Being Aware Of The Holy Spirit

My Utmost For His Highest

…tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. —Luke 24:49

“[…] The Holy Spirit has been given; the Lord is glorified— our waiting is not dependent on the providence of God, but on our own spiritual fitness.

The Holy Spirit’s influence and power were at work before Pentecost, but He was not here. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the world, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that He is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord. It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit. […] The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience apart from Jesus Christ— it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.  […]” CHAMBERS

Jesus told the disciples that the Father was sending a helper .. the Holy Spirit.  (John 14:26)  Paul told the church of Ephesus that God seals us with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13) and reminded the church at Corinth (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) “ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”

If you are wearing clothes right now you don’t feel them on your body .. even though you know that you have clothes on ,, your awareness has filtered that sensation out of your thoughts.  But now that I made you aware of it .. made you think about it, perhaps you can feel the shirt on your shoulders or the pants on your legs or the shoes on your feet.  We do the same thing with the Holy Spirit.  We filter His presence out of our consciousness … and because we do .. it frees us to live and act in ways that do not glorify God.  Paul had to remind the Corinthians that they had the Holy Spirit in them.  It is hard to understand … but there are many things in God’s creation that are hard to understand.  We must keep the reality of the Spirit in us in the front of our minds.  The only way you can do that is by focusing on spiritual things … every day.  The Spirit of God was given to us to help us, but we have to be willing to receive the help.  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)