Welcome The Holy Spirit’s Presence | 30 Days To Becoming A Woman Of Prayer by Stormie Omartian

Welcome The Holy Spirit’s Presence

As long as I live, I will never understand how anyone can find peace, hope, and fulfillment without Jesus and His gift of the Holy Spirit. Personally, I could not live without the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. Nor would I want to even try. I did that for years, and I still remember the emptiness, pain, failure, and torment of dying a little each day.

So many wonderful gifts come with receiving Jesus, but the gift of the Holy Spirit is more precious than any other. I can see why the only unpardonable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Only someone who is hopelessly evil would ever do such a thing. Those who truly know Him would never reject Him. Those who reject Him don’t really know Him.

In order for you to have freedom, wholeness, and true success in life, you must be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Those qualities of life cannot be obtained without Him.

What Having The Holy Spirit Means For You

The Holy Spirit dwells in every believer. We receive Jesus because we have been drawn to Him by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit then opens our eyes so that we are able to see the error of our ways and our need for repentance. When you open your heart to Jesus, you are filled with the Holy Spirit. From then on, you are on a wonderful adventure of discovering who He is and all He does in your life, and

what having the Holy Spirit means for you. You are never the same again. There is a flow of the Holy Spirit within you, and you have to go with the flow.

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Belong To God

The whole goal of living a praying life is to be close to God and enjoy an ever-deepening relationship with Him. Receiving Jesus and being filled with the Holy Spirit is the means by which a close connection to God happens. The Holy Spirit in you is the guarantee that you belong to God. “You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Romans 8:9).

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Can Be Transformed

The Bible says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17). We are set free in the Holy Spirit’s presence. This is extremely important to remember. The freedom we find in the presence of the Holy Spirit doesn’t mean freedom to do whatever we want. It is freedom to do whatever God wants so we can become all He created us to be. “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18). Transformation is found in the presence of God by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Don’t Have To Walk In The Flesh

If Christ is in you, then the Holy Spirit is in you as well, and that means you do not have to live in the flesh anymore. “If you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:13). This is about as clear as it gets. If we live according to our flesh—always

doing what we want—we will destroy ourselves. Maybe not right away. Perhaps not today. But eventually, and possibly soon. But if we are Spirit led, we are able to put to death our desire to please the flesh every moment. Then we can live God’s way and our life will work.

Being led by the Spirit doesn’t only mean obeying specific commands of God but also being sensitive to the quiet promptings of the Holy Spirit at all times. It is having a sense from Him about what to do and when to do it, and knowing what not to do.

Having the Holy Spirit Means You Will Be with Jesus When You Die

The greatest news is that the Holy Spirit in you, who raised Jesus from the dead, will raise you from the dead too. “If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you” (Romans 8:11).

When I first became a believer, I worried that God might overlook me when I died. How will He remember me? But now I realize that the Holy Spirit in me will lead my spirit directly to God. It’s a sure thing. The same is true for you too. He will not leave you or forsake you, for you are tied forever to Him. The Holy Spirit is a giant deposit in our soul that says we were bought and paid for, and our full redemption will happen when we go to be with the Lord. Until that time, the Holy Spirit in you gives you a sense of eternity every day.

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Can Be Led By God

Your thoughts, actions, and words can be led by the Holy Spirit, and this is another indication that you are God’s child. “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:14). The Greek word for “led” here can also mean ” continually being led.”

That means we can be prompted by the Holy Spirit throughout every day. The Bible also says to “be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). This passage also implies that we are to be “continually filled.”

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Always Have Help And Hope

The Holy Spirit helps us in all things. “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” (John 14:26). The Holy Spirit fills us with hope and peace (Romans 15:13).

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Can Pray More Effectively

The Holy Spirit helps us to pray in power. “The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26). The Holy Spirit guides our prayers so that they are aligned with the will of God, and that makes them far more powerful and effective.

Having The Holy Spirit Means You Can Move In The Power Of God

Because of the Holy Spirit within us, we have access to the power of God. We must never ignore that fact. We don’t ever want to have “a form of godliness,” but deny “its power” (2 Timothy 3:5). When we deny God’s power, we shut off the full extent of His work in our lives. We limit what He can do in us and through us. Without His power, we cannot rise above our own limitations or withstand all that comes against us.

Having the Holy Spirit Means You Have Access to God’s Wisdom and Truth

We can’t do what we need to do without the wisdom of God. He
gives us discernment and revelation. “These things we also speak,
not “in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual” (1 Corinthians
2:13). He reveals things to us (2 Peter 1:21). He teaches us all things
(John 14:26). We can’t navigate our lives without wisdom,

discernment, and revelation.

In order to have a successful life, we must be people of the truth. We must have the Spirit of truth in us, teaching us what is true and what is not. We don’t want to be people who are “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7).

We need the Spirit of truth to enable us to discern the truth in all situations (John 14:16-17). Being able to discern the truth from a lie is important in every aspect of our lives. How many people have found themselves in bondage, brokenness, and failure, because they could not discern the truth in every situation?

The Holy Spirit of God is also called the Comforter (John 14:26 kjv), the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29), the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2), the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15), and the Spirit of holiness (Romans 1:4). He is eternal (Hebrews 9:14), omnipresent (Psalm 139:7-10), omnipotent (Luke 1:35), and omniscient (1 Corinthians 2:10-11). The Holy Spirit gives you a life of meaning and fulfillment. He builds you up, guides you, makes God’s Word alive for you, and by His power enables you to accomplish what you could never do without His help. How could anyone live without Him?

Prayer Power

Lord, it is so good to be in Your presence, where everything makes sense. It’s wonderful to be home again with You in prayer. When I am with You I feel Your peace, love, and joy rise in me. When I have not spent enough time with You, I greatly miss that priceless sense of the fullness of Your presence.

Lord, I come before You and ask You to fill me afresh with Your Holy Spirit today. Cleanse me with Your living water. Wash away anything in my heart of doubt, fear, or worry. Take away everything in me that is not of You. Enable me to walk in the Spirit and not the flesh, and exhibit the fruit of Your Spirit (Galatians 5:16-17). Do a complete work in me so that I can show Your pure love to others.

Teach me everything I need to know about You. Enable me to exhibit faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). You are the Spirit of wisdom, grace, holiness, and life. You are the Spirit of counsel, might, and knowledge (Isaiah 11:2). Spirit of truth, help me to know the truth in all things.

Thank You for leading and guiding me. Thank You for being my Helper and Comforter. Thank You that Your Spirit within me enables me to walk in Your ways and do Your commands (Ezekiel 36:27). Help me to pray powerfully, and worship You in a way that is pleasing to You. Thank You that You will raise me up to be with You when my life on earth has ended. Until then, lead me ever closer to You.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

Word Power

I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

Ezekiel 36:27

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. John 16:13

I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:16-17

Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38

As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears

witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Romans 8:14-16