Elizabeth Prata reflects on Ephesians and a John MacArthur note about being sealed by the Holy Spirit, drawing four concrete assurances for believers: security, authenticity, ownership, and authority. She urges gratitude for Scripture and the Spirit’s work.
The sealing of the Spirit is presented as assurance of eternal salvation and as God’s pledge of future inheritance.
The Bible is framed as uniquely trustworthy: preserved, translatable into local languages, and the source of unchanging truth amid worldly instability.
Pray both for large needs (salvations, healings, provision) and give praise for the Bible, the Spirit’s sealing, and the steady assurances those bring.
God's own Spirit comes to indwell the believer and secures and preserves his eternal salvation. The sealing of which Paul speaks refers to an official mark of identification placed on a letter, contract, or other document. That document was thereby officially under the authority of the person whose stamp was on the seal.
Ownership is a hot button word these days, but the fact is, we are either owned by satan or owned by God. Author: elizabethprata Christian writer and Georgia reading teacher who loves Jesus, a quiet life, art, beauty, and children.
So often we pray for the 'big things' and that is right and good. We pray for salvations, for healings, for big provision. We pray in thanks for these if they are granted.
I bless You, my God, Maker of heaven and earth, Creator of the sun and moon and stars — All the luminaries above...
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"My Word WORKS! I watch over My Word to perform it!" says The LORD.
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