Fellowship With Holy Spirit by Pastor Todd Lout

The God Who created the vast expanse, and Who's love is ten gazillion times larger than even that (to start with), has always had a very intimate family.  Namely, it was "Me, Myself and I" in the Godhead. What more could He need or want?  Perfect love.  Perfect perfection.  Father, Son, Holy Spirit.  Yet, He sent Himself (Jesus) to be our advocate and redeemed us for all eternity.  AND THEN, upon going to prepare something for us, He wanted us to continue our training to ultimately live in perfection with Him by leaving us Holy Spirit.  in John 14:26 He tells us that Holy spirit will be here to teach us ALL things and constantly remind us about what Jesus said and did, intentionally keeping us in the loop.  He invited us into His own intimate circle of family.  Wow! On this planet, in this modern century, we have so much to grab hold of our attention that we often forget this whole thing; Holy Spirit is here, right now, to teach us and instill in us the ways of Heaven.  We desperately need continual and intentional fellowship with Holy Spirit.  In fact, it would be a hundred light years away from brilliance if we didn't take advantage of this. Think about it; we often tend to have feelings of despair over many things, like perceiving ourselves as inadequate to accomplish a thing, experiencing loneliness or disappointment over other people (abandonment, their shortcomings, their perception of our shortcomings, ill words spoken against us). Sometimes we feel ignorant or less spiritual than others who use more highlighter in their Bibles than we do.  So many mosquitoes (metaphorically) just sucking the life right out of us and all along we have access to perfect love, perfect knowledge, perfect peace, perfect joy and so so much more.  Remember, "He will teach you all things."  With Holy Spirit the possibilities are literally endless. His existence in our lives is like a red carpet, rolled out in front of us, that leads to resource unending. We just need to step on and keep walking. Paul encouraged us all with this, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship with the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen." 2 Corinthians 13:14.  That "amen" is telling us, "let it be true in your lives!"  (Also Philippians 2:1)   1 Thessalonians 5 tells us to pray nonstop, constantly foster thankfulness and not to suppress Holy Spirit. Right there we get a nice clue of how to fellowship with Holy Spirit.  Truly, when we are intentional with this, it's' not, at all, a laborious task.  This becomes our normal.  I would say it this way; WE CAN HAVE A LIFE OF HANGING OUT WITH THE ONE WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING AND WANTS TO TELL IT TO US....AND CRADLE US IN LOVE, ALL THE WHILE.  A great benefit to all this is that we will have rivers of living water flowing out from our innermost being, John 7:38, and that water will become a fountain of everlasting life, springing up from inside of us.  John 4:14 Dang!  That's not only great for us, but we get to splash that on everyone around us and on our situations! Oh, and we get to be totally transformed cause this fellowship will renew our entire thinking process! Romans 12:2 Holy Spirit owns all the freedoms that the human heart desires.  The more we fellowship with Holy Spirit, the more these freedoms replace bondages. Galations 5:16  From today on, as we decide to be more intentional in our Holy Spirit fellowship, we can go ahead establish trust.  I mean drive it into the soil of your everyday life like a solid tent peg.  He loves us to trust Him, you know. Hebrews 11:6  Here's a little acronym to help:             T - THANK YOU                      Thank Him for His presence, His love, His guidance             R - RELEASE REVELATION                      Ephesians 1:17    Exodus 33:18             U - USE ME                      1 Corinthians 12:31    14:1    Acts 2:17-21                S - STRENGTHEN ME                       Ephesians 3:16     Galatians 5:22-23              T - TEACH ME                      John 14:26                                                                             Love, Todd :)