06.05.22 Scriptures

Matthew 11:12 (AMP CE)

12 And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize—a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion].

 

Luke 1:5-17 (AMP CE)

5 In the days when Herod was king of Judea there was a certain priest whose name was Zachariah, of the daily service (the division) of Abia; and his wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

 

6 And they both were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.

 

7 But they had no child, for Elizabeth was barren; and both were far advanced in years.

 

8 Now while on duty, serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

 

9 As was the custom of the priesthood, it fell to him by lot to enter [the sanctuary of] the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

 

10 And all the throng of people were praying outside [in the court] at the hour of incense [burning].

 

11 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

 

12 And when Zachariah saw him, he was troubled, and fear took possession of him.

 

13 But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you must call his name John [God is favorable].

 

14 And you shall have joy and exultant delight, and many will rejoice over his birth,

 

15 For he will be great and distinguished in the sight of the Lord. And he must drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit even in and from his mother’s womb.

 

16 And he will turn back and cause to return many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,

 

17 And he will [himself] go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient and incredulous and unpersuadable to the wisdom of the upright [which is the knowledge and holy love of the will of God]—in order to make ready for the Lord a people [perfectly] prepared [in spirit, adjusted and disposed and placed in the right moral state].

 

Luke 1:35-41 (AMP CE)

35 Then the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God.

 

36 And listen! Your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is now the sixth month with her who was called barren.

 

37 For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment.

 

38 Then Mary said, Behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be done to me according to what you have said. And the angel left her.

 

39 And at that time Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country to a town of Judah,

 

40 And she went to the house of Zachariah and, entering it, saluted Elizabeth.

 

41 And it occurred that when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit.

 

John 1:19-23 (AMP CE)

19 And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?

 

20 He confessed (admitted the truth) and did not try to conceal it, but acknowledged, I am not the Christ!

 

21 They asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not! Are you the Prophet? And he answered, No!

 

22 Then they said to him, Who are you? Tell us, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?

 

23 He said, I am the voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness [the voice of one shouting in the desert], Prepare the way of the Lord [level, straighten out, the path of the Lord], as the prophet Isaiah said.

 

Luke 1:15-17 (AMP CE)

15 For he will be great and distinguished in the sight of the Lord. And he must drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit even in and from his mother’s womb.

 

16 And he will turn back and cause to return many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,

 

17 And he will [himself] go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient and incredulous and unpersuadable to the wisdom of the upright [which is the knowledge and holy love of the will of God]—in order to make ready for the Lord a people [perfectly] prepared [in spirit, adjusted and disposed and placed in the right moral state].

 

Judges 13:1-5 (AMP CE)

13 And the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

 

2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

 

3 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, Behold, you are barren and have no children, but you shall become pregnant and bear a son.

 

4 Therefore beware and drink no wine or strong drink and eat nothing unclean.

 

5 For behold, you shall become pregnant and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.

 

1 Samuel 1:8-15 (AMP CE)

8 Then Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you cry? And why do you not eat? And why are you grieving? Am I not more to you than ten sons?

 

9 So Hannah rose after they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat beside a post of the temple (tent) of the Lord.

 

10 And [Hannah] was in distress of soul, praying to the Lord and weeping bitterly.

 

11 She vowed, saying, O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your handmaid and [earnestly] remember, and not forget Your handmaid but will give me a son, I will give him to the Lord all his life; no razor shall touch his head.

 

12 And as she continued praying before the Lord, Eli noticed her mouth.

 

13 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

 

14 Eli said to her, How long will you be intoxicated? Put wine away from you.

 

15 But Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I was pouring out my soul before the Lord.

 

Romans 8:26 (AMP CE)

26 So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.

 

Ephesians 5:18 (AMP CE)

18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but ever be filled and stimulated with the [Holy] Spirit.

 

John 3:6 (AMP CE)

6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

 

Romans 8:6 (AMP CE)

6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

 

Genesis 11:1-9 (AMP CE)

11 And the whole earth was of one language and of one accent and mode of expression.

 

2 And as they journeyed eastward, they found a plain (valley) in the land of Shinar, and they settled and dwelt there.

 

3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar.

 

4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.

 

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

 

6 And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.

 

7 Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

 

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of the whole earth, and they gave up building the city.

 

9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel—because there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth; and from that place the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

 

Acts 2:1-9 (AMP CE)

2 And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,

 

2 When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.

 

3 And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.

 

4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].

 

5 Now there were then residing in Jerusalem Jews, devout and God-fearing men from every country under heaven.

 

6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together and they were astonished and bewildered, because each one heard them [the apostles] speaking in his own [particular] dialect.

 

7 And they were beside themselves with amazement, saying, Are not all these who are talking Galileans?

 

8 Then how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own (particular) dialect to which we were born?

 

9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and [the province of] Asia,

 

Acts 2:13-16 (AMP CE)

13 But others made a joke of it and derisively said, They are simply drunk and full of sweet [intoxicating] wine.

 

14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: You Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let this be [explained] to you so that you will know and understand; listen closely to what I have to say.

 

15 For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is [only] the third hour (about 9:00 a.m.) of the day;

 

16 But [instead] this is [the beginning of] what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

 

Joel 2:28-29 (AMP CE)

28 And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

 

29 Even upon the menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit.

 

Acts 10:34 (AMP CE)

34 And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons,

 

Acts 2:37-39 (AMP CE)

37 Now when they heard this they were stung (cut) to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles (special messengers), Brethren, what shall we do?

 

38 And Peter answered them, Repent (change your views and purpose to accept the will of God in your inner selves instead of rejecting it) and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of and release from your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

39 For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself.

 

1 Corinthians 2:4 (AMP CE)

4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],

 

Luke 24:32 (AMP CE)

32 And they said to one another, Were not our hearts greatly moved and burning within us while He was talking with us on the road and as He opened and explained to us [the sense of] the Scriptures?

 

Jeremiah 20:9 (AMP CE)

9 If I say, I will not make mention of [the Lord] or speak any more in His name, in my mind and heart it is as if there were a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I am weary of enduring and holding it in; I cannot [contain it any longer].

 

 

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