LIVING IN THE SPIRIT

Good morning to you on this blessed day!

I pray all is well with you. All is awesome with me because God is so great and greatly to be praised. The day before yesterday I finished my blog and said that I would give you five ways that God equips us to live life in His Spirit but I didn't mention that yesterday. So, I will do that today.

God is so good and when we receive salvation He then fills us with His Spirit and equips us to live that life. We can find five ways God does that. There are probably more but we will talk about five.

The Holy Spirit guides us:

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you 
into all the 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.
John 16:13

The Holy Spirit within us guides us through life and shows us what it means to be led by Him. The guidance of the Holy Spirit leads us to avoid and shun our selfish motives and frees us from being a slave to sin and simply trying to follow rules and laws and into a life of true inner peace and into a deeper relationship with God, our Father.

The Holy Spirit empowers us:

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on 
you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in 
all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 1:8

Our Father knows that it is not sufficient for us to be only shown what is right and wrong and how we should live, but God the Father and God the Son have given us God their Holy Spirit to bring us power – we have the very power of God in our lives.
                                                                                                                                                               The Holy Spirit gives us the victory:

 You, dear children, are from God and have 
overcome them, because the one who is in you is 
greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4
                                                                                                    
By being led by the all-powerful Spirit of Christ we can have the victory over every challenge in life. The Christian life is the life of a warrior – we are all soldiers in a battle against our natural urges and against the evil influences that try to affect us on every side. The Spirit of God gives us the victory in these battles and so we must rely on Him to win each and every time we are tempted to do anything other than the perfect will of God.

The Holy Spirit teaches us:

But the Advocate, 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.                     John 14:26 

Through the illuminating ministry of the Holy Spirit each and every child of God is able to understand the Bible. The individual authors of each book of the Holy Bible were originally inspired by the Holy Spirit and it is the same Spirit that lives in every believer. We therefore do not need a special form of mystical revelation or insight in order to understand the Scriptures because this same Author lives inside us and has promised to reveal and explain what the Bible says to us.

The Holy Spirit prays for us:

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. 
We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the 
Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
Romans 8:26 

Another way that the Holy Spirit counsels and comforts us is to pray on our behalf. There are often times when we do not know what or which outcome we should pray for; at other times we may be at a loss as to what words we should say. At these times we have the blessing of knowing that God Himself, through His Holy Spirit, will put what we need to pray about in our minds or make the correct prayer in our place.

So, you can see how important the Holy Spirit is. He is our counselor, our friend, our teacher, our prayer warrior, our victor, our power, our interceder, our leader, our guide. I could go on.

So, live in the Spirit. Let Him lead you. You can do it!

Have a blessed and wonderful day!

Les (lesbear)

 Excerpts from Letters from Home.

 

 





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