Dear Friend,
I pray this letter finds you well. As you read this, I want to encourage you to keep the Holy Spirit at the forefront of your mind as you prepare for a new month. When Jesus ascended into Heaven, He didn’t leave us on our own without a guide! Jesus promised another Helper to abide in you — the Holy Spirit. When you have the Holy Spirit living on the inside and are sensitive to His voice, your life will be forever changed!
The Holy Spirit is many things to a believer — He is just like Jesus — He is the Spirit of Truth, our Teacher, our Revealer, the One who glorifies God, and so much more!
But today I want to focus on how the Holy Spirit glorifies God. You will come to discover that everything the Holy Spirit does, He does in order to bring glory to Jesus.
The Holy Spirit — The Declarer of Jesus
Let’s begin by reading John 16:14, which says:
He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it unto you.
So how does the Holy Spirit glorify Jesus? He takes what belongs to Jesus, and He declares it unto you. The Holy Spirit is a Declarer, an Announcer, a Testifier, and a Proclaimer. For example, if Jesus has healing revelation or divine wisdom to impart to you, who is going to get you what Jesus wants to give? The Holy Spirit! He wants to take what Jesus has and give it to you. Isn’t that marvelous?
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If you need healing in your body, the Holy Spirit wants to give you healing. If you need a revelation, He wants to give you a revelation. And if you need peace, He wants to give you peace! By delivering what the Lord has for us, the Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus.
You may be wondering, But how does the Holy Spirit deliver these things to me? For one thing, the Holy Spirit is speaking to you through the Word of God. Through every verse, chapter, and book, He is declaring what Jesus has for you! That is just one of the many reasons why it is so important to read the Word consistently. It is such a powerful tool in the life of the believer! Through it, the Holy Spirit reveals and imparts things to you, and it glorifies Jesus.
I want to tell you about an example of the Holy Spirit glorifying Jesus in a huge way during a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting many years ago. Kathryn Kuhlman made such a way for the Holy Spirit to move in her meetings. She knew that the Holy Spirit would glorify Jesus by bringing His healing, miracle-working power to those who were in her service! That miracle-working power was working through her, and glory was being given to Jesus as everyone in her meetings watched numerous people be healed in miraculous ways.
In this particular meeting years ago, there was one healing that really stood out to me. There was a man named Billy Burke, who is now an evangelist in the United States, but who was just five years old when he attended this service. He had a brain tumor that caused him so much pain that in order to get any relief or freedom from the pain, he had to put his entire head in a bucket of ice. His eyes were also severely cross-eyed because of the tumor. He was in great pain and suffered from embarrassment because of his crossed eyes. He was just a little boy who wanted to live a normal life, except his life wasn’t normal at all.
But his grandmother took five-year-old Billy Burke to that Kathryn Kuhlman meeting. And Kathryn supernaturally called him out to come down to the pulpit for healing. The boy felt embarrassed and didn’t want to come down from his seat on the balcony, so his grandmother and the ushers helped encourage him to go down. And when he had made his way to the front, Kathryn touched him, the Holy Spirit brought the full power of Jesus, and that little boy’s eyes that so severely crossed became absolutely straight! At that moment, Jesus was glorified and this little boy was completely healed of that tumor! Praise the Lord!
Through the miracles the Holy Spirit brought into manifestation in that meeting, He was making a declaration of what Jesus wanted to bring to the meeting — healing. The Holy Spirit is always going to glorify Jesus, and in the Spirit’s manifest presence, His glory changes things.
Allowing the Spirit of God To Move Yields Powerful Results
Just recently, I was in our church in Moscow, Russia, and the Holy Spirit gave me a word of knowledge to speak against cancer and proclaim healing over people dealing with cancer. He specifically instructed me to curse every single cell of cancer. I didn’t know exactly who this word was for, but I obeyed the word the Holy Spirit gave me and proceeded to proclaim healing against every single cell of cancer in the auditorium!
Then just last week, a woman from our church came up to me after the service and told me she had been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctors had told her that she had a very small chance of survival. But after the service when I shared the Holy Spirit’s instruction to curse every cancerous cell in that room, the woman went back to the doctor. After examining her, the doctor told her that every single cell of cancer in her body was gone!
Can you see what the Holy Spirit was doing? He was glorifying Jesus by bringing His ministry — what Jesus wanted to do and what He wanted to give — to that service. And when that healing came, Jesus was glorified! Oh, how powerful!
What about Peter? The apostle Peter was incredibly sensitive to the moving of the Holy Spirit. Acts 5:14-16 says:
And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. Also a multitude gathered from surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
Did you catch that? Believers would place the sick on the ground around Peter’s path so that when he walked by, they would have the chance to be touched by his shadow, and they would receive their healing. Can you imagine it? Peter was so filled with the Holy Spirit that his shadow actually healed people! That’s the job of the Holy Spirit — to take what Jesus had and to give it to you to bring glory to Him!
Allowing the Holy Spirit to do what He wants to do opens the door for Jesus to bring what He wants to bring into your life. You have to get the Word of God in your heart and get into agreement with it. Once you’re in agreement with the Spirit of God and His Word, it enables the Holy Spirit to impart the things Jesus wants to give you. And Jesus has everything — He has your healing, your deliverance, your peace, your joy — Jesus has absolutely everything you need, and the Holy Spirit wants to give it to you!
I want to give you one more example from the Bible. This passage talks about when Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.
Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, “Draw out some now, and take it to the master of the feast.”
And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
— John 2:6-10
Water in the Bible often represents the Word of God. Just like Jesus turned that water at the wedding into good wine, He is doing the very same thing in your heart with the Holy Spirit! I’ll explain it this way: The wine of the Holy Spirit is powerful, and we need to be filled with the Word of God so He can turn that “water” into wine. In other words, when we are filled with God’s Word, we can receive from Jesus through the Holy Spirit. And when we receive from Jesus in this way, it glorifies Him!
Only the Holy Spirit can declare to you what Jesus wants to give you. And when we receive it, it brings glory to His name! That is the manifest power of the Holy Spirit showing us firsthand the ministry and miracle-working healing power of Jesus.
As you go about your month, I encourage you to fill your heart with the Word of God. Dedicate time to spend in the Word and to quiet your heart and mind to become sensitive to the Spirit of God. Listen for Him to declare what Jesus has for you, and receive it knowing that you’re glorifying Him.
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We are moving forward together,
Denise Renner