Weeks ago I gave a word : Treasures from the Secret Place and today we I’m going to continue talking about How to build our Spiritual Life in intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
I want to remember you some points
Paul said in I Corinthians 3:12-15 that we can build our lives upon the foundation that is Jesus with strong materials : gold , silver and precious stones or with hay , wood and straw
What kind of material are you using ? How are you building your life?
In the Judgement day God put his fire, God looks at my life with His eyes and his fire goes through my life and everything that was done for Him without Him gets turned to ashes.
Building with gold means building your secret place! Don’t just build your life on Christ, Build your life with Christ in relationship with The Holy Spirit.
Because each one’s work will be tested by fire ! If anyone’s work endures, he will receive a reward.
The material that we use to build on Jesus makes a big difference!
Without intimacy with The Holy Spirit all you have is wood, hay and straw!
How is your relationship with The Holy Spirit ? Your Spiritual life can be dramatically changed if you have an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit.
Let’s read some verses about what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit
John 14:16,17, 26
““And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 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.”
John 14:16-17
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
John 14:26
7 “Let me assure you, it is better for you that I go away. I say this because when I go away I will send the Helper to you. But if I did not go, the Helper would not come.
John 16:7
But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all truth. He will not speak his own words. He will speak only what he hears and will tell you what will happen in the future.”
John 16:7, 13
Did you born again ? Are you sure about your salvation ?
Why were you saved ? Just to go to heaven ? Of course not ! You have a powerful life to live on earth ! God’s desire was to have many children like Jesus Christ !
“Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.”
I Corinthians 11:1
You were saved to live like Jesus lived , you and I were saved to be a copy of Jesus on earth!
You can not have a supernatural life without a supernatural birth !
Jesus said unless you born again you can not see the kingdom of heaven.
Pastor Paulo gave us a wonderful word last week about how is heaven , and it’s good to know how is heaven, but Heaven is a consequence of a faithful Cristian life.
Salvation is not only getting a ticket to haven when you die , salvation is an entrance into the kingdom of God now when you alive, in this life !
You are not going to be saved in Heaven , when you born again and receive the Holy Spirit you are saved and enter in the Kingdom of God !
Salvation is when the Holy Spirit gives me a new birth to qualify me for a supernatural life.
Salvation is not a little insurance card to heaven and and for you not go into hell .
You’re saved to fulfil God’s purpose and God’s plan for you on earth !
You are saved to write your own history together with the Holy Spirit.
everyone who has been born again , has the chance to write their own history
But many don’t want to work on their histories with God, they only have an empty religion!
Some are happy being a church member , or seeking God only in public places or just waiting the death to go to Heaven.
Jesus started his ministry being anointed by the Holy Spirit when he was 30 years old
“When all the people were being baptised, Jesus came and was baptised too. And while he was praying, the sky opened, and the Holy Spirit came down on him. The Spirit looked like a real dove. Then a voice came from heaven and said, “You are my Son, the one I love. I am very pleased with you.””
Luke 3:21-22 ERV
Jesus was baptised and He was anointed by the Holy Spirit , the same Spirit that lived and guided Jesus, He is in your life and in my life !
After his baptism, Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit!
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness;
Luke 4: 1
Even you are serving God , full of the Holy Spirit you are going to the wilderness! You are going to be tempted, you are going to be tested and you need to use your faith !
Jesus Christ came to this earth as a man, not as God, but He was anointed by the Holy Spirit and the same Spirit is over your life , with the same power.
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.”
Acts 10:38
Here you can see the Holy Trinity , God Father , Jesus the Son and God Holy Spirit working together !
God the Father , anointed Jesus the son with The Holy Spirit and because of this anointing Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil !
He healed people not because He was God but because God – The Holy Spirit – was with Him ( and not because He was God ! )
When you go through some things , through some difficulties, hardships, the Holy Spirit helps you using his Word , as He did with Jesus and He empowers you !
He empowers you to heal and deliver all who are under the power of the devil !
After Jesus came out of the wilderness, we see Jesus was empowered and the anointing of the Holy Spirit he started to minister with the power of the Holy Spirit !
Without the Holy Spirit’s anointing Jesus would not be able to accomplish anything that He accomplished in this World .
Without the Holy Spirit you cannot fulfil your calling !
Your calling is not only in church , your calling is what you have to do in this world !
You received the power of the Holy Spirit for you to be a good employee in your company. To be a good student that will be a witness of Jesus .
You are anointed not just to be in church but to be a light in this world.
The calling of Jesus was to die for the world, your calling is different your calling is to raise up your family , your calling is to be a good husband , your calling is maybe a business man , maybe your calling is to raise your grandchildren, or maybe a preacher , a pastor , or to led a home group (cell meeting)
Without the Holy Spirit you cannot fulfil your calling the way God wants it to be fulfilled.
We have to understand as Christian that the Holy Spirit comes to live in us through salvation .
The Holy Spirit gets us through salvation, we get the Holy Spirit through surrender.
I get The Holy Spirit when I get saved , but the Holy Spirit gets me when I surrender.
That’s why all true Christians have the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit doesn’t have all Christians because not all Christians surrendered to the Holy Spirit as they have.
All Christians have the Holy Spirit but not all Christians have intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
Intimacy and relationship are two different things.
Example: I’m married to my wife , I have relationship with my wife , it’s a legal relationship , it’s a covenant relationship.
We are in the same house , we work in the same place , we sleep in the same bed , but it doesn’t mean we are close all the time.
In fact , months ago , my wife sat on the bed of our house , and she looked at me and said : we are so far from each other.
Every men understand what that means. She was not talking about the physical distance , she is saying though we have a relationship, we actually are not having intimacy.
We learned last time that prayer should be an intimate act.
“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Matthew 6:6
Jesus taught us that the act of prayer should be intimate.
You go into your room and lock the door because you are going to have an intimate time with him.
You can get good advice in church from the word of God but your history with him will only be shaped in the secret place
This history is shaped with the Holy Spirit!
7 “Let me assure you, it is better for you that I go away. I say this because when I go away I will send the Helper to you. But if I did not go, the Helper would not come.
John 16:7
Jesus said , Im going away but I will send the Holy Spirit , the Helper . If I did not go the Helper would not come !
God the Father is in the Throne , Jesus was here on earth , but now He is at the hand side of God Father and The Holy Spirit lives inside of us !
Did you know the Holy Spirit is not a “power” He is a person ,
“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
Ephesians 4:30
Because He is a person , you can make him sad ! Don’t make the Holy Spirit sad ! Be careful how you live , what you see , what you speak , what you listen , what you look at !
As a person He speaks and I’m going to talk how to listen him in the next message.
Many Christians have a legal relationship with the Holy Spirit. They are sealed by the Holy Spirit, they speak in tongs , but to be close to the Holy Spirit is not the same thing as having the Holy Spirit living in you.
For those who live with your parents you know how it is , how you can be in the same house with your parents but millions miles apart. Because intimacy and are not the same thing.
You can have relationship and not have intimacy. But in order to have intimacy we first start with the relationship.
The intimacy with the Holy Spirit begins when we get the relationship and we begin to surrender to the person of The Holy Spirit.
Intimacy with the Holy Spirit brings rest. Rest brings even greater intimacy
Matt 11:28
““Come to me all of you who are tired from the heavy burden you have been forced to carry. I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 ERV
One of the reasons many people do not find intimacy with the Holy Spirit, is the intimacy is not found by striving, its found by surrender.
Intimacy with the Holy Spirit cannot be found if the doors are not closed.
There is a door that each one of us have in our life and this door is the door of distraction
Next week I’m going to talk how can we develop this intimacy and how to close the door of distraction!
God bless you