Congress signed 20 bipartisan bills into law last month. It’s February, and Ohioans still haven’t had to use their snow shovels. The Indians (see lead graphic) won last year’s World Series. And money does grow on trees.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t. How often have you heard that expression? And how often has that expression been spot-on correct? Pretty close to 100% of the time, right?
But that all changes when we’re talking about the Holy Spirit. When talking about the Holy Spirit in the God-breathed Scriptures, if it sounds too good to be true, there’s a 100% chance that is indeed true! And God so wanted us to “get” these truths, that He gave us multiple Sounds-Too-Good-To-Be-True Holy Spirit Promises in the Scriptures.
GALATIANS 5:16—THAT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).
“You’re telling me that I can be an overcomer in the war against the flesh?” asks the porn-trapped believer. “Even in this porn-on-demand world in which we now live? And without the aid of an accountability partner or group? Nah, that sounds too good to be true.”
But the believer who has experienced the Holy Spirit’s exceeding abundant inner-working power (Ephesians 3:20) to deliver believers from lusts of the flesh sings a different tune. He has taken the theology and applied it to his own life. And he now knows that Spirit-led deliverance from lusts of the flesh is not only possible, but that it is the expected outcome for all who have learned how to step up the degree to which they walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16).
(for two additional Sounds-Too-Good-To-Be-True Holy Spirit Promises from God’s Word, see the full blog at www.wileygrafbooks.com/news/holy-spirit-truths-v2)
IF POWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WE CAN BE CONFIDENT THAT IT IS INDEED TRUE!
The world says, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t.” But we in the Church sing a different tune. We that are indwelt by the Holy Spirit can say, “If powered by the Holy Spirit, even when it sounds too good to be true, we can be confident that it is indeed true!”
A GAME-CHANGING BOOK HAS ARRIVED
In A Way of Escape, readers learn how to tap into their inner-working Holy Spirit power. Readers learn how to step up the degree to which they “walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16). They learn how to build a library of Spirit-anointed, flesh-diffusing apps. Apps that are uniquely fitted to them, and their unique Spirit-filling triggers.
The still-struggling now have another option. The still-struggling now have fresh hope for discovering that long-sought-after way of escape from sin and temptation (I Corinthians 10:13). A way that—because it is wholly Spirit-powered—does not require enlisting the aid of an accountability partner or group. Truly, a game-changer!
