The Power of The Holy Spirit

What is the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives?  How does He help us?  Can we have more or less of God's Spirit in us?

I would say first of all, yes can we have more or less of God's Spirit.  The level of God's Spirit inside of us fluctuates based on how we live and what we do.  The more we sow to the Spirit and feed the Spirit inside of us, the more God will fill us with His Spirit. 

Luke 11:13                    
"If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

We can have less or more of the Holy Spirit, by asking God, and by remaining in Jesus. We are so crippled in our main stream churches since the Holy Spirit is never discussed.  He is like our secret super power!  We need to always be asking for more of God's Spirit, because that is what enables us to walk the Christian walk the MOST. 

When we are saved and put our faith in Jesus, we receive the Spirit.  But the level of how much He is inside of us and controls what we do depends on us.  How much do we feed the Spirit vs. our flesh?

Ephesians 4:13                    
"Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

We are constantly being filled more and more with God's Spirit until one day we will finally reach "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."  We can never be totally filled with the Holy Spirit in this life because we will always have our flesh, our sin nature, which detracts from God's Spirit inside of us or wars against it. 

It is not until heaven when we will be totally filled to the fullness that Christ was with God's Spirit.  But we can grow into this fullness.  We can go from "glory to glory" and be filled with an ever increasing measure of God's Spirit as we remain in Him by constantly eating His word and drinking of the Spirit, which I think is best done in worship. :) 

How does the Holy Spirit help us?

1. The Holy Spirit Keeps US From Sin

Galatians 5:16                    

"But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."

It is a conscious decision that we make every day to walk in the Spirit as Christians.  We can either choose to walk in our flesh, the old man before Christ, or to walk in the Spirit.  Non-Christians do not have this choice.  They always walk in the flesh and are slaves to the sinful nature inside of them.  But when are saved we have a choice.  Paul says, "If by the Spirit you put away the misdeeds of the flesh you will live."  It is our decision. 

Romans 8:9                    
"You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him."        

         
In order to be saved we have to have the Holy Spirit inside of us.  How does one know?  The best litmus test is when you sin, do you feel guilty?  The Holy Spirit will convict you of sin in your life if he is really in you.  If you feel no guilt over sin then you need to check yourself and see if you are in the faith.  Our primary mode of functioning as a Christian then is in God's Spirit.  But sometimes we still slip up and go back to our flesh. 

Romans 8:16                    

"The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God."

If the Spirit is in us convicting us and encouraging us in our faith, we then can know that we are children of God.  This has a lot more implications then people realize.  Jesus was/is also God's son as we are.  Jesus had a lot of power inside of him when he was on this earth which we also have, that power is the Spirit of God. :)

1 Thessalonians 5:19                    
"Do not quench the Spirit."

We quench the Spirit by ignoring the Spirit's leading in our lives.  We need to practice and get better at obeying the Holy Spirit when he speaks to us.  If we hear a voice inside of us, that will sound like our own voice most likely, and it is telling us to do something we have read in Scripture, that is the Holy Spirit.  That is God speaking to us.  Often times I hear this voice and believe or not, choose to disobey.  The more we disobey the quieter this voice of the Holy Spirit gets or the less he speaks to us.  That is how we quench the Sprit.

Acts 7:51                    

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.  As your fathers did, so do you."     

This can apply to most mainstream denominations.  We need to welcome the Holy Spirit.  We need to talk about the Holy Spirit.  Often God the father and Jesus are always discussed but never the Holy Spirit.  This should not be.  It is the Holy Spirit that is our side kick and helps us walk the Christian life.  We need to utilize the resource God has given us in his Spirit more.  Amen! :)

 

Romans 8:1-39                    

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ..."

In Romans 7 Paul talks about how powerless the law is to effect change and holiness in our lives.  We cannot live holy lives on our own by constantly trying to live up to the law.  It is impossible.  Paul says this actually leads to us sinning more because of the rebellious sin nature inside of us, our flesh.  But the Spirit, God's Spirit, has set us free from this law of sin and death.  We now forget trying to fulfill the law on our own and seek to connect with God's Spirit instead and he in turn helps us to walk the Christian walk.  Our focus is now not so much on doing a, b and c, but on connecting with God's Spirit more and falling more in love with God, because the more we love God, the more we will automatically do the things he has asked of us.  "If you love me you will keep my commandments."  We now follow God out of love, rather than obligation as they did under the law.  And that is only way we will be able to "walk in a manner worthy of our calling."

 

2 Corinthians 3:17                    
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

 

The Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death.  The Spirit has set us free from our previous bondage to sin.  The Spirit has set us free from the flesh and our sin nature.  We have freedom in Christ.  We no longer are slaves to sin.  We are free to do good, if we choose to.  What an awesome privilege!  One that we do not value enough often times. :( 

 

This does not mean we now have freedom to sin.  That is not freedom.  Sin is not freedom.  Rather we now have freedom to NOT sin.  We have the freedom to make a choice of if we will walk in the Spirit or in the flesh.  We have the freedom to choose not to sin.  To sin is to stay in bondage.  But to be free means we do what is right.  Sin entangles us and will master us.  But Jesus has set us free from the mastering effects of sin.  Amen! :)

 

Romans 8:11                    
 "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you."

Jesus said, "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

Sin kills, destroys, and steals our lives from us, even though it seems to give life at first.  That is Satan's greatest deception.  But the Holy Spirit Actually gives life.  He gives us living water so that we will never thirst again.  Sin always leaves you thirsty again.  God fills us up to overflowing so that we have peace and have need for nothing.  The Holy Spirit makes us content.  He breaths life into us and sets us free from the slow death of the soul that comes from sin. 

Paul says, "You were dead in your trespasses and sins."  Before the Holy Spirit makes us alive, and breaths life into our dry bones, we are lifeless whether we realize it or not.  Like the world before God created it, we were "formless and void," devoid of life and dead.   We are dead and under the power of sin.  But the Holy Spirit makes us alive for the first time in Christ.  He opens our eyes to see for the first time and our ears to really hear for the first time.  He opens our heart to truly love for the first time.  "We love because he first loved us."  Amen! :)



John 7:37-39                    
"On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive."

We are to drink of God's Spirit when this world makes us thirsty.  We are to hunger and thirst for righteousness. 

Sometimes I am so compelled to listen to worship music.  It feels like my soul becomes thirsty for it. 

This is how it is supposed to be.  We are to always have a thirst for God's Spirit and God's presence.  And we are to be hungry for his Word.  "Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."  When we are filled with God's Spirit and His Word we then have "rives of living water" flowing out of us and onto others.  God fills us to overflowing so that we can then fill up others who are thirsty.  Praise God! :) 

Most run to the world to quench their thirst, to a sin, but that will never really fill you up.  It only leaves you feeling worse off then you did before actually doesn't it?  But God's Spirit can fill us up completely and wholly and make us feel completely and totally ALIVE and refreshed!  Amen! :)
 
2. The Holy Spirit Opens Our Eyes So That We Can See

 

1 Corinthians 2:14                    
"The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

If we understand the gospel, we know we have God's Spirit inside of us.  Those who do not have God's Spirit cannot understand the gospel.  It does not make any sense to them.  Paul says that the gospel seems "like foolishness to those who are perishing." 

Why?  Because it does not seem logical that the gift of salvation is free.  Natural man apart from God's Spirit thinks that we always need to work for something.  People in every other religion around the world believe that they have to work toward God.  THEY have to do something.  But Christianity says, "No, we do not need to do anything, because Jesus did everything."  This is not logical and hard for our sin nature to grasp.  Apart from the Spirit in us, we are not able to understand this.  We think, "Nothing is ever free right?"  And that is why it takes faith to believe the gospel.  We are enabled to have this faith by the Holy Spirit that is inside of us.  That is how we can know that we are God's children, if we believe that Jesus is all that is needed for us, and we don't have to do anything to save ourselves.

But, as I have said before, we also know we are saved by the fruit that our lives produce.  Our faith should not lead us to laziness but to a desire to be more and more sanctified and pure.  Amen. :)


   John 16:13                    
"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."

Through the Holy Spirit is how we are able to see the light, to see the truth.  Paul says, "The God of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ."  That is why most do not see or understand the truth.  The truth that they are slaves to sin, that they are in bondage, even though they think they are free.  Think of the movie the Matrix.  Most walk around in a Matrix, a web of lies, their whole lives.  They never realize that they in bondage.  They never wake up and see that they are in a dream world, a nightmare world really.  They never realize that they are merely puppets that Satan controls and carries about however he wishes.  They think they are in control of their own lives.  But they are wrong.  Their mind is in a prison.  They are deceived.

But the Holy Spirit shines the light into our hearts and shows us the truth.  The truth that sin is slavery.  That true freedom comes from following God's law.  That God loves us and wants what is best for us.  That Satan is our enemy, not God, and that we can overpower Him through God's Spirit inside of us.  The truth that we don't have to be victims to sin if we don't want to.  The truth that we are God's children and we are "clothed with power from on high."  The truth that God has set us free once we put our faith in him and that "whoever the son sets free is free indeed!" 

Satan doesn't want us to see all of that.  He wants us to think that God hates us and is against us.  That we are free as long as we are in sin and follow him, Satan.  That the law is only to steal our joy and fun.  That we don't have any power in Christ.  But every day we need to defeat the lies he tries to feed us with the truth of the Word.  Every day we need to feed on God's word and be filled more and more with His Spirit so that we can overcome the evil one.  We need to come to see the truth more and more so that we will not believe Satan's lies.  Amen! :)  "Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist."

1 Corinthians 2:13                    
"And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual."        

         
Like Paul also says, "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened."  These are the eyes that the Spirit helps us to have.  He opens our eyes so that we can see.  Though we thought we saw before, we were blind.  The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual eyes to see God like we never did before, to see the truths of the Bible for the first time and to understand them.  Praise God! :)

3. The Holy Spirit Fills Us with Boldness to Witness      


Mathew 10:19
"But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;  for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you."

I have heard many accounts of this happening to people when they got up to speak to a group.  They are amazed at how it seems like God is speaking through them.  They have no idea how they just gave the talk or shared the story that they just did, because it seemed to not be them speaking but God's Spirit speaking through them.  :)  So cool!

Acts 2:1-47                    
"When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance."

This is the same thing that Jesus told his disciples would happen, only this time they are sharing the gospel in other languages.  This time they knew for sure had nothing to do with they were saying, because how could they speak in these other languages if it weren't God speaking through them.  Amazing for sure. :) 

Also, in Revelation Jesus' voice is described as sounding like rushing waters.  Here the Holy Spirit coming down sounds like "rushing wind." :) 

The Holy Spirit spoke through them and enabled them to share the gospel with thousands of people they would not otherwise have been able to.  Acts 2:41 says, "that day about three thousand souls were added to them," the church.  Wow.  Talk about a huge alter call. :)

Acts 4:31                    

"And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness."

Again the disciples and those in the early church were filled with the Holy Spirit.  This shows that this extra filling experience comes and goes.  The Holy Spirit is always subtly inside of us when we are saved, because we God's temple, but sometimes he comes on us more strongly than others.  

The effect of this was that they spread God's word even more boldly.  They weren't afraid of what man said anymore or what people thought.  They preached the word in any way they could. :) Amen.  So cool. :)     

Acts 1:8                    

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 

This power given when the Holy Spirit comes on us is meant to enable us to be God's witnesses even more.  I suppose it could be said that I am full of the Holy Spirit when I write these blogs.  The effect is that I want to share the gospel as much as I can, so the cause must be that I get filled with God's Spirit more when I write more. Amen.  Holy Spirit fill me so I can be more of a witness for God. :)

Acts 4:8                    
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders..."    

This is an example of Peter, one of the disciples, doing exactly what Jesus said he would do.  Jesus told him that what he needed to say would be given to him by the Holy Spirit, and it was.  Peter had never spoken so boldly.  Peter was transformed from one who greatly feared man, to a bold witness for Jesus.  He went from denying Jesus three times the night he died, to proudly proclaiming the gospel in front of thousands.  This had to be by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Anytime you see a drastic change in someone's life where they become more bold for Jesus, that is because of the Holy Spirit inside of them.  Amen. :) 

I know when I have shared my testimony I get so nervous beforehand, but then this amazing peace comes over me once I start to share.  I know that is God. :)  I have the hardest time speaking in front of people, as most do. :)  But it is God's Spirit who has given me the courage to do so every time.  Amen. :) 

Once when I was in 5th grade and I had to do a presentation that was video tapped I literally started crying I was so nervous lol.  But then, after I was filled with God's Spirit at 14, I shared my testimony in front of thousands literally at Mariners church in CA.  That could only have been through God's Spirit inside of me.  Me in my natural state would never have done something like that. lol :)  God is good. 

2 Peter 1:21                    
"For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."

The Holy Spirit spoke through those who wrote the Scriptures.  The Holy Spirit spoke through the prophets.  The Holy Spirit spoke through Jesus.  And today He speaks through us, God's church.  Praise God. :) 

Isaiah 61:1                    
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound."    

This was what Jesus did, and this is what we as Christians are to do.  We are to "bring good news" to all men.  We are to share the gospel, that Jesus can save anyone who puts their faith in Him.  We are to help bind up the wounds of the broken hearted.  The Holy Spirit is referred to our counselors.  He can help heal us from the wounds of our past.  And we are to help others heal from their wounds as the Holy Spirit leads us. 

We are also to proclaim liberty for the captives.  This is to tell people that Jesus can free them from the bondage of sin, from their addictions, from anything they cannot control.  Jesus can give them power to defeat the evil one in their lives.  Amen! :)  We are also to set prisoners free.  We are to cast demons out of people as God leads us.  I personally have never done this but we can do this through the power of God's Spirit inside of us. :)  Jesus said we will do even greater things than he did.  The same Spirit that was in Him is inside of us.  :)


4.  Tongues are Not the Only Evidence of Being Filled with the Holy Spirit


         Acts 9:17                    
So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 

In this example, Paul did not pray in tongues right after he was filled with the Holy Spirit.  There is no mention of Paul praying in tongues in Acts anywhere actually.  We only know that he did because he talks about it to the church in Corinth in 1 Cor. 14. 

So if you have not prayed in tongues ever, as I have not either, don't worry, it does not mean you have not been filled with the Holy Spirit.  :) God's Spirit fills people in different ways and has different effects on different people.  Amen. :)


1 Corinthians 13:1-13                    
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."

Something to keep in mind in regards to praying in tongues.  Love ought to come first.  We are not to get in spiritual competitions with each other regarding who is more spiritual or who is more filled with God's spirit.  "Judge not lest ye be judged."   We are to first and foremost love others.  The gifts of the Spirit are meant to express God's love more, not cause us to compete more and divide the church.  The gifts of the Spirit are meant to unify and encourage the church.  Amen :) 

1 Corinthians 12:11                    
"All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills."        

         
"As HE wills."  This shows that the gifts of the Spirit are ultimately up to God's Spirit as to who and when they are given, not us.  We can ask, but we cannot force God to give us anything He chooses not to for whatever reason. 
 

1 Corinthians 12:27-31            

"Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts."

Here the gifts of the Spirit seem to be ranked.  The "higher gifts" he refers to are apostles, prophets, teachers etc.  In 1 Cor. 14 he tells those in Corinth over and over again to desire to prophecy rather than speak in tongues, because then others are edified.  We need to be filled with the Spirit in gifts that build up the body.  Prophecy and teaching build up others.  Tongues usually primarily build up oneself.  It is still good, but it not as useful to the church as a whole as prophecy and teaching are. 

Also this makes it clear that not all will have the same gift, as Pentecostals like to say.  Not all in the body of Christ will speak in tongues.  We need all the gifts, not just one.  :)

             

5. The Spirit Prays for Us to God

 

Romans 8:27                    

"And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God."

The Spirit is always praying to God for us.  He is on our side.  He is our helper.  When we mess up, as we all will in our Christian walk, the Holy Spirit intercedes to God for us.  Or if we have a need, the Holy Spirit will petition what we need to the Father, even if we don't necessarily pray about it.  :)  I know there have been times where I got something I was wanting but didn't really pray about it really.  This was probably because God's Spirit in me knew what I wanted and asked God the Father for it and that was how I got it.  Awesome huh. :) 
 

6. The Spirit helps us to Grow in Our Sanctification

 

2 Corinthians 3:18                    

"And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit."

The Spirit helps us to grow more and more like Jesus.  That is the whole goal of the Christian life, to become more and more like Christ.  The more we are led by the Spirit, the more we accomplish this. 

The Spirit leads us from "one degree of glory to another" as we are filled more and more by Him. 

Titus 3:5                    
"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit."

It is the Holy Spirit who regenerates us, which makes it even more sad that most churches ignore the Spirit and do not talk about Him.  He is our source of renewal.  "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."  How are our minds renewed?  By God's Spirit that is inside of us.  But we have to LET him change us.  We cannot change ourselves.  We need to learn more and more to rely on God, to lean on Jesus, and to open ourselves up to be changed and transformed by God's Holy Spirit inside of us.  Amen! :)

Galatians 3:2-3                    
"Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?"   

We cannot save ourselves, and we cannot sanctify ourselves apart from God.  We cannot work in the flesh for our sanctification.  Instead we need to be filled more and more by the Spirit.  Our focus is on the Spirit and falling more in love with God and Jesus, not on legalistically fulfilling the law.  We do not do the Christian walk on our own.  We need to rely on God's Spirit in us.  Jesus said, "Apart from you can do nothing."  Amen.     

         
Don't try to do the Christian walk on your own when you have the Holy Spirit available to help you.  It is a partnership.  You and God's Spirit inside of you.  You work together in the sanctification process to become more and more like Jesus.  It is not all God, and it is not all us.  It is both God and us.  Amen. :)

 

7. The Holy Spirit Makes Us a Temple of God :)

1 Corinthians 6:19                    

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own."

We need to take care of our body because it is now a temple of God.  This means taking care of ourselves; sleeping enough, eating right, etc.  Don't pollute God's temple.  Don't fill God's temple with trash via certain media and worldly influences.  Keep yourself pure, because you are now the home of God himself.  Amazing isn't it?!  If you really think about it. :)          

We have a responsibility to keep ourselves healthy, because we are not our own anymore.  We have been bought at a price.  We need to not let food master us, or to let any substance master us and kill our body. 

In the Old Testament A LOT of care was put into God's temple built by Solomon.  It was exquisite.  It was immaculate.  We are called to build ourselves into just as much of a beautiful temple for God's Spirit.  The more we purify our temple, our body, the more God's Spirit will fill us, because he will feel more welcomed by us and in us.  We need to create a good home for God's Spirit in us.  We have a responsibility to do so.  It is the least we can do given all that God has done for us.  Amen. 

        

        

8. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit Happens When You Put Your Faith in Jesus

Matthew 3:16                    
"And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him."

This suggests that when we are water baptized we automatically receive the Holy Spirit in that moment.  We are then "baptized in the Holy Spirit."  :)    

John 1:33                    

"I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’  "

Many charismatic people want to say that they have been "baptized in the Holy Spirit" because they pray in tongues, but that all of us normal Christians have not.  That is not true.  When we put our faith in Christ, and call on the name of the Lord, we ARE saved and we receive, or are baptized, in the Holy Spirit in that moment.              

Mark 1:8                    

"I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” 

"Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 


When we are saved, we are baptized in the Holy Spirit.  These happen in the same moment.  Don't let anyone tell you that you have not been baptized already in the Holy Spirit if you believe.  You have been.  Amen. :) 

  1 Corinthians 12:1-14:40                    
 "No one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit."

In order for us to even say Jesus is Lord, which every Christian does proclaim, God's Spirit has to be inside of us.  Therefore, any Christian is already filled and baptized with the Holy Spirit.  :) 


(And I feel a slight sadness now that this massive undertaking of a blog is complete lol because it was fun for me myself to learn more about God's Spirit and all that He does for us!  Amen.  God is good. :) 

In conclusion here is a GREAT song for you. :) 

"Holy Spirit you are welcome here.  Come fill this place and flood the atmosphere.  Your glory God is what our hearts long for.  To be overcome by your presence Lord....." 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSynw6fN1U  May you feel God and His Spirit in this song as much I do!  Amen :) 

And may God bless you more and more as you seek to follow Him! 

May you be filled MORE AND MORE with God's Holy Spirit!

Grace and peace be with you always. :)