He encourages you in a forsaken land, and gives you joy. To others the same Spirit gives a message of knowledge. To others that one Spirit gives gifts of healing. To others he gives the ability to prophesy. To others he gives the ability to tell the spirits apart. To others he gives the ability to speak in different kinds of languages they had not known before.
And to still others he gives the ability to explain what was said in those languages. He gives gifts to each person, just as he decides.
He helps us to be aware of our weaknesses and need for the almighty God. He begins to dwell in us, and marks us as a believer.
He the gives us the confidence that we are children of God. Ephesians It is through the Holy Spirit that we experience conversion. Looking towards him when we are overwhelmed and unsure. Ask him to press upon your heart the right decision. His JOY. He has so much to offer. The Holy Spirit also baptized you into the body of Christ. There is but one indwelling of the Holy Spirit, one rebirth of the Holy Spirit, and one baptism of the Holy Spirit — all of which occur when you receive Christ.
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, however, is not a once-and-for-all experience. There are many fillings, as is made clear in Ephesians In the Greek language, in which this command was originally written, the meaning is clearer than that in most English translations. This command of God means to be constantly and continually filled, controlled and empowered with the Holy Spirit as a way of life.
I cannot control myself and be controlled by the Holy Spirit at the same time. Christ cannot be in control if I am on the throne. So I must abdicate. This involves faith. As an expression of my will, in prayer, I surrender the throne of my life to Him, and by faith I draw upon His resources to live a holy and fruitful life. The command of Ephesians is given to all believers to be filled, directed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, continually, every day of our lives.
He will fill you. Do not think that you have to have an emotional experience or that something dramatic must happen to you. How did you receive Christ? Was it because of some great emotional pressure brought to bear upon you?
Your emotions may have been involved. But ultimately, you became a Christian not because of your emotional experience but because of your faith. The Holy Spirit is not given to you that you might have a great emotional experience but that you might live a holy life and be a fruitful witness for Christ. So, whether or not you have an emotional experience is not the issue.
There is no place in Scripture where you are told to pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit. You are filled by faith. Do you hunger and thirst after righteousness? Do you sincerely desire to be controlled and empowered by the Holy Spirit? If so, I invite you to bow your head and pray this prayer of faith right now. Expect God to fill you. Without begging or pleading, just say:. I hunger and thirst for a more vital relationship with You.
I admit that I have been in control of my life. As a result, I have sinned against You. I now confess and turn from my sins and surrender the control of my life to the Lord Jesus. You promised to fill me if I ask according to Your will. Her and her friend were getting ready to get on a trolley type train car. Right before they were getting ready to board the train, she said she got a very uneasy and queasy feeling about getting on this train. She said she had a strong check in her spirit not to board that train.
Knowing that this could be a direct warning from the Holy Spirit, she chose to listen to it and decided not to board the train. When they got home about hours later, they turned on the TV and saw that the train they would have gotten on had been involved in a wreck on the tracks that were up in the air.
Apparently, the train somehow had got derailed and had partially come off of the tracks. It took hours to finally rescue all of the people who were still on board. Several people were killed in the accident. These checks in your spirit can be major lifesavers depending on what the Holy Spirit is telling you not to do. Again, this is another one that you will learn through a process of trial and error with Him.
As with the above other ways He will communicate to you, you can become quite adept in knowing when a check in your spirit is really coming in from Him, or when it is coming in from your own natural fear and emotions. Another very interesting way that the Holy Spirit will use to communicate something to you is through an actual quickening.
For instance, if you are reading the Bible, you may find a verse or two that will jump off the pages at you and hit you right between the eyes. Whenever the Holy Spirit quickens something like this to you, this means you are to grab a hold of it and examine it to see exactly what the message is that He is trying to convey to you. If you are dealing with a specific problem, He may quicken a verse to you that will help solve your problem.
You can also have words from preachers jump at you. You could be driving down the road in your car listening to a pastor teach on the radio when all of a sudden something he says jumps right out at you through the radio. Another area where this could occur at is at your local Christian bookstore. You will be in the bookstore browsing all of the books in there when all of a sudden a particular book will jump off the shelf at you.
When that happens, there is a very good chance that is the Holy Spirit quickening that particular book to you. There may be information in there that will help you in your walk with the Lord, and the Holy Spirit may want you to buy the book so you can add it to your storehouse of knowledge in the Lord.
I cannot tell you how many times He has personally done this to me over the years. And every time He does it, I always end up buying the book because there is key information and knowledge in that book that I needed to have for my own personal growth in the Lord.
I know many of you have had these kinds of experiences with the Holy Spirit. And in most of these cases, that word or message that was quickened to them by the Holy Spirit was something they really needed to hear at the time it happened.
Again, after you have received quite a few of these quickenings from the Holy Spirit, you can easily learn to sense and discern when it really is the Holy Spirit doing this for you. Let them come naturally to you by the Holy Spirit.
The next three ways the Holy Spirit will communicate to you — visions, dreams, and prophecies — are all coming from this one verse out of Joel. Here is the next verse that will completely set the stage for you on these next three ways the Holy Spirit will use to communicate something specific to us:.
Notice that visions, dreams, and prophecies are all directly connected to the Holy Spirit Himself. Many people believe that this outpouring has already begun, but that it will intensify in the coming years ahead.
In this caption, I will discuss the different kinds of visions you can receive from the Holy Spirit. A Open Vision — an open vision is when you receive a vision with your eyes wide open. Many of these visions will be in actual 3-D and if God should allow it, you can actually be a part of that vision itself.
John the Revelator was receiving these kinds of heavy, open visions when God was giving him visions on what was going to happen at the end of times. Some of the prophets in the OT also received these kinds of heavy, open visions. But for the most part, they are very rare, and most Christians will never receive these kinds of open visions from the Holy Spirit.
But please note, that could all change in the coming years as more of that verse from Joel starts to come to pass. B Closed Vision — the second kind of vision you can receive from the Holy Spirit is what is called a closed vision. Though a closed vision does not seem to be as heavy or as dramatic as an open vision is, do not let that fool you.
They are both visions and a closed vision is just as powerful and just as dramatic as an open vision is. Though many people will never receive an open vision in their life, not so with the closed vision. Again, you will have to learn through a process of trial and error when a vision is coming in from your own natural imagination or when it is coming in direct from the Holy Spirit. You have all heard of the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. That saying right there perfectly describes why the Holy Spirit loves to give you these closed inner visions — because sometimes He can communicate a lot more knowledge and information to you.
However, these closed visions can come in on much smaller matters as well. For example, say you just lost your car keys and you cannot seem to find them anywhere in the house. If the Holy Spirit wants to tell you where they are located at since He is called the Helper in the Bible, He can either give you an inner knowing, an inner witness to look underneath your bed, or He could give you an actual closed vision, with the vision showing you that the keys are lying right underneath your bed.
What I have found from personal experience is that the Holy Spirit can give you these closed inner visions on very small and trivial matters like where you may have misplaced your cars keys at, to much larger and heavier issues in your life. In other words, there is nothing He cannot give you a closed vision on to help you out with something, or if He wants to use a closed vision to communicate a specific piece of knowledge to you. One of the ways that you can tell when you are receiving a closed vision from the Holy Spirit is how it will come in on you.
Many of the times these visions will come in out of the blue. And then all of a sudden it will come in very quickly and very suddenly. Sometimes these visions will need interpretation, other times they will not. Another tell that the Holy Spirit will give you so you know that the vision is coming in directly from Him, is that He will give you a good, inner witness that it is coming directly from Him, which is the first way I gave you above on how He will communicate something to you.
Again, you will only learn all of this though a process of trial and error with Him. After you have received quite a few of these closed inner visions, you can again become quite adept at discerning when a vision is coming in from Him, or when the vision is just coming in from your own natural imagination.
The next way that the Holy Spirit can use to communicate something specific to you coming from the above verse from Joel is in your dreams. In other words, you can receive a dream direct from the Holy Spirit. As you all know, the Bible has many examples of people receiving dreams from the Lord.
God used an angel in a dream to tell Joseph to immediately flee to Egypt right after Jesus had been born, as Herod was getting ready to kill all of the first born.
Be ready to follow Him step by step. Equal in eternity, power and glory. In creation He moved upon the face of the waters and developed form and beauty out of disorder and confusion.
He proceeded from the Father and from the Son, and took up His abode with His church on earth. He has ever been with them since His coming on Pentecost.
He is the comforter, guide and Sanctifier of His people. A special promise of the presence and help of the Holy Spirit was given to all the apostles. The Spirit of Truth thus promised was to bring to our remembrance whatever the Lord had taught us, and new truths brought from the fountains above, were His special delight. The writers of the New Testament always identify their words of the Holy Spirit, announcing their messages as in truth the Word of God; the Word of the Lord that endure forever.
They breathe the pure spirit of His goodness and carry the stamp of His authority, and will stand forever. I know and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in me. The feeling of deep happiness and joy as we let the Holy Spirit controls our lives. The Lord will always help us along the way thro trials and tribulations in life. Most of the time we fail to recognise his presence.
Only then can the power of God comes into our life. Thanks for making this available to me. Please pray for me to be led by the Holy Spirit everyday. Thanks so much, Hilary. From Malaysia with love.
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