Holy Spirit

BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT EPHESIANS 5:18
God's indwelling Spirit does three wonderful things for each of us:
1) He seals us! Listen: '...ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit...' (Ephesians 1:13 KJV). To protect a letter you seal the envelope. To keep air out of the jar you seal its mouth with a rubber-ringed lid. To seal a deal, you sign the contract. A seal declares importance, value and ownership. Are you getting the idea?
2) He protects us! Peter says we are '...shielded by God's power...' (1 Peter 1:5 NIV). Do you have any idea how many times God has stepped between you and the enemy, protecting you from harm? Deep within each of us God's Spirit whispers, 'You are mine, and what I own I protect and care for'
3) He makes sure our prayers are heard! Listen: 'The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness. We do not even know how we ought to pray, but through our inarticulate groans the Spirit Himself is pleading for us, and God who searches our inmost being knows what the Spirit means, because He pleads for God's own people, in God's own way' (Romans 8:26-27 NEB). Notice: 'the Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness.' Weak bodies, weak wills, weak faith. How good to know that it's not up to us. 'The Spirit Himself is pleading for us.' None of us pray as much as we should - but we all pray more than we think - because the Holy Spirit turns our very sighs into petitions and makes sure that we get heard. Sealed! Protected! Heard! Spirit-filled living - refuse to settle for less.
More to come...
Love,
Dawn Saunders