The Invitation/ Prepared/ Holy Spirit as Personal Guide

The Holy Ghost is the Transformer and Power

Jn 14:26 November 1, 1993

The Lord will often use similitudes to give us spiritual understanding. Just recently very dear friends of mine had applied for help with their energy bill. They had gotten behind on payments and weren’t able to get caught up. So they contacted the utility company to work something out. The company came out to assess things. A gentleman came with all kinds of special equipment to make a real assessment of the situation. He pointed out all the problems with their home, where they were losing power, their insulation needs, and so on. Never had they imagined they not only were going to be forgiven their debt but they were also going to come in with experts to fix all the problems in their home all expenses paid. The only thing they had to do was sign a paper acknowledging all the problems that had been sighted and agree to allow the contractors to fix them according to the workers schedule and timetable. I think everyone will agree, you can’t get a better deal than that!

Here is what the Lord revealed to me. When we come to Jesus and make him our Lord and Savior we are made a whole new creation. We start a whole new life. The Lord will reveal himself to us. He speaks to us about all kinds of things, and just as a young toddler learns to walk, we can learn to walk with him.

There will come a time when the Lord will speak to you about your house, the place in the spirit where you are living. There is an expert, The Holy Ghost, the one who can come in and assess your home and he will let you know if you are losing power. The assessment and solutions are offered freely but it will cost you your will. You will need to consent to him in all that he will show, and wherever your will or life in general may be in opposition to God. He will forgive all your debts and begin fixing all that is wrong in your spiritual life so you can live a full and pleasing life to God. All this through Christ Jesus by the transforming power of the Holy Ghost.

You can bear much fruit in your life and live a warm life by conceding to the Holy Ghost and listening to him.

I have known many Christians that would not allow the Holy Ghost to come into their life at all and hardly any who had, who would not allow the Holy Spirit to have complete influence over their heart and mind. Because of their resistance, they live a life full of confusion and are tossed about with every ‘wind of doctrine’. It doesn’t mean they are not saved through the blood of Christ but they will never be the best kind of Christian they could be… aspiring to become the Bride of Christ. People that are like this want control of their own life, in spite of the fact that they have little of life’s wisdom. Regularly we have little or no control over what happens to us. We hardly ever know what is going to happen next. Cancer can invade us. Weather can come and destroy all we have. We can lose a job or suffer the death of a loved one. Then what do we do? It is not sophistry or philosophy; everything we see is temporary, and will all pass away someday. In the end, these things are but tools to get us from this temporary existence to a permanent eternal life. We can’t take anything with us, except life, providing we somehow acquire it before death exacts its toll on our earthly body. The only thing here is our eternal spirit and the testimony of faith we may have in God Himself.

Hearing His Voice
l remember the first time I heard God’s voice in my heart. I was so excited that the God of the universe was speaking to a nothing like me. It’s still awesome even when He shows me things that are displeasing to Him and (Oh!) how sorry I feel. When he forgives me and changes me I know how blessed I am. When He tells me He loves me and is with me when I’m going through a rough time it gives me the courage and strength to keep pressing on to the prize of being His eternal Wife.

One day the Holy Ghost, the expert gentleman, came to me and said there are a lot of problems with your life and where you live (inner being) and I want to point those things out to you so you can have a fuller life in Christ. I was actually losing power in these areas. I was being robbed of a fuller life in Christ. I yielded to the Spirit and he gently changed me in many ways.

The Holy Ghost is fully equipped to assess us; he sees our hearts and all that is hidden there. The Bible tells us that our hearts are deceitful and desperately wicked Jer.17:9 and it is so very true. I know this personally because of what he has shown me about myself. I couldn’t change my nature. I didn’t have the power to do it. The Holy Ghost does. He knows exactly how to speak to us. He is firm and yet gentle, tender and merciful. “A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.” Matt 12:20 His mercies are new every morning.

He also has all kinds of gifts to give us to help us along life’s journey. He wants to make us new creatures and fully equipped to do the Father’s will. He wants to bring us to God’s perfection. Ultimately, he wants to make us the Bride of Christ which is the highest mark you can attain to in this life. We have to be willing to pay the price, which is to die to self. This can only be done by the transforming power of the Holy Ghost, we can’t do it ourselves. We need to trust Him to bring this about for us. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

When we let the Holy Ghost have complete control of our lives all things will work together for our good. God will use all kinds of circumstances that can bear fruit in our lives and help those around us for eternal good. I’m not saying life is going to be easy and we won’t have any trouble. Actually we will have more trouble because we will now be at enmity with the world and Satan just as Jesus prophesied in John 16:33 “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Only the Holy Ghost can help us make it home safely. Someday we will be with the eternal Spirit in Heaven and have that wonderful life we all long for. Where perfect love, peace, joy and all that is Christ’s surrounds us all the time and we will live in God’s presence with Jesus and the gentle Holy Ghost.

We will be judged according to all that we have done in these bodies. We will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ and all receive for the things done in this body, according to what we have done, whether it be good or bad. So we can strive to have a wonderful testimony for all eternity of all we allowed God to do with us or have a different testimony of what we ourselves have done with our life.

“But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” 2 Tim 2:20-21

I want to be a vessel unto honor, sanctified (by the Holy Ghost) and fit for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work and bring glory to Jesus Christ for all that he has done for me. I want to honor the Holy Ghost by yielding to him and his teachings and be the apple of God’s eye for the love, trust, and faith that I have in them. I want that testimony in eternity. I hope you do too.