The Impact of The Holy Spirit's Presence

The Lord is Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
 2 Corinthians 3:7

One of the misconceptions of a whole lot of people is that being a spiritual person or religious person is a burdensome way to live; yet, nothing could be further from the truth. For the Holy Spirit, if we allow Him to flow through our lives is like a refreshing stream of living water interacting and transforming us to be truly alive, vibrant and fruitful.  Just think about the "fruit" that the Word of God teaches grows out of your life and my life when we are "filled with the Holy Spirit."

Doesn't growing in grace so as to produce love, joy, peace, the ability to  grow so that you can keep calm in trouble and tribulation (being longsuffering or patient,) becoming and being  gentle/kind, possessing goodness & faithfulness (which is integrity) and doesn't the ability to grow in demonstrating self control sound life fulfilling and refreshing to you? It sounds downright liberating to me. We simply need to be filled with the spirit, as we yield our lives daily to our loving Creator and God.

So, how do we cooperate with the Spirit so that this can happen?  Now this is a very good question, and surprisingly the Apostle Paul gives  us the key to this question's answer.  He does this in Ephesians 5:17-21:

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what God's will is:
Do not get drunk on wine which leads to unbridled immorality,
but be filled with the Spirit ...

You do this by speaking to yourselves/one another with
Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs,
As you intentionally sing and make melody in your hearts,
and you sing to the Lord.

Then you should habitually and or always give thanks to God
who is the Father of everything,
And you should do these things,
IN THE NAME of our 
LORD JESUS,
who IS the Christ.
Ephesians 5:17- 21
Paraphrased

Pay attention, dear Christ-Followers to carry out these spiritual practices, as directed by the Apostle Paul, and you will, indeed, discover how to experience the presence of the Holy Spirit.  And you will live in liberty!  Hallelujah!

SoJourner

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