Who is Holy Spirit to you? Do you believe He is separate, but unified with God the Father, and Jesus the Son? Do you believe He talks to you, knows you intimately, and builds you up? The Word of God calls Him Counselor. Teacher. Helper. Friend. He’s medicine to my weary soul, He’s peaceful water. He’s fire.

The Holy Spirit comes and resides in you at salvation, in your spirit. At salvation, Your spirit went from being dead and separate from God because of the sin nature we are born with, to being alive in Christ. Your new nature (received when you believed and received salvation and called on the name of Jesus), that which is just like Christ, becomes alive, (as He is, so are we in this world) and the old man, sin nature, passes away.

The new man is activated in your life through the baptism of the Holy Spirit—this is your fullest surrender of self—this is what empowers you to live your life out, to renew your mind, and teaches you how to live, think, and love like God, and for God.

It is a separate experience, one for us all to have, should we ask for it, should we invite Him. It won’t happen automatically, it must be a choice you make.

With some of us this happened at salvation; with others of us, it did not, it was later.

When we receive this separate baptism of the Holy Spirit, and as we learn what we have In Christ and learn about our new identity In Him, the spirit of God that is inside of you begins to bubble up in you like a fountain, constantly, and unending. As a spring of life, a healing balm; medicine for your broken soul, confused mind, and heavy emotions. He knows about the places that need healing, in your heart and body, He goes for those places that can’t be reached by anything else.

He is like water.

You know when you pour water into a container with rocks, sand, dirt, that water fully penetrates every area of that container, missing nothing. It soaks every molecule contained. It’s the same way with the Holy Spirit. When He’s invited, He comes in like a flood, to heal you, mend you, love on you; He’s restoring you. He never lets you run dry.

Love, peace, patience, goodness, just begins to bubble up and flows out of you in those moments of hard. The beautiful rivers of living water, flowing onto others, for others. The pure love of God working, for others to taste and see. That’s what it’s all about, that’s where living starts if you ask me.

He set my heart ablaze for the things of God, making the Word come alive, and is teaching me all things. He knows what my children need, my husband, and He shows me. He knows the needs of my extended family and friends, and will use me to love on them, as long as I stay a willing vessel for Him, letting Him flow through me. He points out the girl on the morning commute waiting for the bus that needs prayer. He instructs me to text a friend that needs something, out of nowhere. He reminds me of what I asked God for as He gives me knowing and revelation of it.

It’s the Holy Spirit that reminds us that when the baby’s up for the 4th time in 2 hours, that we’re fully equipped and comforts you. It’s the Holy Spirit that reminds us when we’re tempted to get frustrated and overwhelmed that it’s God’s grace and power that fuels us and keeps us, all the while that it’s not about us at all. He’s in every part of our being, like water. He’s our power source.

He has the power to melt all the worries of the world away, refreshing and restoring you, so now it’s not about you at all, it’s about those in front of you.

I invite you to study this out in the Word for yourself. I believe that God will “grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation, into the true knowledge of Him, and that the eyes of your heart will be enlightened, that you will know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and that you will begin to know what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing power that you have in you, because you believe.”

I praise you, God, for Holy Spirit fire.

John 20:22

John 7:37-39

John 4:14

John 1:32

Matthew 3:11

Ephesians 1:17-19

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