SPIRIT Led Living!

SPIRIT Led Living!

 

Most of us Christians do not understand, or even ask, how the HOLY SPIRIT leads us. We only seem to know that we are filled with the HOLY SPIRIT at some point. Whether when we are born again, water baptized or SPIRIT baptized. And exactly what is it The HOLY SPIRIT does in our life?

 

JESUS said He was going to comfort us, instruct us and remind us. We understand that He is The One who pricks our heart because of our thoughts, words and behavior. He gives us Peace that makes no sense and understanding that we did not learn.

 

Paul taught that The HOLY SPIRIT brings forth the fruit of obedient surrender of our life to JESUS; Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness and Temperance.  He also works through our life by His gifts; Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, Discerning of Spirits, Diverse Tongues, Interpretation of Tongues, Miracles, Healing, Prophecy and Faith to do the will of our Heavenly Father in the earth as it is in Heaven.

 

There are many teaching on this subject some are right on, some are good, some are bad and some are intentionally wrong.

 

This is not an in depth study but an outline to cause you to want to study and find the truth of GOD’s Word for yourself. That is what GOD is going to hold us accountable for, not what others taught us but what we learned by study and application in and through our life. This is where GOD’s HOLY SPIRIT’s presence in our life is key.

 

To do a good study of the Bible you will need a concordance and a Bible dictionary, any brand, size or cost will be good. It is helpful if you have a couple of different translations of The Bible also, but first you have to be born again or born of the SPIRIT or SPIRIT filled or baptized in The HOLY SPIRIT, whatever term makes you most comfortable.

 

A.      GOD is One: The Father, The Son and The Spirit are one GOD; there is only One GOD and He reveals Himself as The Father, The Son and The Spirit. He is not three separate beings in one. Stop trying to understand GOD in human terms, except Him for who He reveals Himself to be, He is beyond our understanding! When JESUS was in the earth as The Son of Man – Son of GOD He was the incarnate or fullness of the GOD Head in the flesh. GOD is never divided into different parts working in different places. He is always One; He fills the whole earth with His presence and all things that exist, exist IN Him.

 

B.      When we believe that JESUS is our savior we are marked or sealed by GOD with His SPIRIT. This is not what is generally called being baptized in The HOLY SPIRIT this is what GOD does to show the advisory we belong to GOD. This happens to every person who believes that JESUS is the Son of GOD who was born as a human and died to take away our sins.

 

C.      The fruit and gifts of HOLY SPIRIT are not ours nor for our benefit, they are His and for the purpose of GOD’s will being done in the earth as it is in Heaven.

 

D.     JESUS did not bring peace but a sword and He did not give us the victory over anything. JESUS won the victory and The Father gives it to us through JESUS CHRIST. JESUS told us that to be His disciple we have to take up our cross and follow Him daily, we have to love other believers and obey His commands.

 

E.      Salvation is a free gift from GOD by faith not by our works but by JESUS who did the works of The Father in the world for us. When we come to the place in our life that we have faith to believe that JESUS is savior and LORD it is by GOD’s grace, not by anything that we did or learned.

 

F.       Faith has become some mystical force in the modern Church based on a wrong understanding of Hebrews 11:1. Another English word from the original Greek is trust. We all understand that trust is something earned, GOD has earned our trust by fulfilling His Word as demonstrated through the Bible and history. Believe is another word for faith, when we first believe that GOD is and that He redeems us from our eternal damnation into His eternal Kingdom we have not much more than an expectance and feeling that this is right, that is the grace of GOD to start us on our journey of life in JESUS. Faith, trust and belief are all the result of understanding somehow that GOD is. This experience is different for everybody. The gift of faith gives us trust to obey this is the first gift we receive for GOD. The fruit of faith is the result of trust and obedience.

 

G.     The Bible teaches that GOD uses even His enemies to show His Glory and to accomplish His purposes.

 

So, how are we to live a SPIRIT led life? By surrender of our life; JESUS said that we have to lose our life in Him to have life. GOD’s SPIRIT lives in us making us GOD’s Living Temple in the earth. If we do not surrender our life spirit, soul and body to JESUS then The HOLY SPIRIT will prick our conscious until we do or until we become so hard of heart by continually living life our way that we can no longer feel His pricking and prodding.

 

When we do yield our life spirit, soul and body to JESUS The HOLY SPIRIT will speak to us, instruct us and guide us through GOD’s Word the Bible, through circumstances and situations both good and bad, easy and hard. The HOLY SPIRIT seeks to bring forth His fruit through our life for our benefit and for other’s benefit. The HOLY SPIRIT will operate His gifts through our life for our benefit and for other’s benefit. Everything The HOLY SPIRIT does in our life is for our benefit and the benefit of other’s.