Daily Bread 6/5/2025

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Email from Abiding Place     Daily Bread – June 5, 2025 (The Fifth Day – Genesis 1:20-23) Revelation 4:5 – And from the throne came forth lightnings and voices and thunders, and seven torches of fire burned before the throne which are the Seven Spirits of God. The Seven Endowments of the Holy Spirit – Seeing as God Sees The prophet Isaiah describes seven different divine endowments of the Holy Spirit given to the Messiah, King Jesus. These divinely inspired abilities gave Jesus, and anyone who possesses them a quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. We contend these divine abilities and insights were present in the life of Jesus the moment He was begotten of God. He was incarnated into flesh by the Holy Spirit with the divine nature of God (Matthew 1:18, 20; Luke 2:40). The divine nature of God is the nature of the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, it would stand to reason that when anyone is born of the Holy Spirit, they too have the nature of the Holy Spirit and possess these divine endowments (John 3:5; Titus 3:5; 2 Peter 1:3-4). The revelation of seven spirits, or seven divine abilities, of the Holy Spirit is not foreign to Scripture. It appears to imply the fullness of the Spirit, or the full scope of what the Holy Spirit supplied to the Messianic King. These seven spirits were also mentioned in Zechariah as seven lamps on a gold menorah, which represent the working of the Holy Spirit among men (Zechariah 4:2-3, 6,10). The same imagery was also repeated in the book of Revelation (Revelation 1:4, 3:1, 4:5, 5:6). These seven spirits are referred to as the seven eyes of the Lord by the prophet Zechariah, an imagery of God’s perception (Zechariah 4:10). With this divine endowment, a person can see and perceive things just as God sees them. The Spirit of the Lord was revealed with the imagery of candlesticks. The seven branched candlestick has one light in the middle flanked on either side by three lights. Once again another means of communicating the light and revelation of God. The Word of God is as a candlestick that is the light and revelation of His will – a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen