Favors granted
As I continue, I pray that I will not speak of my own but that of the Spirit that He derives from what He hears as this Spirit speak unto the churches. And I humbly acknowledge the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, which I invoke that I may not be speaking against the doctrines of the Church.
Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always (John 14:16).” The word here “another” speaks that the nature of the Advocate or Comforter is of the same kind as that of the Father and the Son, meaning it is the same God. The word “I will” speaks of the authority of Jesus meaning he has the same claim to the possession of the Father being also God himself, so that makes the three persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as both God distinct from each other yet of the same Deity or Divinity.
Another scripture worth to ponder is when a man Ananias, with his wife sold a piece of property. He retained for himself, with his wife’s knowledge, some of the purchase price, and took the remainder, and put it at the feet of the apostles. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you lied to the Holy Spirit and retained part of the price of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain yours? And when it was sold, was it not still under your control? Why did you contrive this deed? You have lied not to human beings but to God (Acts 5:2-4).”
In this scripture, it speaks that the Holy Spirit, that Ananias lied against and with the deed against the Spirit’s will, with Ananias keeping for himself part of the price of the property, was not a human being or any other ordinary spirit but a God. Ananias himself who was lying to the Holy Spirit lies to God making it clear that there was a third person of the Trinity which is also a Deity. It follows, that when Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last, and great fear came upon all who heard of it.
Likewise, it is said in the scriptures that you can device a humor before the Father and the Son, but you should not say a joke on the Holy Spirit for this couldn’t be forgiven. What fear came to me as I may be offending the Holy Spirit in some of my pronouncements? But my trust of God and my being a childlike before the Holy Spirit in full submission to his control make me relieved of the guilt and make me trust the Spirit.
On the Pentecost Sunday this year 2007 as I was listening to the talk delivered by a jolly priest, him mentioning about the selfishness over the content of what words we proclaim, I felt I was struck. As a result, when I arrived home I feel a new person, separating from God my sense of duality, and obtaining for myself a completely different existence freeing me from the concept of yoga. I feel my link and special favor with God was broken, and obtains for myself a link, which is dependent upon the mercy of God in full submission to him not as a dual stinger but as a child in his arms.
With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I feel it is but proper to mention some special favors I’ve received before. When I was newly distributing the research paper about the Godhead, every time I seclude in buildings, it rains usually in downpour and when I’m about to leave the building, rain usually stops in perfect timing. I was listening to the radio broadcast aired in a tricycle radio, with the announcer wondering how it is that it was so bright with sunshine and all of a sudden it turns cloudy and it rained hard, and after a few minutes the rain stopped and the sun did shine again.
As a result, yes, I was smiling. This favor happens many times with the white dove coming in the backyard for four to five days and so tamed that you can feed it within the time the Spirit permits my so-called manifestation when my chanting and acclamation about the scriptures were so strong.
I remember too one incident that happened when the favor was so strong. We were awakened at about 11:00 p.m. by a shouting of a fire, and we found out that our neighbor’s house is on flame. Another neighbor, whose house is adjacent to ours and is beside the house on fire, was throwing gravels to the flaming roof beside them with the help of other neighbors and also opened their garden hose.
It is perhaps with the Spirit’s will that I was reminded of the Bible. Likewise I opened it and let its unfolded pages face the house on fire. While I was alternately in tongues as I was uttering my prayers, the whole family prayed hard for a rain. And so, after a few minutes, there was a drizzle that progressed to a downpour.
Though it rained hard, it was not enough to save our neighbor’s house but the conflagration was prevented from spreading that emancipated other houses from being caught on fire. The fire truck also arrived that prevented the adjacent rest house of the burning residence from being caught also in flame.
In the morning we found out that the damage was severe. Our neighbor whom I call Auntie being also a distant relative of ours declared that the damage amounted to 3.5 million pesos including the value of their appliances. We’re so sorry for what happened to our Aunt’s house. On the contrary we feel that favor was on the rest of the neighboring houses for without the rain, the fire might have scattered impairing other houses.
-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra
