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the Spirit within us by saying, "O Lord Jesus, I love You." This inner moving of the Spirit often issues in a word from the Lord. For example, suppose a brother is unhappy with his wife. But he turns to the Lord and says, "Lord Jesus, I love You," and the Spirit moves within him. Then this moving of the Spirit becomes a word to him: "Do not think of your wife in that way." First the brother contacts the Spirit; then the Spirit becomes the word uttered within him. Further more, this word becomes a light shining from within the brother, causing him to hold forth the word of life.
At other times in our experience we first re ceive the Word, and then the Word becomes the Spirit moving within us. Whether we first ex perience the Spirit and then the Word, or first the Word and then the Spirit, the Spirit and the Word are one.
GOD REACHING US
The New Testament assures us that the Word and the Spirit are one. John 1:1 says, "In the be ginning was the Word." But in John 20:22, the Lord Jesus breathed upon the disciples and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." At the beginning of the Gospel of John, Christ is the Word, but at the