THE NECESSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams

We can’t overemphasize the necessity of the Holy Spirit; it is mandatory for believers to have the person of the Holy Spirit in our lives like never before. I have been through a lot in life and have come to the conclusion that even the charismatic churches are beginning to deviate from the original path that has brought us this far.

 I think the danger here is this, the more knowledge we acquire of scripture, the more arrogant and proud we become. We erroneously think that the knowledge of scripture is enough and so we don’t really need the Holy Spirit. Our spirituality as believers is not only determined by the amount of scriptures we can quote, or how many times we have read the Bible, but by how yielding we are to the Holy Spirit.

Genesis chapter one verses one through three, (NKV) reads, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”

According to the original text of the scripture, the word “heaven” should actually read “heavens.” It is plural because we have more than one heaven; we have the first, second and third heavens.

From the scripture, we realize that God created the heavens and the earth. Everything God created was good and was perfect.

However, we see that the heavens were perfect but there was a problem with the earth. There is something in Genesis chapter one called the pre-adamic` world. This pre-adamic world existed before the adamic world as described in the books of Job, Ezekiel and Isaiah. It is believed that the pre-adamic world was destroyed after the war in heaven (Revelations Chapter 12) when Satan and one-third of the angelic host fell to the earth.The defeated foes destroyed the then world, therefore, leaving the earth without form while darkness covered the face of the deep.

Then God came on the scene. He saw that the state of the earth was not as He had created it from the beginning, so the spirit of the Lord moved or brewed upon the face of the waters. As soon as the spirit moved upon the face of the waters; God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” We realize from scripture that until His spirit moved upon the face of the waters, God did not speak, act or do anything.

He only spoke what he had envisaged and wanted to see after His spirit had taken the lead. The moving of the spirit resulted in the tangible effect of the word which He spoke. 

If God himself waited for His spirit to move before He spoke, what then makes you and I think that we can speak the word, or quote scriptures for things to happen without the spirit inspiring, moving or leading us? 

God himself had to wait for the spirit to move before saying, “let there be light.”

Continued next week . . .

Blessings!