The doctrine of faith is incomplete and incapacitated if there is no emphasis on the Person of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the power that executes God’s command, God’s thoughts and Word as it is in heaven. For a believer, it is not possible to live a fully functional life of faith without understanding the ministry of the Holy Spirit and your part as its beholder.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. NKJV
Assuming you are writing a handwritten letter. You will need a pen or pencil and a paper to write on. Your hands are the channel through which the thoughts in your mind can be expressed on paper. If you do not employ your hands to put it down on paper, it will stay in your mind and no one else has the capacity to take it out on paper unless you move your hand into the motion of writing. When God was creating everything you can and cannot see, the Bible tells us that His Spirit was there. In our theme scripture, we are told that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, implying that it moved upon this void in execution of what God intended to create. Being the ultimate executor of what God reveals to Him, having no fault or corruption in Him, the Spirit of God understands the intentions and mind of God at the heart of every creation, yourself included.
In the accounts of the Old Testament, the Spirit of God came upon certain judges, warriors, and prophets and enabled them to speak of the days of the fulfillment of The Promise referencing the Messiah’s coming. It enabled them to fight battles that seemed impossible and win. It also enabled the barren to conceive, softened the hardest of hearts and hardened others that God’s glory may be put to display. The Spirit of God was sufficient to accomplish great and mighty things outside man and these men whom the Lord chose to work through, lived mighty lives that still serve as blueprint today, a couple millennia later.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. NKJV
Upon His ascension to heaven when He had concluded His assignment, Jesus gives us the pattern of living according to His counsel: take every one of His commands and live by them. That is the only way to love God and in return, this wonderful trinity comes to not just be upon you as our forefathers but to live in you enabling you to live a godly and righteous life It is important to note that one’s decision not to exercise godly or righteous living is not due to its impossibility or the imagination that it sets up unrealistic expectations but it is from a hardened heart. Most are also unable to submit to the power that activates and executes the mind of God in a man’s heart, the power that has the ability to radically transform their lives for eternity.
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. NKJV
The Holy Spirit was sent to us because of His ability to be at all places, in all peoples at all times. He is not limited by the body nor is He corrupted or biased by circumstances. He does as He hears God instruct and deals equally with all men according to their submission and availability to His counsel. A believer who struggles to see the favor of God be manifest in their lives in most cases is not fully submitted to the Holy Spirit nor available in the meditations of their hearts that He may deal with them. You might wonder, what is this dealing with that is often mentioned The human flesh is corrupted, so much so that in it, is enough to destroy a person in less than an hour. It is only by the taming power of the Spirit of God at work in a believer who is devoted to obey that can enable them with willpower, to triumph over the lusts of the flesh.
Jesus himself, fully God and fully man, needed to seclude Himself and pray not because there was anything He needed for He had all He needed, but He had come in the same element that makes us feeble and that is the flesh. Being fully man, 100% flesh made Him prone to the same temptations and failures you and I experience, but His submission to the Spirit of God at work in Him kept Him from them all
Child of God, it is of vital importance for you to understand, fully acquaint yourself and willfully submit to the guidance, counsel, comfort and conviction of the person of the Holy Spirit. Salvation is otherwise incomplete if you cannot maintain what it has freely afforded you and this is only possible through this Spirit.
If you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, and you feel that this is the perfect time, pray this prayer:
“Lord Jesus, I thank you because you died for my sins and you were raised for my glory. Today, I receive you as my Lord and Savior. I am born again. Amen.”
