The Gift Of The Holy Spirit

"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" (1)

Our heavenly Father is more willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him than an earthly parent good gifts to his or her children! Jesus said, "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." (2)

The Holy Spirit is a gift of God to those who ask and who really want what God has to offer. What are the benefits of the Holy Spirit? To name a few: "The Holy Spirit will teach you." (3) "If you love Me, keep My commandments, and I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-- you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you... the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive... The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." (4) "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law." (5) "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God." (6) "Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." (7)

Only by the indwelling of the Spirit of God can we live the Spirit led life. Only by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit can we receive the fruits of the Spirit. God lives with us and dwells in us by the gift of His Spirit. Jesus told a woman living in adultery, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water (Holy Spirit) that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." (8)

Only as we allow the Holy Spirit of God to dwell in us can we receive the benefits of God's presence in our lives. "When He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come." (9)

The Holy Spirit is the gift of God's presence in our lives. Do not grieve the presence of your Creator. He loves us with a passion, and His purpose of sending Jesus into the world was to rescue us from His archenemy and the enemy of the human race.

May His blessings, peace and presence be yours today and forever.

1. Luke 11:13.
2. Luke 11:9, 10.
3. Luke 12:12.
4. John 14:15-17, 26.
5. Galatians 5:22, 23.
6. 1 Corinthians 6:19.
7. Galatians 5:16.
8. John 4:13, 14.
9. John 16:13.