be filled with the Holy Spirit

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Yesterday after feeling a complete failure i was reading the Bible and i was asking God how can i be courageous, kind ,joyful ,compassionate,faith, strong ,understanding,secure, have discernment ,love,patience, wisdom,boldness to fulfill your purpose for my life etc etc etc...and still have all those things in the right proportion??? Before it, for countless times over the last 3 or 4 years i had attempted to achieve that on my own and needless to say i failed... answer: i needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit .


When i was saved a couple of years ago , I was sent the Holy Spirit , it gave me everything i needed to fight the good fight of faith , it equipped me with everything , it showed me wonderful things that it would be able to do through me and in me ,but soon , without realizing much , little by little i let the surroundings , the circumstances , what other people said disencourage me , weaken my faith ,my disposition , and again i found myself dwelling on the same fears and doubts i used to have , and my life became practically stilled , no significant progress .Basically what I've been doing lately was praying to God out of a coward fear to forgive me, but never sure it had happened(even unsure i was really saved!even unsure God was really good!), so i was living my days: one up ,the other down , up and down , trying to please God ....but on my own , though i wanted very much to treat everyone with godly kidness, patience, i always failed , felt frustrated , ashamed before God after all i "didn't please Him" but.... He doesn't need those works of mine ,praise God, they are like filthy rags!!!indeed they are ,ew! On my own i cannot be who He created me to be, i actually feel disgusted with me whenever i act without His Holy Spirit ,maybe you have felt like this : you want to get away but not from where you are but from yourself , i cant stand my"self" , it's nasty , it's always making up excuses,it's like a war going on inside ....
that's why He sent us the Holy Spirit and when we are filled with it , everything gets in its place , we are no longer shortshighted, it heals any hurt, it guides your every step ,it instructs you even how to correctly pray for a specific thing ,it drives out any "selfish" motivation or desire , it fills you with His peace that no thing or nobody(or yourself) on the earth can give you ,it's a miracle, it makes you shine in a world in darkness, with people being held captive by it.

　
there's this song from DC Talk i used to love back then that describes the war, it's "In the Light" :

The disease of self runs through my blood
It's a cancer fatal to my soul
Every attempt on my behalf has failed
To bring this sickness under control

Tell me, what's going on inside of me?
I despise my own behavior
This only serves to confirm my suspicions
That I'm still a man in need of a Savior

 So , if you feel you've been acting on your own and your efforts are making you feel frustrated , ask Him to fill you with His Spirit today,today is the day, and every every day, that that He may grow in you more and more as your"self" become less and less . If it shows you to drop who you've been acting not who you are supposed to be , what you've been believing as true(perhaps wrong ideas about God and His nature=my case) , to start all over again, trust it .... because everything we may do without it is out of His perfect and wonderful purpose for us
philippians 2:13 "for it's God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose"
the Holy Spirit is essential for that .Amen!
 
Hi dear sister Karine_ in Lord Jesus!
May He bless us more with Himself, thnx for this encouragement and here I am posting an e-mail a brother in Lord Jesus sent me:

HI Saints

You may find yourself in a difficult day, today. So I offer the encouragment that was given to me. It from a book. Just read it I am not looking for anything but to encourage us with the same encouragement I recieved.

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For some Christians, this abiding with God comes slowly, by degrees. Progress is gauged only as it is seen over an extended period of time. For other Christians, there is a continuous abiding from the very beginning. It does not matter which lot God has decreed for you. Simply keep turning within to God.
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Who are we turning too? We are turning to LOVE itself. Not just someone who loves us. But to LOVE itself. Our Father is a raging river, an ocean, a hurricane that cannot be stopped. No force now or ever will be able to seperate us from him who is LOVE itself. Let us Turn within to him today. Our Father who is LOVE as made his dwelling place in us. He can't get any closer.


Love in him
Don


 
this is another encouragement from the same brother :) . Enjoy the Lord today bros and sisters!
Hi Saints

We have recieved the Lord inside our being. He lives in the our spirit where he has set up his throne, his dwelling place. He is the gift from God our Father that keeps on giving. Will we partake of that gift today? We will fellowship with the Lord of Glory living in us today?

Some things that can try to stop us:

Get so wrapped up in our daily lives. Being mad at the Lord because he hasn't given us what we wanted. Things didn't go our way.

Exhortation from a book.

I am afraid that you will throw yourself too deeply into your daily activities to escape the painful circumstances you find yourself in.

Now here comes the exhortation.

You NEED to come to God and renew His presence with you during the day.
Live in God's peace. Do what is expected of you while inwardly looking to the Lord. He is alone is Worthy OF YOUR LOVE.

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I love that He alone is worthy of our love. As we turn to him, we can see things from his view points. He can take away the mantle that we have arrived at some grand spiritual maturity and just love him. Allowing us not to be wise in our own eyes, but not see life through rose colored glasses either but to see what he sees, to behold what he beholds and to be free from ourselves.
In closing, Today, We have a best friend, the one who knows us better than we know ourselves and STILL LOVES US. Jesus Christ the Gift that keeps on giving. No other gift will do.


Love in HIM

Don
 
I sometimes feel like this especially with all tha'ts going on in my life.
 
amadis said:
this is another encouragement from the same brother :) . Enjoy the Lord today bros and sisters!
Hi Saints

We have recieved the Lord inside our being. He lives in the our spirit where he has set up his throne, his dwelling place. He is the gift from God our Father that keeps on giving. Will we partake of that gift today? We will fellowship with the Lord of Glory living in us today?

Some things that can try to stop us:

Get so wrapped up in our daily lives. Being mad at the Lord because he hasn't given us what we wanted. Things didn't go our way.

Exhortation from a book.

I am afraid that you will throw yourself too deeply into your daily activities to escape the painful circumstances you find yourself in.

Now here comes the exhortation.

You NEED to come to God and renew His presence with you during the day.
Live in God's peace. Do what is expected of you while inwardly looking to the Lord. He is alone is Worthy OF YOUR LOVE.

_______________

I love that He alone is worthy of our love. As we turn to him, we can see things from his view points. He can take away the mantle that we have arrived at some grand spiritual maturity and just love him. Allowing us not to be wise in our own eyes, but not see life through rose colored glasses either but to see what he sees, to behold what he beholds and to be free from ourselves.
In closing, Today, We have a best friend, the one who knows us better than we know ourselves and STILL LOVES US. Jesus Christ the Gift that keeps on giving. No other gift will do.


Love in HIM

Don
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very encouraging brother Don .to be free from ourselves.... we need that so much , we can do ourselves so much harm on our own but thank God we can be set free , no longer belong to ourselves because we are bought at a price :)
 
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