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Thank You, Holy Spirit:
Meditations from Genesis to Revelation

By Marilyn Hecksher
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Chosen Books, 2001, 288 pp. $12.99)

Reviewed by Craig M. Kibler
December 2001
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“Is God allowed to move by his spirit on whomever he pleases?” asks Marilyn Hecksher in one of the questions answered by this thoroughly invigorating and exhaustive examination of the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

The answer, of course, is an unqualified yes – and, in this devotion, Hecksher illuminates it with the example from Numbers 24:2 of Balaam, “a wise man from the East, a diviner, a sorcerer.”

In these 120 in-depth devotions, from Genesis to Revelation, Hecksher goes over Biblical descriptions of the Holy Spirit, providing a first-to-last chronology of each reference.

Breaking the meditations up into four sections – The Holy Spirit In The Old Testament, The Holy Spirit In Jesus’ Life, The Holy Spirit In Jesus’ Teaching, and The Holy Spirit in the Church – Hecksher compares verse with verse and, in so doing, provides a simple clarification of the work of the Holy Spirit that easily enables the reader to identify and relate to that mysterious work but, more importantly, to him who does that work.
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