THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE PERSON 

In order to walk in the Spirit, we must intimately know the person of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity. He is the source of our power that is responsible for your success in life. Without the Holy Spirit we are absolutely unable to know God! Yes we can certainly know plenty about God, His nature, and all that He has done in the past 2000 plus years by the bible but having an intimate relationship with God or a relationship at all is impossible without acknowledging the person of the Holy Spirit! This is absolutely a matter of life and death so it would be an injustice to not stop right here and ask, “IS THERE ANYONE HERE TODAY THAT DOES NOT KNOW THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?”  

· We must walk in the Spirit. We no longer have the law, and within our own being we could never obey it to the “T” anyway! Ya’ll are good people but not one of us could ever fulfill the law! Outside of being in Christ Jesus our sin nature will prevail! Thank God those that believe have been adopted into the new covenant and washed in the blood of Jesus. Honestly, who is humbled and grateful for the blood of Jesus that conquered sin, death, and the grave, washed us in His blood and gifted us being adopted under the new covenant and gave us the Holy Spirit that lives in us???   

If you are certain of that today, then repeat after me in first person so that there is no question you are included in everything the blood of Jesus stands for!!! I want to hear it from your inner most being!!! 

“I am humbled and grateful for the blood of Jesus that conquered sin, death, and the grave, washed me in His blood and gifted me being adopted under the new covenant and giving me the Holy spirit that lives in me!!!”   

· Jesus came to free us from the law; its guilt & condemnation. 

· In order to walk in the Spirit, we must intimately know the person of the Holy Spirit. 

· The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity. He is the source of our power that is responsible for our success in life. 

· The Holy Spirit lives within us. We must daily renew our fellowship with Him. We accomplish this through prayer, knowing and meditating on His Word, praise and worship, and being active in the gifts.  

1Corinthians 12:4-11 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. 

 

Renewing our spirit daily is important to seeing God’s power in our life. 

Scripture has tons to say about the Holy Spirit in us. 

Through the Holy Spirit, we have the power within us to get results in every area of life. 

The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). 

The Holy Spirit is our helper to achieve the plans of God in our life. 

The Holy Spirit communicates every plan and purpose from God in the earth. 

The Holy Spirit gives power in the life of the Christian. 

He positions us to have an advantage in life. 

All power and wisdom comes through the Holy Spirit, its not us, it’s the God in us. 

We cannot walk in the power of the Spirit without a hunger for God. 

We will receive power from God when the Holy Spirit comes upon us. 

Acts1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 

Jesus did not do any miracles until the Holy Spirit came upon Him. 

Luke 4:14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 

The Holy Spirit resides within us as a result of being born again. Us were “filled” with the Holy Spirit. 

If we allow the Holy Spirit to reign in our life, He will produce the nine gifts of the spirit in our lives. 

Galatians 5:22-24 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 

The Holy Spirit can move on a nonbeliever but can only reside in a believer. 

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 

Scripture also speaks of the Holy Spirit as a well of water. 

John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” 

When we walk in the Spirit, we are equipped with power to do the supernatural. We will do things we could not do in your own ability. 

When the Holy Spirit is upon us, it is for service and ministry to others. 

The nine gifts of the spirit are used so we can bless others. 

We must cooperate with the Holy Spirit within. 

We must continually renew our spirit man. 

2Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 

The renewing of our spirit will affect our physical body. God will renew our strength like an eagle.  

Psalm 103:1-5 Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 

We can renew our spirit by fellowshipping with God in our alone time and place every day. 

The Holy Spirit will grant us to be strengthened with might by His spirit in the deepest part of our inner being. 

Ephesians 3:16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 

Praying, praising and worshiping Him constantly, fills our inner most being with His Spirit. 

Wait on the Lord; He will renew our strength. 

Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. 

Today, I encourage you to move on to greater things! Drink more of the living waters of the Holy Spirit, let us hunger for more of Jesus and less of this world that we live in and battle with daily!!! Let your life be a literal call for others to come to Jesus, be adopted into the kingdom, and receive the Holy Spirit!!!