Dear brothers and sisters,
Loving greetings in the name of our lord Jesus
Christ. Today let us see about the importance of having the leading
of the Holy Spirit in our lives. There are different ways in which
the Holy Spirit can lead different people in their lives. Now
we are in the safe hands of the Holy Spirit as the lord Jesus
Christ has told in John 14:16 to 18, “And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you
forever the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives
with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans;
I will come to you.” After receiving the Holy Spirit we
must yield ourselves totally to the leading of the Holy Spirit
so that we can remain as the sons of God as in Rom. 8:14.
1. In our Lord Jesus Christ life the Holy Spirit led him to go
to the desert when he took the water baptism and received the
Holy Spirit and fast and pray for forty days as in Mat 4:1 Then
Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the
devil. Also in Mat 4:2, “After fasting forty days and forty
nights, he was hungry.”
2. Jesus Christ in His ministry driving out all the demons by
the Holy Spirit as in Mat 12:28, “But if I drive out demons
by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.”
3. The Holy Spirit brought Simon in the right
time to see the dedication of the Lord Jesus by His parents when
they took Him to the temple of God as in Luke 2:26, “It
had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not
die before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Luke 2:27, “Moved
by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents
brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the
Law required, Luke 2:28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised
God.
4. Apostle Paul had the leading of the Holy Spirit
to go to Jerusalem as in Acts 20:22 & 23, “And now,
compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing
what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the
Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.”
We must get this experience of being lead by
the Holy Spirit, since that helps us to be totally under His control
and leadership. When a person is lead and controlled by the Holy
Spirit he has life and peace as in Rom 8:6, “The mind of
sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is
life and peace;”
Let us do these things to be lead by the Holy
Spirit in our lives:
• Ask and receive the Holy Spirit from God. If we do not
have the Holy Spirit we are not belong to Christ as in Rom 8:9,
“You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but
by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone
does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.”
• After getting the anointing of God we
are suppose to put to death the sinful nature through the Holy
Spirit as in Rom 8:13, “For if you live according to the
sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death
the misdeeds of the body, you will live”
• We must get and develop the gifts of
the Holy Spirit as he gives us new spiritual gifts. The spirit
of God help us to speak as in 1 Cor.2:13, “This is what
we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words
taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual
words.”
• We must make use of all the help available
to us through the Holy Spirit to grow in the lord. The spirit
of God helps us in our spiritual lives as in Gal 5:16, “So
I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires
of the sinful nature. Gal 5:18, “But if you are led by the
Spirit, you are not under law.”
May the lord help each one of us to honor and
walk in step with the Holy Spirit as in Gal 5:25, “Since
we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
That we may remain as a child of God in our lives. Amen.
Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev.
Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam
Web-site: www.barodabibleclub.org
e-mail: marcusbbc@yahoo.com
Mobile: 91-9327243600 ,Church 3096882 / 5540651.
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