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🤫 Living in Alignment with the Holy Spirit
🚶♂️ Walking in the Holy Spirit means resisting the desires of the flesh and living in alignment with God’s will.
🙏 The Holy Spirit is our helper and comforter, always walking beside us in our lives.
💫 Every believer has the Holy Spirit indwelling them, guiding and leading them in their walk with God.
🙌 Every person who has trusted in Jesus Christ is a child of God and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, regardless of their perceived status or worth.
💬 “I remember one of the most significant times in my life…the Lord just spoke to my heart crystal clear.”
🙏 The Christian life is about living in submission to the Holy Spirit, allowing Jesus to live His life through us.
🚶♂️ Our responsibility is to walk by the Spirit, knowing that He is indwelling us and guiding, leading, and empowering us in all aspects of our lives.
🚶♀️ We need to yield to and respond to the initial prompting of the Spirit in order to win the battle in our minds and make choices aligned with God’s best plan for us.
The Role and Work of the Holy Spirit
🌬️ The Holy Spirit is a person of the Trinity, involved in the creation of the world and essential for living and serving God in dependence upon Him.
🙏 The work of the Holy Spirit is a vital part of every believer’s life, and understanding His role is crucial for a successful Christian life.
💡 The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, leading us to realize our need for salvation.
🙏 The work of the Holy Spirit reminds us of our salvation and the promises of God, giving us the confidence to say that we are saved.
🌟 The Holy Spirit intercedes for us and interprets our prayers perfectly before the Father, even when we don’t know how to pray or what to ask for.
Summary
TLDR: The key idea of the video is that relying on and obeying the guidance of the Holy Spirit is essential for living a godly life and experiencing transformation through Jesus Christ.
- 🕊️ Understanding the Holy Spirit is crucial for a godly life, interpreting God’s Word, and effective preaching, as the Spirit helps believers walk in obedience and reliance on Him.
1.1 Understanding the work of the Holy Spirit is crucial for living a godly life and interpreting God’s Word, yet it is often neglected in churches, resulting in ineffective preaching and a lack of spiritual fruit.
1.2 The Holy Spirit is essential for interpreting the Word of God, living a godly life, and serving adequately as a believer.
1.3 Walk by the Spirit to avoid fulfilling the desires of the flesh, as living in the flesh means going against God’s will, but if we live and walk by the Spirit, we are controlled and dominated by Him.
1.4 The Holy Spirit is a person of the Trinity, involved in the creation and to be relied upon for living and serving God, as shown in the Bible, particularly in John 14:16.
1.5 The Holy Spirit is a vital part of every believer’s life, and understanding his work is crucial for a successful Christian life.
1.6 The Holy Spirit is a person who is essential in the lives of believers and is as important as Jesus according to scripture.
- 🕊️ The Holy Spirit is sent by the Father to teach, guide, and testify about Jesus, giving believers confidence in their salvation and equipping them with various gifts for the common good.
2.1 The Holy Spirit, referred to as the helper or comforter, is sent by the Father to teach and assist us in our lives.
2.2 The Holy Spirit teaches and interprets the truth for believers, reminding them of what they need to remember.
2.3 The Holy Spirit testifies about Jesus, convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and guides believers into all truth.
2.4 The Holy Spirit guides us, points us to Jesus, and indwells every believer, giving life and leading those who are obedient to Him.
2.5 The Holy Spirit guides and assures believers of their relationship with God, testifying that they are adopted as His children and giving them confidence in their salvation.
2.6 Various gifts, such as prophecy, exhortation, giving, service, mercy, and administration, are given by the same spirit of God to believers for the common good.
- 🕊️ To effectively do God’s work, we must rely on the power, authority, and guidance of the Holy Spirit, as there is no substitute for His presence and influence.
3.1 Jesus instructed his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they received power from the Holy Spirit.
3.2 Jesus tells his disciples that they will receive power from the Holy Spirit to be his witnesses, and after Pentecost, every believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
3.3 You cannot be saved or guided by the Holy Spirit without having Jesus in you, as it is stated in the Word of God, and it is important for us to walk by the Spirit.
3.4 To do God’s work effectively, we must rely on the power, authority, and guidance of the Holy Spirit, as there is no substitute for His presence and influence.
- 🕊️ To live a godly Christian life, one must depend on and be sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, resulting in obedience and a transformed life.
4.1 You cannot acquire a PhD or any other qualification to be adequate for the work God has called you to do, as the speaker recalls a significant moment in their life when they were praying and heard the Lord speak clearly to their heart.
4.2 Accomplishing anything in life requires total dependence on the Holy Spirit through prayer, as the Spirit intercedes for us and interprets our prayers perfectly before God.
4.3 To walk in the Holy Spirit means to live moment by moment, dependent on Him, sensitive to His voice, and obedient to Him every day of our lives.
4.4 To live a godly Christian life, one must walk by the Spirit, being dependent on and sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, resulting in obedience and a transformed life.
4.5 Christian living involves being filled with the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to guide and empower us, and our responsibility is to submit to Him and let Him have His way in our lives.
4.6 To live in the power of the Holy Spirit, one must be sensitive and listen to the initial promptings of the Spirit, which guide, empower, and reveal truth.
- 🙏 Disobedience and rebellion occur when we fail to do what the Holy Spirit prompts us to do, but through the Holy Spirit, God seals us as his children, promising eternal salvation and enabling us to live a godly life.
5.1 A 12-year-old boy refuses to take out the trash because he has something else to do.
5.2 Disobedience and rebellion occur when we fail to do what the Spirit of God prompts us to do, and it is important to live moment by moment by the Holy Spirit for our own benefit.
5.3 God doesn’t need us, but he loves us and seals us as his children through the Holy Spirit when we trust in him, making us forever his children.
5.4 The Holy Spirit is a seal from God that promises eternal salvation and once sealed, nothing can break it, allowing believers to live a godly life.
- 🔒 As children of God, the Holy Spirit’s seal is with us forever, and by resisting the devil and walking in the Spirit, we can live without sinning and experience life and peace, but choosing to obey God and yielding to the Spirit’s prompting is crucial in winning the battle against temptation and avoiding hostility towards God.
6.1 People who genuinely want to do what’s right may fear that they are safe today and lost tomorrow, but the truth is that as a child of God, the seal of the Holy Spirit is there forever, despite the conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil.
6.2 Resisting the devil and walking in the Holy Spirit means constantly listening and yielding to God’s guidance, which enables us to live without sinning.
6.3 We have the Holy Spirit within us, and in order to walk in the Spirit, we must set our minds on things of the Spirit rather than the desires of the flesh.
6.4 Those who have a mindset focused on the flesh are hostile towards God, while those who have a mindset focused on the Spirit experience life and peace, and cannot please God if they live according to the flesh.
6.5 To win the battle against temptation, we must choose to obey God and yield to the initial prompting of the Spirit, as disobedience leads us in the wrong direction and acts hostile towards God.
6.6 Rebellion is hostility towards God, regardless of how it is disguised or described.
- 🙏 Set your mind on God, seek His guidance, and live a godly life by trusting and obeying the Holy Spirit for peace, happiness, and contentment.
7.1 To walk in the Holy Spirit, one must have a mindset focused on God and seek His guidance and direction in all things.
7.2 Set your mind on the direction of your life with the Holy Spirit’s guidance, as it can awaken and remind you of your purpose, while others may wake up with negative mindsets.
7.3 Set your mind on the things of God and starve the ungodly part of you by focusing on spiritual things and not feeding into worldly distractions.
7.4 Our life should reflect the Lord Jesus Christ, and we should strive to live a godly life by following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, even when others may not understand.
7.5 We trust, depend on, rely on, acknowledge, and obey the Holy Spirit because it is the best and only way to live with peace, happiness, joy, and contentment, as it is the work of the Holy Spirit and the way God intends for us to live.
- 🙏 Trust the Holy Spirit’s guidance, surrender to His will, and experience a transformed life through Jesus Christ.
8.1 The Holy Spirit is present to guide and equip us in all aspects of life, including the important role of being a mother, and is just as willing to help in that role as in any other.
8.2 Choose to set your mind on the things of God, trust in the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and surrender to His will, allowing Him to live through you and transform your attitude and actions to be godly.
8.3 Pray for radical change in attitudes towards sin and a desire to walk by the Holy Spirit, so that everyone can experience the fullness of God’s blessings and make the decision to trust Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
8.4 Jesus died on the cross to pay for your sins, and by accepting Him as your Savior, you can experience the reality of a transformed life.
