Holy Spirit

Today I am impressed by the importance of the Holy Spirit. He is unique to each of us as He resides in us and we allow Him to lead us and be Lord of our lives.

I was saved for as long as I can remember. I can not recall a time when I didn't know that Baby Jesus came and died for me on the cross. When I was a very little girl and had no concept of geography, I remember thinking that Israel was in the field behind our house. On the horizon, I saw a telephone pole and thought it was the cross. I grew up and learned history and geography and read the Bible and grew in knowledge of Jesus and God, and that kept me holding on until I met Holy Spirit. However, I did not have the power to free myself from depression or fear or the lies that the enemy told me about myself.

I met Holy Spirit when I was 19. As I grew in Him, He introduced me to myself and to a deeper relationship with Yahweh. As I grew in Holy Spirit, I received the power to break free of depression and the lies of the enemy and now I am learning to be fearless.

So many people in the society we live in have been introduced to the concepts of God and Jesus, but they have not met Holy Spirit. Without Holy Spirit, we only have part of the trinity and therefore cannot know Yahweh fully nor can we know ourselves and our purpose fully.

Holy Spirit is not just the tag-along, impotent third-wheel in the triune Godhead. He is, in fact, the One who empowers us to be all that Yahweh called us to be from the beginning. How insidious of the enemy to take Him out of our churches and society! Nobody complains that he's siphoned all the gas out of the car because hey, they still have a car and they can shine it up and make it pretty and point to it and say, "See my car?"

But a car without gas cannot fulfill its purpose and a Christian without Holy Spirit cannot fulfill his or her purpose. We cannot know Yahweh to the depths of who He is. We cannot even know ourselves. So many people walk away from the church because they see the lack of power even while being promised the power that is inherent in Holy Spirit! They become disheartened looking at a car that just sits in the driveway all day. They think that maybe if they sell the car, they can get something more useful, so they do.

If only they knew that the car just needs a little gas, the Christian just needs Holy Spirit, and then we can get going!

There is a reason Holy Spirit is called the Promise of the Father (Acts 1:4). Receiving the promise will change your life. I promise! ;)

Oh, thank You, Holy Spirit, for choosing to dwell inside of me!