Part 1: Holy Spirit-being Filled with the Spirit of God!

John 14:26: “But the counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”

Wow! The Holy Spirit, this is one of the most misunderstood parts of the trinity, one that has caused so much confusion to so many. We all have probably heard that God is the trinity – meaning He’s God in three if I can put it like that, yet one God. Within the trinity we have God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, but we can’t really separate the three as they are one. You’re probably saying to yourself: Wow! That’s very genius of God. Well you’re right, and we have a super brilliant God. The Holy Spirit is God’s presence; it is the warmth of God’s very presence. He’s called Holy as there are many spirits and not all are Holy or of God. It dwells within each and every believer – the Holy Spirit does more than that, He also guides and directs us as He is within us.

How great it is, to know that we have God in us, a God that guides our thoughts, inspires us to do good, and fills our hearts with the wonderful aura of God. He is God, thee connections to God. Being filled with the presence of God the Holy Spirit guides and directs you into the kind of a believer that daily says no to self and yes to the Holy Spirit, giving you a fuller understanding that it is not about you, that is living for yourself, but rather it is about living for God. It gives you the absolute peace and passion that it’s not your desire or your will but it’s about His will being done, His will prevailing in your life.

 You reach a point where instead of saying what do I want, you daily choose to ask God what He wants with your life, your attitude changes, it’s no longer about I but rather about Him. You stop trying to make your own life comfortable but rather you spend your life serving Him. You develop a passion and desire of wanting to do good, you make it your mission to help people, develop the courage and love to bear witness to neighbours. You realise that your community is not the only place that needs God, that needs deliverance and peace, you understand that more needs to be done. This could mean involving yourself in missionary work, visiting other communities, countries and sharing the gospel and to some writing books, sharing about Him on your Facebook or WhatsApp status or having a blog online in trying to send the gospel to people all over – even to those who speak other languages, and so on. 

The Holy Spirit is the powerful presence of God that gives you this absolute confidence and courage that you can do just about anything and that you can do all things through Christ that strengthen you. Being filled with the presence of God is an awesome experience, one which every born-again Christian/ believer should experience in their daily lives as daughters and sons of the living God. You cannot know the things of God if you are not connected to the spirit of God. Remember that He is the one that wrote the Bible – He drove, inspired the writers so if there is anyone that can help you understand the word of God and be able to understand it is God the Holy Spirit; hence it is of importance that you become friends with Him, He knows the things of God.  

So this means you should not be a Christian that is just satisfied serving God without connecting with the Holy Spirit, because if you do, you will never reap or see any fruits in your relationship with God. In fact, you will just be a religious Christian. You won’t have an intimate relationship with your Lord and Saviour. You need the presence of God in your life to be able to grow intimately with God. Tommy Tenney writes that if we want to live in God’s presence (that is our lives guided by the Holy Spirit) we must make repentance a part of our daily and moment-by-moment routine. We should breathe it in and pray it out, rub it deep into our being to remove impurities, soften our hardened attitudes, and ingest it to cleanse our inward parts.

Remember the Holy Spirit is Holy so it is of importance that day after day we to strive to be Holy. It is sad that most people are ignorant of the Holy Spirit; most people in church don’t know Him, His character. To some it’s like some wind, they do not give much attention to the Holy Spirit. What they do not understand is that at that point they have separated the trinity, that they cannot claim to believe in what God the son has said and done but still have issues with the Holy Spirit. Not believing in the Holy Spirit means you do not believe in what Jesus said or did, for all things were done and said through the Holy Spirit, the very presence of God. 

Once you believe in the character of the Holy Spirit, it means you also believe in what Jesus said and did. One important thing you need to know and understand is that having a positive attitude is not enough, you need the Holy Spirit in your life, and you need His power in order to deal with other spirits; remember we not fighting against the flesh.

 SELAH!