Friend, many wonder what the Holy Spirit does.

Well, He does many things but they always have to do with the Will of God.

What is the Will of God for you?

It is for you to know God!

So you can be sure that the Holy Spirit is the One who is convicting you of sin. He is the one who confirms to your spirit that God exists. He leads you into the Truth so you can know God is Truth. He teaches you about Jesus. He reveals Jesus to you by using other people, the Bible, nature, the cosmos, the Cross, the Resurrection.

He is God and therefore He is everywhere and in all things.

He has come to be with us until Jesus comes again. He is tireless in His work to gather us to the Son. He is God in the form of the Holy Ghost. He is Beautiful and Trustworthy. Never will He lead you astray, in fact it is He who rescues us and shows us who Jesus is.

Romans 8:27

He who searches the heart knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He intercedes for the saints according to the Will of God.

Friend, search your heart and you will find the Holy Spirt waiting for you.

Friend, have you begun to pray?

God desires you speak to Him. It is called prayer.

The world snickers when Christians pray but don't be disturbed by that. The Lord has placed a knowledge in us - that says He hears our prayers and that things will change, when we pray.

The unbeliever is just biding his or her time. They are not ready for the changes that they inwardly know will come.They want to live life on their own terms and turn to God at the very last moment and grab the free Gift just in time to slide into Heaven.

I have actually been told, " Don't pray for me."

Why? I gave that much thought and realized with the help of the Holy Spirit, that this person knew that God would require changes in his attitudes and he just wasn't ready yet to make those committments to God.

In other words, He hadn't hit rock bottom yet. He was on drugs that were ruining his life but at the same time, he thought he was living the "life!" Praying would change that and He didn't think that what he was doing was all that bad even though those around him, especially his family saw the ravages of his drug dependency and the damage it was doing to the family as a whole. 

Basically unbelievers go about their lives with their back continualIy turned to God. As He moves trying to get them to face Him, they keep side-stepping and doing a two-step so they can keep their backs to Him.

It's quite funny, if it wasn't such a sad dance. The evil puppetmaster deceiving his puppet, who looks up to satan and his demonic forces through glazed eyes of adoration, not seeing through the haze of addiction. .

Maybe tonight their soul will be required to answer the call of death which cannot be avoided once God says "cooked." Our days are numbered and ordained by God and we know not when our last breath will be.

Immediately they are in the spiritual domain they will lament their choices. One, will be they will wish they had prayed for at the very least, forgiveness.

So friend, if this rings as a truth in your heart, please do not put off any longer, the spiritual aspect of prayer.

Prayer helps to change things in your life. It helps to change you into the person God intends. You will finally understand God's Will and see that it is reasonable and Good. 

Find some alone time when you will be uninterrupted and quietly tame your mind and focus on Who God Is. A place where your body will be comfortable. Laying on your bed is fine or in the pose for meditation. Sitting in your favourite chair...

Let your breath slow down the thought processes so they can focus on spiritual matters alone with no outside influences.

Call on Him by a favourite Name.

Jesus, Lord, Father, God, Saviour, Redeemer, Precious Lamb, Holy God.

Forgive my sins. Help my to be more like You.

Remind me Father before I sin and help me to contain myself to be sinless in the situations that come up.

Thank you for the Cross and I am grateful for Your Forgiveness and Sacrifice for my sinful behaviour.

Tell Him what you hope to learn and what you have learned. Ask for more clarity of spiritual meanings and matters.

Ask for the Holy Spirit and the angels of Heaven to help you so you do not stumble in your daily walk with Jesus.

Speak to Him of your past failures, foolishness and mayhem you caused and explain how mortified you are by it.

If you have recognized his Handiwork in your recent or past life thank Him profusely!

End by listening quietly for any small ideas or voices or feelings that come after praying in this way.

God will respond to a contrite and repentant heart.

Sing songs of love to Him.

End by saying, "In Jesus; Holy Name,"

When you have established with Him that you are a child of God, then you can ask aything according to His Will and you will have His answer,

Your life will be so much richer by having this daily prayer time alone with Jesus God,

Friend, while the world around us is warring and tearing us down on all sides, we can have the Peace that passes understanding, within our soul.

We can go to the Fountain of Peace any time we desire more.

Jesus gives us access through His Sacrifical shedding of the Blood from the Most Precious Lamb of God, Himself.

Do you have a full understanding of the Sacrifice for all?

This is an important and crucial work that our Lord Jesus carried out for us.

He knows what the world does to us and He knew that we needed Peace.

It was not time to bring Peace to the earth in the terms we humans long for, but He gave us something bigger and better, the gift of Peace within each of us, that will see us through our dark days here on earth, when we believe.

The peace within allows us to see the world from the perspective of God.

We can forgive our brothers and sisters because they are lost and do not know of the Path that leads to Forgiveness and Eternal Life.

We can forgive ourselves because when we ask God to forgive us, we know that through our faith in Him, we have it.

Forgiveness brings Peace within.

Peace within begins to drive out sin, negativity, fear, and all the feelings and thoughts that keep us from knowing God.

We embark on a path of renewal of the mind. All the jarring ideas and opinions get exposed as untruths when we willingly allow God to teach and guide us into a personal relationship with Him.

This Peace that resides within us is the foundation that all the other beautiful aspects of Christian life spring from. Joy, Gladness, Thankfulness. We become forgivers of others. We learn to love as Jesus loves. We begin to understand Truth. We gain Wisdom and Discernment from a Godly perspective.

Without Jesus as the Head, the peace we experience is not full. The peace of the world always has to be worked at. It's a continual striving, whereas the Peace from God is a Free Gift and comes from having a deep relationship with him. Trusting Him as Holy God in our lives.

Friend, are you finding it hard to forgive yourself, now that you know you are a sinner; even if saved by Grace and Mercy?

Allow the Joy of the Lord to invade your soul. He died so you might be saved from eternal death.

His Blood shed at Calvary on the Cross, was shed for your sins as a payment for them. What He endured is sufficient for your sins to be forgiven.

He is the Forgiver, and you are, or can be the receiver of Forgiveness.

Holy God sees you as Forgiven. He sees the Blood of His Son Jesus, covering you, and He knows you are Forgiven.

Those without the Holy Blood Covering will not enter the Kingdom of God.

Holy Law has a Plan for them.

The Bible says we sin against God even when we sin against our fellow man.

All sin is against God.

To not forgive is to sin.

God asks us to forgive as He does.

It gets tricky when one person is walking in Godliness and the other is not.

Forgive and move on. We don't have to associate with the ungodly. Especiaflly if they demonstrate in their behaviour or words that they will continue to offend you. Generally this can be evil baiting you.

Learn your lesson, pray about the situation, listen to the Spirit, forgive and move on.

Friend, there is Power in the name of Jesus.

Speak His Name continually in your inner spirit.

"Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus." unending.

Fill your spirit with the sound of His Name and be rid of negativity. Demons do not want to hear you saying it while they are at work bringing you down.

His Name is uplifting. He is an encourager. He loves and cares for you when you speak His Name.

"Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus."

Sing it inwardly to any music you hear and love.

Demons cannot stand it. They will flee!

The Bible says, "There is no other Name by which you may be saved."

"Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus."

We are weak, but He is strong and can overcome anything the devil puts in our path or has deceived us with.

Overcomer, Saviour, Deliverer, Redeemer, Leader, Teacher, Friend, Resucer, Guide, Holy God.

He is the Joy-bringer. He is not influenced by the circumstances of your life. You have not gone too far down the road to hell. He can and will rescue you if you tell Him you believe in Him and no longer wish to continue on that road. 

It's called repentance; when we realize we have gone down the wrong road and no longer want to be doing the drugs, alcohol, unlawful works of the devil, and we decide; make another choice; to follow Goodness and Light.

Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Help me, Lord!" 

There's Power in that Name.

Jesus.

Friend, the Resurrection brought Hope to the disciples who after seeing the Crucifixion, forgot all He had told them - that in three days He would return.

At the Last Supper He had told them many things to prepare them for what was to come.

But like all humans, each had his own thoughts on what was said.

None of them expected Him to be crucified.

They knew He was capable of all kinds of miracles, having been eyewitnesses to devils being removed from possessed people and etc., that most of them thought He would overcome in a miracle way, His captors, the Romans.

But He went meekly to the slaughter as a Lamb does. He was sinless, but did not cry out in rage against His accusers.

He allowed all the beatings, and physical tauntings, the pulling of His beard, the placing of the thorny crown on His head, the whippings until His body was one open wound, the carrying of His own Cross to show His shameful (by the world's standards) condition.

For us, the Father allowed this horrendous treatment of His Son!

There was no other Way. The price for sin had to be paid.

All the inhabitants of Heaven saw what the cost was to God.

And today, there is no other Way for us, but through the acceptance of the Truth, that God sent His Son to die for our sins also.

The Resurrection brought Hope back into the the hearts of the disciples.

Jesus appeared to them in the Upper Room where they had all gathered to commiserate in sorrow. They had dreamed of an earthly Kingdom of which Jesus was King.

But friend, that Kingdom is still to come. And it may be in the near future, judging by all the upheaval in the world of which Revelation speaks to us about.

They were so sure His death was absolute that even though He appeared suddenly amongst them, having not walked into the room, Thomas would not believe until he saw the wounds from the nails.

This was Jesus in His Spiritual body. The same type we believers will have when we die.

He conquered death for us.

The Resurrection shows us that God's Way is Perfect.

For the believer, once to die and then to be reunited with our Lord. Then the Judgement. We return with the Lord for His thousand year reign. After that we know not what; but trusting in God, I know whatever He has planned for me, will be wonderful!

Knowing you are a cherished member of the Kingdom of God, what a magnificent thing!