THE HOLY SPIRIT

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. – Rev 22:17

What is your understanding of the Holy Spirit? How you see the Holy Spirit will go a long way in determining how much you enjoy from Him.

For many Christians, He’s identified with ‘POWER!’. Whenever you mention the Holy Spirit, they think of anointing, of speaking in tongues, of demons screaming out of the possessed, of prophesyings and of ‘slayings in the Spirit’.

Others see Him as their in-built faultfinder. To them, the Holy Spirit is that judging, condemning voice inside of them telling them “what you did is wrong” (curiously, that voice tends to remain quiet when what they did is right). These set of Believers have been told that the Holy Spirit is “easily offended” and will even leave you if you ‘grieve’ him.

These views of the 3^rd Person of the Trinity, apart from being narrow also border on being unscriptural.

While the average Believer today does acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is God, they only mentally assent to the doctrine of the Trinity and fail to grasp its implication. Just as Jesus and the Father are one (Jn 10:30), the Holy Spirit and the Father are also one, ( Mt 1:20; Lk 1:35). In the same vein, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are also one (2Co 3:17; Rom 8:9; 1Pe 1:11, etc.).

Whatever character the Father and Son have, the Spirit also has. If the Father is Love, then He is Love, if Jesus cares for you, then He too cares for you. If the Father says He will never leave you nor forsake you, then it would be incongruous for the Holy Spirit to do what the Father would not.

Beloved, the Godhead is not schizophrenic, we serve one God (Dt 6:4), yet for some reason we’ve compartmentalised the Holy Spirit in our minds and attributed to Him things we can’t legitimately attribute to the Father or Son.

Jesus says, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,” (Mt 18:20). Yet when we gather at church, we say “come Holy Spirit”, or “The Spirit is not here”.

The Father says, “Without faith, it’s impossible to please me” (see Heb 11:6). Yet when it comes to the Holy Spirit, if we don’t see evidence (goose pimples, warm feeling, falling under the anointing, etc.) we’ll not believe He’s there.  

Beloved, in what other way have you separated the Holy Spirit from the Godhead? Think about it, and repent (change your mind/thinking today).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN