Messages for November
2015: Our Month of the Holy Spirit
John 14:18, 26; John
16:13; 1Cor.12:7
Message for Sunday 8th November, 2015
Theme: Understanding the Gift and
Ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Topic: Cultivating a
Relationship with the Holy Spirit Part 1
Introduction: Last week, we commenced this
month’s theme with looking at who the Holy Spirit is and what His mission is on
earth. We were able to establish from the word of God that He is God and the
first of the Godhead introduced to us in the Bible. We also saw that His
mission could be interpreted as reestablishing God’s original purpose for
making man which was to have a family for Himself who would replenish the earth
with His plan for the earth by multiplying the Garden of Eden all around the
world according to the prototype God showed him in the beginning thus subduing
the world and exercising dominion over it. However, man could not do this
without God and unknown to him at the time, there was a dangerous slimy enemy
in the earth known as Satan the devil who through the serpent lured the first
man from God’s purpose through sin. Man was thus disconnected from God and all
efforts to get back to God on his own proved to be to no avail until God
reestablished the link by coming in the person of God the Son: Jesus Christ to
take away our sin and make it possible for us to be able to relate with God as
he originally intended. Since then, all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ are
given access to God and can receive a new spirit that becomes the house where
the Holy Spirit resides in on earth.
What is required in
this relationship?
1.
Understand
that God now dwells in man through the new birth experience. This means the
closest person to us now is God the Holy Spirit. This therefore shows us that
any man who wants to cultivate a relationship with God must first be born
again. When you receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord, the Holy Spirit
births a new spirit within you where He would reside and from where He would
fulfill His ministry to you and through you. See John 3:3-7, 16; Ezekiel
36:26-27; Heb.10:15-22; 2Cor.5:17-21; 1Cor.3:16 & 6:19-20.
2. In every relationship, communication
is vital for the parties to be able to understand each other and relate
appropriately. God knows and understands us more than we even know ourselves
because He created and made us and like the perfect manufacturer He is, He has
our entire lives mapped out in His plan. If we seek Him, He’ll reveal it to us
[Jer.1:4-5; 29:11-13 & 33:3]. See Gen.1:26-28; Ps.100:3; Isa.43:7; John 1:3
and Col.1:16. On the other hand, we had lost the glory of knowing and walking
with God to sin. Therefore, we must work out our salvation by meeting the
demands of spirituality so that God who is Spirit can reveal Himself to us
because all that can be known of God is only possible by His revelation to us.
What He does not show us would be hidden to us because the secret things belong
to Him but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children
forever [Deu.29:29; Philippians 2:12-13]. God has solved this problem by
offering us the infilling with His Spirit. When we are filled with His Spirit,
we have ease of access into the world of God’s Spirit by His language. Let us
understand that the importance of language in communication cannot be
overemphasized because it is the foundation for communicating. This explains
why unity cannot be actualized without a common language. When God wanted to
break the unity among men because they were using it against their purpose, He
confused their language. Now for us to come into oneness with God, we have to
speak His language in tongues and His word revealed to us now packaged in the
bible. See [Gen.11:1-9; Mark 16:17; Isa.28:11; John 4:23-24; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,
38-39; 1Cor.14:2, 14].
3. We must get to know and understand
God through His word because the Holy Spirit would only reason with us on the
platform of the scriptures. See Isa.1:18; 43:25-25; Romans 12:2; Ps.1:1-3;
Joshua 1:8. Knowing God through His word is actualized by reading, meditating
on and doing His word. If we only read and cram the word, the best we would get
out of it is quoting the scriptures like parrots without benefiting from the
life it generates. But when we read, meditate on and do the word, we would be
able to access the Spirit and life of the word and be instrumental in bringing
it to others. We would not only receive the light of life, we would become
lights indeed to the world. Let us not forget that God’s desire for us is to
bear much fruit. This is the only way we can maintain sustained relevance with
God. See Jas.1:22-25; 1Tim.4:14-16; John 1:1-5; 6:63; 15:8; Ps.119:130; Matthew
5:14-16.
However, this blessing is meant for those who have entered
into the covenant relationship of the New Birth with the Lord. The bible says
that Christ in you is the hope of glory and this mystery was hidden from the
foundation of the world for our glory. They are not hidden from us but for us
to be able to discover them. If you desire this new birth experience so as to
take advantage of what God has given us, you can do so right away by saying the
following prayer out loud in faith and you will be saved and granted access to
the mysteries of God that would enable you manifest His glory on earth. When
Jesus was about to round off His mission on earth, he said he had brought glory
to God by fulfilling His purpose. See John 17:4. If you want to be able to say
the same thing when the time comes, please say the following prayer out loud
and God would honor your faith:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died
for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore
declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the
fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you
for this father in Jesus’ name!
Amen.
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