods. Moods here are not defined by what most of us think when we think of moods i.e. like your spouse being in a bad mood! The author says, "When we discuss the moods of the Holy Spirit, we are describing a frame of mind He uses to express Himself to reveal His divine purpose for a particular situation. The Holy Spirit responds differently to different kinds of situations, though in each situation His ultimate purpose is to reveal Jesus and to fulfill the Father's eternal plan for mankind. For example, at times He will come in a convicting mood to convince men of sin. He expresses a compassionate mood when He comes as the Comforter to someone who is suffering grief."

      In respect to the Holy Spirit's emotional responses, the author says that the Holy Spirit has both negative and positive responses and then goes into great detail about each of these responses. Some of them he expounds upon are:

      Negative Responses
      - Grieved
      - Vexed
      - Offended
      - Quenched
      - Lied to
      - Defrauded
      - Resisted
      - Blasphemed

      Positive Responses
      - Obeyed
      - Believed
      - Honored

      The author teaches that Holy Spirit has definite emotional responses, but the greatest of these responses is love. He is the Spirit of Love. He says, "The Holy Spirit is a Person who has definite emotional responses, as clearly described in the Scriptures. He is God, and God is love (1 John 4:8). There is no stronger emotion than love. The strength of God's love is most clearly revealed in His willingness to undergo extreme suffering to rescue the object of His love: mankind."

      This was an interested take on the Holy Spirit that you probably will not find elsewhere. You start to see the Holy Spirit as more of a Person as you read this book and the power He gives you to live an overcoming life. The author has written some more books on the Holy Spirit that I am going to read next. Some of them are: Presenting the Holy Spirit, Walking In The Anointing...: Holy Spirit's Work in You, Receiving Divine Revelation: Invite the Holy Spirit to teach and guide you through scripture, Cultivating the Gifts and Fruit of the Holy Spirit.

      Some interesting insights on the Person of the Holy Spirit!

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    Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit - Fuchsia Pickett, ThD., D.D.

    Introduction

    Some readers might think it rather abstract and impractical to write a book that answers the question, Who is the Holy Spirit? Others may deem it presumptuous of me to say, I would like to present to you the Holy Spirit. To many people the Holy Spirit is nothing more than a name in a religious creed recited in liturgical services. To others He is merely a vague influence mentioned in the Scriptures. Even those Christians who think they know who the Holy Spirit is many times do not recognize Him as a divine Person. I do not blame anyone for thinking about the Holy Spirit in these ways, for I remember the time in my life when I too would have thought it strange to address the Holy Spirit as a personal Friend and Teacher. Even though I referred to Him as the Third Person of the Godhead, when speaking theologically, He was not a real Person to me.

    The doctrine of the Holy Spirit as a divine Personality is not only extremely practical, but also fundamental to our knowledge of God and our relationship to Him. Anyone who knows God the Father and God the Son without having a true understanding of God the Holy Spirit has not attained the Christian conception of God, nor has he come to the fullness of Christian experience.

    I must mention the doctrine of the Trinity here to give us a proper foundation for the study of the Holy Spirit. In Genesis 1:26 reference is made to the plurality that exists in the Godhead: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. God referred to our image and our likeness, using plural pronouns to refer to Himself. Many such references confirm the reality of the Triune Godhead. Even the passage in Deuteronomy that some use to discount the validity of the Trinity actually confirms the fact of the Trinity. We read there, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah (Deut. 6:4, ASV). The Hebrew word for God that is used here is a plural form. That indicates, in spite of the intense monotheism of the Hebrews, the plurality of persons in the one Godhead. So we refer to the Godhead in its original state, in the eons of eternity, as the Triune Godhead. Our study here focuses on the Person of the Holy Spirit, but we cannot ignore His integral relationship to the Triune Godhead.

    The importance of understanding the Person of the Holy Spirit is seen first of all in His effect on our perspective of worship. If we think of the Holy Spirit as merely an impersonal influence or divine power, we will inevitably rob Him of the honor and the worship He is due. We will not relate to Him properly or give Him the love, trust, surrender, and obedience that we should. We need to acknowledge this Third Person of the Godhead as He does His work on the earth, and yield to Him in complete obedience to His will.

    It is important that we not relate to the Holy Spirit only as an influence or power so we don’t try to use Him, or it, for our own purposes. This mistaken concept of the Holy Spirit inevitably leads to self-exaltation. It causes us to strut in pride, thinking that we have received the Holy Spirit and therefore belong to a superior order of Christians. Instead we need to think of Him correctly in the biblical way—as a divine Person of defined majesty and glory. Then we will relate to Him properly by asking questions such as: How can I surrender more completely to the Holy Spirit? How can the Holy Spirit possess me and use me in a greater way? Relating to the Holy Spirit as a divine Person is one of the most fundamental truths of the Bible—one that we must understand if we are to enjoy right relationship with God. Many earnest Christians are going astray on this point. They are trying to obtain some divine power they can use according to their will or giftings instead of surrendering their lives to the Person of the Holy Spirit. True maturity in Christ only comes through cultivating a right relationship with the Holy Spirit.

    We need to acknowledge the Holy Spirit as a divine Person of infinite majesty who has come to dwell in our hearts, take possession of us, and work out God’s eternal plan and predestined will in us, for us, and through us, until we are a praise to the glory of the Father. Then we will experience true holiness in the reality of self-renunciation, self-abnegation, and self-humiliation. I know of no other truth that can humble us and put us on our faces before God more quickly than this: The blessed Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Godhead who has come to dwell in our hearts and to restore us to the image of our God as He, in His infinite wisdom, unfolds His predestined plan for our lives. Such love and infinite desire of the Godhead to dwell with mankind is incomprehensible to our finite minds.

    Many Christians testify to the entire transformation of their lives and service to God when they become acquainted with the Holy Spirit as a Person. That is my personal testimony as well. After serving God as a Methodist professor and pastor for many years, I came into a fuller relationship with the Holy Spirit. I realized then that Someone had come to live in my life, Someone with whom I was not personally or intimately acquainted. When I surrendered my life completely to Him, He began to reveal to me that He had come to be my Teacher. He had come to unveil the Christ who had been living in me for seventeen years. It was then that I began to become intimately acquainted with the Holy Spirit as a Person.

    People often misunderstand what we are saying when we refer to the Holy Spirit as a Person. They think we are saying that He has hands, eyes, and ears and operates in a physical body as we know it. But those physical characteristics are attributes of corporeality, not personality. The generally accepted attributes of personality are intellect, volition, and emotions—knowledge, will, and feelings. One who thinks, feels, and exercises his will is a person.

    We finite human beings will one day lose our corporeality. Our earthly life in this world will end, and we will depart from these bodies. That does not mean we will cease to be persons, however. The Bible says that when we are absent from the body, we are present with the Lord (2 Cor. 5:23). So we will be alive in the presence of the Lord without mortal bodies.

    The Scriptures ascribe to the Holy Spirit all the attributes of personality, which we have defined here, that make Him a divine Person. For example, knowledge is attributed to the Holy Spirit in the passage that says, Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:11, NAS). The Holy Spirit is not just illumination or inspiration that comes to our minds so we can see truth. He is a Person who Himself knows the things of God and reveals them to us. We know also that the Holy Spirit came to instruct us, to become our Teacher. Jesus said, But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you (John 14:26, NIV). It is our privilege today to have the Holy Spirit, a living Person, dwelling within us, opening the classroom of our spirits twenty-four hours a day and letting us ask about anything we want to know. He never closes the classroom, and He never scolds us for asking. It is wonderful to know that, as we study the Bible, we have the divine Author of the Book to interpret it and to teach us its real and innermost meaning according to His divine knowledge.

    Volition, or will, is attributed to the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures that teach us concerning the gifts of the Spirit: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to each man severally as he will (1 Cor. 12: 11). The Holy Spirit came to earth to fulfill the will of God in the earth. Emotion is also attributed to Him in Paul’s appeal to the Romans for prayer: Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me (Rom. 15:30). Notice particularly the

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