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Titus 3
The Holy Spirit is probably the most misunderstood of the godhead. In the Old Testament, God ministered to people. In the gospels, Jesus minstered to people. From Acts 2 (day of Pentecost) till now, Holy Spirit is ministering to people.
When we believe that Jesus is our Savior and we recognize Him as our Messiah, the first thing that happens is His blood covers our sins and we become perfect in God’s sight. His Spirit regenerates us and gives us a new life (Titus 3:5) - we are saved. (Note for NLT readers - see the asterisk for more detail)
Psalm 139:13 - God conceived us in the spirit BEFORE we were conceived in the natural. The eternal part of us (our spirit) is being regenerated when we come to the cross. All we are doing is coming back to the God who already knew us before we were born. The Bible says that we are washed, cleansed, and reborn - which has everything to do with the Holy Spirit.
John 7 - John (as a writer) has a different perspective from the other gospels. He wrote about the Holy Spirit in a way that the other authors didn’t. The underlying theme in John has to do with water. Every year, people came to Jerusalem to live in tents for 7 days. It was called the Feast of Shelters. They would bring burnt offerings to the Lord daily and on the 8th day, there was a MASSIVE party! The Jewish people knew how to party. Then, the High Priest would take a large gold pot and fill it with water from the pool of Siloam, and then to end the feast, the priest would pour the water out on the steps of the temple. Jesus came to the feast incognito so that He would not be noticed. On the last day as the priest poured out the water, Jesus began to shout and revealed Himself. He said that all who were thirsty should come to Him. The crowd went quiet and He began to prophesy what was to come. He spoke of living water that comes from within - we have to get uncorked and unblocked so that the river of God can flow out of us. Living the Christian life without being unblocked is quite difficult. We were never meant to live without living water. When we come to the cross and become regenerated, that is merely the beginning. The next thing that occurs is the pouring out of the Spirit. He has already placed His Spirit inside of us from the time that we were born. Jesus told them to wait in the upper room before the outpouring of the Spirit until the Feast of Pentecost. 500 people were told, but only 120 were left on the day of Pentecost. They were baptized with fire, and it was a fulfillment from the book of Joel. Rivers of living water flowed out of the 120 and the church was birthed through the day of Pentecost.
The Holy Spirit conference in June is going to be 5 nights of an “upper room experience”, but when they came OUT of the upper room, the world began to understand them. When we come out of the Holy Spirit conference, we will be relatable to the world.
The Holy Spirit guides us and coaxes us alongside of our journey. He is in our life, in the world, and omni-present. The Spirit of God will move supernaturally during the week of conference. The main sign of being filled with the Spirit is speaking in other tongues. It is Spirit to Spirit, the way tthat we were created. Jesus told the woman at the well that she has to worship in SPIRIT and truth. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the culmination and fullness of our spirits connecting to God. The world sees the way we operate and the way that our faith works. We are enabled to do things beyond our natural ability. Our spirit on earth is connecting back to our heavenly Father, just the way it was before we were born. When we operate through the Spirit, life begins to make sense and things start to work out. The river of God flows around us and through us - it is an easy burden. Everything that God has for us in our lives (job, family, relationships etc) comes out of the river of God.

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