Quotes About Spirit

“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”

The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the manís home.

He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.í

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.

Then I remembered the word of the Lord, as He used to say, ëJohn baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.í

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.

One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements:

After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

And when they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit them.

One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.

She continued this for many days. Eventually Paul grew so aggravated that he turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” And the spirit left her at that very moment.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by manís skill and imagination.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

Eventually, one of the evil spirits answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.

After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.

I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.