The Gift of the Holy Spirit

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Acts 2:38

Yesterday the blog was on the water baptism and it if was necessary for us. Today we will look at the second part of this scripture. Ye shall receive the gift. When our flesh as been cleansed from the stains of our sins and we stand clean before God. God has a gift for us. It is a gift that means more than anything that this world can give us. It is the gift of His Spirit. There is no hope or life without His Spirit dwelling inside of us.

The Holy Spirit does not just fill the voids in our heart, it cleanses and purges our inner soul from the iniquity that dwells in us. It is not enough to have our sins forgiven if our hearts are filled with iniquity that will cause us to sin again. The river of life that flows inside of us washes the hardness of our proud hearts and the fire of His Spirit purges the poison that has tainted our blood. Our hearts are then enabled to be turned to God and we are empowered by His Spirit to fulfill our divine purpose.

16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galations 5:16-24

Without the Spirit of God being in our heart we can not walk in the Spirit but rather will be subject to walking in the flesh. What we desire comes from our hearts so as long as our flesh controls our heart we will be subject to the lusts of our flesh. When the Spirit of God dwells in us we have the opportunity to surrender to God and allow His spirit to direct our hearts back to Him. We must understand that when we are born again we are born babes in Christ. We must grow and mature in His Spirit.

If we feed the Spirit our lives will grow spiritually. If we feed our flesh our lives will be subject to the corruption of our flesh. Without being born of the Spirit you will never receive that choice though. If you seek God He will reveal Himself to you and He will give you His Spirit. It is a promise that can not be taken away. You just have to seek Him. The apostles had to wait 50 days for them to receive the promise of the Spirit. Are you willing to wait for God to birth something in you that will fill you will a river of life that will never go dry. Seek receive the Spirit in this day. God bless you.

9And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Luke 11:9-13