Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go

deeper in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary

to do it. I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey

because everyone is a theologian. Hello friends, and welcome back to Verity

Podcast. This week we have Holy Spirit for dummies. Now, I named this episode

for a very specific reason, and it is not because I think my listeners are dummies.

By any means, you are definitely not. You're some of the smartest people I know.

But we all know there's those books out there that are yellow and black that

say violin for dummies or coding for dummies. And quite frankly, I think that we

need a really simple introduction to the Holy Spirit on an accessible level.

And that's what those books are designed to be. Accessible and informative. And so

that's why this episode is called the Holy Spirit for dummies because we're

going to get really practical and really simple in understanding who the

Holy Spirit is and what he does and why we need him so much. I was recently on an

episode of my friend Liv Duley's podcast, the best kept secret. And on that podcast,

we talked about the fact that Jesus said it was better if he left because his disciples

would receive the Holy Spirit. Can you believe that? He said it was better that he went

away so that the Holy Spirit could be received in dwelling them, empowering them personally.

Instead of Jesus who is outside of their bodies as a physical man, God man on earth, they

would have the spirit of God in dwelling their bodies as little temples of the Lord on earth

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