Filled with the Holy Spirit

In order to experience God’s love and forgiveness you must confess your sin as you become aware of it, and turn again to your heavenly Father. 

An amazing transformation has begun to take place since you received Christ as your Lord and Savior.

You are now beginning to live the Christian life, which isn’t a standard of performance nor a code of ethics, but a vital, personal relationship with a loving God.

Unfortunately, not every believer experiences the power to live his life as God intended.

Just as our relationship with God is totally dependent on what God has done through Jesus Christ, so the power to live a dynamic Christian life also comes totally from God.

How to be filled with the Holy Spirit

We are filled with the Spirit by faith. We received Christ by faith. We walk by faith. Everything we receive from God, from the moment of our spiritual birth until we die, is by faith.

Though you are filled with the Holy Spirit by faith and faith alone, it is important to recognize that several factors contribute to preparing your heart for the filling of the Spirit.

First, you must hunger and thirst after God and desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 

Second, be willing to surrender your life to Christ. When you think of what He has done for you, is this too much to ask? Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience, how His ways will really satisfy you.

Third, confess every known sin which the Holy Spirit brings to your remembrance, and experience the cleansing and forgiveness which God promises.

If we possess such power and such a sense of how much God loves us, in what ways might that affect our daily lives? Why don’t we always seek to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit? What is one action you can take this week to live in the power of the Holy Spirit?