I continue to be impressed by the importance of Holy Spirit. Without Him, we are powerless and we are not who Yahweh called us to be when He envisioned us in His mind before He created us.
Without Holy Spirit, I am nothing.
Holy Spirit is the Christ anointing that Yahshua left for us when He ascended into Heaven. Holy Spirit is the Person of the Godhead who was supposed to empower us to do all of the things Yahshua said we would do. We cannot do the "greater things than these" that Yahshua spoke of without the empowerment of Holy Spirit.
This is why Yahshua told the Apostles to wait in Jerusalem until we received the "Promise of the Father." He is the Promise to us, and He enables us to fulfill our promise and purpose in the Earth.
In Acts 1:8, Yahshua says that we "...shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you..." linking power with Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 1:24, it says that Christ is the "wisdom and power of Yahweh." Again, if Holy Spirit is the Christ anointing that Yahshua left for us, then Christ in this instance is Holy Spirit and again, Holy Spirit is linked with power, but also wisdom.
Thus, without Holy Spirit we cannot fulfill our purpose because we will lack the wisdom or revelation to know what that purpose is and we will lack the power to carry on to completion what that purpose is.
Holy Spirit allows us access to the deeper things of Yahweh. Yahweh is infinite, and there have been many times I have gotten just a small glimpse of His Infinity and been utterly overwhelmed.
Consider the depths of an ocean. There is only so far down a human body can go without dying. Partially because we need oxygen and the tank that is supplied for SCUBA diving is limited and finite. However, there is also the weight of the water itself to consider. If a human body were to go past a certain depth in the ocean, it would be utterly crushed and overwhelmed by the weight of the water.
Yahweh is much deeper than an ocean. It is only through the Holy Spirit that we can safely explore Him at all. Holy Spirit empowers us to explore Yahweh because--if we submit to Him and His Lordship--He will make us beings capable of withstanding the overwhelming power of Infinity. We can then receive the blessings and assignments that Yahweh has for us in these places in Him.
We can never fulfill our purpose until we become who Yahweh meant us to be in the beginning. He desired a people who would be capable of having a relationship with Him without being overwhelmed by His glory and splendor even as we honor and worship Him as glorious and splendid. Therefore, He sent Holy Spirit to make us into such beings.
Once we have access to the deeper regions of Yahweh to learn His heart and His mind for His creation, we can receive the blessings, power, and assignments to bring His heart and His mind into the Earth that He created and is rightfully His in the first place.
There is so much insanity going on in the Earth right now as people replace their ideas of what seems "good" and "right" for Yahweh's heart and mind. It is happening in the secular world. It is happening in the church. This is only possible because the enemy told us that we didn't need Holy Spirit.
I think part of the reason it was so easy for Holy Spirit to be removed from the church and made the "third wheel" of the Trinity is because it is hard for the human mind to understand Him. We cannot humanize Holy Spirit.
It is easy to anthropomorphize Yahweh. He is not a man, but we can make Him into the image of man so that we can understand Him and put Him in a box. He is a creator. Ok, man creates. We know what creating means. We can handle that. He is a Father. Ok, we've seen fathers. We know what those look like. We can handle that. He loves people. We like to be loved. We can redefine "love" to mean a good feeling. Ok, we can handle that. Many people even picture Him as an old man in a white robe with a long white beard. There is no reason to picture Him this way. It's definitely not how He is described in the Bible. Yet, our minds need some image to hold on to when we consider Yahweh so we put this picture of Him there so we can handle that.
Yahshua actually was a man, so it is easy to humanize Him. We conveniently forget the "Christ" part of Yahshua the Christ and focus on the "Yahshua" part. He was a nice guy! He healed people! He gave people food and fulfilled their basic needs. We want someone to take care of us in that way. Ok, we can handle that. He had long brown hair and brown eyes. He had a nose and mouth. He wore clothes. We understand that. Humanity.
Then there is Holy Spirit. Uhh... He causes you to be empowered to explore the spiritual things of Yahweh. What does that mean? He is a Spirit. What do spirits even look like? Normally we picture ghosts as faded images of the human who has died, but Holy Spirit was never a human and He has never died. We cannot handle that! In fact, one of the very reasons Holy Spirit comes into our lives is to take us to places we cannot handle without Him. Remember the ocean analogy?
So the enemy came and said, "I'll let you keep your God and your Jesus, but I'll take away Holy Spirit! Then you won't have any power. In fact, your God and your Jesus will be powerless because I have taken the wisdom and the power away!" As Yahweh and Yahshua are certainly not powerless, then we are not even really worshipping Yahweh and Yahshua without Holy Spirit because we cannot know Them without Holy Spirit. Instead, we worship false, faded images of Them, but we think it's ok because we think we are really worshipping Yahweh and Yahshua!
Insidious. How dare the enemy let us think we are worshipping our God when all along we are really worshipping idols!?!
We must accept and submit to Holy Spirit as the body of Christ. It is essential for the Kingdom expansion in the Earth and for the fulfillment of Yahweh's original intent for the world. If we do not let Holy Spirit be the Lord of our lives, we will die in the wilderness like those in Israel who refused to hear Yahweh on Mt. Sinai because He was too big and too powerful and too scary and they could not handle that!
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