Women's Weekly Bible Challenge

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Last week we ended our study with Lydia, the first European Christian convert. Today we begin our study, When the Holy Spirit Speaks to Women ,  in Acts chapter 16 in Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia. A CERTAIN DAMSEL Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:  17  the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.  18  And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. The Holy Spirit, through the Apostle Paul, does not address the damsel ; instead, He speaks to the spirit, WHICH IS A “HE” BECAUSE these SPIRITS ARE associated with d...

Welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Today is Part 5 of our study, When the Holy Spirit Speaks to Women . Let’s do a QUICK REVIEW of last week. Paul was saved in ACTS 9 apart from the gospel of the Kingdom that the 12 Apostles were preaching.   Paul’s salvation is unique, and it is the PATTERN for everyone that is saved today.   In ACTS 10 -11 , God sent Peter to a devout Gentile’s house, Cornelius, who was saved and received the Holy Ghost.   The believing Jews were ASTONISHED that a Gentile was saved in this manner because they knew that ISRAEL, according to PROPHECY, should first be saved before the Gentiles would be blessed.   In ACTS 12 , Peter and James (the brother of John) are put in prison:   James is murdered, but God saves Peter.   Many years later, as recorded in Acts chapter 15, Peter gives testimony of God pouring out the Holy Spirt on the Gentiles in Cornelius’s house.   Paul is acknowledged ...