People who are taught that there is no such a thing as the Holy Spirit, don’t know what they’re talking about. Like that boy once peeling an apple, and was asked by an infidel, debating a meeting. He said, “What do you want, what do you want up here?”

He said, “I want to ask you a question.” While he was eating the apple and enjoying it, a very simple, sort of, looked like a delinquent person with the hair hanging in his face, and one tooth out in front, and an old, dirty overall jacket on, he said, “Just one question I want to ask you.”

The infidel had just said, “There is no such a thing as God. It’s all emotion. There’s nonsense to it, is all it is.”

And the boy said, “I want to ask you a question, mister. Is this apple sweet or sour?”

He said, “Well, how do I know? I’m not eating it.”

He said, “That’s just what I thought,” walked right back.

How do you know, when you haven’t tasted the Lord?  How do you know, when you’ve never received the Holy Ghost, whether He’s real or whether He is not?

-William Branham

Taken from “Show Us the Father and It’ll Satisfy Us”  1953

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The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?     – Amos 3:8     

“It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.”

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind…for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.”

– Fanny Crosby

1820-1915

 1. And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

 2. And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

 3. Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

 4. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

 5. And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

 6. And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

 7. Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

 8. And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

II Chronicles 15:1-8

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Colossians 3:12, 13