Well because the Holy Spirit is God Himself, the Holy Spirit is the very presence of God. The Holy Spirit was present in creation and nothing was made without the Holy spirit, so who are you to want to exclude the Holy Spirit? Most people wonder how it is possible that they can detect whether they have the presence of God, whether they are in the presence of God or guided by the Holy Spirit. Well to try and simplify this, I will explain it to you this way: you know you have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you, you hate the wrong things you used to do, you hate the things you used to love and all that matters is serving God.
Where there is
the Spirit of God, there is freedom and rest for your soul. To end of this very
important series, I need to share one thing I have noticed and probably
something I have mentioned before rather differently than now.
We have a tendency of concentrating on Jesus only, ignoring the very Holy Spirit He left us with or simply forget about Him completely. What we fail to realise is that the reason so many times Christians fall into sin is because they don’t have any sort of relationship with the Holy Spirit, that they never acknowledged Him as God, they do not listen to His voice, allow Him to guide and counsel them.
If you think you can ignore the Holy Spirit and
still be able to maintain the kind of a relationship I’m talking to you about,
the relationship that you know you’re supposed to have with God on your own,
then you walking straight into the trap of the devil, you’re setting yourself
up for failure. If we were able to do perfect on our own, do right so easily
then Christ would not have died for our sins, He would not have given us the
gift of Salvation and most importantly left us with the very presence of God,
there would be absolutely no need, but hence there was He did.
“The most important person in the world is the Holy Spirit, what is most important is not education but the Holy Spirit. The most dangerous thing you can ever have or do is not have the Holy Spirit in your life” (Dr Myles Munroe).
Ephesians 5:18-19: “And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”
This means we
as children of God, need to be continually filled with and under the Holy
Spirit. As I have mentioned before, to be filled with the Holy Spirit is a
daily thing. To be walking in the spirit, guided by God’s spirit means you
honour God and have decided to not be led by your carnal mind. This means you
are allowing God to be in control and participate in all that you do. I want to
end off this series by clearly stating that if you do not have Jesus as your
personal saviour and believe that God the father gave up Jesus, His one and
only son who died for us so that we might be forgiven and have everlasting
life, then you cannot experience the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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