The Holy Spirit

How do I know God exists? I know God exists because He talks to me. Not audibly, but in my head, God talks to me.

True believers received a gift, the minute they accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. In fact, God told his disciples, before he left the planet, to wait for this gift. What is this gift? It’s the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Third Person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is God, who moves inside the believer and speaks to the believer. He tells the believer things. He comforts the believer. If you are a Christian, thoughts will come into your head: “go that way,” “do that,” “don’t do that”…

Last week I was really struggling. I’ve been praying about something for quite a while and I was getting panicky that God wasn’t answering my prayers. I began to doubt myself and my prayers. So one morning, I went to the gym. I sat on the bike, pedaling like crazy and going nowhere, which I felt like, were like my prayers. All of a sudden a voice inside my head said: “Do you think I’m ignoring you?” “Do you think I never heard your prayers?” “I’ve heard everything you’ve said.” “I love you.”

This voice was clearly not my own. I don’t talk to myself in the third person. Not even in my head. The voice was clearly another Person, speaking to me, encouraging me, comforting me.

Believer, you have access to the very throne of God. The very presence of God lives in you. Think about that. The God of the universe. The One who created all things. The one who the wind and the seas obey His voice, lives inside every believer.

What power! What might! What an awesome overwhelmingly thought to know that the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords, lives within all of us who believe.

The problem with this, is that we can squelch the Holy Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:19 “Do not quench the Holy Spirit.”

We can live our lives in such a way, in sin, that the Holy Spirit is quenched. Don’t do that. Allow the Holy Spirit to talk to you. He is supposed to be our comforter. Don’t we all need comfort in this day and age? That’s His job. He comforts us.

He speaks to God on our behalf.

Romans 8:26 “In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;”

Imagine that. As we pray, the Holy Spirit is hearing our prayers and speaking for us in words we can’t even understand.

God never left us here as orphans. He gave a deposit for every believer, the gift of the Holy Spirit. And what a gift He is. Just spend some time thinking about that, this week. For those who believe, the very presence of God moves inside of them and begins a work. He is there to direct us and comfort us.