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Abiding in Jesus Broschure Steps to personal revival 2 Abide in Jesus Helmut Haubeil is a businessman and pastor. After success- fully working as a representative for a shipping company, he responded at the age of 37 to God‘s call to join the ministry and worked as a pastor for 16 years. Afterwards he was the director of the Adventist nursing home in Bad Aibling, Germany. He is the founder and editor of the “Missionsbrief” (mission-newsletter in the German language) and since Abide in Jesus retiring he has played a siginificant role in helping build up mission work in central Asia and India. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; Jesus Christ: for without Me you can do nothing. “Abide in me, and I in you.” ISBN 978-3-900160-99-9 HELMUT HAUBEIL 9 783900 160999 ERFÜLLTES LEBEN IN EINER PERSÖNLICHEN Publisher: TOP LIFE Wegweiser-Verlag, Wien BEZIEHUNG ZU GOTT Austrian Publishing House First edition in English October 2016 © 2016 by TOP LIFE Wegweiser-Verlag Producer: Konrad Print & Medien, www.konrad-medien.de Fotos: Fotolia/Thinkstock: © Leonid Tit, © Andrey Volokhatiuk, © Mykola Mazuryk, © jojjik GOTT Conception: Simon Eitzenberger, [email protected] ERFAHREN Contact and order in foreign languages: Helmut Haubeil, Rosenheimer Str. 49 D-83043 Bad Aibling / Oberbayern – Germany BEZIEHUNG ZU GOTT WEGE ZUM ZIEL MEDIEN E-Mail: [email protected] Wie kann ich sie finden Bewährte Vorträge. Hier stehen für dich Phone +49 (0)8061 4900712 und erhalten? Ein erfüll- Die Botschaft der Bibel Video- und Audio- tes Leben mit Gott. für das 21. Jahrhundert. aufnahmen bereit. The original is in German. Translations exist in Danish, English, French, Croatian, Russian, Serbian, Czech. ZWEIFEL ODER GLAUBE GOTT VERÄNDERT LEBEN ANGEBOTE Translations into other languages are desired. Please get in touch with H. Haubeil, Wie lösen sich meine Gottes Anwesenheit im Kostenlose Angebote Zweifel? Zuversicht im Leben hat positive Aus- zu verschiedenen so that the aid can be checked. Glauben finden. wirkungen. Themen. A website is in preparation. There you can download or sent to a friend in each language. www.steps-to-personal-revival.info Order Information: For details, see page 2 GOTT Bible: The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright c 1982 by Thomas Nelson, www.gotterfahren.info Inc. All rights reserved. ERFAHREN ERFÜLLTES LEBEN IN EINER PERSÖNLICHEN Publisher: TOP LIFE Wegweiser-Verlag, Wien BEZIEHUNG ZU GOTT Austrian Publishing House First edition in English October 2016 © 2016 by TOP LIFE Wegweiser-Verlag Producer: Konrad Print & Medien, www.konrad-medien.de Fotos: Fotolia/Thinkstock: © Leonid Tit, © Andrey Volokhatiuk, © Mykola Mazuryk, © jojjik GOTT Conception: Simon Eitzenberger, [email protected] ERFAHREN Contact and order in foreign languages: Helmut Haubeil, Rosenheimer Str. 49 D-83043 Bad Aibling / Oberbayern – Germany BEZIEHUNG ZU GOTT WEGE ZUM ZIEL MEDIEN E-Mail: [email protected] Wie kann ich sie finden Bewährte Vorträge. Hier stehen für dich Phone +49 (0)8061 4900712 und erhalten? Ein erfüll- Die Botschaft der Bibel Video- und Audio- tes Leben mit Gott. für das 21. Jahrhundert. aufnahmen bereit. The original is in German. Translations exist in Danish, English, French, Croatian, Russian, Serbian, Czech. ZWEIFEL ODER GLAUBE GOTT VERÄNDERT LEBEN ANGEBOTE Translations into other languages are desired. Please get in touch with H. Haubeil, Wie lösen sich meine Gottes Anwesenheit im Kostenlose Angebote Zweifel? Zuversicht im Leben hat positive Aus- zu verschiedenen so that the aid can be checked. Glauben finden. wirkungen. Themen. A website is in preparation. There you can download or sent to a friend in each language. www.steps-to-personal-revival.info Order Information: For details, see page 2 GOTT Bible: The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright c 1982 by Thomas Nelson, www.gotterfahren.info Inc. All rights reserved. ERFAHREN Abide in Jesus Preise für Deutschland und Österreich: € 3,80; ab 10 Stück € 2,00; ab 50 Stück € 1,50 zuzüglich Versandkosten für die Schweiz: CHF 5,70 In Jesus bleiben zuzüglich Versandkosten Bestellmöglichkeiten Deutschland Österreich und Deutschland Wertvoll leben, STA Shop AdventistBookCenter Im Kiesel 3 Bogenhofen D- 73635 Rudersberg / Württ. A-4963 St.Peter/Hart bei Braunau/Inn Tel. +49 (0) 7183 309 98 47 Tel. +43 (0) 2294000 Jesus Christ: www.wertvollleben.com, www.stashop.de www.adventistbookcenter.at E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] “Abide in me, and I in you.” Österreich Schweiz TOP LIFE Wegweiser-Verlag Advent-Verlag Krattigen Prager Str. 287 Leissigenstr.17 A-1210 Wien CH-3704 Krattigen Tel. +43 (0) 13199301-0 Tel. +41 33 654 1065, vormittags www.toplife-center.com Shop: www.av-buchshop.ch E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] HELMUT HAUBEIL 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Path to Complete Joy 7 ABIDE IN JESUS CHAPTER 1 JESUS’ MOST PRECIOUS GIFT “Abide in Me, and I in you.” Abiding in Christ means What does Jesus teach about the Holy Spirit? a constant receiving of His Spirit, Do you know Jesus’ most impressive message? a life of unreserved surrender to His service. What are the tasks of the Holy Spirit? E.G. White Desire of Ages, DA 676.2 25 CHAPTER 2 SURRENDER TO JESUS Abiding in Him is not a work that we have to do as a condition in What does surrender mean? Do I consequently lose my own will? order to enjoy His salvation. Rather it is our consent to let Him do ev- Or will I become stronger? erything for us, in us, and through us. It is a work He does for us – the What can prevent us from surrendering ourselves to Jesus? result and the power of His redeeming love. Our part is simply to yield, to trust, and to wait for Him to accomplish what He has promised. 41 Andrew Murray CHAPTER 3 quoted in Dennis Smith, “40 Days” (Book 2) – Prayers and Devotions to Revive Your JESUS ABIDING IN YOU Experience with God, (R&H 2011), p. 35, Day 11. What are the prerequisites for Jesus living in me? How will “Christ abiding in me” effect my life? The greatest achievement: Experiencing the fullness of God. These are lessons for further development on the topic in the booklet: 61 CHAPTER 4 “Steps to Personal Revival”. We recommend reading this brochure again, even though the basic OBEDIENCE THROUGH JESUS principles have been repeated here. How can I live in joyful obedience? What are the characteristics of faithful obedience? Why is it a joy? 4 5 CHAPTER 1 JESUS’ MOST PRECIOUS GIFT What did Jesus teach about the Holy Ghost? Are you acquainted with Jesus’ most powerful message? What functions does the Holy Spirit have? Why do we need external help with character change? Back to our “first love”: A sister wrote to me: My friend and I are currently studying the “40 Days” book for the third time alternating with the booklet “Steps to Personal Revival”. Before we discovered this material our faith experience and prayer life wasn’t what it once had been. We longed to find our “first love” again. We have found it! We thank God with our whole hearts. It is so wonderful how our loving God answers prayers and that He reveals how His Spirit is working – on us and on the people we are praying for. M.S. Jesus entered our lives: Another person wrote about these books: “… they have become a great and long-awaited blessing in my life. Just like many other church members and a sister from our church have ex- perienced, something was always missing in our faith experience and now we have had the privilege of experiencing how Jesus has entered our lives and has begun to change us. He is still working on us and step by step is drawing us closer to Him.” S.K. 6 7 JESUS’ SPECIAL APPEAL: ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT The Holy Ghost is the Source of a Fulfilled Life There is a particular Bible passage in which Jesus emphatically com- According to Jesus why did He come to this earth? He said: “I have mands us to ask for the Holy Ghost. I know of no other passage where come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundant- Jesus so lovingly urged us to take something to heart. These verses are ly.” (John 10:10 NKJV) found in His lesson on prayer in Luke 11. There He emphasized 10 times Jesus wants us to experience this new life now and to continue it in that we should ask for the Holy Spirit. Luke 11:9-13 (NKJV): a completely different dimension after His second coming as eternal “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; life in God’s kingdom. knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and He also shows us that the source of a fulfilled life is the Holy Ghost: he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a sonasks “…’If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks But this He spoke concerning the Spirit….” (John 7:37-39 NKJV) for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how “Rivers of living water” – isn’t that a good comparison for a fulfilled to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly life? Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” In these few verses Jesus used the verb “ask“ six times; then he re- During His life here on earth did Jesus placed “ask“ and emphasized it with “seek“ two times – an action – and give us a corresponding example? two more times with “knock“- also an action word.
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