Summary of the Week and a Reflection (23rd & 24th February)

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

Jane Njeri

In our class of 23^rd February, we learnt about the Holy Spirit. We started by defining the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is divine worshiped and glorified we also say that, it is the lord God, the giver of life and it processed from the Father, who is God.

In the Old Testament the Jews did not know about the Holy Spirit but Jesus Himself did. We see that, the Holy Spirit appeared to the people during the day of the Pentecostal in Jerusalem. The Jewish feast of the Pentecost had celebrated the wheat harvest but on that day the Apostles received the harvest of the Holy Spirit; the courage, confidence and zeal to go out into the world and proclaim Gods salvation in Jesus Christ, it was a day to build Gods people up. They experienced this through the power which comes in many forms. For instance as the divine power or creative power. This divine power makes the disciples; preach and teach the gospel, gather the people together, lead the people and through this to the development and formation of many communities. During this period around 5000 people were baptized. The communities formed were know as ‘ekklesial tuo theou’ meaning the assemble of God, who received the power from above, which unites, forgives, heals e.t.c. The Holy Spirit made people move forward.

Titles of the Holy Spirit include,

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We also see that the Holy Spirit has different symbols;

·         Water

·         Anointing

·         Five

·         Cloud at night

·         The seal

·         The hand

·         The dove

Some of the functions of the Holy Spirit are;

·         The Holy Spirit the guide and healer.

·         It puts thing in order.

·         It is a universal principle that is it unites all people in the world.

·         The Holy Spirit is the mover of the world, it has a wide mission.

We also talked about the disciples who followed Jesus closely. Jesus had so many disciples (people who followed Him). The Apostles (the sent) were sent as missionaries. They were of two types Apostles of the church and of Christ, the messengers to witness and form churches