Live by the Power of the Holy Spirit
In living our daily life, whether in the our Bible reading or meditation, prayer, being an integral active part of the Church or even being a daily witness for Christ, or whatever we may do for maturing in our Christian life, we are best assisted as we intentionally depend on the Holy Spirit of God Christ.
The Holy Spirit is a prized special possession of everyone of us who are in Christ Jesus. He is inside everyone of us deposited when we opened our hearts to Jesus asking Him to be our Savior and Lord because He (Jesus) died for our sin.
The Holy Spirit is the marked presence of God Christ in our life as the Comfoter, the Spirit of truth, our Teacher, Helper, Enabler, Guide and Advocate in times of prayer when we are may be short of words before the holy God.
The final statement made by Jesus in Matthew 28:20 is that He will be with us always until the end of the age. In Acts 1:8, the Holy Spirit is what Jesus referenced when He said, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea … to the remotest part of the world”. The Holy Spirit became manifested in the Day of Pentecost and becomes the inner possession of everyone who repents of their sin and invites Jesus into their life (Acts 2:38). The Holy Spirit established the historical beginning of the Church of Christ on that Pentecost day.
The Holy Spirit is the power of God that makes us the children of God when we believe in Jesus Christ (John 1:12).
The Holy Spirit is the power in us by which we live to please God, leaving the control of the flesh and of the Devil. Apostle Paul admonishes us in Galatians 5:16-17, “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another …”.
The fruit/evidence of the Spirit manifesting through our life “is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control” (5:22-23). That should be our daily life style governed in truth and righteousness pleasing to God which is different from non-believers in Christ who live to please the flesh in sin and wickedness.
The Holy Spirit helps us to walk in the light and no longer in darkness like Jesus Himself being the Light of the world (John 1:4-5; Matthew 5:14-16). And that’s what we need to be authentic disciples of Jesus in the world.
As we begin a new week forward, we are all encouraged to intentionally allow the Holy Spirit to be our guide and enabler in all our understandings whether private or public and our relationships. Let us trust the word of Apostle Paul as inspired by the Holy Spirit that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13).