The Holy Spirit

John 14:26 (NKJV)
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to you remembrance all things that I said to you.

As believers we all know that God sent the Holy Spirit down to earth to be our comforter, to lead us and guide us in the ways of truth. As Christians it is:
1. Our job to let that happen.
2. Not to become so religious that we think we can do anything we want and think the Holy Spirit will deliver us.
3. Respect the guidance that we get from the Holy Spirit if it doesn’t line up with what we want to do.

Sometimes as Christian believers we can often blame the Holy Spirit for some of the unintelligent decisions we make. We bring upon our own selves unnecessary suffering that we think we have to go through because we think we are doing God justice and we think by going through unnecessary sufferings that God will like us just a little bit more. God likes you just the same no matter what you’re going through. Even when you didn’t know God, He still liked you in all of your mess because He created you. You are His child.

First it’s up to us to let the Holy Spirit have His way in our lives; for some this is not an easy process because this means that you are giving up full control to something you initially cannot see with your natural eyes. This is why God instituted what is known as faith, faith to believe in something you can’t see. Faith to believe in His deity and faith to believe in His purpose for coming to this earth in the form of a man, Yeshua (Jesus). Once we come to the revelation where we know that we cannot live in this world successfully without the correct guidance from the Holy Spirit, we then have to come to the revelation of respect for the Holy Spirit if that has not already happened.

Secondly the Holy Spirit is not a genie in the bottle and in order to effectively flow in the Holy Spirit you have to use Gods wisdom. A lot of people put themselves in detrimental situations thinking that the Holy Spirit will rescue them. When the tempter came to Jesus after His forty day fast one of the things He said to Jesus was if You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. He wanted Jesus to throw Himself off a cliff and have angels come and rescue Him from death. Jesus answered and said “You shall not tempt the Lord your God”. The same reigns true today, don’t tempt God just because you’re righteous. If you are walking down the street at night in a bad neighborhood and you say I’m going to walk down this dark alley because I am a child of God and He is protecting me and will rescue me from anything. I would first say use a little wisdom, don’t deliberately put yourself in a bad situation where you would need to be rescued from your own stupidity. The Holy Spirit is here to teach us, to lead us and guide us into all truth; it’s not the other way around.

Third, you have to respect the guidance of the Holy Spirit even if you don’t understand it. Holy Spirit knows more than you do about yourself. If the Holy Spirit says turns left, turn left no questions asked. Questions beget curiosity, curiosity begets doubt, and doubt begets disobedience. Don’t be like Adam in the garden and get too curious about something that the Holy Spirit is leading you away from. Is it ok to ask the Holy Spirit for confirmation about certain things; I think so just out of experience. But as you mature as a Christian your level of trust will increase and questions and curiosity about certain things that you used to question will no longer boggle your mind.

Just flow in the Holy Spirit and give Him total and full control of your life.

I pray that this has been a blessing on your lives.

Daryle Houston II
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org