Voice of the Holy Spirit

In Part One, I discussed the conviction of the Holy Spirit and how He works within us to draw us closer and closer to the image of Christ. That conviction is our safeguard, our teaching, and our change.

The conviction serves its purpose in us just like the conscience serves in the natural state of man. The difference is that when we come to Jesus, we see Him for who He is. He is God. He is our Creator. His Holiness shines brightly before our open eyes, and we are in awe of Him. We are convicted of our sins and the truth about His death. His completeness in the workings of His death. The door opened; the veil was torn, and we are now children of God and His family. We are already in Heaven, yet we are stuck on this worldly plane. We await with excitement and we “follow the Lamb wherever He goeth.” The Holy Spirit is the greatest gift He could give to us as we wait on Him to return. It is more than a best friend, He is the ultimate friend. He guides you to only the Truth, and the words He speaks are God’s. Falling upon our ears are the sweet words He has for us. He guides us with a gentle, sweeping flow of sweetness and truth. He implants truth within us so that we will not fall into deception. He wraps us in His warming blanket and sets us apart, like on the cleft of the rock. God put Moses in the cleft so that Moses could look upon Him and yet not be destroyed.

The Holy Spirit provides us with a mirror. A personal mirror. He opens our hearts and shows us its condition. This is when we can pray to God, to take our hearts and lay them before us, and to show us anything that does not belong there. As the Holy Spirit fills us with God and His Holy character, we see Him, we change, and we move toward His Light. It is so needed inside ourselves, and we long to know Him more.

The Holy Spirit reveals to us the truth about our identity. We no longer, like the world, stumble about trying to figure out where we belong, where our home is, and why we are here. It is known to us who we are. We are in Christ. We are one with Christ, one with God, and the Holy Spirit. Our hearts’ desires are the same as God’s, and we are His people. He is our God.

The World Has Lost Its Identity

We can see today the changes in people. They run to and from, trying to latch onto something that feels right; something that fits. They plunge into the darkness and are taken captive by the wiles of the devil. We have people who are lost. They sense something is wrong, and they know something is missing. Yet, they will not seek the only one who can fill them, make them whole. They are having an identity crisis. Psychiatrists can call it whatever they want, but it is a crisis of their failing to search for their Creator. They want their father, yet they don’t know they truly have one. We know who our Father is, and we sit in His hands. Imagine the feeling you would have if you couldn’t find it anywhere. They search in all the wrong places, trying to find fulfillment. They are left without that warming blanket that God gives to His children. They are left cold, alone, and wandering.

Satan attacks their brains, making them wonder what they are and who they are. So, he offers up all these so-called disorders. That way, they can focus on all that and fall into the traps. “I” means everything to them. They want to be “I”. They want it to be all about me, myself, and I. This has always been the case, but now, in the last days, it is in full swing. People are demanding recognition of themselves. They think they do not matter. They have fallen into a trap of worshiping self and will have no problem falling into worshipping everything other than the true God.

If God’s Spirit joins our spirit to show us who we belong to, then we have to believe that satan does the same thing with those he controls. He copies God because he cannot create. Satan attends to the flesh. He attends to his people’s needs in their flesh. God offers us the Spirit. God’s Word sharpens our sense of hearing; it drowns out the lies of satan and the world. We lose loved ones and what used to be great friends when we follow Christ. We no longer belong with them, and that will only increase from now on. Jesus came with the Sword to divide. He did not come to bring peace, but the sword.

The Holy Spirit sets the Word on fire, making it alive. Coats us with Truth. Blocks the lies. Babes in Christ receive milk, and that increases when they stay in the Word. Words will jump off the pages. The pages will turn to take you where He wants you to go. God planted the seed, and it is the root; our root is the seed. Wisdom shoots forth, and we soak it up like the dew that falls. He gives early rain, and comes through with latter rain in the time of the latter rain—an umbrella of promises; a shelter through the storms.

The Word is Spirit, and it enters our spirit. The two are one. It leads, we follow. It speaks; we listen. Sweet whispers and shouts from the housetop. Revelations that soothe us and make us grow to want more. Our reasoning becomes like God’s. His truth becomes our truth. We think like Him and we accept what He accepts. We hate what He hates. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in our conversations and prayers with God, and then we forget that it is the Word that needs to be read daily. I have been guilty of this myself. Loving my secret talks with God and praising Him so much that the Word sits there by my side. But the Holy Spirit will gently guide you back to the Word. It is our meat; our Armour. He will whisper little reminders for us to pick up the Word. He will have you recall a particular scripture, and it will prompt you to race right back to the Word. Beautiful the way He works for us and in us.