Adopting a Holy Spirit Lifestyle

It’s important to know how to live in the Spirit, adopting a Holy Spirit Lifestyle, acknowledging his presence in your life, seeking his involvement and accepting it, even when it happens to be counter to your wishes. (Luke 11:9-13)

     When you faithfully rely on the work of the Holy Spirit, you maintain a close relationship with God the Father and God the Son. You live as a member of a divine family. If you dampen this intimate relationship, due to your thoughts and actions, what you have done or failed to do, you quench the Holy Spirit. (1 Thess. 5:17)

Empowered to Experience His Presence

     Living a Holy Spirit Lifestyle, you are empowered to experience his presence and energy in the here and now, not being concerned about the past or the future. You find yourself in a place of peace, having a sense that things are right, not perfect, but right. You are doing what God wants of you, fulfilling your Divine Why. You will never be perfect, but you need to keep moving forward toward that unattainable goal.

     The Holy Spirit doesn’t always change circumstances. He changes you. He doesn’t always calm the storms. He helps you through the storms. Being led by the  Spirit requires you to go when the he tells you to go and stay when he tells you to stay, as Moses and the Israelites did in their travels in the Old Testament. (Num. 9:17-23)

At Work in Heavenly Realms

     God is at work in ways you will never comprehend, and in heavenly realms in ways you will never see, until you join him for eternity. When you see God face to face in the person of Jesus, you will fully know him as he knows you. (1 Cor. 13:12).  

     However, time spent in prayer, meditating on God’s Word, offering praise and thanksgiving, are important parts of a Holy Spirit Lifestyle that help form the gateway through which your life opens to an appreciation of the realm in which God works, a realm in which you can one day dwell.

 Listen to God’s Words

     “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matt. 6:33)

     “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Cor. 3:17-18)

     “So, I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (Gal. 5:16)

     “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” (Gal. 5:25)