What is the Holy Spirit? Who is the Holy Spirit? He is someone we have a relationship with.

Let’s dispel some myths about the Holy Spirit.

He is not a feeling. Yet He will bring you to tears and make you feel whole.
He is not a linguist. Yet He will bring speech to you that is different than you’ve ever heard.
He is not an accessory or an option not to have.
He is essential to our faith in Christ.
He walks with us and illuminates our path.
He is the third one of the 3 head God.
He is not someone to be felt but someone to be known.
He is not third in importance. He is simply the third one to be fully revealed to us.
He is God.

Take a cube of ice. A Cup of water. And Steam from a pot. They are all water - H2O. Yet they all exist in different forms. This is the holy trinity.

God the father is like ice. He is foundational and gives us parameters.

Jesus the son is like water. He moves and meets us at the place of our needs.

The Holy Spirit is like steam. He gets into every crack and crevice of our life.

Different forms, same essence.

What is the role of the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit lives inside ordinary people and empowers them to do extraordinary things.
The Holy Spirit dwells within believers transforming us from the inside out.

John 14:16-17 NLT And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.

Do you know why we explore the Greek words and original translation of the Bible? We do this because the words in the Bible are intentional and important to know. Jesus is going to send another of the same kind. The Greek word for this is Allos. We need God Himself.

The Holy Spirit comes alongside us and advocates for us. The Holy Spirit is God in you, leading you to God's plan not yours.

Romans 8:14 NLT For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

We are a child of whatever we are led by. If you let fear lead you will be a child of insecurity and doubt. If you let anxiety lead you will be a child of depression. Whatever is leading you is shaping you and your future.

Are we following where the Holy Spirit is leading? When we follow His lead we get His power.

Acts 1:8 NLT But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Living the Christian life is impossible without the power of the Holy Spirit. We will receive explosive power when we have the power of the Holy Power. The Holy Spirit is our daily guide and advocate. He will not only give us supernatural power but He will also give us practical power.

The Holy Spirit will guide us in all that we do. We can partner with Him when we seek to listen and surrender. When we become a follower of Christ and fully surrender we get access to the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:13-14 And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.

Give it all to Him!! Every little thing. We fully surrender when we capture every thought and make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Romans 8:5-9 ESV For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

You know the Holy Spirit dwells within when you have a longing to be with Him and change in your desires. There is a conviction of your sin. There is a still small voice that says you don’t do that anymore. Remember, this is not the Holy Spirit condemning you. He is correcting you. He loves you too much to leave you the way we are.

When the Holy Spirit dwells in us there are fruits in our lives.

Galatians 5:22-23 MSG But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

So how do we tangibly do this in our lives?

Romans 12:1-2 MSG So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

We know the tree by the fruit it bears. The fruit is not for the tree. The purpose of the fruit is to give it away. We are called to share so that others can know God and so we do not become bitter to all that we have. Fruit that is left for too long on the vine always turns bitter.

Challenge: Allow the Holy Spirit to have access to every area of our life. We are not meant to do life on our own. Not one thing.

Romans 8:5-8 MSG Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.