THE LIFE FORCE

SYMBOLS INDICATING THE LIFE FORCE

Everyone loves to have icons to identify for quick moves to their favorite places on the World Wide Web!  They are so cute, inviting and enabling us to quickly find our way.

The LIFE FORCE knew His creations enjoyed such, so from the very beginning man was shown ways to identify with THE LIFE FORCE and commune with Him in the “cool of the day” or as we would say in “the afternoon breeze.”  Wind is the first icon or symbol of the POWER of THE LIFE FORCE.

The Wind became a symbol to man for the Power of God.  (John 3:8; Acts 2:2-4; Exodus 14:21 and Genesis 3:8)  We can feel the wind and by technology have some idea which way the wind will be blowing, yet most of us really do not understand why or how the wind will blow.  The LIFE FORCE has purposes so beyond our usual knowledge so as to confuse us. Example: A child with severe learning disabilities is not ordinarily expected to become a writer, yet you are reading that child’s writing.  THE LIFE FORCE has touched the inner workings of her mind to perfect this! Miracle? Yes, the wind blew!

In Holy Scriptures the WIND is symbolic of THE LIFE FORCE”S POWER.

“The wind blows wherever it pleases.  You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.  So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”  (John 3:8 NIV)

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place... sound as of a mighty rushing wind...” (Acts 2:1,2 NIV)  The Wind drew a crowd nearly 3,000 came!

“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land...” (Exodus 14:21-24 NIV)

The Wind blew as the creatures passed before the man who had the joy of naming them.  What an intellect!  There were more than he, Adam (man from the red earth), had seen before!  What joy he felt at seeing the variety of animals.  They obeyed his voice!  The LIFE FORCE brought the animals to Adam and allowed him to name them.  For example,  “The giraffe!” is the long necked one. What a time that was. All cattle, fowl of the air, and beasts were named by Adam

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Largely the church (organized body of Christ) does not welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit.  The body is afraid when He moves to minister enhancing their usual “comfortable” worship.  When allowed, He creatively administers strength.  In the following seven ways the Holy Spirit speaks His role as “horns” and “oil” of THE LIFE FORCE.

B. EMPOWERMENTS of the work of THE HORNS-OIL

1.  The Holy Spirit of the Lord (Spirit of Faith) is sent forth to be the ministry power source through willing, cleansed vessels. The Spirit of Faith empowers our human faith level for courage to pray for things, which ordinarily do not happen in the natural, or at least don’t happen regularly.  The Gift of Faith differs, for it functions for a specific need.  The Holy Spirit’s empowerment with the Spirit of Faith is a steady source of confidence in THE LIFE FORCE.  A minister empowered with this working of the Holy Spirit will not stay discouraged for long.  They will stand when others are too tired and battle weary.  Jesus was well acquainted with this power source. He quoted Isaiah 61:1-3 and Luke 4:18-19 as he preached His first sermon and sat of the chair left untouched because it was the Messiah’s chair in temple.  He was the Messiah, Y’shua the savior...so he sat down.  The Holy Spirit had to remove him from the area to protect His life.  What a ministry send off!

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captive, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised (translated many times as cursed), To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”  (Luke 4:18-19)

Zechariah 3:9 directs us: the Holy Spirit could only come to work in us as “reflections off the rock” (Jesus).

Anointing (Representation of the oil of God’s presence) of the Holy Spirit is always for the purpose of ministry NOT SHOW.   Spiri