Holy Spirit

The Inner Man

Posted on by Jesse Walker

Do you struggle with remaining faithful to God? If we’re honest, we all have good and bad days. But for some it can be a struggle to even like themselves. For others they see themselves as a failure.  Still others have been deeply hurt and can’t find the strength to move on. This may be true if you had to go through this life alone. But you don’t.  These are all lies taught by the devil and his henchmen to keep you trapped from becoming what God wants you to be. Many believe in the strength of the physical body, but they fail to see the strength of the inner man.

One of the greatest gifts given to all believers by God is the indwelling of his Holy Spirit in our inner man. In Ephesians 3:16 the Apostle Paul is on his knees praying just such a prayer. He asks the Father to reveal to all believers the ability to comprehend the power living within their inner man, namely the Holy Spirit. So they can grasp how vast Christ loves them.

According to 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, it is the Spirit that searches the deep things of God. Revealing to all believers the things which our human eyes have not seen and our ears have not heard and our mind cannot even imagine. Can you begin to see how big that makes our God? Bigger than we can dream.

You are loved so much by Christ that your human knowledge cannot fathom the love of Christ. It makes no earthly sense. Try as you may, you will never be able to measure the fulness of Christ love for you with your human mind. But there is a way. You can drop to your knees right now and read and pray. Put away your earthly knowledge of God and ask His Spirit to reveal it to you and he will. Ask and you shall receive. Draw near to me, and I will draw near to you.  I pray you will. And this is Jesse Walker with the Glenwood Church of Christ.

Holy Spirit Filled Life

Posted on by Jesse Walker

The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5:18 said, “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.”  Earlier in Ephesians 4:29-32 he told them to control their mouths. To make sure their words are useful for building others up and not for tearing them down. And in the very middle of this subject, he goes on to say, and “do not grieve the Holy Spirit.”

Did you know you can grieve the Holy Spirit? I’m afraid as Christians, many of us have all but erased him from our Christian lives. In a sense we’ve become like the TV movie, “Ghost Busters” and have all but removed him from our Christian faith. Many only associate him with charismatic worship services, speaking in tongues and healing of the sick. Yet, in these passages, Paul I believe is showing how we grieve the Spirit when we walk by the flesh and not by the Spirit. In other words, we need the Spirit to help us in our ordinary day to day living.

Many Christians’ struggle in this life because they try to do it all on their own. You cannot do it on your own. You will never defeat the ruler of this world without the help of the Holy Spirit. That is why it is so important not to downplay the importance of him. The Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit is God. No less than God the Father nor God the Son. He is God the Spirit. They are all equal. For there is only one God. Every time you place the Spirit beneath God the Father, or God the Son, you lessen his importance. The Holy Spirit has the same characteristics as God, he is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

My prayer for you is that you will trust enough in God to see the power of God in the person of the Holy Spirit. As he works in you making you the person God designed you to be all along.