As we carry
on from our previous post on the significance of the Holy Spirit in our lives
and relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I must emphasize that
this post is not just about filling in our knowledge banks with facts and
giving us a sense of superiority or giving us the impression that we are
experts. As a matter of fact, it is realizing that God's love and desire for
our best interests are predicated on His constantly revealing things to us for
our transformation and a genuine encounter with the King of Glory. Therefore,
my sincere prayer is that these blog posts about being filled with the Holy
Spirit may inspire a desire to be filled with the Spirit of God rather than
just excitement and curiosity about new information.
The Spirit of
the Lord resting upon us is important because:
John
14:26: “But the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to
you.”
Just like a teacher in a school setting in a class, its role and purpose is to make sure that the students/learners learn mainly because the teacher knows and appreciates that knowledge is power and does all that is in her/ his power to ensure that growth take place through that learning. It is the same with God the Holy Spirit, one of His roles is to make sure that we learn and that happens through the teaching that takes place. Hence it is of great importance that we allow the Holy Spirit dwell in us so as to teach us. Just like students need assistance from their teacher to pass or succeed, we also as Children of God need the Holy Spirit to teach us and prepare us for anything in our daily lives so as to pass or succeed in all that we do.
We cannot just expect to
succeed without acknowledging the very presence of God, without respecting the
Holy Spirit. We need to be at a point in our lives where we accept the good
judgement of the Holy Spirit, because it is truly the greatest judgement you
can get and freely trust that you can never go wrong with His judgement. Let’s
not rely on the judgment or our friend’s or family’s judgment but rather the
Holy Spirit’s judgement. We cannot run away from the fact that people, and
especially our loved ones, will always think they know better, even when they
don’t.
We need not
completely rely on the information that we get through education but rather
trust in and rely on the Knowledge of God. Know this it is only the Holy Spirit
that can give you revelation.
5. He is
the spirit of fear of God
At times we take the greatest gift we have for granted, having the Holy Ghost by our side is no joke, but somehow we mock His very existence in our live. What do I mean by that? Well what I’m about to share with you is nothing new, what we do is his presence is truly despicable. It shows how much we value Him. What I have learned in life is that it’s so easy to sin or allow yourself to be tempted into doing something that goes against all that you believe, and worse we even succumb to that temptation.
Note this it’s not because we are unaware of the bad we are doing but rather we have allowed ourselves to be a yoyo of the devil, and we do this at the cost of disrespecting the Holy Spirit. We force our way into doing something that he warned us not to do. The sad part about this whole scenario is that at that point many of us don’t realise that we are driving the covering and presence of God is our lives, by disrespecting the Holy Spirit it’s sending Him out of your life.
The Holy Spirit is very sensitive and takes what He does very seriously.
Ask yourself this, how do you expect to fear God and honour Him without the
presence of the Holy Spirit guiding you? We need the Holy Spirit; we need Him
to ensure that our relationship with God is safeguarded. What I have
shared with you is not to scare you but rather to alert you as my brothers and
sisters in Christ, because what I have shared is what I have personally learned
from my own mistakes in my walk with Christ.
6. He is a
spirit of truth
John 16:12-13:
“12 I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when He,
the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak
on His own, He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet
to come.”
The truth is something that is very rare nowadays, we have so many untruthful people and people have become addicted in being untruthful and telling lies just to get their way or get out of trouble. Some people don’t even see the need to be truthful as they believe that truth is now just a cliché that whether you’re truthful you will be the one scammed as that practice of being truthful no longer exist. Sadly, for many they can no longer trust anything or even the church or the word of God, due to so much destruction that has happened because of people being untruthful.
Whether we want to believe it or not truth is
important and many problems could have been avoided if people were truthful.
Many people now prefer to be lied to than told the truth, all because of their
insecurities and fears but that’s another topic for another day. The Holy
Spirit is the power of God that can change any heart, mind, person and any
situation.
The Holy Spirit allows you to be able to express yourself freely without any fear. Through the Holy Spirit, the very presence of God, any addiction or problem can be a thing of history, in Him all is possible. The huge mistake we tend to make is to forget this precious gift of God’s presence in our lives; we forget its mighty purpose in our lives and because of that we suffer, as we have literally put stumbling blocks in on our way of growth and maturity as children of God.
You see God truly knew that we needed the Holy Spirit as the spirit of truth because He knew that in the world there were other spirits, spirits of lies around the world, spirits that cause pain and destruction in people’s lives. These spirits refuse to accept that Jesus is Lord, that He is the only way and there is no other but Him, there are many of them and to be able to be truthful we need the Holy Spirit as on our own it is difficult.
You need to reach a point in your relationship with God where you are guided by the Holy Spirit, because that’s being wise and wise people listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. Start by being a living testimony that your Saviour is wise, He’s smart, by respecting and listening to the spirit that dwells within you as a child of God.
The reality is the Holy Spirit speaks the
mind of God and we need not ever separate the trinity as the whole it is of
significance; none is greater than the other as they are one. We need all of
them in our lives, remember this: God the father introduced to us God the son (Jesus)
and Jesus introduced to us God the Holy Spirit, so who are we to think that all
was a mistake, to change things the way God wants them to be.
To the third person of the trinity!
SELAH!
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