As we have discussed previously, the Holy Spirit is a person. He has all the traits and attributes that make us people. He talks, thinks, feels, acts, and so forth. We have also discussed the fact that He lives in us. We are His house.
Now let us proceed to look at some of the names and descriptions of Him in scripture;
There are several names and descriptions of the Holy Spirit both in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Below are some of them;
Holy Spirit.
Luke11:13 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” see also Joh14:26; Rom1:4, Rom8:9; Eph4:30
Spirit of Grace.
Zechariah12:10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication” see also Hebrews10:29
Spirit of God.
Gen1:2 “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” see also Exo31:3
Spirit of Truth.
John14:17 “the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you” see also John15:26
The Comforter.
John14:16 “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever”
The Counselor.
John14:16 AMP “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever”
The One Called Along Side to Help.
John14:16 “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever”
Spirit of Christ.
Rom8:9 “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” see also 1Pet1:11
The Free Spirit.
Psalm51:12 “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit” see also 2Cor3:17
Spirit of Revelation.
Ephesians1:17 “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him”
He is our Teacher.
John14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
He is our Leader.
Romans8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”
The Promise of the Father.
Acts1:4-5 “And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
The Gift of God.
Acts8:18-20 “And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit." But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!”
Spirit of the Living God.
2Cor3:3. “clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart”
Spirit of Life.
Romans8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Spirit of the Father.
Mat10:20 “for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you” see also John15:26
Spirit of judgment.
Isaiah4:4 “When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning”
Spirit of burning.
Isaiah4:4 “When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning”
Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead.
Romans8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
Spirit of love.
2Timothy1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Spirit of power.
2Timothy1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Spirit of self-control/ sound mind.
2Timothy1:7 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
Spirit of faith.
2Corinthians4:13 “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak”
Spirit of promise.
Ephesians1:13 “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise”
Spirit of glory.
1Peter4:14 “If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.”
Spirit of prophecy.
Revelation19:10 “And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”
Breath of the Almighty.
Job33:4 “The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
Power of the Highest.
Luke1:35 “And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.”
Eternal Spirit.
Heb9:14 “how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
Spirit of Holiness.
Rom1:4 “And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead”
Spirit of Adoption.
Rom8:15 “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
Good Spirit.
Nehemiah9:20 “Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.”
Anointing from the Holy one.
1John2:20 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.”
Anointing that teaches.
1John2:27 “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”
Each of the above names and titles are a description of who the Holy Spirit is and what He does in us and through us.
Remember that we are His body on the earth. He lives in us. He walks in us. He moves in us and through us to do what He wants. He talks to people in and through us. He touches people in and through us. He ministers to people in and through us.
THE SEVEN PICTURES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
There are seven major pictures or types of the Holy Spirit that are shown throughout the Old and New Testaments. These types or pictures show us the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Sadly, many of us have come to call these types, shadows, pictures the Holy Spirit. Even worse many of us have come to prefer these manifestations to the person Himself. We don’t commune and fellowship with Him but we want to feel and experience these things. This is crazy.
The Holy Spirit is not these pictures or types. They are just manifestations of Him. They are like His perfume or aura. He is not the fragrance or aura, He releases the fragrance and aura. Let us discuss them;
Water
John7 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
The Holy Spirit is not water, He is not a river and He is not a flood. But He can work or flow in us and through us in the same way that a river flows or in the same way that a sea of water overwhelms.
As He minsters to us or to others through us, His life and anointing flows like rivers of living water unto us and unto them. It satiates our souls and fills us with life, power, peace, joy, health, wisdom and wholeness.
In the Old Testament this picture of the Holy Spirit as a river is very common in the psalms and in the prophets.
Dew
Psalm133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing, Life forevermore.
This speaks of the freshness of the Holy Spirit and His anointing. He ministers to our souls with the same freshness as the morning dew. And He is ever available to us to minister this freshness to our soul. Just as dew is ever available in the morning when we rise.
Fire
Matthew3 11 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
In Isaiah4:4 He is referred to as the Spirit of judgment and Spirit of burning “When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning”
Fire judges, destroys and purifies. The Holy Spirit is doing a purifying work in our souls as we come to Him. First, judgment has occurred on the Cross, our sins have been taken away and the old sinful nature has been taken away. God is not angry or judging us anymore. All of that has been finished at the Cross.
However we still have residues of the old way of thinking and relating to God that we need to renew our mind from and repent. In other words we need to repent from dead works and serve the Living God with grace and without fear in righteousness all the days of our lives.
The Holy Spirit does this work of repentance and renewal in us by burning the chaff of works, religion, sin consciousness, legalism and so forth. His fire purifies our heart to worship God in spirit and in truth. Without fear.
This is not a negative experience of God judging us and punishing us. Rather it’s a positive experience of God liberating our souls from religion and bondage through the truth and through the Spirit working in us. It feels good as the disciples experienced on the road to Emmaus;
Luke24 30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. 32 And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
Oil
Luke4 18 The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."
This is speaking of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament men were smeared with oil as a symbol of the anointing of the Holy Spirit for service either in government or spiritual things. This anointing was external. It would come and go. It was a picture of the anointing of the Holy
Spirit.
We have received the real deal. We have the Holy Spirit living in us. The anointing is now resident in us and doesn’t come and go. His anointing is upon us for good and empowers us to do the works that Jesus did. If you have the Holy Spirit, you have the anointing of God upon you and in you.
Acts10 38 “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
Dove
Luke3 22 “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased."
This can represent the gentleness and peaceful nature of the Holy Spirit. Contrary to what most of us have come to believe about Him, He is not harsh, mean, forceful, insecure, intimidating, controlling etc. as many preachers make him out to be.
The anointing is not an excuse for being a jerk, harsh, mean and insensitive to people. The Holy Spirit is gentle and peaceful and understanding.
Wine
Luke5 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
This speaks of the fact that we are supposed to be under the influence of the Holy Spirit. he does not want to control us. he wants us to yield to Him and let Him influence us and our speech and our behavior.
Wind
John3 8 “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
This speaks of His mystery. He cannot be understood by the carnal and by natural. We relate to Him by faith and understand Him by faith.
Now let us proceed to look at some of the names and descriptions of Him in scripture;
There are several names and descriptions of the Holy Spirit both in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Below are some of them;
Holy Spirit.
Luke11:13 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” see also Joh14:26; Rom1:4, Rom8:9; Eph4:30
Spirit of Grace.
Zechariah12:10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication” see also Hebrews10:29
Spirit of God.
Gen1:2 “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” see also Exo31:3
Spirit of Truth.
John14:17 “the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you” see also John15:26
The Comforter.
John14:16 “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever”
The Counselor.
John14:16 AMP “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever”
The One Called Along Side to Help.
John14:16 “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever”
Spirit of Christ.
Rom8:9 “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” see also 1Pet1:11
The Free Spirit.
Psalm51:12 “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit” see also 2Cor3:17
Spirit of Revelation.
Ephesians1:17 “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him”
He is our Teacher.
John14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
He is our Leader.
Romans8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”
The Promise of the Father.
Acts1:4-5 “And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
The Gift of God.
Acts8:18-20 “And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit." But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!”
Spirit of the Living God.
2Cor3:3. “clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart”
Spirit of Life.
Romans8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Spirit of the Father.
Mat10:20 “for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you” see also John15:26
Spirit of judgment.
Isaiah4:4 “When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning”
Spirit of burning.
Isaiah4:4 “When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning”
Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead.
Romans8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
Spirit of love.
2Timothy1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Spirit of power.
2Timothy1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Spirit of self-control/ sound mind.
2Timothy1:7 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
Spirit of faith.
2Corinthians4:13 “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak”
Spirit of promise.
Ephesians1:13 “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise”
Spirit of glory.
1Peter4:14 “If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.”
Spirit of prophecy.
Revelation19:10 “And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”
Breath of the Almighty.
Job33:4 “The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
Power of the Highest.
Luke1:35 “And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.”
Eternal Spirit.
Heb9:14 “how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
Spirit of Holiness.
Rom1:4 “And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead”
Spirit of Adoption.
Rom8:15 “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
Good Spirit.
Nehemiah9:20 “Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.”
Anointing from the Holy one.
1John2:20 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.”
Anointing that teaches.
1John2:27 “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”
Each of the above names and titles are a description of who the Holy Spirit is and what He does in us and through us.
Remember that we are His body on the earth. He lives in us. He walks in us. He moves in us and through us to do what He wants. He talks to people in and through us. He touches people in and through us. He ministers to people in and through us.
THE SEVEN PICTURES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
There are seven major pictures or types of the Holy Spirit that are shown throughout the Old and New Testaments. These types or pictures show us the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Sadly, many of us have come to call these types, shadows, pictures the Holy Spirit. Even worse many of us have come to prefer these manifestations to the person Himself. We don’t commune and fellowship with Him but we want to feel and experience these things. This is crazy.
The Holy Spirit is not these pictures or types. They are just manifestations of Him. They are like His perfume or aura. He is not the fragrance or aura, He releases the fragrance and aura. Let us discuss them;
Water
John7 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
The Holy Spirit is not water, He is not a river and He is not a flood. But He can work or flow in us and through us in the same way that a river flows or in the same way that a sea of water overwhelms.
As He minsters to us or to others through us, His life and anointing flows like rivers of living water unto us and unto them. It satiates our souls and fills us with life, power, peace, joy, health, wisdom and wholeness.
In the Old Testament this picture of the Holy Spirit as a river is very common in the psalms and in the prophets.
Dew
Psalm133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing, Life forevermore.
This speaks of the freshness of the Holy Spirit and His anointing. He ministers to our souls with the same freshness as the morning dew. And He is ever available to us to minister this freshness to our soul. Just as dew is ever available in the morning when we rise.
Fire
Matthew3 11 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
In Isaiah4:4 He is referred to as the Spirit of judgment and Spirit of burning “When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning”
Fire judges, destroys and purifies. The Holy Spirit is doing a purifying work in our souls as we come to Him. First, judgment has occurred on the Cross, our sins have been taken away and the old sinful nature has been taken away. God is not angry or judging us anymore. All of that has been finished at the Cross.
However we still have residues of the old way of thinking and relating to God that we need to renew our mind from and repent. In other words we need to repent from dead works and serve the Living God with grace and without fear in righteousness all the days of our lives.
The Holy Spirit does this work of repentance and renewal in us by burning the chaff of works, religion, sin consciousness, legalism and so forth. His fire purifies our heart to worship God in spirit and in truth. Without fear.
This is not a negative experience of God judging us and punishing us. Rather it’s a positive experience of God liberating our souls from religion and bondage through the truth and through the Spirit working in us. It feels good as the disciples experienced on the road to Emmaus;
Luke24 30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. 32 And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
Oil
Luke4 18 The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."
This is speaking of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament men were smeared with oil as a symbol of the anointing of the Holy Spirit for service either in government or spiritual things. This anointing was external. It would come and go. It was a picture of the anointing of the Holy
Spirit.
We have received the real deal. We have the Holy Spirit living in us. The anointing is now resident in us and doesn’t come and go. His anointing is upon us for good and empowers us to do the works that Jesus did. If you have the Holy Spirit, you have the anointing of God upon you and in you.
Acts10 38 “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
Dove
Luke3 22 “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased."
This can represent the gentleness and peaceful nature of the Holy Spirit. Contrary to what most of us have come to believe about Him, He is not harsh, mean, forceful, insecure, intimidating, controlling etc. as many preachers make him out to be.
The anointing is not an excuse for being a jerk, harsh, mean and insensitive to people. The Holy Spirit is gentle and peaceful and understanding.
Wine
Luke5 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
This speaks of the fact that we are supposed to be under the influence of the Holy Spirit. he does not want to control us. he wants us to yield to Him and let Him influence us and our speech and our behavior.
Wind
John3 8 “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
This speaks of His mystery. He cannot be understood by the carnal and by natural. We relate to Him by faith and understand Him by faith.
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